Magic tricks easy to do at home: 10 Easy Magic Tricks for Kids

10 Easy Magic Tricks for Kids

By freelance writer Rachael Moshman

Magic tricks for kids are a great way for parents and nannies to keep the family entertained. After all, who doesn’t love magic?

“When I perform for kids, I try to help them feel like adults, and when I perform for adults, I try to make them feel like kids,” says magician Gary “Gary The Great” Ferrar. Magic tricks are fun, sure, but there’s even more to it. Magic is good for kids, asserts Nicholas “Magical Nick” Pugh. “Learning magic tricks at a young age builds confidence and helps with social building skills, especially if the child tends to be a little shy,” he says.

Here are a few fun and easy magic tricks for kids to get your young magician started.

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1. Spoon Bending

The trick is all in the way you hold the spoon. You press down on the spoon while sliding your hand along the handle, which gives the illusion of the utensil bending. It takes some practice, but is one of the easier magic tricks for kids to master.

2. Walk Through Paper

Kidzone has a printable template that allows your young magician to walk through a hole in a standard piece of paper. How is that possible? Why magic, of course! Well, magic and enough cuts to turn the piece of paper into something with a very large opening.

3. Talking Magic Calculator

All your child needs is a calculator and a good memory. Your child will start by telling a friend the calculator wants to talk to them and that the code to get the conversation started is 0.7734. When the calculator is turned upside down with this number punched in, it looks as if the display says “HELLO.”

4. Betcha Can’t Crack an Egg

Have your child challenge her friends to crack a raw egg with their bare hands. What your child will know is that an egg is actually pretty tough when squeezed with the hand. Its shape allows it to withstand pressure very well when applied all over. Funology recommends doing this trick over a sink, though, just in case someone is strong enough!

5. Disappearing Water Trick

Your child will say a magic word of his choice over a cup of water, turn the cup over and only a chunk of ice will come out. Magic Tricks Reviewed explains the secret — a sponge wedged in the bottom of the glass absorbs the water. The ice cube is placed on top of the sponge.

6. Levitating Card

This involves creating a special card using plastic and super glue. Your child will be able to make the card look like it has levitated off her palm into the air. Because a live audience will want to touch the card, this is a trick that is best performed over Skype for cousins or grandparents.

7. Rubber Pencil

Positive Parenting shares this classic magic trick. By holding a regular pencil down by the eraser and shaking it at just the right speed, it appears to become made of bendable rubber instead of wood. This one doesn’t take any special skill, just a lot of practice to get the speed and technique just right.

8. Disappearing Coin

Kidspot says a basic disappearing coin trick is a great starter to help your child develop the fine motor skills, discipline and confidence needed to perform magic. The trick is to get down a sleight of hand so that when the coin is dropped into the magician’s lap, the audience doesn’t notice.

9. Rising Arm

Your child has a friend lean an arm against a wall for 30 to 60 seconds and says, “You will now slowly step away from the wall as I lift your arm with my mind.” According to Funology, the other child’s arm will automatically rise as they step away from the wall.

10. Make an Egg Fit Through an Impossibly Small Hole

This activity is actually a science experiment from Science Sparks, but it looks like magic! It requires a cooled, peeled hard-boiled egg, a glass bottle with a hole a bit smaller than the egg, two matches and an adult assistant for lighting the matches.

Magic tricks are fun any time, but they’re especially great for engaging young minds during school breaks. Magic can be an extra special addition to kids activities.

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We’ve all seen a magician perform and wondered – How did they do that? Well, now you can learn some easy magic tricks to perform at home from some of the best professional magicians in the business.

Learn these simple magic tricks to perform for your friends and family from the comfort of your own home. You can perform some of them in person, or even virtually through an online meeting.

Why do magic tricks now? Magic is mentally stimulating, fun, and it takes people’s minds off of their troubles. And it brings people together in a positive way. Learn the way of sleight of hand and easy card tricks for beginners.

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Magic tricks for children at home

Date: April 5, 2017 Author: Alina Category: Contests for the holidays 10

Who doesn’t love magic tricks? Everyone loves tricks – both adults and children. Because the focus is a little magic that, if desired and skillful, you can do yourself. Of course, this business is not as simple as it seems at first glance, so for starters, the tricks should be as simple as possible. But that doesn’t make them less effective! We’ve put together magic tricks that you can show your little ones or help your child learn on their own – especially for little magicians! The most important thing in this matter is to learn the magic spell: “hocus pocus alle op!” Everything! Now everything will definitely work! nine0003

Content

• 1 Book Copper

• 2 Oblast tie

• 3 Magic spoon

• 4 Magic lid

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5 I can read thoughts!

