Someone who is able to surprise the public with different spectacular tricks, always extremely popular. And if exquisite magic sometimes requires the use of special props and sophisticated technical techniques, then you can create simple magic without resorting to such difficulties. How to make a trick that is simple and interesting at the same time? Below are a few such tricks.
Vanishing Pencil
Performing a trick
Show the audience an ordinary pencil. Take a scarf and throw it over your hand with the object raised in it. Grab the tip of the pencil through the scarf. Quickly and elegantly remove the scarf. The pencil has disappeared!
The Secret of Focus
At the moment when the pencil is hidden from view under the scarf, you need to quickly and imperceptibly raise the index finger of the same hand. At this time, the pencil easily slides into the sleeve. Spectators are sure that the magician is holding on to the tip of the pencil and are perplexed when, after removing the scarf, it is not in place.
Pierced finger
Performing a trick
Raise your thumb on your clenched fist. Cover it with a scarf. Take the prepared needles one by one and boldly, or, on the contrary, wincing from terrible pain, pierce your finger through the scarf. Then, in front of shocked spectators, pull the unsafe objects out of your finger. Remove the scarf. Everyone will see that the finger turned out to be invulnerable.
The Secret of Focus
Before performing the trick, you need to hide a small carrot in your fist. At a certain moment, you need to deftly replace your finger with a “dummy” under the scarf. Now you can be sure that you will not experience any painful sensations.
Apple from orange
Performing a trick
Imagine to the eyes of those around you an ordinary orange. Cover the bright fruit with a scarf. One, two, three... The handkerchief rises, and in the palm... an apple!
The Secret of Focus
At the beginning of the trick, the audience sees not a real orange, but a carefully removed peel from it, which is put on an apple suitable size. When removing the scarf from the miracle fruit, you need to discreetly grab the orange shell.
Bleeding letters
Performing a trick
Show the audience clean hands. Write “any” word on a piece of paper. Burn it. Rub the ashes in your palms. Show everyone one hand. On the palm of your hand, to everyone’s surprise, the same written word will clearly appear.
The Secret of Focus
In reality, the word on paper should not be any word, but pre-conceived, and it must be applied to the palm of your hand with a mixture of protein and water in advance. At first, the writing on the hand that has had time to dry will be invisible, but the ground ashes will stick to the inscribed letters, which the audience will see.
bent spoon
Performing a trick
Everyone sees a spoon in your hands. Press it to the table and bend it forcefully. The audience will be convinced that the spoon is bent. But you pick it up - no changes have occurred!
The Secret of Focus
Initially, viewers think that only a spoon is in their hands. In fact, they mistake the tip of the pen for a coin. During the display, the spoon does not bend - it top part, which is not visible, must be slowly lowered in the palms until it stops. The coin remains motionless all this time, which creates the illusion of bending. At the end of the trick, everyone's attention will be directed to the spoon, and it will not be difficult to hide the coin.
Mind Reading
Performing a trick
To demonstrate many tricks, certain equipment is required. But you can do a trick without using any objects, for example, one where you guess the intended number. Ask a friend to think of a number from 0 to 5. Let him multiply it in his head by 2. Add 5 to the result. Multiply by 5. Add 10. Multiply everything by 10. Ask how much it turned out. Before your friend has time to finish speaking, you will already name the number you had guessed earlier.
The Secret of Focus
You need to subtract 3 from the first digit of the result, this will be the intended number. For example, it turned out to be 750, the first number is “7”, which means that the guess was “4”.
Starting with such primitive tricks, you can then move on to more complex tricks and earn a reputation as a skilled magician and sorcerer!
A few more simple and fun tricks:
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The most important thing when performing any magic trick is persistent practice. You can get acquainted with the simplest trick and learn how to perform it step by step in at least half an hour, but in order to really succeed and not be exposed, you need to train a lot and for a long time, honing your technique and skill. You need to learn tricks, moving from simple to complex, so next we will talk about how to learn how to do tricks that any beginner can handle.
Simple card trick
Those who want to learn how to learn how to do magic tricks often start with cards. Among card tricks, there are indeed a lot of easy options that you can quickly learn and surprise the audience with, and some of the most popular of them are simple tricks with guessing cards. We will now consider one of them. The trick is called “Guess the card.”
