Fun April Fools' Day Activities for Kids

Kids love April Fools Day, but you want to make sure the pranks and jokes that they are playing are safe for everyone involved. If you have younger kids you might be looking for more fun ideas for April fools day then just pranks and gags. Here are the top activities for kids on Aprils Fools Day.

Activity pages & Quizzes- This is a great activity for kids of all ages. You can find coloring pages that are April fools day related, for younger kids. There are also many wood searches and printable puzzles that you can find online. These are a few sites that have great printable puzzles April Fools Day Word Scramble, April Fools Day word search, and April Fools day Coloring pages. If you have older kids a fun prank to play is to tell your kids they have to take a test, you then give them a quiz paper that has a bunch of questions on it about any subject, but at the top of the paper you write ay answers read this entire page. At the very bottom of the page put "Do not write anything on this paper, turn it over and sit quietly". The joke obviously is that if you kids followed the instructions they would not have written anything on the paper. There are lots of fun printable activities for kids online you just have to look for them.

April Fools Day Scavenger Hunt- You can have a lot of fun preparing a scavenger hunt for your kids on April fools day. This is perfect because you can customize the scavenger hunt for whatever skill level and ages for your kids. You start by making questions related to April fools day. These can be simple questions for younger kids such as what is the date of April Fools day. If you have older kids the questions can be a lot harder and more educational based on things that you guys have studied or recently learned. For older kids you can base your questions on why we celebrate April fools day. Then on each question you put a choice of two answers each one leading to a location. If they choose the correct answer they find the next clue, if they choose the wrong answer a gag is waiting for them. You can use really simple gag such as a fake spider or a fake mouse, or if you want to you can have more elaborate pranks such as Vaseline on a door handle. At the end of the scavenger hunt you have a prize for which ever person gets there first, you can also have smaller prizes for everyone who plays. This can be a very fun activity for groups of kids. If you have kids of different ages, you can give each kids different questions that are customized to them.

April Fools Day pranks- Many kids love playing pranks on April fools day. If you come up with pranks with your kids, it is a great way of making sure they play pranks that are appropriate. This is also a great way of teaching kids what pranks are fun, and what kind of pranks can hurt people or upset them. There are many simple pranks that you can play with your kids. It can be fun for you and your kids to plan a prank to play on your spouse when they get home from work. One fun and completely fun prank is to have your kids help you make dinner that isn't what it looks like. You can make a soil cake, where you take a chocolate cake and put gummy worms in it so it looks like you are eating dirt. Here is a great recipe for dirt cake. If you are creative you can make a whole meal that looks like it is something else. There are also many fun safe pranks that you can play with your kidsworld is a great site that has a lot of fun pranks.