Because it is tied to solar and lunar cycles, Easter falls on a different day each year. This year, as our hilarious luck would have it, Easter Day falls on April Fool’s Day.

This last time this happened was in 1945. But technological advances have put the pranksters of 2018 in a far stronger position than their counterparts of 1945. The internet is abuzz with Easter-themed April Fool’s tricks. Here are ten of our favourites.

WHAT IS IN MY EGG?
Get a load of plastic eggs that are designed to be filled with goodies. Fill half of them with sweets (smarties, M&Ms, jelly beans, etc) and – here’s where it gets sneaky – fill the other half with ridiculous, unfestive alternatives (blueberries, raw vegetables, sweet wrappers, etc).

CHOCOLATE EGG GRAPES
Cover a basket full of grapes with small squares of multi-coloured foil, so that they look invitingly like chocolate eggs. Hee hee hee.

PUT GOGGLE EYES ON ALL THE EGGS IN THE FRIDGE
Most kids love nothing more than incorporating some goggle eyes into their crafts. But what happens when they see them all over the eggs in the fridge?

SUPERGLUE SHUT A PLASTIC EGG FULL OF SWEETS
They’ll be able to hear those sweets rattling around in the plastic eggs that you give them each year – but this year, they won’t be able to wrestle it open for love nor money.

THE NO-EGG EGG HUNT
This one’s a bit cruel – but gear everybody up for your annual egg hunt. Assign them each with their traditional basket or bag, send them outside and time how long it takes them to realise that you haven’t hidden a single egg!

BROCCOLI CAKE POPS
Make a batch of chocolate-dipped cake pops on sticks and intermingle them with a batch of chocolate-dipped Brussels Sprouts on sticks. Lols.

PUT JELLY BEANS IN YOUR ICE DISPENSER
An inconvenient one, this, because you have to do without ice for a bit – but it sure will raise some giggles.

FILL A CHOCOLATE BUNNY WITH MUSTARD
Get hold of a hollow, chocolate bunny. Unwrap it and carefully split it in two. Fill each half with mustard, stick the two halves back together and wrap it up again.

EGG SPLAT PRANK
Get an empty Pringles tube and a raw egg. Place the raw egg on a shelf in a kitchen cupboard. Turn the Pringles tube upside down and lay it over the egg. You can bet that it will only be minutes before some greedy snacker comes along, pulls the Pringles tube off the shelf and finds egg yoke all over themselves.

PRETEND THE EASTER BUNNY HAS VISITED YOUR LOO
Place a collection of jelly beans in the toilet bowl, leave the seat up and attach to it a note from the Easter Bunny, saying: “Oops, forgot to flush.”

March 2018