15 Best April Fools’ Pranks to Pull on Everyone This Year

Print out a bunch of pictures of Nicolas Cage (or another celebrity of your choice) and strategically tape his face over the faces in every photo in your house. That cute pic of you and your roommates on spring break? Now it's a cute photo of four Nic Cages. Your parents' wedding photo in the hallway? Now it's Nic Cage marrying Nic Cage. Just make sure you don't actually damage any photographs.

I mean, I feel like this one is pretty self-explanatory. But can you imagine your coworker / roommate / partner / friend's reaction when they come back to their bedroom or workspace to find it completely covered in tin foil? Iconic.

Rotating someone's computer screen so the display is upside down is probably as easy as tapping a few keys, depending on the type of operating system they have. It's also easy to fix, making it a very low-stakes April Fools' prank.

Just know, you're definitely on cleanup duty after this. Get a ton of confetti and *carefully* place it on top of the blades of a ceiling fan. When your unsuspecting victim walks in and turns the fan on, colorful confetti will shower down everywhere. But yeah, you should have a vacuum handy.

This is an easy prank that's sure to annoy your loved ones, which is basically the point of April Fools' Day. Just go in the kitchen and move everything around. Put the spoons where the knives usually are, put the mugs in a bottom drawer, move your plates to a different cabinet. Just put everything in the most chaotic place so that when they reach for something, it's not what they expect. And then laugh at their confused expression.

Sometimes the best pranks are the simplest ones. Stuff a little bit of tissue or toilet paper in the top of their shoes. When they go to put them on in the morning, they'll be very confused as to how their shoes seemingly shrunk overnight.

If your coworker is a superfan of The Office, they'll get a giggle if you recreate one of Jim's most iconic pranks on Dwight: putting his stapler in jello. So simple, and yet, so effective.

If your unsuspecting victim starts their day by pouring a cup of coffee with a spoonful of sugar, you can really mess with them by filling the dispenser or bowl with salt instead. Simple yet devious.

Fun fact: you can buy a little device that makes meowing noises (or cricket noises). Place it somewhere in your house or office to fool your roommates or officemates into thinking that there's a cat hiding somewhere.

Amazon really comes through on April Fools' Day pranking materials. Case in point: you can buy 50 fake cockroaches for $6. Put them in the refrigerator, in the bathroom, anywhere you know your roommate will see them and freak out. You could even tape one to the inside of a lamp so that when they turn it on, the silhouette of a bug can give them a minor heart attack. And isn't that what the day is really all about?

You'll have to practice your acting skills to pull this one off. Burst into the room and tell your coworker that their car is being towed from the parking lot or that their tires have been slashed. They'll sprint out of the room in a panic and you can follow them to the parking lot, where they'll be relieved and hopefully amused to find their car is perfectly intact.

Put up a sign or post-it note saying that the new printer (or vending machine, or teleconference system, or whatever) is voice activated. Then sit back and watch your coworkers yell at a machine until they figure it out.

Bring in a treat, like donuts or cookies, and put a sign next to them that says "Happy April Fools' Day!" Then sit back and watch the chaos as your coworkers try to figure out what you did to the delicious-looking treats. (Which of course, is nothing, because accidentally making your coworkers sick is not a good April Fools' prank).