Safe Pranks

Getting Buggy
Freeze fake bugs in ice and plop them in your guests’ drinks.

Bed Wetter
The old, tried-and-true “stick someone’s hand in warm water and see if they wet the bed” trick.

The Big Freeze-Out
Old standy: Bra in the freezer, the smaller the cup size, the more embarrassment in the morning.

Gotta Hand It to You
While someone’s sound asleep, put something messy on their hand (such as whipped cream or honey) and then tickle their nose to see what happens. Be sure to have a camera ready.

Fit to Be Tied
Gently tie your victim’s hands or legs together and wake them up as if there’s some kind of emergency.

Colorful Night
Be careful with this one—it could mess up sheets. Sprinkle some Kool-Aid or similar powdered drink in the bed. As your “friend” tosses and turns and sweats in the night, the powder will get wet and sticky. What a gross awakening!

Not-damaged Goods
Leave a note on a parked car saying you’re sorry about the damage—but there is none.

That’s a Wrap
Put cellophane (Saran) wrap around someone’s car doors so they won’t open. Save this trick for someone with a beater car.

Middle Management
We laughed out loud when we heard of this one! It’s called “Oreo-ing” a car. Buy a whole bunch of packs of Oreos, twist them open and individually stick them all over someone’s car. The more Oreos the better. (Special Disclaimer: Wash the Oreos off the same day; we hear they can damage paint!)

Zip-a-de-doo-dah
Buy long zip-ties and attach them to the drive shaft of your victim’s car. It shouldn’t hurt the car (or so we hear), but will make a cool noise as they drive away.

Bubble Yuck
Place some thick bubble wrap in front of your victim’s car, so when he or she drives away it will sound like popping tires.

Too Much of a Good Thing
Sure, you could put stinky, foul stuff in someone’s car. But how about kill them with kindness—and about 50 air freshener trees.

Ill-Advisored
Stick something under your victim’s car visor so when it’s flipped down they get a shower of confetti or whatever.

Poop Shoot
Make fake bird droppings using Cool Whip and black pepper. Splatter on victim’s car.

Ticket Faker
Make fake parking tickets and place them under windshields of parked cars. This is especially fun if their meter hasn’t really expired.

Heavy Metal
Get a bunch of strong people to pick up and move your victim’s car. You can move it some where close and subtle, such as to an expired parking meter one space forward or to the boss’s parking space, or somewhere really outlandish.

Stink Bomb
Two words: fart spray.

Instant Snowstorm
Get some confetti or save up hole punch residue and put in down the vents of someone’s car. Turn the fan on high so it blows out when they start the car! (Warning: You might want to save this one for someone with an older car or a great sense of humor.)

Why the Honking?
You’ve heard of decorating someone’s car in an embarrassing way. Well, the trick is to do up only the passenger side, so your victim doesn’t notice it for quite some time. One prank is to give your loved one a “heart attack,” covering his or her car with hearts.

Cord Confusion
Switch the phone cords of two co-workers who work in close proximity. Even better, switch
their mouse cords so they control each others’ keyboards.

Krazy Keyboard
Even better, switch your own keyboard with your co-worker’s and start typing crazy things.

Play It Loud
While your co-worker is away from his or her computer, turn up the speaker volume.

Of Mice and Men
Stick or tape something over the sensor on a co-worker’s optimal mouse so it seems like it doesn’t work. For a ball-type mouse, pop the bottom open and remove the ball.

Click Change
Go into your co-worker’s computer’s control panel and speed up the double-click so his mouse goes crazy. You can also speed up the mouse itself.

Caller, Are You There?
Switch up the labels on your coworker’s phone. If you want to be really mean, actually go in and change the speed dial settings.

Water You Doing?
Puncture little holes in all of the disposable cups by the water cooler.

Key Player
Carefully switch around the keys on your co-worker’s computer keyboard.

Rain, Rain Go Away
During the rainy season, fill a coworkers umbrella with confetti, packing peanuts or something else safe but messy. Be sure to watch while he or she opens it.

Peanut Gallery
Fill your coworker’s filing cabinet drawers with packing peanuts.

Party Posers
Next time an office party is planned, post fliers or send out e-mails announcing a dress-up “theme” such as Hawaiian Luau or Costume Party. The practical joke is that everyone except for one unfortunate target employee will be in on the secret that no one else is planning to dress up. The victim shows up for the festivities looking pretty silly.

Post Haste
Cover your supervisor’s office in PostIt notes.

Roll Tape
Tape everything to someone’s desk using double-sided tape.

Foiled Again
Wrap everything on your coworker’s desk in aluminum foil. Key word: Everything.

Potty Talk
Have one of those annoying plush animals or holiday figure that’s motion-sensitive and “sings” when someone walks by? Try putting it out of sight behind the toilet in the office restroom. There will be some jumping, some shrieking, maybe even some spraying.

Who’s Got the Button?
Tape down the button on your co-worker’s phone so he or she can’t answer calls.

Calling All Snacks
On the TV show The Office, one prank was to put a cell phone in the ceiling panel and start calling. Another option: Put it in the office snack machine. Works best with co-worker who has annoying ringtone.

Retro Office
Take all the furniture out of your coworker/boss’s office and replace it with an old 1980s computer, rotary phone and so on.

Kiddie Office
Take all the furniture out of your coworker/boss’s office and replace it with kid-sized desk, chair, play phone, etc.

Pop Stop
If your coworker has a rolling office chair with one of those plastic mats under it, put bubble wrap under the mat.

Name Game
If your office has cubicles with workers’ names on them, just switch around the names. See how long it takes people to figure out what happened, and who did it. You could do the same with office doors.

Picture This
Switch around or cover up the personal pictures on people’s desk with shots of corny movie stars, politicians and so on.

Staple Caper
Routinely remove all but a couple of staples from your coworker’s stapler.

Roof with a View
If your office is positioned by a flat room, move your coworker’s chair, files, etc. out there and position them just as they would be in the “real” office.

Never Gets Old
For your co-worker’s birthday, decorate his or her office with tons of balloons and streamers announcing “Lordy, Lordy, Look Who’s 40,” or “Nifty Fifty.” The prank here is, your co-worker is actually turning 30, 35, etc.

Get the New Guy
Send the “new guy” to go get something from the basement—only your office doesn’t have a basement.

Get the New Guy Again
Send the new employee out for something that doesn’t exist. For example, someone in a mechanical role could be sent out for a “sky hook.” Send someone in the airline industry out for “prop wash.” If you’re in fast food, get underlings to drive around to the competition asking to borrow the “bun puller.” At a hospital, ask someone to get a new box of fallopian tubes. The new receptionist could be sent out for “dial tone.”

Light Show
If your office strings Christmas lights during the holidays, move them around to form funny words or patterns.

Unmasked
Use a photo of the boss or targeted coworker to make face masks depicting that person. Cut out eye holes and go around wearing the masks.

Living Dead
If you work in a hospital, initiate a new employee by asking him or her to take a gurney with a corpse down to the morgue. Only, the “corpse” is another employee, who jumps up to scare the life out of the person.

Dead Zone
When a coworker goes on vacation, “decorate” their locker, desk or office with signs of the absence of activity, such as rubber rats, fake rat droppings, spider webs, etc.

Book It
Sneak into someone’s office and turn all their books around so the spines are facing inward. This is most impressive in a lawyer’s office, or with someone else who has a lot of well-organized, professional books.

Oh, That Smell
Get one of those automatic air fresheners and set it to “go off” every few minutes under someone’s desk.

Note: Please check our Computer Pranks page for more office prank ideas.

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