Welcome to the Worth Melting For Giveaway Hop, hosted by Mama the Fox!
It’s April Fools’ Day, we’re all quarantined in the middle of a worldwide pandemic, and I don’t know about you, but the thing that really feels like its melting is our brains. Also it’s raining. Again. It’s WAY too late for snow in this neck of the woods.
Or, to put it another way, our 90-day trial of 2020 is now officially over, and no one knows where to send it back to get a do-over.
But it’s finally April. We can hope that things will look up. That the sun will come out tomorrow. That the dawn will come. We WILL get through this.
And in the meantime there are books. And giveaways for more books. And giveaways for gift cards for – you guessed it – more books.
Today I’m giving away the winner’s choice of a $10 Amazon Gift Card or a book, up to $10 in value from the Book Depository. This giveaway is available wherever the Book Depository ships in this big wide and somewhat shut down and shut in world.
This is also day 3 of my annual Blogo-Birthday Celebration Week. There’s a giveaway here at Reading Reality every day this week. Monday’s giveaway is a $25 Amazon Gift AND $25 in Books. Tuesday’s giveaway is the winner’s choice of books by one of my favorite new authors. Thursday’s and Friday’s giveaways will be books from a couple of my long-standing favorite authors. So check out the giveaways! No fooling!
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The tilted cup of water inside the cabinet door so it spills when going to get dishes for breakfast
Putting a sign on your back and being unaware of it. Cute.
My favorite one was a few years ago when this super serious scientific magazine published a whole article about dragons, quoting JK Rowling and the Harry Potter books as sources 🙂
Instead of using apples in a caramel apples recipe, use an onion and watch their reaction.
The classic tape over the sprayer in the kitchen sink.
im not really into pranks. something harmless like a fake bug on someones pillow.
I don’t really do pranks maybe something funny like a shaved hair prank
I don’t have a good one, but O’reilly auto is selling the flux capacitor!
I don’t do pranks, but I have seen the prank where you cut a silhouette of a bug and put it in a lamp. 🙂
I don’t have any.
I don’t really know any good ones… though last year one of the publishing companies (I want to say Bethany House) had some hilarious IG posts… including one that said a suspense writer had been arrested due to their search history… or something like that. I enjoyed that a lot!
I don’t mind pranks as long as no one is harmed–mentally or physically. I can’t remember any good ones that have happened to me, but when I was really young, my brother and I put a toy snake in the utensil drawer and when my mom went to get a spoon out, she SHRIEKED. We thought it was hilarious, and she laughed afterward as well.
Last year, I had the kids believing that they were going to have to go to school through the summer because they had too many snow days!
I don;t do pranks
My mom’s best friend slathered toothpaste over the toilet seat and she slid right off the toilet when going to the bathroom at night!
When my son said he was moving to the Middle East and my parents bought it.
Taping the handle on the water sprayer on the faucet so it sprays whoever turns the water on next.
I can’t think of any.
saran wrap under the toilet seat.
I like to press the Ctrl, Alt, and downward arrow keys on Windows computers to flip the display screen upside down.
Th virus threat is over aand life can go back to north. nly sih so.
I’m not a big fan of pranks, but I do think it’s funny when corporations do jokes (like harmless promotions) for the day. Pretty glad most people had the sense to avoid them this year, tho.
Being overly nice, because people need that kindness now. Jokes aside XD.
Chocolate covered brussel sprouts for someone who hates brussel sprouts. It just looks like a bowl of chocolate balls.
the kids got the hubby with the saran wrap on the toliet seat before. It was a good one.
saran wrap on the toilet!
I don’t do april’s fool day pranks.
I don’t really do pranks but maybe swap out the salt in the shaker with sugar.
I have been thinking, and thinking, and thinking……. And I’m coming up with nothing! All I can think of are those gag gifts that I’d see for sale at the mall, many many years ago– e.g., the fake dog poop, fake cockroach, etc. (Sorry to disappoint!)
…April fool! I am the prankmaster, and I must keep my tricks and secrets hidden. Hahahaha hahaha ahahaha ahahaaahahaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉
I was fooled at least once before.
