5 easy, April Fools food jokes!

April Fools Day is tomorrow and we love a food prank in this house! There are lots of ways you can make food fun for your children and April Fools is no exception!

Here are some recipes you can put on your April Fools menu for April 1st!

  1. Frozen milk and cereal prank

    • the night before, pop some milk and a spoon into a cereal bowl

    • freeze it, bowl and all

    • in the morning, take the frozen milk and bowl out of the freezer, add their fav cereal on top.

    • add some fresh milk and serve

      The spoon will be frozen to the milk and they won’t be able to take it out!

2. Green milk and cereal April Fool prank

  • before your chid sees you, pop a few drops of food colouring (green or any colour you have!) into the bottom of a bowl

  • add their fav cereal on top as normal

  • add the milk

    Watch the milk turn green at they mix it and start to eat!

3. Tomato sweets prank

  • grab some wrapped mini Easter eggs or similiar in the shops

  • grab some baby plum tomatoes as well

  • take the foil off the Easter Eggs and use it to wrap up the tomatoes - grapes will work too

  • pop them into the school lunchboxes or onto a snack plate

    Watch their faces when they unwrap their “treat”!

    4. Fried egg prank for breakfast?!

  • Grab some plain Greek yoghurt and tinned apricot halves in the shop

  • pop some of the Greek yoghurt onto a plate in the shape of egg white

  • use one apricot half as the ‘yolk’

    See does your child fall for it!

    5. Brown ‘e’ ‘s prank for after school!

  • Grab some brown card or cardboard

  • draw some large ‘e’s on the card and cut them out

  • place them in a baking dish that you might normally use

  • cover them with tinfoil or wax paper so they can’t be seen

  • when your child comes home from school, tell them you made them some brown’e’s!!!!

Brown ‘E”S your child will NOT love!

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Deirdre Doyle