My son will be attending band camp in a few weeks. It's a tradition to pull pranks on the other cabins. The teachers and parents are ok with this, as long as it is good clean fun. Last year they did shave cream fights and short sheeting beds, etc.

does anyone remember pranks when they were younger ?

This is not hazing..the parents and teachers are in on it, it is sort of a end of the week tradition..everyone loves it, they talk about it for the rest of the year.

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tape down the spray nozzle on the faucet sprayer (is there a kitchen???)

saran wrap on top of the toilet bowl, under the seat. That may not be considered "clean" fun, tho.

a little vaseline on someone's eyeglasses

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Corn flakes in the bed/sleeping bag. My Girl Scout troop did it to me on a trip to Chincoteague. What a mess! They told me I should be grateful they didn't put milk in as well!

This might be too gross, but chocolate on the toilet seat?

There's always the traditional snipe hunt for the real newbies.

Maple syrup and hay in the bed (messy!)
Put bright red lipstick on someone's lips when they sleep put kiss marks on someone else's take pictures
Put post its all over a counselor's car
Put undies in freezer after soaking with water
Shaving or whipped cream on someone's head in the shape of an old man's hair and beard while they sleep
If they are small kids take them while they sleep and put them in different beds
Salt in toothpaste
Vaseline anywhere someone will put their hand

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Ugghh!! I remember my band camp initiation.They were suppose to only be allowed to use nonmenthol shaving cream but they snuck in menthol.One
@#$%#! guy covered my face with menthol shaving cream and while I was blinded with my eyes burning ,yanked me down to the ground by my boob, and dragged me through a long mud slide.They put rocks in the mud slide! It was one of the most horriblest times I ever had in my life,The whole band camp week was just one nightmare after another.

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salt the bed sheets. this one is great!!!! cant see it on white sheets and feels horrible.

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maybe rice in their luggage?

As a glasses wearer, I would majorly veto the vaseline on the eyeglasses. That would not be funny. I used to have a friend who thought it hilarious every time he saw me to lick 2 fingers and smudge my glasses. Believe me, it is not funny having to clean them all the time and vaseline would be a nightmare to get off...

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All I can is that I am lucky I never went to band camp LOL I HATE pranks and don't find any of the above funny (especially if it happened to me). I understand that I am not "in the norm". I know that at cheer camp they would snag a bra and hang it on the flag pole (so bring the pretty bras, not granny bras to camp) but that was the extent of it

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I'd do ony those things that do not require any clean up, which might be what the counselors mean by 'good clean fun'... ie salt on the sheets, changing all of the clocks to an hour ahead...

Anything that requires laundering and/or showers should be off limits. Camp is hard enough for some being away from home for the first time. I'd not want for them to have lifelong upsetting memories like dolly does.

Bucket of water against the door (or in the case of small kids, a glass would work, just enough to get feet wet when they open the door to leave the cabin.)

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Hiding all of one thing such as soap or towels from a cabin.

Setting all the alarm clocks in the cabin to go off one after the other every 45 minutes or so(1st clock goes off at midnight, second at 12:45 am, third at 1:30 am, etc)

Set an alarm clock for say 2 am and hide it somewhere where it can be heard but not easily found.

In college we used to have fun on friends by stretching those fake spider webs across their dorm room doors go they'd get a faceful of fake spider web first thing in the morning. Harmless, easy to clean up but annoying to the recipient and hilarious to those seeing the reaction.

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Bright pink toenail polish for the heavy sleepers.
crayola marker face paint (it does wash off....)--my daughter came home with a Mardi Gras type design after a slumber party.....
fake vomit or dog poo in the bed (spencers has a good selection)
fake skunk tail attached to the batttery powered rolly ball.....spencers again, I think. It moves just fast enough in a dim cabin to look real!

All fun in my book......part of going to camp!

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Another idea the Spencers above reminder me of - my daughter has a fart machine with a remote control (from Spencers) that she absolutely loves! That could be a lot of fun (with no clean up) with a group of kids!

Lisa

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I'm with Sexysmurf, glad it's not me going I dont find them funny either.

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Add me to the ones that don't like pranks. Someone always seems to get offended and what is supposed to be funny ends up hurting people's feelings or making someone angry.

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I wanted to chime in on this.
My Grandson just returned last month from a Boy scouts camp out. While there 2 of the boy's thought it would be funny to play a prank on another boy by pretending there was a bear outside his tent.( AT NIGHT ). It scared this boy so badly he ran outside his tent tripped and broke his ankle in 2 places. The bad thing was, there are bears where they when to camp, The Leader had already warned the boys not to go out alone and to be on the watch for food in tents and around the tents just for this reason.The parents were not too happy about having to drive nearly 2 hours and then having a ER bill, EMT( transport ) bill Plus their son will have to be in the cast for 8-10 weeks.I'm also in the group of I don't like pranks as some can go to far. someone ends up hurt or not ever wanting to go back.

Little pranks about salt in bed, or fake poop or vomit is OK, But things that scare or can hurt a child I say to not do them .JMHO.
P.s the parents of this boy lost their camp money as well 175.00 the boy was only there 2 days camp was 7 days .

I think the salt in the bed is awful. Suppose it gets in a cut or in your eyes? That's painful.

Like another poster said, the vasoline on the glasses is bad, too. The fake vomit or poop could cause a kid to get sick.

I'll tell you -- the way people are so 'sue-happy' nowadays, it's almost a non-brainer to tell your kids not to pull any type of pranks at all. As the last poster wrote, something as simple as saying 'bear' could cause major problems.

the boys parents should have been able to get their money back I would hoped, it wasnt their or their sons fault it all happened it was the rotten prank of the other kid. I have to scrape for camp and things like that for our kids, it's not cheap and especially when you have more one child.

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For April Fools Day one year I saran wrapped my kids bedroom doors. Quite funny!

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Last I heard when we had a den meeting this week was the parents were going to fight it.I don't blame them at all either, thats a lot of money and no it wasn't their child's fault. Also forgot to add this was his 1st camp out as a Boy Scout, we just had cross overs in May.I sure hope this will not end as him never wanting to return or the parents not wanting to send him again, As some of the badges they need to earn to become a Eagle Scout is earned only in the camp. Would be very sad to know he could never make it as a Eagle Scout due this.

Ekk, I didn't even think about having a open sore with the salt, Yes that would hurt. I was thinking more on the lines or something that couldn't cause a Major Illness or broken bones.

Exactly!

You know my Mother wears tri eyeglasses, HOLY COW she would kill us if we ever put vaseline on her eye glasses as a prank. I know for a fact her eyeglasses cost over 450.00, she has to have the feather lite( think thats what they are called ) and the lens are some kind of special lens that can fit into the frame.

My Son-In-Law wears very costly eyeglasses as well, My 10 month old grandson reached up while his daddy was holding him in line at wal-mart and grabbed his eyeglasses, before my Son-In-Law could stop him they fell hitting the floor broke 1 lens. My DD told me to replace the lens was over 150.00 ( he has that coating blue something or another ) since he's a EMT and at times has to drive.

I don't think this is a good prank at all, I see something happening to the eyeglasses and a set (or ) Parent suing the child that pulled the prank should the eyeglasses get broken or damage.