I don’t do any but my nieces friends at college would put water on the door so when it opened it would fall on the person opening it.
Every year a friend of mine lists her birthday on Facebook as April 1. It’s so funny because people still wish her happy birthday, ha!
I don’t have any. I never really got into Aprils fools day
don’t know any
As a part-time teacher, I told my students to write a 100 page book report that night.. I even laughed. There was actually a couple that did!
I don’t have.
I do not know any and i do not prank no one
We did Saran wrap on the toilet once XD
“What day do donkeys play tricks on each other? April Mule’s Day.”
We never did much for April Fools Day except one year I put a rubber snake on my mom’s porch and then told her it was real
I can’t say I have any April Fools Day Jokes could use one now
“Self-quarantine? Social distancing? I remember a time when these happened because you talked too much about ‘Star Trek.’ ” — Matt Weinhold
I don’t know any off hand except I bought a bottle of liquid ass off of Amazon and my husband sprayed some in the bathrooms at work and some of the workers came out of there gagging and puking.
Rubber band around the handle/lever on the sink sprayer. (So, when the sink gets turned on, the person standing there gets hosed.)
Yesterdays prank was “KIDS!!! WAKE UP!!! THE SCHOOL CALLED!!! YOU’RE GOING BACK!!! C’MON — GET UP — YOU’RE GONNA MISS THE BUS!!!” (I’d seen that one on FB, and couldn’t resist.)
School being cancelled for the rest of the year in Georgia *facepalm*
One time at work, a co worker wrapped our boss’s desk with saran wrap
I’m not into April Fools Day, and I don’t consider it a holiday.
I got nothing. April fools isn’t my thing! As a kid, I put a fake mouse in my moms show and thought it was hilarious
I love the stuff that it looks like something has spilled
When we were kids, my sister switched the sugar and salt & my mom ” sweetened” her coffee with salt. Yuck!
At work leave a post-it note on someone’s desk that says “See me immediately!”. Then make the signature illegible.
One time my best friend and roommate told me that she learned she had a long lost brother and she was going to meet him that day and that she told him he could move in with us. I WAS SO MAD lol
Asking the person if they wanna hear a knock knock joke, then say “knock knock” yourself.
I don’t usually do pranks but I recall staying with a friend & her sister blocked her bedroom door by tacking string all over it. When we woke up the next day we opened the door & was greeted with a wall of string. lol We ended up having to crawl out the bedroom window.
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Saran Wrap on the toilet… every year.
I’ve seen people trick their kids this year saying that they had to go to school on Aprils Fools Day and they made them go wait at the bus stop for awhile before telling them it was a joke.
I’ve gotten too old, I don’t play April fools jokes anymore.
I once cut out some insect looking shapes and put them under the lampshade. It was the funniest thing seeing my family react.
I don’t have any.
No, don’t know any jokes or pranks, and fortunately, none played on me ever! 🙂
We don’t do any pranks.
the rubber band on the kitchen sprayer
Any prank a teacher can play on students
A friend of mine use to always play April fools jokes on his parents, one year he moved the living room furniture into their bedroom and the bedroom furniture into the living room.
I actually don’t like playing jokes on people, I think its mean
My daughter pranked me by putting some fake poop on my bed.
When I was in grade school, the big pranks were telling someone their shoe was untied or their zipper was down. The pranks are way more elaborate now!
One time I made meatloaf cupcakes with mashed potato frosting
My favorite prank i did when i was little was put salt in the sugar bowl.
I’m not into pranks. I did put blue food coloring in our milk jug and my sister wouldn’t drink it.
Thanks for the contest.
My daughter saran-wrapped my double doors together and I couldn’t get out of the bedroom.
Best one I have is your shoe is untied. Weak, I know.
Telling my kids one year that Santa wasn’t going to have time to stop at our house….big mistake….massive meltdowns!
I messed with my husband’s computer screen, so he thought it computer crashed. It was just a funky screen saver.
Chocolate covered brussell sprouts instead of cake pops!