What the viewer sees. The magician shuffles a deck of cards and hands it to one of the spectators so that he chooses one of the cards. The spectator chooses his card, remembers it and, without showing anyone, gives it face down to the magician. The magician returns the card to the deck, shuffles it again, lays out the cards and accurately finds the spectator's card!
The secret of focus. Take a deck of cards and shuffle it. Attention: the key to this trick is to quietly spy which card will be the bottom, that is, the last one in the deck.
The spectator selects a card and returns it to you. Divide the deck randomly in half - you end up with two parts of cards in your hands, one of which contains the bottom card - you memorized it at the very beginning. Place the spectator's card on one part of the deck and cover it on top with the second part. The spectator sees that his card is now hidden, but you know that it lies under the very bottom card.
Lay out the cards in a fan, then look for your bottom card with your eyes - next to it on the right will be the one that the viewer wished for. Voila! At the same time, do not choose it too quickly, for example, pretend that you are trying to feel the energy emanating from the card - entertain the viewer.
A coin passes through a glass
The next simple trick is the glass and coin trick. It is more difficult than the previous one, as it requires a certain amount of manual dexterity.
From the viewer's side. The magician shows the audience a coin, takes it in the fist of one hand, and with the other brings a glass to it, then knocks the glass on the hand with the coin - and it ends up inside, going through the bottom!
In fact. Choose a large coin and a glass, plastic or glass. Show the audience the coin and then pretend to transfer it to your other hand, covering the top with your palm and appearing to grab the coin into your fist. But the coin, of course, remains in the same hand where it was.
This is it key point: It is important to practice and learn how to hold a coin with an open palm or hold it between your palm and little finger, whichever is more convenient for you - the main thing is that it is held inconspicuously and does not fall out.
With the same hand in which you hold the coin, you take the glass and raise it over your hand with your fist, where the coin lies, according to the audience. Tap the glass on your fist several times. On the last knock, relax your hand so that the coin falls inside the glass, and at this moment open your palm with your fist, simulating the passage of the coin through the bottom of the glass. It is important to work this trick well so that everything works out deftly and quickly, and the audience does not have time to come to their senses and expose you.
Match trick
And finally, we'll tell you how to do tricks with matches that only require sleight of hand.
As the audience sees. The magician holds a match between the fingers of both hands. Having placed them perpendicularly, he hits the matches against each other, as a result of which one match passes through the second.
The secret of focus. Before picking up matches, wet the index finger of your right hand. After this, hold the matches between the thumb and forefinger of each hand. The key to this trick is that the right hand the match with the sulfur head touches the moistened index finger and therefore sticks to it, and if you unclench your fingers, the match will still continue to “hang”.
Turn the matches held in your fingers perpendicular to each other. Now begin to move the left match towards the right, and at the moment of their collision, unclench your fingers, passing the left match forward, and then squeeze it back. You need to learn how to do this quickly and sharply, imitating the blow of matches - then the audience will not notice the trick.
How to learn to do tricks with a scarf
Spectators also love tricks with a scarf. One of the most popular such tricks is “Passing a coin through a scarf.” How to learn how to do it will become clear after watching the following video:
To ensure that your performance makes the right impression on the viewer and that even the simplest tricks cause surprise, remember a few golden rules that experienced illusionists follow: do not repeat encore tricks, do not tell the technique of performing them and do not warn the audience about what trick you will do next . So the effect of surprise will be achieved, and the mystery will remain.
After reading the article, you will be able to do simple but very funny magic tricks.
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Where do we start?
It is especially useful for shy, insecure kids to learn a few tricks. After all, in order to show a prepared trick, you need to go, if not on stage, then at least to the center of the room, where the whole family or friends of the baby have gathered for the performance. And thunderous applause and surprise from friends will be the best cure for low self-esteem.
First of all, explain to your daughter or son that in order for the trick to work, you need to practice properly. Very often children want everything at once. They get upset if something doesn't work out after several attempts. Remind your child that you can’t even pull a fish out of a pond without difficulty. With your help, a novice magician will cope with inevitable difficulties, and this will help him in the future to bring the work he has begun to completion and develop determination.
Many tricks require making props. This would be a great creative activity for 5-6 year olds. And where the child cannot cope on his own, his mother or grandmother will help him. Here the most ordinary things will be used: strings, coins, cardboard boxes, plastic sour cream jars and of course colored paper, paints, pencils.
