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Sorry this is late, I wanted to put it up last week for you!
April Fool's is HUGE here, for food. We don't usually play tricks, but are wild with food. We've done the colorful cupcakes (Meatloaf frosted with colored mashed potatoes - great fun), and this year we ARE doing the Chicken Not-Pie. Both of these and other great ideas are at FamilyFun.com
OK, easier-to-sneak-past-the-dc ideas:
*Make Jell-o in their regular drinking glases the night before (after bed?). Stick a straw in before it sets! Looks like juice, but...
*Dye the milk with food coloring if you don't use see-thru containers.
*One year we did Pizza Day! Breakfast Pizza (crescent roll crust, scrambled eggs, sausage, cheese, etc); biscuit or English muffin pizzas for lunch; REAL pizza for supper (no trick!) & a cake dessert pizza! It was tremendously funny - "What's for breakfast?" "Pizza!" "What's for lunch?" "Pizza!" etc... Doesn't need to be made in secret.
*oh! The easiest year was the one where I switched everything around - Lasagne for breakfast, normal lunch, pancakes for supper. I made the lasagne the night before & told the dc it was for a family at church. Which it was. US!!
Tricks - The dc love to switch out Mark's towel for a hand towel or washcloth while he's in the shower!
And OUR fav as parents - switching the dc in their beds 3/31 after they're all asleep! With our AS kids who may freak, we've kept them in the same bed but moved them head-to-foot so they wouldn't feel left out.
Nowadays, I can make REGULAR food for 4/1 and the dc think I'm tricking them because I always have inthe past. They expect it, so the trick would be to NOT make funny food!
I think this year, we're doing green eggs & ham for b-fast, the deli-sandwich-that-looks-like-a-cake for lunch and the chicken not-pie (with a REAL chic pot pie to serve after the dessert-y trick one) for dinner. OH! And definitely the Jell-o juices - haven't done that one in a LONG time.
Peace to you!
Katie |
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