Magic for kidsCard Trick
Effect:
The magician shuffles the deck and takes the top thirteen cards. Holding the cards face down, he proceeds to spell the first card name, Ace. "A-C-E," and for each letter, he puts one card under the packet of thirteen cards. He then flips over the next card (the fourth,) and it is an Ace. He repeats this process for each card number, Ace through King. At the end, he has all thirteen cards face up on the table, in sequential order.
Supplies:
~a deck of cards
Preparation:
Remove and arrange 13 cards in the following setup, top card down: Three, Eight, Seven, Ace, Queen, Six, Four, Two, Jack, King, Ten, Nine, and Five. Put these on top of the deck.
Secret:
To start, pretend to shuffle the cards, leaving the top thirteen untouched (young children can skip the shuffling part and just begin with the 13 cards.
Remove the top thirteen cards as a group and arrange them like a fan, so that your audience can see their faces. Square up the cards, and hold them face down.
When you spell out each card, do it as follows: let's say you're spelling the word ACE. Spell A, remove the top card and place it on the bottom. Then spell C, and remove the top card and place that on the bottom. Next spell E, remove this top card and place it on the bottom. Flip the new top card and show that it's an Ace, and place it ON THE TABLE (not on the bottom of the deck).
Continue in this manner until all the cards are face up on the table. (eh: You spell the cards in order: Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K) Your audience may realize that the cards must have been set up beforehand, but this only adds to the mystery - and you can treat it as a puzzle for them to try to figure out
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Fantastic elastics
with the flick of a hand, rubber bands change fingers
Here's another chance to tell a tale, this time about a rubber band so sneaky, so full of mad ninja skills, that jail can't contain it.
Supplies: Find a couple of rubber bands (hair ties work well too). Two different colors? Perfect!
Secret: With the back of your hand facing the audience, put the first rubber band around your pinkie and ring fingers. Loop the second rubber band around the top of your pinkie and twist to encircle your pinkie, then move to your ring finger to do the same. Repeat until all four fingers (no thumb) are encircled . No way that bottom rubber band is going anywhere this time, right?
With the back of your hand still facing the audience, pull the bottom rubber band down, then bend your imprisoned fingers and loop the rubber band around the tips . With your magic breath, blow on your palm, the back of your hand still facing the audience. As you finish saying your special magic word, flip up your fingers and watch the bottom rubber band escape to the pointer and middle fingers. This ninja magic gets better the more you practice
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Effect:
The magician shuffles the deck and takes the top thirteen cards. Holding the cards face down, he proceeds to spell the first card name, Ace. "A-C-E," and for each letter, he puts one card under the packet of thirteen cards. He then flips over the next card (the fourth,) and it is an Ace. He repeats this process for each card number, Ace through King. At the end, he has all thirteen cards face up on the table, in sequential order.
Supplies:
~a deck of cards
Preparation:
Remove and arrange 13 cards in the following setup, top card down: Three, Eight, Seven, Ace, Queen, Six, Four, Two, Jack, King, Ten, Nine, and Five. Put these on top of the deck.
Secret:
To start, pretend to shuffle the cards, leaving the top thirteen untouched (young children can skip the shuffling part and just begin with the 13 cards.
Remove the top thirteen cards as a group and arrange them like a fan, so that your audience can see their faces. Square up the cards, and hold them face down.
When you spell out each card, do it as follows: let's say you're spelling the word ACE. Spell A, remove the top card and place it on the bottom. Then spell C, and remove the top card and place that on the bottom. Next spell E, remove this top card and place it on the bottom. Flip the new top card and show that it's an Ace, and place it ON THE TABLE (not on the bottom of the deck).
Continue in this manner until all the cards are face up on the table. (eh: You spell the cards in order: Ace, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, J, Q, K) Your audience may realize that the cards must have been set up beforehand, but this only adds to the mystery - and you can treat it as a puzzle for them to try to figure out
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Fantastic elastics
with the flick of a hand, rubber bands change fingers
Here's another chance to tell a tale, this time about a rubber band so sneaky, so full of mad ninja skills, that jail can't contain it.
Supplies: Find a couple of rubber bands (hair ties work well too). Two different colors? Perfect!
Secret: With the back of your hand facing the audience, put the first rubber band around your pinkie and ring fingers. Loop the second rubber band around the top of your pinkie and twist to encircle your pinkie, then move to your ring finger to do the same. Repeat until all four fingers (no thumb) are encircled . No way that bottom rubber band is going anywhere this time, right?
With the back of your hand still facing the audience, pull the bottom rubber band down, then bend your imprisoned fingers and loop the rubber band around the tips . With your magic breath, blow on your palm, the back of your hand still facing the audience. As you finish saying your special magic word, flip up your fingers and watch the bottom rubber band escape to the pointer and middle fingers. This ninja magic gets better the more you practice
.Magic is so much fun to learn and share
Before you buy expensive magic tricks
go to your library, and find ways to make your own tricks out of things you have at home.
Before you buy expensive magic tricks
go to your library, and find ways to make your own tricks out of things you have at home.
Rope Trick
Effect:
Holding a piece of rope, the magician places the ends of the rope into his hands and closes his fingers around the ends. The magician shakes the rope slightly, says a magic word, blows on his hands and drops one end of the rope. Magic! The end has a knot in it!
Supplies:
One long piece rope
Secret:
The rope already has a knot in one end... Tie a knot in one end of the rope. Hide this end with the knot in your hand and bring the other end of the rope up next to it. Shake your hand as if you're trying to knot it. Drop the end with the knot and it looks like you have tied a knot in the rope using one hand.
================================================================================Magic Bottle Trick
Effect:The magician asks for a volunteer from the audience who looks inside a bottle to make sure it's a normal, empty container.
The volunteer returns the bottle and then examines a magic wand to ensure it is normal.
The magician drops the wand into the bottle (noting how easily it falls in).
He/she turns bottle over and lets go of the wand.
The wand magically remains suspended in the bottle.
Supplies:
a magic wand (could use a pencil instead) that is taller than the bottle (when you drop the wand into the bottle, part of it should still be sticking up through the opening.
~a bottle that has an opening large enough to fit the wand in (but not too big). The bottle cannot be see-through
~an eraser
If you don't have a bottle that is dark, you can put some dark paint inside the bottle and shake it around so the inside is painted.
Cut a piece off the eraser, just large enough to wedge the wand into the opening of the bottle. The eraser is what makes the trick work!
Secret:
Pass the bottle to the volunteer and ask them to make sure its empty.
Take back the bottle and give your friend the wand. Meanwhile, slip the piece of eraser into the bottle without anyone seeing (you can have it in your pocket until this point). You'll need to practice this a few times.
Take the wand back and drop it into the bottle.
Pick up the wand and bottle and turn them VERY SLOWLY upside down (mumble all sorts of enchantments while you're doing this). Pull on the wand slightly when the bottle is turning over so the piece of eraser gets wedged into the opening (you'll need to practice this a few times too).
Let go of the wand... PRESTO! It doesn't fall out.
Slowly turn upright again. Let go of everything and PRESTO the wand remains suspended in the bottle (it doesn't fall back down).
To remove the wand, push it slightly to release the rubber and then take it out.
