{"id":44,"date":"2009-03-31T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-31T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/31\/april-fools-fun\/"},"modified":"2009-03-31T22:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-31T22:34:00","slug":"april-fools-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/31\/april-fools-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"April Fools Fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color:rgb(0,0,255);\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong>Today&#8217;s your last day to plan any April Fools Fun for your family.&nbsp; Got any plans?&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few ideas&#8230;<br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,255);\"><span><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong>Let the kids take turns <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong>changing the answering machine to something really outrageous every hour or so.&nbsp; Make up strange errands that you&#8217;re running, do funny accents, or even create a wacky fictional business that people have reached.&nbsp; Then hope you get lots of calls (and no professional ones!).<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(128,0,128);\"><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><span style=\"color:rgb(128,0,128);\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(255,102,0);\">Make up a couple of batches of Jello (or use gelatin and fruit juice) and pour it into heatproof glasses.&nbsp; Insert a straw and chill, then serve the kids a &quot;juice&quot; drink later as a snack.<\/span><br \/><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\">Have your little ones wear their clothes backwards or inside out, or swap and wear other family member&#8217;s clothes.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,153);\">If you have sound sleepers, switch the kids into each other&#8217;s beds after they&#8217;re asleep.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,153);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(204,0,255);\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.education-world.com\/a_lesson\/hunt\/hunt029.shtml\">Here&#8217;s<\/a> an educational April Fools online scavenger hunt for kids.&nbsp; They find the answers to the questions at a web site, then can go to another web site to read about history&#8217;s greatest hoaxes.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,153);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,0);\">Use a marker to paint little red dots all over your face first thing in the morning.&nbsp; Pretend you have no idea what they&#8217;re talking about when they notice.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,153);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,153,51);\">Print out one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisdunmire.com\/fun\/worlds.hardest.puzzles.shtml\">world&#8217;s hardest puzzles<\/a> (which are really unsolveable).<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:rgb(0,153,255);\"><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong>Together, look through the newspapers and online news sites to find hoax stories.&nbsp; Most newspapers and many sites like Google like to get in the April Fools spirit with fake stories.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,153);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,153,51);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/1995\/apr\/01-molelike-animal-melts-ice-tunnels-with-its-head\/?searchterm=%22april%201%22\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,153,255);\">One infamous story<\/span><\/a><\/span><span style=\"color:rgb(0,153,255);\"> ran at the Discover Magazine site about a new discovery of penguin-eating naked ice borers in the Antarctic and generated more buzz than any real stories ever had.&nbsp; (Caution:&nbsp; Older kids are likely to get a kick out of the &quot;article&quot; but younger ones could be distressed!)<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,153);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,153,51);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,51,255);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\">Plan a silly prank to pull on other family members together.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,153);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,153,51);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,51,255);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,51,204);\">Serve your child a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/crafts\/Banana.shtml\">magical banana<\/a>!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,153);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,153,51);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,51,255);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,102,0);\">Make a joke dinner like one of <a href=\"http:\/\/allrecipes.com\/HowTo\/April-Fools-Day-Dinner\/Detail.aspx\">these<\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,51,153);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,0,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,153,51);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,51,255);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(0,204,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(255,102,0);\"><span style=\"color:rgb(51,102,255);\">Please share what you do with your kiddos, too!&nbsp; Happy April!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s your last day to plan any April Fools Fun for your family.&nbsp; Got any plans?&nbsp; Here&#8217;s a few ideas&#8230; Let the kids take turns changing the answering machine to something really outrageous every hour or so.&nbsp; Make up strange errands that you&#8217;re running, do funny accents, or even create a wacky fictional business that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[31,123,210],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/magicalchildhood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}