Where can I find descriptions of tricks? In children's magazines and books. There is not much such literature, but it is not difficult to find. After all, the door to magic is closed, but not locked. Try to interest the young magician in books on the history of the art of illusions, tell him about the great magicians of the past and present. This will give the child new knowledge and teach him to take a more serious, comprehensive approach to the topic of interest. Tell your child that, for example, David Copperfield since childhood read all the literature about magic that he could find, and this helped him become the greatest illusionist in the world.
Act according to the principle “from simple to complex.” If your child does well in his very first trick in life, he will feel more confident in the future. Choose a simple, well-understood trick, and analyze it with your child. When the child begins to succeed, let him rehearse in front of the mirror. This way he will be able to understand what the audience will see and correct possible mistakes.
Practice together what and how your magician will say while performing the trick. Explain to him that how he behaves on stage is very important for an artist. Even the most amazing “magic” will be boring if the “wizard” silently waves his wand. It’s a completely different matter when an artist smiles and jokes with the audience. So gradually the child will learn not only to speak casually during the performance, this will contribute to the development of a sense of humor. And also tell your child that it is very important never to reveal the secret of the trick, no matter how much his friends ask him to do so. Otherwise the feeling of magic will be destroyed.
The simplest tricks
Here are some simple tricks to get you started.
Spoon glued to nose
A trick spoon glued to your nose is suitable for when you drink sweet coffee or compote, stirring it with a light teaspoon. To demonstrate the trick, remove the spoon from the cup. Turn the spoon handle down and place the concave side towards your nose. Lightly press the outside of the spoon with your fingers. After you remove your hand, the spoon will hang on your nose as if it were glued. The secret of the trick is simple. You really glued the spoon with the help of the sweet drink that remains on it when stirring. Even with little acting ability, a few seconds are enough to convince the audience of this trick of the extraordinary properties of your spoon.
Coins in a book
We place six coins on the page of a large book. We close the book and say the magic words “crex-pex-fex”. Now we open the book, tilt it so that the coins slide into the hand of one of the spectators. We count them and find that there are ten coins! The secret of the trick is simple. Before the show starts, you need to put four coins in the spine. open book and check that they can slip out unnoticed when you tilt the book, but do not fall out with any movement.
The miraculous appearance of a tie
The next simple trick is a trick joke. The little magician comes out to the audience and asks what important detail is missing from his costume. Oops, he forgot to wear a tie! It's okay, because a wizard can do anything. The child waves his magic wand - and the bow tie appears in its right place! Where did he come from? And the whole point, of course, is in special training.
You need to take a thin round elastic band and attach one end to the tie. Then we hold the tie with an elastic band under the arm so that the audience cannot see it. We will thread the free end of the elastic into the loop on the collar of the shirt, lower it under the shirt to the waist and secure it there firmly. Now you need to take the magic wand in your hand. When your baby waves it, the elastic will pull the tie toward the collar.
Three bottle caps
Give three spectators a lemonade cap, two of which are regular white(colorless), and one is yellow. Offer to hide the lids in a box with three compartments so that you can’t see which is which, and try to guess which compartment the lid is in, for example the yellow one.
The box is made of four outer cases and three inner drawers matchboxes. When the lids are laid out, turn to the audience, take the box from them and, after a second of reflection, confidently indicate where the hidden lid is hidden.
Secret trick: In the lid yellow In advance, place a lead circle under the seal, equal in diameter to the lid. Hand out the caps to the audience one at a time so that they do not have the opportunity to compare them. When you receive the box in your hand, discreetly grasp the middle of it with your fingertips. The advantage of one side will immediately indicate to you the desired compartment. If the box remains in balance, then the desired lid is in the center).
Mind Reading
The young magician can surprise viewers with his ability to read minds. The child takes a book from the shelf as if at random and asks the audience to name the number of any page. Then he leaves the room, and an assistant, for example mom, reads aloud the top line on the selected page.
The kid returns to the room and asks the audience to think about the line he heard. Then, pretending to read thoughts, he pronounces it. This trick can be easily done by a child who can read. The whole secret is that the exact same book is hidden behind the door. When the child leaves the room, he simply reads and remembers the top line on the correct page.
Balloon and knitting needle
The young magician holds in his hands an inflated balloon. Then he takes a long knitting needle and pierces the ball right through, but the magic ball remains intact. To demonstrate to the audience that the ball is an ordinary one, the child lightly pierces it with a needle. The ball bursts.
