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Jesus had sent His disciples ahead in a boat telling them He would catch up to them later. It grew dark and cloudy and the disciples started bickering about which way to go since it was difficult for them to tell where they were. As they argued they saw a figure walking towards them upon the water and when they saw it was Jesus they became terrified, supposing Him to be a spirit.
Jesus said, “Don’t be afraid for it is I, Jesus.”
Peter, ever the bold one, called out, “Jesus, if it is You command me to join You on the water.”
Jesus said, “Peter, come to Me.”
Peter put a foot over the side and tested the water. He slowly got out of the boat and when he saw it supported him he laughed and started dancing on top of the waves. He kicked water at the other disciples who looked apprehensive and somewhat envious. As Peter continued to dance and laugh Jesus called out, “PETER!”
“Yes my Lord.”
“April Fools!”
“HUH?!?”
BLOOSH!!! Peter sank like a rock!
Peter came up blubbering to the wild laughter of the disciples in the boat. Jesus gave him a hand up and together  they got into the boat and continued their journey.

A few years back, one of the girls on my dorm had an old copy of Windows that would still show the "It is now safe to turn off your computer" screen, so I found the image (LOGOS.SYS) and replaced it with "System corrupted. All files deleted." It got even better, because her best friend came tearing into my room a few hours later panicking because she had been using her friend's computer and was SURE that she had completely destroyed the system somehow, and came running to me for help.

We also filled the hallway leading to the guy's dorm with cups of water ... hundreds of them. You can step around a few, but you couldn't even make it over the amount we put there with a running jump.

For any place that still uses a bell to mark the beginning or end of a period of time, usually a class... Find a over-the-top pencil eraser, and put it over the hammer.

For those that eat cereal... Put a small amount of cereal and milk in a bowl and freeze it the night before. Add a little more cereal and milk in the morning and serve.

For those in the office (1)... Fasten the victim's chair height adjustment lever in the release position. The chair will be at it's highest until the victim sits.

For those in the office (2)... Change the auto-correct settings in MS Word such that the word "the" is replaced by "April Fool".

For those in the office (3)... Schedule a fire alarm drill.

For those in the office (4)... Edit the hosts file such that ups.com resolves to the IP for fedex.com

For those in the office (5)... Change the victim's computer background to the windows shutting down graphic.

For the water cooler... Add one goldfish. A fake fish will work, but diminishes the effect.

For those who take the daily paper... Snatch and hold the paper for 24 hours then replace to create the appearance of a late paper. Continue for 4-5 days terminating on 4/1.

I photocopied some paper clips, and loaded the paper into the office printers and copiers.

There were a few, then some blank sheets, then, further down in the stack, there were a couple with pencils. I hoped this would provide a nice story arc -- "hey, there are clips in here!" "no there aren't!" "I'm calling desktop support, because look, there's a pencil!" "no there isn't!"

Then a big old ruler. Oh yeah. Did you jam that in there, sir? That's not how we get paper clips and pencils out.

Last time I did this I came in and saw people standing around the printer with the paper drawer open, and I thought they'd figured it out. But no, they were shaking it gently to see if they could dump out the pencils.

Every year as a child my mom would put green food colouring in the milk we invariably used for our breakfast cereal.

"Ewwwwww!" we'd shriek! Then we'd gulp up our Rice Krispies hoping our tongues would turn green as well.

Was given a horribly difficult (pre-scheduled) test in Calculus, which didn't seem hard to look at but was full of those goddamned exceptions that just don't seem to approach a limit of any kind, etc. I was going nuts trying to figure out how to do anything with the questions, and I was on the brink of tears, as were many students. At the end of the 1 hr class, the teacher grinned. April Fools, she said. Test doesn't count. No retest, just a 100 quiz grade for being good sports. Very cruel but hilarious to everyone not involved.

The best April Fool's Day prank in which I participated was during college. A group of us bought cheap (but loud) battery-powered alarm clocks and distributed them in various locations in the library's shelves (in some hard-to-reach places)... all on one floor and within "ear shot" of the most densely populated study tables.

The first alarm clock was set to go of at 8:00 p.m.; the second at 8:05 p.m., the third at 8:20 p.m., the fourth at 8:25 p.m. and the fifth at 8:45 p.m.

The effect was fascinating to witness (from afar and where we could mask our laughter).

A replay: the first alarm (8:00 p.m.) goes off. Disturbed students scamble for, find and turn-off the alarm clock. Everyone returns to their books. Five minutes later (8:05 p.m.), repeat. Students start to get flustered and wonder if another will go off. Wait, wait, wait. "Seems that another is not likely to go off, since it's been a while." 15-minutes later - another goes off (8:20 p.m.). First wave of pissed-off students packs up and leave. The remaining students are hold-outs and hoping that the prank is over. Next alarm clock (8:25 p.m.) goes off (mirroring the original interval of 5-minutes). Second wave of really, really pissed off students depart. Those who remain are resolute in not letting the alarm clock prank "get to them". 5-minutes pass with no disturbance, 10-minutes pass ("it must be over"), 15-minutes pass ("it's over"); 8:45 p.m. alarm goes off - library floor clears!

BTW - I suspect that this prank could work in an office with large open spaces!