We froze our kids’ cereal. That was pretty funny! 🙂
I don’t like most April Fool’s Day pranks or jokes, but Nicole from Feed Your Fiction Addiction used to do one every single year, and those were always amusing. One year she talked about having a big book event in her backyard with big named authors, etc.
-Lauren
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Our 5 year old grandson called to tell us he got in really big trouble at school and his teacher was taking him down the hall to see the principal (which happened), but when he got there, he was given an award for being good – and just like the principal told him – APRIL FOOLS was told to us!
We don’t usually do April Fool’s, so I don’t really have one. My kids have a plastic spider that they leave places for me thinking they are going to fool me though. lol
With everything going on we completely forgot about it!
slipped a trick golf ball on my nephews shot for birdie. He was not amused.
I wrapped my daughter’s desk chair with plastic food wrap!
The funniest prank is taking off the paper labels on cans in your pantry!
I don’t really have one and can’t think of one my kids may have done before
Making a sponge cake out of real sponges and icing it and No one knows till they try to cut it up. This looks So realistic too.
I’ve never pulled a prank.
I had made up a fake marriage certificate to appear to have run off and got married.
I deliberately scared my daughter with bugs. It wasn’t the fear and the hollering that was funny, it was how she tore the bathroom up that was funny!
Carefully open walnuts, then glue the empty shells back together, and put them back in the nut bowl.
I told my kids that school was starting back the next day…lol
One year on April Fools we had a family party so I had my mom call that morning saying I had broken my ankle and we were at the hospital so we would be late. I showed up on crutches and my cousin had delayed the meal and everything, it was great!
Sorry not a fan of april fools. Its pretty mean spirited :/
I think the funniest one I ever did was hide in our closet for an hour waiting for my husband to get dressed after his shower. He thought I left for work and I jumped out to scare the crap out of him.
One of my friends played a bad joke by posting a number where you could call and see when you were going to get your check from the government that they are distributing during the pandemic and like an ass I called.
My dad would always tell me to look out the window at something that wasn’t there. I fell for it every year.
Wearing a scary mask and waking up beside someone
The dyed hair prank.
I am not certain this is funny right now but it is effective to get a reaction. Swap the clear disinfectant within a container of sanitizer for clear school glue instead. They’ll pump out a sticky surprise right into their hands … and wonder why it’s not evaporating as they rub.
My kids have been wanting a Rabbit for a while. I am Knowledgeable in owning them as I have had them before. Well, my Fiance is dead set against having them or any other animals. a few days before April fools day I asked Facebook for name suggestions, no reasoning, just asking.
Then April fools day I posted we finally got the bunny! found convincing pictures online that looked like they were in my apartment, so that got everyone! I even told the kids we were getting a bunny.
The next day I revealed it was all a joke, but we do intend to get one eventually.
Telling my kids get up and get ready for school on April 1st. They all did, haha.
I actually don’t know of any! I know of a bad one….a blog contest sent emails to everyone who entered a contest telling everyone they won $100 …..oh gee “April Fools”… not funny! Thanks and God Bless!
I don’t like pranks…sorry 🙁
Saw the Saran Wrap on the toilet done, it was funny.
Putting a rubber band of the kitchen sprayer is a classic.
I’m not fond of April Fool’s Day, and don’t know of any pranks (I’m a bit of a party pooper).
My husband told me i had to work on April Fool’s day a couple years back. i went there to find out it was an April Fool’s joke, but i did get 8 hours of overtime that day. LOL
I don’t like or participate in pranks. On the saran wrap on the toilet prank, who gets to clean up the mess? I would make the prankster clean it up!
A radio station played Christmas music all day .and one year a radio station said a local bridge was closed.that one upset people
My friend made “fried eggs” for her kids out of yogurt with a sliced peach half in the middle
A few years ago, telling my kids school had been cancelled.
changing the times on the clocks was a good one
Not the funniest……but maybe the corniest. What do donkeys celebrate on April 1st?
April Mules Day
I have a friend who works in a medical lab, Every time a new employee comes in he sits down with all of the urine samples cups during his break. He picks up a cup. The girl shrieks. Sheila shows her the cup and says it is only orange juice.
Onions dipped to look like caramel apples.