How is this possible? Help your son or daughter prepare a knitting needle for this trick. It should be long, thin, well pointed and carefully polished, without nicks. Now we stick a piece of tape on both sides of the ball - and the props are ready. Just first you need to practice piercing the ball precisely in the places “reinforced” with tape quickly and accurately. If you accidentally hit the thin, stretched rubber of the ball with a knitting needle, it will immediately burst. And it’s okay that the kid ruins more than a dozen balloons. But then he will be able to surprise guests at a birthday party or friends at kindergarten mysterious trick.
Magic rice
Now let’s show the audience the magic rice. Your magician fills a plastic margarine jar to the brim with dry rice. Then he covers it with exactly the same jar, bottom up, turns the jars on their sides, pressing them tightly against each other, and carries them to all four corners of the room, saying that by magic the rice is transferred to the north, south, west and east. Our rice has traveled around the world.
It may not have become twice as tasty, but there was twice as much of it. We put the jars on a tray, remove the top... The container is full of rice, but the extra one came from somewhere! It scattered all over the tray, it doubled in size! But before, rice easily fit into a jar, everyone saw it. For this trick, we need to work some magic on plastic jars in advance. We will need two completely identical containers.
Take the lid of the jar and carefully cut off the edge. Lubricate the edge of the lid with any universal glue and glue it inside one of the cans approximately in the middle. Now the volume of the can has decreased by half. Let your child decorate both jars so that they look exactly the same.
To do this, they can be covered with colored paper and shiny stars. To get the trick, pour the rice into a regular jar and cover it with the one we specially prepared by gluing the lid inside. Now all that remains is not to forget important detail at the end of the trick: after “traveling the world” the jar with the lid glued in should be at the bottom.
Hand tying
To successfully perform the next trick, the baby will have to practice a little.
We will need a rope about 1 m long, a thin metal (or plastic) bracelet in the form of a ring, into which a child’s hand can easily fit, and a large scarf. Two assistants tightly tie the ends of the rope around the “wizard’s” hands. The child takes the bracelet in one hand and hides both hands under a scarf, which is held by the ends by assistants. After a few seconds, the assistants remove the scarf, and the artist raises his hands up and shows the bracelet hanging on the rope. Of course, here too the solution is very simple. After all, there is a second, exactly the same bracelet. The child first puts it on his hand and covers it with the sleeve of his shirt or jacket. In the meantime, the assistants hold the handkerchief, quietly hide the bracelet in their pocket, and slide the one hidden under the sleeve down onto the rope. That's the whole secret!
Amazing pencil
Fold the banknote in half lengthwise and hold it horizontally. Place a pencil under it. Viewers will see how he, having pierced the paper, stuck out on the other side. Without pulling out the pencil, turn the bill vertically. Holding it on top with one hand, sharply lower the pencil down with the other. It will easily pass through the paper, and the paper... will be safe and sound!
The secret of the trick: make a 4 cm long cut in the middle part of the pencil. When demonstrating the trick, move the pencil from the side of the bill opposite to the audience so that half of the bill fits into the cut. Fold over the other half of the bill. When viewers see a tongue-like part of a pencil, they will mistake it for a whole pencil. All that remains is to sharply lower the pencil down and release the bill from the cut.
Instantly transform an orange into an apple
The young wizard shows everyone an orange, covers it with a bright scarf, casts magic spells, and pulls off the scarf. And there’s already an apple on your palm! The secret of focus. Carefully remove the peel from the orange in advance. Then place the apple (it should be slightly smaller than the orange) in this peel. When showing, the child, tightly holding an apple in an orange peel, shows everyone what he has in his hand. Then, with a deft movement, he removes the scarf from the apple along with the peel.
Confetti candies
Just imagine: a young magician covers a paper cup with confetti with a handkerchief, takes off the handkerchief, and instead of confetti there is candy in the cup. The most real, sweet and delicious. Help yourself, friends! And no matter how fantastic it may sound, with the necessary props it’s not difficult to perform such a trick. So, we will need a large opaque bowl or wide vase filled to the middle with confetti (we buy several bags and pour it into the bowl), two completely identical paper or plastic cups (one with a lid), candies in candy wrappers, and a scarf. Before we start training, let’s do a little magic with a glass.
