"At first sight," wrote David Ogilvy in his autobiography, "the Amish give an impression of rather forbidding austerity, but I have never known people so addicted to high-jinks.""Hijinks" is a great word.
You can attach it to any mundane task -- Sarah's trash-handling hijinks! Jessie's table-setting hijinks! -- and all of a sudden it's like monkeys did it.
Or you can use it alone, like Ogilvy did:
Last night, said Bill, hijinks happened. Hilarity ensued!
