Fun is a common component of many holidays, but perhaps no holiday is more exclusively devoted to merriment than April Fools’ Day.

Fun might be the lone demand of April Fools’ Day, when people of all ages can engage in some lighthearted pranks and share a few laughs with loved ones.

Families can join in the fun this April Fools’ Day by embracing the many ways to involve children in the merry pranking that makes the first day of April so enjoyable.

The following are three ways to get kids in on the action this April Fools’ Day.

1. Prank a parent. Pranks are tailor-made for the young and the young at heart, and kids might be particularly engaged if they’re enlisted to pull a fast one on Mom and Dad. Parents can work behind each others’ backs to prank their spouse, enlisting the services of the kids to pull off a prank the whole family can get a kick out of.

Whether it’s removing shoelaces from Dad’s sneakers and putting them back in backward or hiding plastic insects on or around Mom’s car keys, pranking a parent can be just what kids to embrace the spirit of April Fools’ Day.

2. Make April Fools’ Day Auto-Correct Day. Another fun way to get kids in on the prank-filled fun is to enlist their help in setting a ridiculous auto-correct on a parent’s or older sibling’s phone.

Ask kids to offer an alternative to a phrase a parent or sibling often shares via text message, and then go into the phone and set it up so that oft-used phrase automatically auto-corrects to the phrase kids offered up.

For example, if an older sibling loves to text “lol,” make that phrase automatically auto-correct to, “I will do my brother’s (or sister’s) chores.”

3. Prank the youngsters, too. Of course, kids cannot only be prank perpetrators, but also recipients of April Fools’ Day tomfoolery. Parents can incorporate children’s love of dessert into their April Fools’ Day pranking, swapping out the filling in a cookie or the icing on a piece of cake with mashed potatoes.

Watch as youngsters take a bite of cake only to realize that sugary icing they love so much is actually garlic mashed potatoes.

April Fools’ Day can be made that much more fun when children give a little and get a little of the pranking that makes this annual day of practical joking so enjoyable.