• 6 Lord of Rice

• 7 Sleight of Hand

• 8 Candy made from…confetti?

• 9 Non bursting ball

• 10 Fruit transformation

• 11 Acrobat coin

• 12 I know your date of birth!

• 13 slippers and a rug

• 14 Endless thread

• 15 Magic water

• 16 Isolent cup

• 9000 17 trained buttons

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magic tricks and their secrets

• 20 Simple trick with cards – video

Piggy bank book

And this is not just a simple piggy bank, but a magic one – there are more and more coins in it! We put five coins on the page of the book, close the book, do not forget about the spell. We open the book – ten coins already fall out of it! Everything is elementary: five coins must be hidden in advance in the spine of the book. Now the main thing is that the coins do not fall out ahead of time.

Obedient tie

Even the little ones can do this trick. The young magician appears before the audience. But something is wrong with his suit. Oh yes – he forgot to wear a bow tie! But this is fixable, wave of the magic wand – hello op! – and the tie is already in place! The secret is simple: we sew a thin elastic band to the tie, and hide the tie under the armpit. We thread the other end of the elastic band into the loop from the button on the collar and stretch it under the shirt to the waist, fasten it. Now it remains to take a magic wand in your hand, wave it – the elastic band is released, and the butterfly “flies” to its place! nine0003

Magic spoon

Calmly mix sweet tea or compote with a teaspoon. And suddenly – hello op! – the spoon is already hanging on our nose! Wonders! In fact, everything is simple: the spoon really sticks to the nose because of the sugar (after all, our tea was sweet, and even more so compote!). Of course, you need to glue the spoon with the concave side. Plus a little sense of humor and acting skills – a funny trick is ready!

Magic cap

Distribute 3 plastic bottle caps to the audience. One of them should be different from the others in color. Let the audience, without our knowledge, hide the lids in a box with three compartments, each lid in its own (the box is made of 3 boxes glued together). We pick up a box and unmistakably determine where the cover of a different color is located! How? Very simple. In advance, you need to put a weighting agent in this lid – a circle of lead, equal in size to the bottom of the lid. At the moment of guessing, we carefully take the box with the lids by the middle with our fingers – the heavy lid will slightly outweigh. If the drawer remains in balance, then the desired lid is in the middle compartment. And, of course, the caps need to be handed out to the audience one at a time so that they have no way to compare their weight. nine0003

I can read minds!

The child takes a book at random from the shelf and asks the audience to name the page number. Then he leaves the room. The magician’s assistant reads the top line of the page chosen by the audience. A young magician enters – and repeats it without hesitation! He really can read minds! In fact, everything is simpler: our magician and sorcerer just knows how to read. Behind the door lies the same book as the one that the child took “at random” from the shelf. And he himself read the right top line behind the door! nine0003

Lord of Rice

The magician is holding a plastic margarine box filled with rice. The child covers it from above with exactly the same box – bottom up. After magical manipulations and reading the spell, the box opens, and here is a miracle – there is much more rice! It doesn’t even fit in a box and spills out on the table! The secret of the trick is in a specially prepared box with which we covered our rice. She has a “double bottom” – the lid from it must be cut off and carefully glued as a bottom approximately in the middle of the box. Now the most important thing is not to confuse and at the end of the trick pour the rice into the right box, the one with the false bottom. nine0003

Sleight of Hand

For this trick we need a bracelet, a rope and a handkerchief. The assistant tightly ties the hands of the young magician, after which he gives him a bracelet and rips the magician’s hands with a handkerchief, holding the handkerchief by the ends. After a couple of moments, the handkerchief is removed, the magician raises his hands – and the magician’s bracelet is put on a rope! The thing is that there are actually two bracelets: the second one is already put on the child’s hand and hidden under the sleeve of the jacket. It remains only to quietly drop the bracelet onto the rope and hide the second bracelet! nine0003

Candy from… confetti?