Fill the one with the lid with candies, close the lid, thickly grease it with glue and cover it with confetti. It is better to stick the confetti in several layers so that they reliably disguise the lid. If there is no ready-made protrusion on the side of the lid, tape a piece of strong fishing line to it with tape so that it is not conspicuous, but at the same time it is easy to feel and grab with your fingers. Cups with your baby can be decorated with stickers. Just make sure that they look absolutely identical (to do this, use two sheets of identical stickers).
After all this, we bury the glass in the bowl of confetti so that it is not visible. The preparations are complete. Let's move on to the actual focus. The magician shows the audience a bowl of confetti and tells them that he can turn confetti into candy. Don't believe me? Now, now!
He takes an empty glass, shows it to the audience, scoops confetti from the vase with it and pours it back with enough high altitude, demonstrating to the audience that all these are ordinary things, there is no secret in them. You need to scoop up the confetti carefully so as not to “light up” the hidden glass. Then the young magician scoops up the confetti again, but at the same time quietly leaves an empty glass under a layer of colored circles, and pulls out a glass with a “secret”. This is the first point that needs to be worked out properly. The audience should not suspect anything.
The “secret” glass is raised above the bowl and shown to the audience, the remains of confetti fall from it, and no one suspects the substitution. The magician shakes off the excess confetti (leaving only the glued one), covers the glass with a handkerchief and “conjures” over it, saying something like: One, two, three, Become a confetti candy!
And he himself feels the prepared loop of fishing line through the scarf and pulls the scarf off the cup along with the lid. This is the second point that requires training. You need to learn how to quickly grab the loop and remove the scarf so that the cover underneath is not visible. After this, the young magician puts the scarf aside and shows the surprised spectators a glass full of sweets. So, what do magic candies taste like?
Jumping Coin
This is a cute home trick that is simple and effective. Place a small coin on the table and have someone pick it up without touching the table or the coin. Of course, even if someone volunteers to do this, they still won’t be able to.
The secret of the trick: just hold your hand close to the coin and blow strongly on it from a distance of 5 centimeters. The air compressed by your breath will lift the coin and throw it into your hand. This does not work right away, but after several exercises you can deftly perform this trick: you blow and there is a coin in your hand!
Endless thread
The magician notices a white thread on his jacket, near the lapel, and tries to brush it off several times. But the thread does not “blow away”. The magician takes the end and pulls it down. The thread begins to pull out of the jacket. The more she stretches out, the more surprised the magician is. And the length of the thread is several tens of meters! Mechanics of the trick: a white thread from a spool is wound onto a short colored pencil (as long as it is wound), placed in the side inner pocket and its tail (1-2 cm) is pulled outward through the fabric of the jacket with a needle. The pencil is needed so that “there are no traces left in the pocket” if one of the spectators asks the magician to show his pocket; a pencil is not a reel; it will not help solve this trick.
Trickster water
If you place a transparent glass on a large copper coin, the coin will be clearly visible through its walls. Pour water into a glass - the coin will “disappear” (of course, if you don’t look into the glass from above). Based on this optical effect, you can come up with a number. Take a coin and glue it to the bottom of the glass in advance. The child shows the audience a glass of water. There's nothing in it. Lower the glass down and hold it so that the audience looks at it from above - a coin appears in the glass!
Obedient button
Pour soda into a glass. The young magician takes a small button and drops it into a glass. The button will be at the bottom. Immediately or a little later, he moves his hand over the glass and says: “Button, come to me!” The button slowly rises up. He passes his hand over the glass again and says: “Button down!” She will obediently lower herself.
The secret of the trick: when the button is at the bottom of the glass, gas bubbles collect around it and when there are a lot of them, they will lift the button. Then the bubbles will disappear and the button will fall back down. This movement will continue as long as it stands out carbon dioxide. But practice first, calculate the time before commanding the button “up” or “down”.
Slipper trick
The magician brings out a paper package. Unties him. He takes out a clean rug from the package. He shows it to the audience from all sides: nothing is hidden in it. Spreads it on the floor. Still holding the rug with his hands by the edge, he pulls the slippers off with one foot and covers them with the rug. Makes “magic passes” in the air with his hands. He lifts the rug and points to the shoes that appeared “from nowhere.” Blows a kiss to the audience. He bows solemnly in all directions. And he doesn’t notice that his slippers “by themselves” (they are pulled by the threads) are quickly “leaving” from the stage. Having finished bowing, the clown looks for his slippers with his eyes. They are nowhere to be found! Covering his feet with a rug, he trotts off the stage in embarrassment. And at the same time he still tries to smile.
