There is nothing more fun than playing harmless pranks on friends, siblings, or roommates. Play a fun joke by covering your friends' car with post-it notes or sabotaging their hand sanitizer. Alternatively, create a culinary nightmare using Oreo cookies and toothpaste and offer it to your victims. If you want to prank someone who lives with you, like a sibling or roommate, you can stick an insect-shaped cardboard template inside a lampshade or cover their toothbrush with salt.
Steps
Part 1 of 4: Designing the Joke
Step 1. Choose the person you want to prank on
Your victim will need to be someone you are familiar with and who has a similar sense of humor to yours - a parent, teacher, sibling, or trusted friend. Avoid playing pranks on people you don't know well - they may misunderstand your intentions and think you are targeting them. Other people to avoid are:
- A stranger;
- A stressed or worried parent
- A new classmate;
- Someone you don't usually get along with;
- A particularly sensitive person who is easily offended;
- A person suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome, anxiety, or other ailments that make it difficult for them to calm down.
Step 2. Brainstorm
Grab a pen and paper and sit in a place that favors your concentration while you think. Then take note of everything that comes to your mind about the joke you want to play. It doesn't matter if they are good or bad ideas - what matters is that you write as many ideas as possible.
- Think of a joke that fits your "victim" personality. For example, if your best friend loves glitter and isn't scared easily, sending her a glitter bomb might have fun. Or, if your dad likes to experiment with recipes, you could buy vegetables that don't need to be refrigerated and put them in weird places around the house (he can cook them after having a good laugh).
- Avoid making jokes that don't go along with the person's character or habits. For example, if your mother is often in a hurry in the morning, there is no need to force her on a treasure hunt to find coffee; if your brother gets scared easily, you shouldn't send him a scary video, because it might scare him too much.
Step 3. Discard any dangerous or mean ideas
Your joke shouldn't endanger anyone or hurt anyone's feelings. Otherwise it would no longer be a "harmless joke". Some examples of harmful or dangerous actions include:
- Ruining something that the person considers important;
- Make the person believe that something serious has happened to someone or something they care about;
- Include fire or sharp objects in your joke;
- Anger the person by frightening them;
- Risk the person suffocating or hyperventilating and trapping them;
- Risk of hurting her (for example, a bucket of water placed over a door that could violently hit her in the head and force her to go to the emergency room);
- Cause a terrible mess that the person will then have to think about.
Step 4. Choose the best idea
The ideal prank should be fun, harmless, and relatively easy to perform. Plan something big enough to blow the person away, but make sure they don't suspect anything before the big moment. Choose an idea that:
- Have your victim's daily life as a scenario, so as to really take her by surprise;
- It is not too demanding to put in place;
- Be fun for both, "victim" and "executioner";
- You don't cause too much mess.
Step 5. Make a plan
Now that you've come up with the perfect joke, plan how to do it. Jot down each step on a sheet of paper to organize it and reread it several times, considering all possibilities. This will allow you to identify possible defects in the execution. For instance:
- If your plan includes a large amount of balloons, you will need to find time to buy them.
- If your friend is feeling bad that day, they may be absent from work or school and miss your joke.
- If your joke includes water and the temperatures are very low outside, it could freeze.
Part 2 of 4: Making fun of friends
Step 1. Put a sign that says "voice activation" on an appliance
This prank works especially well in case the victims are your colleagues. Bring a toaster or other small appliance to work and place it in the staff room. He then makes a small sign explaining that that particular toaster recognizes voice commands. Finally, spend the rest of the day having a good time while your coworkers yell at the toaster.
- If you want to further encourage your colleagues to use the toaster, leave some slices of bread next to us and invite them to help themselves.
- Other small appliances that the joke can work with are coffee machines, kettles, and stoves.
Step 2. Cover your friend's car with post-its
Look for a stationery shop that sells post-its and buy as much as you can. Then glue them onto your friend's car until it is completely covered with adhesive tickets, including the windows. Your friend will have to spend hours removing them before they can use the car again.
- Use colorful post-its to create patterns or decorate the car in a funny way. For example, you could use green, white and brown post-its to create a Shrek-mobile.
- Post-its notes will stick more securely if the car body is clean.
- Take Your Responsibilities: After your friend reacts to the prank, offer to clean up for him.
Step 3. Replace the hand sanitizer with lubricant
This joke is especially effective if your friend uses hand sanitizer frequently and has a habit of carrying a vial with them. First, get a bottle of lube - you can easily find one at a drugstore or supermarket. Then empty your friend's bottle of disinfectant and fill it with lubricant. The next time your friend uses it, their hands will be greasy and slimy.