For this sweet trick, you will need a wide bowl filled to the middle with confetti and a couple of paper cups, but not ordinary ones, but a secret one. Here it is, this secret: one of the cups should have a lid, we glue confetti thickly on it. Next is the matter of technology. Put the candies in a glass with a lid and bury it in a bowl with confetti. The child shows the bowl to the audience. So that everyone can see that there is no deception here, he scoops up confetti with another glass and pours them back into the bowl from a sufficiently high height. Then he scoops up the confetti again (but in fact he takes another cup, and hides the first one in the bowl), covers it with a scarf, reads a spell, takes off the scarf – in front of us is a glass filled with delicious sweets! The main thing is to carefully remove the lid along with the handkerchief – this is the second secret of our trick. nine0003

Non bursting balloon

Take an inflated balloon and a long sharp knitting needle. A wave, precise movement – and the needle is inside the ball, and the ball is intact! This is possible with a little preparation and a series of exercises. On the ball on both sides, you need to stick a piece of transparent adhesive tape, and the magician’s task is to learn how to hit exactly the marked places. It’s not easy and requires some skill. But the effect produced by focus is worth the time and effort! nine0003

Transformation of fruits

An orange lies in the palm of a young magician. The magician covers it with a handkerchief, utters a magic spell – and now on his hand is not an orange, but an apple! And here’s the solution: you need to peel the orange from the orange in advance. And inside it put a small apple. The peel is removed with a slight movement of the hand along with a handkerchief.

Acrobat coin

Let’s invite our viewers to pick up a coin from the table without touching it. Hardly anyone can do it. Meanwhile, it is enough to blow sharply on the coin from a distance of about 5 cm – it will jump, and you need to keep your hand very close in order to have time to pick up the coin. Focus is charming, but it takes practice. nine0003

I know your date of birth!

This trick, of course, is beyond the power of the little ones. But you can surprise them with children and adults at some holiday. The magician asks the viewer to multiply the date of his birth (number) by 2, add 5 to the result, multiply the amount by 50. Then add the number of the month of birth and name the resulting number. The presenter unmistakably names the date of birth of the viewer! And beforehand, in the mind, it subtracts 250 from the number named by the viewer. You will get a three- or four-digit number. One or two of the first digits of which is the number, and the second two are the month of birth. nine0003

Slippers and rug

The magician brings the rug onto the stage and shows it to the audience from all sides. He covers his feet with it (and at this time he quietly removes his slippers from his feet). The rug is removed – slippers are found! But that’s not all: While the magician is bowing, the slippers themselves go backstage (they are pulled on the fishing line by assistants)! Here is the confusion! Running for slippers!

Endless thread

The magician has a white thread on his jacket, the magician tries to brush it off, but nothing works. He asks the audience to remove the thread. A kind viewer pulls the thread, pulls, pulls, but it never ends! Soon the viewer becomes entangled in the threads. In fact, in the inner pocket of the jacket there is a pencil with a long thread wound around it, and the end of the thread was pulled out with a needle. And we need a pencil for conspiracy – even if attentive viewers suspect something, a pencil in your pocket will not give out a secret – it’s not a coil! nine0003

Magic water

There is such an optical illusion: if you put a glass on a coin, it will be visible through the walls of the glass, but if you pour water into a glass, the coin will no longer be visible, unless, of course, you look at it from the side, but if you look directly from above – it will be visible. This can become the basis for focus. For example, you can stick a coin to the bottom of a glass. The magician shows the audience a glass of water – nothing is visible. And now (after the magic words) we look at the glass from above – a coin has appeared in the glass! nine0003

Weightless glass

For the trick, we need three glasses and a sheet of paper. We put two glasses on the table not far from each other. The magician informs the audience that a piece of paper placed on top of the glasses can easily support the weight of a third glass and invites the audience to try it out. Of course, no one believes. But in vain! This is possible if you fold a piece of paper like an accordion. For greater effect, water can be poured into the upper glass.

Trained button

Pour soda into a glass and put a small button in it. Now we turn to the button: “float up!”, Then: “float down!” The button is obedient! And here there is no secret at all, the law of physics: gas bubbles, gathering around the button, lift it up, they burst at the top, and the button sinks again. It remains only to calculate the time for their teams.

Candle that doesn’t blow out

Here again amazing laws of physics and no magic. We try to blow out the candle through the funnel – we blow into its narrow end. If the candle is exactly in the middle of the funnel, nothing happens, but if the flame is on the edge of the funnel, the candle immediately goes out. The fact is that the air blown out by us is dispersed and distributed around the edges of the funnel. Therefore, no air flow remains in the middle, and therefore the candle does not go out. nine0003

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25 easy tricks you can do at home and their secrets

Have you suddenly found yourself in the most boring party in the world? Was there an awkward silence? Or maybe you want to surprise someone very special to you? It never hurts to have an ace up your sleeve. Whether it’s sleight of hand, a scientific experiment, or you’re just the lucky owner of an unusual talent, here are 25 impressive and easy magic tricks you can do yourself. nine0003

