Tell your kids summer is cancelled for Offspring’s prank challenge

Jimmy Kimmel created an Internet sensation when he asked parents to prank their kids by telling them they ate all of their Halloween candy. The videos have now become an annual tradition, and one Des Moines startup decided to kick off the summer with a prank of its own…

Jimmy Kimmel created an Internet sensation when he asked parents to prank their kids by telling them they ate all of their Halloween candy. The videos have become an annual tradition, and now one Des Moines startup is kicking off the summer with a prank of its own.

Offspring—an app that makes it simple for parents to store, share and publish childhood moments—is asking parents to tell their kids that summer vacation has been cancelled and they have to keep going to school. For every summertime prank video uploaded to Offspring’s Facebook page, the startup will donate $5 to the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

Co-founder Zachary Kreger and his wife Brooke Sanders pranked their kids on Tuesday night (watch below) to kick things off. Share your summer prank video with Offspring (and post a link in the comments below so we can have a laugh too).

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For more on Offspring and its mobile app, read our previous coverage: "Offspring app allows parents to create a “kid-centric” social network."

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