• For Christmas this year, Kaylee Hulse and her family decided to prank her grandmother by “borrowing” items from her house and giving them to her.

• Some of the items they stole included a white and red coffee cup, a stone with “forgive” written on it, and two Chicken soup for the soul books

• Throughout the prank, Hulse recorded his grandmother’s reactions. She later posted the video to TikTok, where it went viral, garnering 16.7 million views and over 10,000 comments.

One family decided to have a little more fun by giving gifts this holiday season.

Before the holidays, Kaylee Hulse and her family decided to prank her grandmother, Cloye McGinley, 75, by “borrowing” items from her home and giving them to her for Christmas.

“I like to play little pranks on my grandmother because she’s very confident and always has the best reactions to things,” Hulse, who is extremely close to her grandmother, told PEOPLE exclusively. “I had seen a TikTok last Christmas with people taking items from their grandparents’ house and using them as gifts. I knew it would be the perfect, harmless prank to pull on him, so I talked about the idea to my mother.”

“We involved my grandfather, Jackson McGinley, so we could take things from her house when she wasn’t home,” she adds. “I stole a white and red coffee cup, a stone that said ‘forgive’, a wall sign in the bathroom that said ‘blessed’, two Chicken soup for the soul books, a set of Bath & Body Works hand soap and body spray, her Clinique lotion, a blue butterfly refrigerator magnet, a leopard print cardigan, a small decorative sign that said “You are the best friend the world wishes to have” and a painted frog hand.”

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When Christmas Day arrived, Hulse, who lives in Corpus Christi, Texas, just five minutes from his grandmother, worried that McGinley wouldn’t recognize the items. However, when McGinley saw the red and white coffee mug, the first item chosen, she recognized it immediately.

“Everyone had a hard time keeping a straight face as she reacted to every item,” Hulse recalls the moment. “She told us afterwards that she still felt bad because she knew the items were cheap and didn’t make the best gifts to exchange.”

She says that at that point, her uncle, Trey Gann, couldn’t stop laughing and had to cover his laughter with coughing, causing her grandmother to rub her back and offering him water because she thought he was having a coughing fit.

“My favorite moment was definitely his reaction to the frog,” she adds. “She loves frogs and has a million frog-related items in her house. She always told me growing up that ‘frog’ meant ‘Forever Rely On God’. When I chose the frog, I didn’t know not that it was a frog that she hand painted herself, but I’m so glad it was because it made her reaction so much better.”

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Throughout the prank, Hulse recorded his grandmother’s reactions. She later posted the video on TikTokwhere it went viral, garnering 16.7 million views and over 10,000 comments.

“She was stunned when she saw this frog ,” one person wrote.

“Lol, grandma has a great memory!! she recognized all her objects,” another user commented.

Someone else said: “She knows everything in her house is not playing games with her.”

“I saw the comments start to pour in and everyone fell in love with her,” adds Hulse. “When we told her how many people had seen the video, she was very shocked. She then called me and told me how happy she was that we did this. She said, ‘You n ‘have no idea what you have done for this family.’ We’ll talk about it for years.”

After the exchange, Hulse and her family collected all the items and returned them to their grandmother to take home.

“I hope people cherish the relationships they have with their grandparents and realize how precious those family times are,” Hulse said. “There have been a lot of comments from people who miss their grandparents and wish they were still here to do things like this with them. Don’t wait until your loved ones are gone, spend time with them NOW.”

“And don’t take life too seriously,” she adds. “There were comments saying the prank was mean, but my grandmother really loved it. She’s always a really good sport and knows how to take a joke.”

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