Practical Jokes & Pranks Features
How To: Pull off a great prank with a styrofoam cup and a straw
This prank is simple, creative, easy to set up, messy and embarrassing. Five of the first things that we at Wonderhowto look for in a prank. All you need are some basic household materials:
How To: Pull a squirting toilet prank
Prank a toilet by rigging it to squirt water on anyone who flushes it. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Prank a friend who has fallen asleep in a moving car
Cars make many people sleepy, and after a long day out many car passengers like to spend the ride home napping out. Not when you're driving they don't! This video will show you how to quickly and easily prank someone who has fallen asleep in your car by pretending to have a near-collision, while will give their groggy brains quite a scare.
How To: Pull Off a Halloween Prank Using a Candy Bowl
If you're looking to pull off a great prank for Halloween, this next tutorial will show you a classic prank. It involves using a candy dish and your hand.
How To: 5 Mean April Fool's Day Pranks You Can Do
You can never pull off "too many" pranks on April 1st, so here are 5 simple yet very mean pranks you can prepare for friends and family on April Fool's Day! Not much is needed, just a few household items you most likely already have. Here is the video tutorial to get a better idea of how to start pranking.
How To: Make a pillow barf up shaving cream for a really messy prank
Nextraker has another great prank for you to pull at home— the pillow prank. You'll need the plastic bag from a loaf of bread and some shaving cream.
How To: 5 Evil April Fool's Day Pranks You Have to Pull Off
Check out this compilation of 5 evil yet simple pranks you can try on friends and family on April 1st. They all require household items so you shouldn't really have a problem collecting all the materials and tools needed to set up these pranks. Watch the video tutorial provided for further instructions!
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Quasi-hack, all-and-out prank, it's amazing what you can do with an airbag... Previously, What Every Man Wants in Bed.
How To: Prank Your Friend's Computer Mouse into a Smelly Smoke Machine
Most use wireless computer mice these days for their computers, but there are still people stuck on wired optical mice, especially in an office environment. Those people are our targets. As pranking someone's computer may be frowned on, peripherals are fair game, and this prank from Kipkay takes their wired optical computer mouse and turns it into a foul-smelling smoke machine.
How To: Set up the Mentos and Diet Coke prank
The Mentos and soda prank is as old as Mentos. You combine Mentos and soda, and a symphony of sticky fluid will erupt. This video features one charming young man explaining how he executed the prank on his younger sister, with step-by-step instructions and questionable video quality. Prank on.
How To: Make a freaky frozen hand
Prank your friends at parties with this easy to make frozen hand. Great for decorations too. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: 5 Evil Prank You Can Get Away With!!!
This is a compilation of 5 of the best evil pranks that you can get away with doing on your friends and family. The best part of this is that you'll only need everyday household items you already have.
How To: Use an easy sleight-of-hand cork magic trick to get free drinks at a bar
There is something to be said for the idea that every person needs to know one really awesome magic trick. If you don't know one yourself, and need something to impress your friends and fellow bar patrons, you're in luck. This video will show you how to do an easy sleight-of-hand trick disappearing trick with a cork that will fill that hole in your skills lineup.
How To: Pssst. Win a Jackass Prank Day With Knoxville and Crew, Courtesy of WonderHowTo
Woohoo! Since our inception, we have noticed that Jackass fans like WonderHowTo's prank tutorials, and our internet savvy user base loves all things Jackass. So it is only natural (and flattering) that Johnny Knoxville would have us host his first ever fan based contest with Wonderhowto.
How To: Booby Trap a Box of Detergent!
You will Need! 1 box of detergent (should be at least 3/4 full)
How To: Rig a bathroom prank by running the toilet water tube to the sink
Toilets are some of the best prank aides, and this video will teach you a novel way to use them. All you do is connect the hose that fills the tank with water to another longer hose, then run it to under the sink and attach it in a position to spray outward. Then wait for your victim to flush.
How To: Pull a tape measure toilet paper roll prank
When in repose upon the toilet, the last thing most people want is for something to jump out at them. And that is exactly what will happen to them if you pull this prank. It turns out that the actual tape from a tape measure is a great little prank tool, and in this video you'll learn how to attach one to a roll of toilet paper so that when your victim attempts to wipe, they will be attacked by tape and scared... witless. Yes, witless.
How To: Sabotage your boss' office chair
How to rig an office chair to collapse. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks! Sabotage your boss' office chair.
How To: Use a piece of paper to seal a glass of water
Paper is not known for it's strength as a building material. It is really amazing what paper can do in the right circumstance though. This video will show you how to use a piece of paper to hold the water in an upside-down glass. It's easy, the effect is very cool and sure to impress, and all you need are a glass of water and a piece of copy paper.
How To: Pull off five easy pranks on your friends and family members
This video, from one of the younger pranksters that we've deemed worthy of inclusion on Wonderowto, will teach you how to execute five easy pranks that vary in vindictiveness. They range from swapping someone's shampoo for hair dye to putting ketchup on the bottom of a toilet. All are doable for just about anyone, so try it!
