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The
following jokes were conceived of and played out while I was a
counselor at an overnight summer camp for youth, ages 7-12. Several of
these jokes I still use to this very day. Practical jokes helped the
counselors last through the grueling weeks of the job and are
responsible for some of our fondest memories during our time at camp. I
attended the camp, for 6 years as a camper, and always enjoyed the
jokes the counselors played on their fellow staff and on us. Although
some of the jokes I mention were played on the children, and at first
may sound cruel, former campers have told me they look back and
appreciate their camp experience. We also never played jokes on campers
we disliked, or those who we thought would suffer long-term damage by
our gags.
I have heard from other
counselors that the camps they worked at were also breeding grounds for
practical jokes. I believe this phenomenon comes about for a variety of
reasons, some of which include:
- You
are living with and working with others so closely you begin to know
their daily patterns and routines and can anticipate their next move,
thus having control over one of the needed elements in any great joke,
timing.
- Access to living quarters of other counselors makes for easy placement of materials involved in jokes.
- Counselors
are usually very young, a little immature, and carefree. If a pie is
pushed in their face they may chase you but they won't request you be
fired.
X-lax surprise
On my grade 8 end year trip we went camping. The girls wanted to get
the boys good. So what we did was made brownies and put x-lax in them.
The boys were eating them all the way to the camp. When we arrived at
the camp, we hid all the toilet paper and plastic wrapped the toilet
seats! It was a weekend to remember.
- From Samanth, the She-Devil girl
Revenge Camp Pranks
We were staying in a college dorm for camp and we were already there
for two days but couldn't sleep because the neighbors would pound on
the walls all night so we got some fox pee and deer pee and went in
there room and put some pee in their cologne and shampoo. We then came
back that night and locked them in their room then sprayed pee under
there door so they had a rude awakening in the morning. The next day we
pooped in a trash can and set it outside so it baked, then hid it in
their room.
Another prank we did to someone
else was to put catfish bait in a glass of water soaking in the sun for
a day. We then were able to spray the catfish juice on someone's
radiator so when they would turn the heat or air conditioning on they
would smell the sweat stench of catfish.
- From Josh in Springfield
Perfect Camp Prank:
One day in summer camp, I made fun of some girls who were standing
nearby. That night, I had a bad feeling something bad was going to
happen but I went to sleep anyway. In the morning I was covered in
makeup, nail polish, lipstick, etc... I never went to that camp again!
- From Oliver H.
Revenge Camping Prank
Okay- here's one for revenge. It would be best to do this somewhere
where the person you are pranking cannot get another pair of
clothes-like camping for example. What you do is get a container of
Bleach and put a bunch of hair in it and leave it there over night.
Next morning, drain it and chop the hair real fine... and it becomes
itching powder!!! Put it all over the other person's clothes!!!!
hah!!!!!
- From Amber B. in Vancouver, WA
Another Revenge Prank - Trash the Cabin
This is a revenge prank for when you're at summer camp! Last summer at
camp my friends and I need to come up with a great revenge prank so we
thought of one and put it into action!! You see in this camp, you had
to keep your cabin clean or you wouldn't be allowed to join in the
activities......so since the next day we were going canoeing
(everyone's favorite) we decided to totally trash this brat girl and
her friend's cabin!! Since the doors are never locked we snuck in a
totally destroyed it (we also added honey and silly string) the next
day they weren't allowed to join in any of the activities!!
- From Sarah
Funny Camping Prank
This is for all the camping people out there. Okay if ya'll go camping
with alot of friends this practical joke is totally for you!! Get some
bright red lipstick and put it on somebody's lips. Then put lip marks
all over someone else's face that is of the same sex and sort of smear
some lipstick on their lips. Take photos if you can!
- From Nikki P.
2 Camp Pranks
I was a camp counselor and had many pranks played on me along with
playing a few myself. As a rookie counselor of 24 years old on my first
day of camp I made the mistake of wearing white shorts, white
Bobby-socks, white canvas sneakers, and an expensive summer sweater.
Big mistake!!! I discovered a bucket of sticky black tar at the bottom
of the steps of my cabin.
That is, I discovered the bucket
of tar AFTER it became attached to my foot!!! By the end of the day, I
had tar all over myself, and my outfit was ruined!!! I found out that
another counselor, about 20 years my elder, played the prank on me. She
was not laughing so loudly after I put DRANO in her laundry detergent.
- From Debbie
Post-It Note Camp Prank
One week at camp this past summer, I and my friends decided to go down
in CCA history at Forest Home. CCA's are volunteers that help out with
the family camp kids. Anyways, we are treated like dirt by all of the
staff, even the most of our counselors. So we decided to post-it note
one of our counselor's car (one that we actually liked). We covered the
entire car in yellow post-its, and it was very time consuming for our
counselor to remove them the next morning. HAHA!
- From Zam
Camp Pranks by Mischievous Girls
We went to a camp that had one section for boys and the other for girls
... well one night we stayed up real late and snuck over to the guys
bunk and we decorated them as they slept with lipstick, toothpaste,
markers and then we put Vaseline between their toes to make them
subconsciously wriggle all night.
We also rigged booby traps by
putting webs over each bunk and when they hit the strings, down would
come talcum powder, mud, pancake syrup, or other stuff which we put in
big paper cups.
- From Elaine in Pennsylvania
Summer Camp Mess Hall Practical Joke
While at a summer camp one time some other girls played this prank at
the mess hall over night. They turned all the tables upside down and
removed all the chairs, and put the stacked in all of their dorms. They
then hid all of the silverware as well. When we walked in to eat
breakfast in the morning we had to sit and eat on the floor with our
fingers! The worst part is we were having cereal.
- From Hatchu!
Girl Scout Prank
At Girl Scout camp we waded through the lake in the middle of the night
to the YMCA camp, and hoisted a huge pear of Wal-Mart pants up the flag
pole that said girl scouts rule!
- From Lin!
Cabin Lockdown
My brother and his friends did this to me and my sister. This only
works if you have a cabin.... me and my sis went to bed and in the
middle of the night, she woke me up to go with her down to the outhouse
because she was scared to go all by herself. I didn't want to go
though, so when she finally mustered up the courage to go, she tried to
open the door but couldn't. I tried also but it turns out that our
cabin door was tied shut!
My brother and his friends tied
a rope around our doorknob and around a post on the cabin porch. She
really had to pee! The cabin had windows, but good luck trying to get a
girl to squat out one. It was sooooooo funny.... and we still have to
get back at them for revenge. | 