Store the real disinfectant in a glass or buy another bottle before playing this joke. Your friend may not take it well if he has to buy it back
Step 4. Send something funny
There are companies that offer shipping services that specialize in pranks. You could send your friend a box of sequins, eggplant, bugs, or other oddities. Search the internet to find out which of these services is best suited to your needs.
If possible, send the package to your school or office so that you can enjoy the live reaction
Step 5. Advertise a Chewbacca Imitation Contest
Create a series of flyers advertising a Chewbacca imitation contest and add your friend's number as a judge's reference. Post flyers for the neighborhood and, if you are lucky, your friend's phone will receive dozens of voice messages with the most varied imitations of the character.
Avoid using working numbers for this joke. Your friend might mistake an important call for yet another Chewbacca imitation and ignore it as a result
Part 3 of 4: Messing With Food
Step 1. Make candied "apples"
First, make a dose of the sweet mixture for candied apples. Clean a few onions by removing the outer layers and stick them with a wooden stick. Dip the onions into the mixture and place them on a sheet of parchment paper to dry. This way, the onions will look exactly the same as delicious candied apples.
- After letting them cool, innocently offer the candied "apples" to your friends and enjoy their reaction when they realize they've bitten an onion.
- Make sure none of the unfortunates are allergic to onions.
Step 2. Make some disgustingly "tasty" orange juice
Buy a pack of instant noodles and a bottle of orange juice. Drink or discard the juice, then pour the contents of the powdered seasoning sachet of the noodles into the empty bottle. Add the water and shake vigorously until all the powder is dissolved.
- When everything is ready, offer the juice to a friend and enjoy his disgusted expression when he tries to take a sip.
- Keep the bottle in the fridge until you are ready to use it. Offering a lukewarm bottle of juice might arouse suspicion.
Step 3. Make Oreo Toothpaste Cookies
Get a pack of Oreos and a tube of toothpaste. Carefully separate the two biscuits and remove the filling with a knife; substitute a small amount of toothpaste for the cream and put them back together. When your friends eat the cookies they will end up with a disgusting menthol surprise.
- Make a plate of cookies, then offer them to your friends and watch their reaction of disgust as they eat them.
- If your friends are particularly suspicious, leave the plate of cookies lying around to tempt them. You won't see their reactions directly, but for sure you'll hear about them later.
Part 4 of 4: Making Pranks Around the House
Step 1. Sprinkle a toothbrush with salt
Sprinkle some salt on your roommate's toothbrush. The next time she brushes her teeth, the toothpaste will taste awful.
Use fine salt for this joke. If you use coarse salt, the prank victim may notice the grains and become suspicious
Step 2. Place an "insect" inside a lamp
This joke is effective if the victim doesn't like bugs. First, print the image of a large cockroach or other repulsive insect; then cut out the shape and then stick it with tape inside a lampshade. When he turns on the light, your victim will be surprised by the terrifying shadow of a huge insect and, in a panic, will think it is real.
- Search online for repulsive insect pictures to print.
- Use clear tape to attach the template to the inside of the lampshade.
- Don't play this joke if someone with a severe phobia of insects lives in the house. You have to be sure that anyone who sees the lamp is able to calm down afterwards, otherwise it wouldn't be a harmless joke.
Step 3. Make a bar of soap useless
Get a bar of soap and a bottle of clear nail polish. Spread several layers of nail polish on the bar, letting it dry between strokes. Then, put the bar of soap in the shower or near the sink. When the victim tries to use it, the bar of soap will not foam.
Spread at least four layers of nail polish on the bar of soap before putting it in place. The more layers, the more effective the prank will be
Step 4. Wrap the bed with cling film
Buy several rolls of cling film at the grocery store. Then wrap it tightly around the entire bed. When the victim decides to go to bed, he will be forced to get rid of the plastic before he can go to sleep.
- It is better to use long pieces of film - they will be more difficult to remove than small ones.
- You can decide whether to wrap each pillow and blanket separately or create a single, well-sealed package.
Advice
- Expect possible revenge from your friends.
- Choose your victims carefully. If a friend of yours doesn't have a good sense of humor, it might be best to prank someone else.
- Be careful that someone else does not fall into your trap, or the intended victim will find that you wanted to play a joke on them.
- Always remember that the best jokes are the ones you can both have fun with. Petty jokes can offend people and hurt their feelings.
- You can stick a coin under a faucet (not on all sides!) And the water will spray everywhere when your victim tries to open it.
Warnings
- Pranking strangers (for example, posting a "jumpscare" video online) is a bad idea because you can't know if people will react well or if any of them are very sensitive. If you make a joke on the internet, make it bland or send it privately to friends you know for sure will react well.
- Choose the right moments to prank your friends. If one of them is stressed or sad, they may react badly.