How To: Pull hilarious pranks on sleeping victims and roommates with matches etc.
Passed out roommates and guests are some of the most fun and rewarding people to pull pranks on. They'll never know what hit them! This video will show you how to do a couple of awesome pranks on passed out people, some old and some new. Especially creative is the match-in-the-foot trick from the beginning of the video.
How To: Set up the ultimate ketchup prank
You must have a certain attitude to appreciate practical jokes and pranks. Your friends (or targets) may not appreciate pranks as much as you, especially messy ones. The messy pranks are the ones that are less likely to provide a laugh from your victims, at least not right away. This ketchup prank is one of those.
How To: Make cheap DIY blowgun darts out of paper
The blowgun may not be the most en-vogue weapon in the 21st century, but they are still very cool and surprising effective for shooting things with darts at long range. One of their problems is that good dart are hard to come by and expensive when you do find them. This video will show you a way to get around that problem: making your own darts out of paper! All you need is paper (and maybe a little superglue would help) and you can make your very own darts that will pierce object almost as w...
How To: Prank a car with Newspaper
How to prank a friends car with newspaper. Causes no harm to the car and is much more of an inconvenience than a serious prank. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Bobby trap dental floss with a party popper
Party poppers are magnificent. They can be used for a plethora of pranks— basically, any prank where the victim / target has to open something. You can use party poppers on practically any household item, but this video covers the much used dental floss container. The exploding floss prank is easy to do yourself, and requires only the floss container, the party poppers, scissors, and a screwdriver. Once your prank target goes to use their floss, they'll have quite the grin.
How To: Prank your kitchen sink
Prank your kitchen sink by rigging the spray faucet to spray anyone that turns the sink on. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Prank laundry with the chili underwear trick
What do you do with an old can of chili and some underwear in the lost and found section of the laundry room? Here's an idea. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Create a mousetrap noisemaker prank device
Besides being useful, mousetraps can be pretty loud, which makes them perfect for the prankster at heart. They can scare the crap out of your intended victim, but for some, giving them the heebie-jeebies can be more difficult than just a normal trap. They might not scare as easily with a short burst of sound. But they will if you add a few mods to that everyday mouse trap!
How To: Make a stinkbomb
This tutorial video will teach you how to make a stink bomb. This stink bomb is incredibly smelly. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Trick Your Friends into Thinking They Have Bleeding Gums
Looking for a new way to torment your housemates? Check out this how to video to learn the secret of the bloody powder prank—it's perfect for April Fool's Day. You'll learn how to make a blood red powder that can make a terrifying mess anywhere you put it—someone's toothbrush is particularly effective.
How To: Booby Trap Someone's Cup for a Great April Fool's Prank
April Fools is the one day of year you can go wild with pranks and practical jokes. It's never too early to learn a new prank, and this one is particularly fun. All you need is a paper cup, some plastic wrap, and an exacto knife.
How To: Perform a Texas Chainsaw Massacre prank
If you're interested in performing a very cruel, but cool and bloody prank this next tutorial is for you. In this Texas Chainsaw Massacre prank, you'll be cutting off your legs and producing a whole lot of blood.
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Puke! SpacePaintings' recipe for vomit is ingenious. The ingredients seem random: a kitchen sponge, Elmer's glue and of course-- food coloring.
How To: Make a cork bounce straight up for a bar trick
There are a lot of ways to get free drinks from people at a bar. Being good-looking is one, having rich friends another. If you aren't or don't have those things, watch this video! It will show you a trick that you can pull on bar patrons to make them buy you beer using only some corks and a secret prank technique.
How To: Make a cool pop gun out of a chapstick tube
Turn that empty tube of chapstick into a fun littler shooter! Create your own cool pop gun out of a chapstick tube. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: 2 Magnets and an Egg Prank! (DIY Set Up)
The worst thing to clean up is a broken egg on the floor, it's not only smelly but gooey too. Here's a really fun booby trap you can pull off at home using an egg, it will require the use of 2 magnets and a paper cup like the ones you get a your local fast food joint.
How To: Booby Trap a Pencil (Very Funny)
I came up with this prank while at school, Fellow classmates would always forget their pencils or pens and always asked to borrow mine. Well I got tired of that and decided to teach them a lesson.
How To: Do a bar card trick that will get you free drinks
Card magic is generally done to amuse the elderly and to scam the gullible. This video will show you a great way to do the latter and get yourself free drinks at a bar. The outcome of the trick is that you and your victim both cut to the same card in a deck after you bet them that it will happen. Watch the video, then get out there and pull the prank.
How To: Make paper poppers in three steps
Who knew that a thin, innocent piece of paper had so much potential for creating loud and annoying sounds? This video will teach you how to make a paper popper in only three easy steps that will allow you to make loud noises over and over again, scaring friends, family, and pets. No non-paper materials required. Make paper poppers in three steps.
How To: Fake being sick
Pulling a Ferris Bueller is easier than you think—if you plan ahead. By watching this video you will learn how to fake being sick. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!