Blow out the candle
Blowing out a candle is nothing easier, but try blowing it out through a wide funnel, blowing into it through the narrow end, or through a paper tube folded into a pound. If you have a candle right in front of the middle of the tube, it will be completely impossible to blow out the candle. The flame, despite all the efforts, still stands and does not even waver. Try to place the funnel so that it is at the edge of it, and the flame will immediately go out. This happens because the streams of air coming out of the mouth pass through the narrow part of the funnel and dissipate in its wide part, then they go along the walls of the funnel and bypass the candle flame. If the flame is level with the edge of the funnel, then the same stream of air blows it out. This trick will seem interesting and strange to the audience.
Glass on paper
Place two glasses on the table at some distance from one another (the glasses should not be heavy). Give the audience a piece of paper and ask them to place a third glass on top of the paper placed on the glasses. No one will believe that a thin piece of paper can withstand the weight of a glass placed on it. To do this trick, you need to fold a sheet of paper like an accordion, and the glass will stand.
Guessing the date of birth
The host of the holiday can perform this trick with the audience. He addresses the audience: “Do you want me to find out the date of birth of each of you? Have someone come to me... Please multiply by 2 the number when you were born. Add 5 to the result, and multiply this amount by 50. Now add the serial number of the month you were born and name the resulting number. Having learned this number, the presenter immediately names the day and month of birth. The secret of the trick: from the number named by the viewer you need to subtract 250. You will get a three-digit or four-digit number in which one or two first digits are the birthday, and the last two are the month.
Transformation of tea
In one glass - “milk” (potato starch shaken in water). In another glass - “tea” (a few drops of iodine in half a glass of water). Liquid from one glass is poured into another and “ink” is obtained. You can even write on paper with them. Viewers can try their drawing skills by taking a brush and drawing something on a blank sheet of whatman paper or cardboard.
Living water
On a blank piece of paper, the child draws the outline of a flower with a simple pencil, then waters it with water. And then the plant gradually blooms (becomes colorful).
The secret of the trick: take white paper and place a cardboard stencil of a flower on it. Fill the entire volume of the flower with bright red aniline powder, temporarily covering the rest of it. Cover the leaf and stem with green aniline powder. Without removing the stencil, carefully blow everything off the paper. In places where there was powder, tiny particles of paint will remain unnoticeable. On the back side of the sheet, where the child will later draw a flower, mark the outline with barely noticeable dots. When showing, water should be poured slowly, from the side of the stem. The water will make the paper wet, and the paint through it will gradually color the flower!
Magic vase
And you've probably seen this trick more than once. The magician takes a vessel with a narrow neck and lowers the end of a rope into it, first showing the audience that the rope “goes in and out” freely. He then turns the vessel upside down, and the rope continues to hang, held in the vessel by some mysterious force. The magician grabs the rope with his hands, turns the vase over to its normal position, lets go, and it swings on the rope like a pendulum. What kind of strange force tied the rope and the vase so tightly?
Finally, the magician casts a spell, the “force” releases the rope, and it freely, effortlessly comes out of the neck of the vessel. What? Is there some secret in the vase? Please look for yourself and see for yourself, turn it in your hands: just a vase and just a rope, nothing special!
And the secret of this trick is very simple. And the baby can handle it quite well. Only here he cannot do without the help of mom or dad, because our vessel must first be prepared. We, of course, deceived our viewers that there was no secret. It is there, as in any trick. So, it is convenient to use a glass ketchup bottle with a narrow neck or any other suitable container as a magic vessel. The rope needs to be thick and rigid, about half a meter or less long (the child should be able to handle it comfortably).
The neck diameter should be larger diameter ropes approximately doubled. Make a glass bottle opaque by painting it with paint (for example, acrylic) and decorating it with magical patterns. Now comes the most important part. You will need a small rubber ball with a diameter slightly larger than half the inside diameter of the neck. The ball can also be cut from a bottle cap. It drops into the bottle and remains there throughout the entire trick. You may need to experiment with different sizes ball so that the focus is perfect.
