This year April Fools will finally fall on a school day (Tuesday). To some students April Fools is their favorite holiday of the year. You get to play jokes on everybody, with consequences, more or less anyways. For those without a plan yet (or no plans) here are some good, not too provocative, ideas. (See disclaimer below.)

Name: “The Coin On the Ground”

To: Anybody, friends, family, strangers, teachers,

Instructions: Find a coin, the joke works best with a quarter. But if you have a 50 cent coin or dollar coin it works even better. Find a sidewalk, classroom floor, hallway, any ground surface. Put glue (superglue anyone?) on one side of the coin and stick it to the ground. Wait a few seconds for the glue to dry and voila! Watch as people walk by trying to pick up the coin and maybe even laugh a little.

Side affects: Angry janitors having to scrape up the coin/glue (this can be avoided if you clean it up), broken nails, and lots of laughter.

Name: “Inanimate student”

To: teachers

Instructions: Bring with you to class an inanimate object– this works best with a plant, but stuffed animals and cereal boxes work, too. Raise your hand. When called upon, say that the [insert inanimate object here] has a question. Look at the [inanimate object]  and pretend you are listening to it.When it doesn’t say anything, shrug and let the teacher continue. Do this several times. Pretend to get angrier with this object each time it interrupts the teacher. As you leave the class, yell at the [inanimate object]: “I can’t believe you embarrassed me AGAIN.”

Side Effects: none, except maybe becoming the class clown. Or teacher detention.

Name: “May I, Can I…”

To: teachers

Instructions: This prank works best if the entire class is in on it. Ask permission for everything you do. From unzipping your pencil pouch to get a pencil to going to the bathroom or blowing your nose. Have everybody do this throughout the class, and make the “permissions” more obnoxious and ridiculous each time. The period will be gone in no time. One minute before the bell ring ask if you can say something. Before waiting for an answer yell “April Fools!”

Side Effects: Aggravated teacher; possible teacher detention

Name: “Farm class”

To: teachers

Instructions: This one is pretty self explanatory. First, decide on a trigger word, something your teacher says often. For example if you’re in geometry, your word could be angle, or congruent. If you’re in English and reading Lord of the Flies your trigger word could be something related to that. Make sure you’re entire class except your teacher know what this word is. Whenever you hear the word, make an animal sound. It could be a “meow” or  “moo” or even “squack.” Throughout the period make sure different people are doing it so the teacher doesn’t find out.

Side Effects: you might turn into an animal or get teacher detention.

Name: “Autocorrect”

To: Anyone with an iphone

Instructions: First thing is to find a person with an iPhone. Ask to use/see their iphone, do anything to get it. Then go to “settings” click on “Keyboard” and scroll to the bottom where it says “Add New Shortcut.” Then change common words like “yes” “no” “ok” “yeah” etc, to weird phrases or words. Don’t worry, some day they’ll look back at this and laugh.

Side Effects: they may never talk to you again, or trust you with their phone

Name: “Your call has been redirected”

To: anyone with a phone

Instructions: After getting a hold of the phone go to the contacts and switch up the numbers. Change their significant other’s number to their mom’s or your number to the local Dominos. You can even change the contact names to things such as “Batman” “CIA” “Cat Food Factory” etc.

Side Effects: see above

Disclaimer: This column is for your entertainment only. MHS Trail does not recommend that you do anything to anything to disrupt classroom instruction . What one teacher finds amusing, another might find obnoxious. Try these pranks at your own risk.