Buzz
There’s nothing more entertaining than pranking your friends, siblings, or roommates. You can surprise your friends by covering their car with sticky notes or altering their hand sanitizer. Another idea is to offer them Oreo cookies filled with toothpaste for a culinary nightmare. If you’re targeting siblings or roommates, try sticking fake insects inside lamp shades or sprinkling salt on their toothbrushes.
Steps
Create Your Own Prank Ideas
Find someone to prank. Choose a family member or acquaintance with a similar sense of humor, such as parents, teachers, siblings, or close friends. Avoid pranking strangers, as they might misunderstand the joke and think you’re bullying them. Other individuals to avoid include:
- Exhausted and stressed parents
- New students at school
- Someone who often clashes with you
Brainstorm to generate ideas. Grab a pen and paper. Find a comfortable, quiet spot to sit and think. Next, jot down any ideas that come to mind. Don’t worry about whether the idea is good or bad. Instead, focus on writing down as many ideas as possible.
Eliminate any cruel or harmful ideas. Pranks should never hurt or endanger others, as that would no longer make them "harmless." Examples of dangerous or harmful pranks include:
- Damaging someone’s valuable property
- Using sharp objects or fire in the prank
- Scaring someone to the point of anger
- Setting traps that could cause choking or breathing difficulties
Choose the best idea. The greatest pranks are funny, harmless, and practical. Additionally, the prank should be surprising but not so shocking that it becomes suspicious. Pick an idea that:
- Targets the person in their safe space to avoid raising suspicion
- Doesn’t require excessive preparation
- Brings joy to both the prankster and the "victim."
Plan the execution. Once you’ve come up with the perfect prank, it’s time to plan. Carefully outline the main steps of the plan on paper. Review the plan several times, visualizing each step. This helps identify potential flaws. For example:
- If you need balloons for the prank, ensure you have time to buy them.
- If your friend isn’t feeling well, they might skip work or school, ruining the prank.
- If the prank involves water and it’s cold outside, the water might freeze.
Prank Your Friends
Place a sign saying 'voice-activated' next to an object. This prank works great if your friends are also your coworkers. Bring an electric toaster or another common appliance to the office and place it in the break room. Next, create a small sign stating that this advanced toaster is voice-activated. Then, sit back and enjoy watching people yell at the toaster all day.
- To encourage your friends to use the toaster, place a loaf of bread nearby and tell everyone to help themselves.
- Other small appliances you can use include a coffee maker, hot plate, or capsule coffee machine.
Cover your friend's car with sticky notes. Head to a stationery store and buy as many sticky notes as you can. Then, cover the entire car, including the windows, with the notes. Your prank victim will have to peel off hundreds of sticky notes before they can drive away.
- Use colorful sticky notes to create a fun design. For example, use green, white, and brown notes to make the car look like Shrek.
- Sticky notes adhere best to a freshly washed car.
Replace their hand sanitizer with lubricant. This prank is perfect for someone who always carries hand sanitizer in their bag or keeps it on their desk. First, buy a bottle of clear lubricant from a pharmacy or grocery store. Next, empty their hand sanitizer bottle and fill it with the lubricant. When they try to use it, their hands will end up greasy and sticky.
- Remember to save the hand sanitizer in another container or buy a new bottle for the victim before pulling this prank. They might get upset if they have to buy more hand sanitizer themselves.
Mail something funny to your friend. Many companies offer prank delivery services. You can send your friend a box of glitter bombs, an eggplant, plastic bugs, and more. Search online to find the service that best suits your prank goals.
- If possible, send the package to their workplace or school so you can witness their reaction when they open it.
Post an ad looking for someone who can roar like Chewbacca. Design a flyer promoting a Chewbacca roar contest and include your friend's phone number at the bottom. Then, distribute the flyers around the neighborhood. If you're lucky, your friend will receive dozens of voicemails from people attempting their best Chewbacca impression.
- Avoid using your friend's work phone number for this prank. Their voicemail might get overwhelmed, and they could miss important calls.
Use Food to Prank Someone
Make 'Candy Apples.' First, prepare a batch of traditional candy apple coating. Next, peel a few medium-sized onions and insert a wooden stick into each one to create a handle. Dip each onion into the candy coating and place them on wax paper to dry. The onions will look just like delicious candy apples.
- Once dry, casually offer your friends the 'candy apples' and watch their reactions when they bite into the onions.
- Remember not to serve this to anyone with an onion allergy.
Create 'Orange Juice' Cheese Abomination. Buy a box of macaroni and cheese and a small bottle of orange juice. Drink or pour out the orange juice, then empty the cheese powder from the macaroni box into the empty bottle. Add water to the bottle and screw the cap back on. Shake the bottle until the cheese powder is fully dissolved.
- Once the bottle is ready, offer it to your friends and watch them gag.
- Chill the bottle before serving. Warm orange juice might make your friends suspicious.
Make Toothpaste-Filled Oreos. Buy a pack of Oreos and a tube of toothpaste. Carefully separate the Oreo cookies and scrape off the cream filling. Squeeze a small amount of toothpaste onto one half of the cookie and press the two halves back together. When your friends bite into the cookies, they'll be shocked by the intense minty flavor.
- Place the toothpaste-filled Oreos on a plate and offer them to your friends, then enjoy their horrified reactions.
- For skeptical friends, simply leave the plate of Oreos nearby to tempt them. You might not see them eat it, but you'll hear about it later.
Indoor Pranks
Sprinkle salt on the toothbrush. Sprinkle salt on the bristles of your roommate's or sibling's toothbrush. During their next brushing session, they'll think the toothpaste has a salty and disgusting taste.
- Use sea salt or fine-grained table salt. Otherwise, they might notice the salt particles on the brush and become suspicious.
Place 'insects' inside the lampshade. This prank is quite amusing for those who fear large bugs. First, print a large image of a cockroach or another hairy insect. Next, cut and paste the image onto the inside of the lampshade. When your roommate or sibling turns on the light, they'll see the shadow of a massive, creepy insect and believe it's inside the lampshade.
- Search online for images of hairy insects to print.
- Use clear tape to attach the insect image to the lampshade.
Create a useless soap bar. Find a bottle of clear nail polish and a dry bar of soap. Apply several coats of clear nail polish to the soap and let it dry. Then, place the soap in the shower or next to the sink. When your sibling or roommate tries to use it, they'll find it doesn't produce any lather.
- Apply at least four coats of clear nail polish. The more layers you add, the more effective the prank will be.
Wrap the bed in plastic wrap. Purchase a few rolls of plastic wrap from a nearby grocery store. Next, tightly wrap your sibling's or roommate's bed by layering multiple sheets around the entire bed frame. Before they go to sleep, they'll have to spend several minutes struggling to remove the plastic wrap.
- Try using long pieces of plastic wrap instead of many small pieces. This will make it harder for the victim to remove.
- You can wrap each pillow and blanket separately or bundle everything into one tight package.
Advice
- Be cautious of friends seeking revenge.
- Ensure others do not become unintended victims; otherwise, the target will realize you planned to prank them.
- Choose your 'victim' wisely. If your friends lack a sense of humor, consider pranking someone else.
- You can tape a coin to the faucet (don’t cover it completely!) so water sprays everywhere when the victim turns it on.
- Remember, a great prank is one that makes both parties laugh. A mean-spirited prank might be taken seriously and hurt someone’s feelings.
Warning
- Pick the right timing to prank your friends. If they are stressed or upset, they might not appreciate the joke.
