My students are writing short plays this month. Each class chose a theme they want to base their plays on. One class chose "Christmas" (expanded to "winter" for anyone not wanting to write about Christmas, but nobody has chosen that).

Our Christmas plays thus far include:
- The story of Rudolph's cousin, Nice-olph
- Three separate retellings of The Grinch
- A play in which Taylor Swift uses Christmas magic to facilitate a body swap between a rich kid and a poor kid

90% of the time 6th grade improv is just trying to get them to stop chasing each other in circles screaming, but every so often there will be a moment that makes me genuinely laugh out loud, such as:

Customer: Look! (points at sign above the manager's head) That sign says each donut is $2!
(Manager picks up a different imaginary sign.)
Manager: Well, this sign says $12 per donut!
Customer: What? You can't have TWO signs!
Manager: (picking up another) And THIS sign says I can have two signs!

I had a dream that I was visiting a family who said they were playing a prank on their dad and not to spoil it. The prank was that they asked him, "Have you ever seen Rio de Janeiro?" and then showed him a bunch of doctored photos of Rio de Janeiro with their home decorations inserted into them. He was like, "Wow! Everything we own came from Rio and I didn't even know it!"

So if you're looking for a high-effort, low-stakes prank, I guess here's a suggestion.