So what happens during a magic trick? The young magician shows the audience a bottle and a rope, then shows that the rope fits freely into the neck of the bottle and comes out just as easily. After that, he lowers the rope into the bottle to the very bottom and slowly (this is important) turns the bottle upside down. The bottle should be held in one hand and the rope in the other. The ball rolls into the neck between the rope and the wall of the bottle. Now you need to slightly pull the rope to properly secure the structure, and then slowly release it.
Akhalay-makhalay! The rope doesn't fall. The magician then grabs the rope with his hand, slowly turns the bottle over and lets go. And now she is already swinging on a rope. The ball still prevents the rope from slipping out. To eliminate " magical power", just push the rope deep into the bottle.
The ball will fall to the bottom, and the rope will easily come out. To enhance the effect, you can invite the audience to examine the rope and bottle for “magic” and try to repeat the trick themselves. Have one of the spectators pull the rope out of the neck. Then the magician turns the bottle over, as if showing the audience its bottom, while in the meantime he hides the ball that has rolled out of the neck in his hand. That's it, now the bottle can be given to the audience for scrupulous examination. It is clear that no one can repeat the trick.
The show begins! Spectacular appearance
Once your young illusionist has a few tricks well rehearsed, you can think about a real home show. Write a script for the performance together with your child, think about the costume, lighting, musical arrangement. The costume will depend on the role the child chooses. If he wants to be a wizard, then a long, wide robe embroidered with stars will suit him. Or maybe he will represent a gnome or another fairy tale character. Then you need to dress accordingly. And of course, don’t forget about the magic wand, which can be made from an ordinary wooden stick, wrapped in foil and decorated.
To impress the audience, arrange a spectacular start to your show: the Great Magician and Wizard appears in the room in the most mysterious way.
For this trick you will need a large carton(for example, from a TV) that a child can fit into.
The mother and the baby will make a house out of it. Cover the box with colored paper or paint it. On one side we will draw or glue windows and doors, and on the other we will carefully cut out a secret “door” through which the artist can crawl. Separately, we will make a removable roof for our house from cardboard. We will place a table in the room, covered with fabric to the floor, and at a short distance from it we will place our house “facing” the audience.
Between the table and the house we will temporarily place a roof from the house, blocking the gap. Your young Copperfield crawls under the table and quietly waits there for the right moment. Everything is ready. Spectators enter the “hall”. Mom, in the role of entertainer, reports that the famous illusionist will appear any minute, lifts the house, showing that it is empty, and puts it in place. After this, the “artist” very carefully crawls from under the table, under the roof, into the house.
Mom lifts the roof, showing that there is nothing between the house and the table, and puts the roof on the house. Now you need to say the magic words, remove the roof, and your little Magician and Sorcerer effectively appears from the house. Then he demonstrates his art to the audience, making sure to leave some interesting trick in case he is called for an encore.
Or maybe you will arrange a whole family performance for your guests? After all, mom or dad can also learn a few amusing tricks and perform together with their little one. Are you ready? So, eni-beni-raba! An incredible, magical performance begins!
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At home then a win-win option There will be simple tricks that will surprise everyone.
For most of these tricks no special preparation required. You just have to learn a few rules and tricks.
Here are a few interesting tricks, which can be done at home and entertain your loved ones:
Home tricks for children
1. How to peel a banana so that it is already sliced?
Here's how to do it:
The banana can be sliced without removing the peel. This is done using a pin or needle - insert it through the peel and turn it back and forth.
Video instruction:
2. How can you make a hole in a regular piece of paper large enough for you to fit through?
Here's how to do it:
Take a regular A4 sheet of paper, fold it in half lengthwise and start cutting the fringe.
After this, cut the folded parts, except for the first and last strip. When you straighten the sheet, it will “stretch” and you will be able to fit through the resulting hole.
3. How to turn water into ice when you pour it?
Here's how to do it:
Place the water bottle in the freezer and check every few minutes to make sure the water does not freeze, but reaches freezing point (this takes about 2 hours).
Remove the bottle from the freezer and take out a piece of ice. Place ice and start pouring water on it - the water will begin to turn into ice right before your eyes.
Video instruction:
4. How to make the ring fly?
Here's how to do it:
The ring is placed on an elastic band, and when you pull it, it creates the illusion that the ring is flying up.
