April Fools' jokes from Long Island kids
Third and fourth graders from Long Island share jokes for April Fools' Day. Credit: Fotolia
Ah, April Fools' Day. A day of clever tricking and cautious tracking, depending on whether you are on the sending or receiving end of the childish pranks which will inevitably be played.
In France, children and adults traditionally tack paper fishes on each other's back and shout "April fish!" (well they shout, “poisson d'avril!” which means April fish).
Here in the states, our sweet, little offspring do things such as putting glue on the toilet seat or rubber rats in the kitchen cabinets.
So, rather than encourage the tricks, I will do my fellow parents a favor and suggest a few jokes instead. Here's a list of ten combined (in no particular order) from Mrs. Peyton’s third-grade class at Summit Lane Elementary School in Levittown and Mrs. Vecchio’s special education class at Setauket Elementary School in East Setauket.
