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April
fool's day project: Where is your
paper?
With this April fool's day project you must include a few students
in on the joke.
First, choose a subject you have been studying in class and have
these students pretend to have written a substantially sized paper
or essay on the topic.
Second, instruct the students to bring in several pages stapled
together with a title page and (preferably) text. They can use an
old paper they have written for this—because, obviously, no
one will be grading it, it is only an April fool's day project.
Then when you come to class the morning of April the first, begin
your lessons as usual and then, when you reach the topic you have
centered your April fool's day joke around, ask the students (as
you always would) to please turn in your papers or essays.
When the students who were not in on the April fool's day project
get worried, wait for the tension to build up a little before you
and the students who were in on the April fool's day project the
whole time shout “April fools!”
· April Fools' Day Origins, another April fool's
day project:
The origins of April Fools Day are unknown. Yet, it has become
tradition on the first of April to pull jokes and pranks on people.
We plot and we scheme. But how the custom of pranking on April 1
came about remains shrouded in mystery.
For April fool's day projects your students can take home with
them: give your students a story to fool others with. This is the
claim: April Fools' Day began in the 1500s when the Gregorian calendar
took over from the Julian. Those who forgot the change and attempted
to celebrate New Year's (previously celebrated on the 1st of April)
on the wrong date were teased as "April fools”
The students can use this April Fool’s Day joke and take
it home to tell their parents or siblings etc. The when the one
being fooled says “that is interesting” or “I
never knew that before.” The child can shout out “April
fool's!”
· Another April fool's day project:
Have the children do a craft that will fall apart when their parents
or guardians look at it. For example: Make a sweet, homemade greeting
card for them to take home.
*You will need glue, construction paper, and crayons or markers.
First, have the children fold a piece of construction paper in
half.
Second, have each student cut out two short pieces of thinner paper.
Third, have the children decorate their cards on the inside and
on the outside.
Fourth, the children will paste one of the short pieces of paper
to one side of the middle, inside part of their card (yes, over
the drawing). Then they will do the same on the other side.
Fifth, fold the card over so that the pieces of paper in the middle
are folded too. But, most importantly, make sure that the card will
only open just barely once the glue is dry.
When the kids take this April fool's day project home to their
parent(s) or guardian, the parent or guardian will open it and hear
the paper inside the card tear, likely they will gasp. “Oh
no you have ruined my card!” the child will say. And then
they can shout out “April Fools!”
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