Video:
5. How to make a ketchup packet rise and fall in a water bottle?
Here's how to do it:
If you concentrate children's attention on your right hand, so that you are supposedly using it to control a packet of ketchup, then you can quietly squeeze and unclench the bottle with your left hand. As you do this, the bag inside the bottle will float up and down.
Video:
Tricks and their secrets for children at home
6. How to make a cup of coffee fly?
Here's how to do it:
Take a plastic, cardboard or Styrofoam cup and glue your thumb to it. When you raise your hand, it will seem as if you have telekinesis.
7. How to pierce a bag of water so that the water does not spill?
Here's how to do it:
There is no magic here, just science. When you push a pencil through a plastic bag, the molecular structure of the bag creates a seal that prevents water from seeping through the bag.
8. How to fly a few centimeters above the ground?
Here's how to do it:
Stand so that children cannot see the toe of your left foot. Then slowly rise up onto your toes, while lifting the leg that is closest to the audience (in in this case right leg). You may need to practice in front of a mirror to make the trick more convincing.
Hello again!
Sergey Kulikov, aka Sailor, is in touch with you again!
I would like to call our article today “How to do magic tricks, training and demonstration.” In it we will show you five simple but truly effective tricks that will shock any viewer!
Focus number one!
This trick is quite confusing, but nevertheless, it is very surprising and effective. So, before starting the trick, we thoroughly mix the deck and prepare a prediction for the viewer! We write something on a piece of paper and put it aside.
Now we ask the spectator to choose twelve absolutely any cards.
He can take twelve cards in a row from the top, he can take from the bottom, or he can choose random cards.
After this, we ask him to choose four from these twelve cards. Again, they should be random. We do not impose anything on the viewer.
Now we set aside these four cards, and put the remaining eight cards back into the deck. We won't need them anymore.
Let's see what cards the viewer chose. In our case, these are Seven, Four, Six and Queen. You need to do the following with them: deal so many cards on them to make ten. That is, we draw six more cards for the Four, and four cards for the Six. All high picture cards are already equal to ten.
So, after this tedious action, we need to do one more thing. We need to count the sum of these cards! In our case it is twenty-seven. We count out twenty-seven cards onto the table and put the next card aside.
Now let's look at the prediction. We only wrote two words, “Three Crosses.” Now we look at that card that we put aside and this is... Three of the Crosses!
Focus number two!
I love this trick very much, because it is wildly effective and can surprise even a skilled magician! So, according to tradition, let's shuffle the deck.
Now let's ask the viewer to choose a card. Let's start flipping through the deck along the long side and ask the spectator to stop us at any moment. We give him his chosen card so that he remembers it. In our case, this is the Three of Hearts. We put it on top of the deck and lift the deck. Thus, the card becomes lost in the deck.
Now we lay out the deck with a ribbon on the table and see that we have four Aces turned upside down! We divide the deck into two parts in the place where the Aces lie. After this we will do a funny action. We'll put red Aces on the top of one of the stacks, and we'll put black Aces on the top of the other stack. Now the Aces must look for a card in their pile!
We lift the deck once, lay out the deck with a ribbon on the table and see... that both the black and red Aces have caught one card each! One of these cards is the Three of Hearts - the spectator's card, and the other is the Three of Diamonds!
This is such a wonderful trick!
Focus number three!
This trick is wildly simple both in execution and in effect. You can show it for the purpose of simply fooling around with the putter and just to amuse your friends.
So, as usual, we shuffle the cards and ask the spectator to say “Stop” at any time when we flip through the deck. The spectator stops us and now we are only interested in those cards that remain on top.
Take them and mix them thoroughly. We ask the viewer to pick up this stack in absolutely any place. We put those cards on which he picked aside, and remove the rest.
Now we do the following action: we lay out the “magic circle” on the table! We deal twelve cards on a table in the shape of a circle. Now we look at the number of cards that the spectator picked up. In our case there are nine of them. From this we conclude that the ninth card in this circle is the Five of Diamonds! A bold statement, let's check if this is true. We check and, together with the viewer, we are convinced of the suitability of the “magic circle” to help us with tricks!
But that's not all!
In fact, I have prepared as many as FIVE tricks for you! The other two you can easily find in the video:
You can find training in these wonderful tricks in this video:
That's all I have for today! I hope you liked my article entitled “How to do magic tricks training and demonstration”!
Sergey Kulikov, aka Sailor, was in touch with you!