Content

1. Simple focus with cleavage apples
2. Popular coin
3. A jumping egg
4. Magic fire extinguisher
5. The secret of a magic lighter
6. Turn water into whiskey
7. who stole the flame?
8. Rearing the jar
9. Drowning the ketchup bag
10. The most virtuoso piano playing
11. Magic shell twisting
12. Fun drinks
13. How to fill the upturned glass with wine
14. Serving focus
15. Falling rings
16. instant freezing
17. Herbal whistle
18. Make smile Lincoln
19. Magic Flight

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20. Balance Fork
21. Interlock Two Closed Pins
22. Moonwalk

Simple Bullseye Split Trick

Cut your apple in half without a knife

Do you still use a fruit knife? To divide an apple, there is, if not more efficient, then certainly a much cooler way. Hold the apple in both hands so that your thumbs rest on top of the fruit, and by squeezing, use a sliding circular motion. The apple should split neatly into two pieces right down the center.

Magnetized coin

Money goes into your hands

Place a playing card on the pad of your index finger and then place a coin on top. With a sharp flick, knock the playing card off your finger. The card will go into free flight, but the coin will remain on your finger. nine0003

Jumping Egg

Surprise with a Jumping Egg

Make a chicken egg jump from a shot glass to another glass just by blowing on it. To do this, put the egg with a wide base in a glass. Then put another glass next to it, identical to the first. Blow hard on the top of the egg and it will jump out into the next shot glass, landing with the narrower base straight inward.

Magic Fire Extinguisher

Magically Extinguish a Flame

Mix a solution of white vinegar and baking soda in a measuring cup, then cover it until you can no longer hear the characteristic hiss. Next, as if pouring air from a cup over a candle flame. It will die out on its own, you just have to play the role of the great Houdini. nine0003

The secret of the magic lighter

Relight through the smoke

Now that all your candles have been magically extinguished, it’s time to relight them. While smoke rises from the wick, quickly bring the light to it (smoke). The flame will begin to descend to the candle along the smoke path down, as a result of which the wick will light up again.

Turn water into whiskey at home

Swap liquids of different densities

Fill one glass with water and another with whiskey. Then, cover the water glass with a plastic card, turn it over and place it directly over the whiskey glass. Slide the card and watch as soon the liquids are reversed. nine0003

Who stole the flame?

Even flames can be stolen

If you have such an old-fashioned lighter, you can definitely impress everyone with your trick. To begin, take a pencil or pen and move the wick from its normal position slightly to the side. Then light your lighter in the usual way and run your hand over the flame, giving the impression that you are “stealing” the fire. This will cut off the flow of oxygen in the flame, but the wick will still burn inside the kind of pocket that you created when you moved it. You need a little air to light the fire again, for this you can lightly blow on the lighter or create an air flow with smooth hand movements over the wick. nine0003

Rearing the can

Rearing your soda can

Once you’ve finished about half of the soda or any other drink in the can, you can show your friends another trick. Place the jar on the bottom, tilting it slightly so that it looks like it is about to fall on its side. Carefully remove your hands from it so as not to accidentally hit the body and stop balancing your jar. She will remain in this position until you pick her up again. nine0003

Drown a bag of ketchup

Rescuing drowning people is up to you

Find a bag of ketchup that floats to the surface, put it in a bottle of water and close it with a cap. Now with just a little pressure on the sides of the bottle, you will be able to control the bag of ketchup inside.

The most virtuoso piano playing

Become a virtuoso in five minutes

Playing the piano is, of course, very impressive in itself. But in order to learn how to play beautifully, you need to spend a decent amount of time. But don’t worry, you can become a virtuoso performer by simply spreading your arms in a chaotic manner. Play in octaves using only your little finger and thumb. Make sure that your fingers are placed on the black keys. By pressing your pinky and thumb on any black keys, you can also swipe over them with the remaining three fingers, creating an amazing sound. nine0003

Magic twisting of the shell

Make the shell rotate on the plate

Moisten your plate with water, making sure that the whole plate is wet. Put a piece of shell on a plate and twist it well. The shell will quickly rotate on your plate. You can also change the trajectory of its rotation by slightly tilting the plate.

Fun Drinks

Use a little trick to make the party brighter

Add a couple of drops of food coloring in different colors to clear glasses. Then carefully cover the droplets with ice cubes. When you pour a clear liquid into a glass, such as water or a sprite, it will immediately turn bright. Ready. Enjoy beautiful and delicious drinks. nine0003

How to fill an upside down glass with wine

The vacuum will do everything for you

To fill an upside down glass with wine, you will need to pour some wine into a plate or similar cup and place a burning candle in the middle. Cover the glass with a candle and watch. As soon as the flame goes out, the liquid will gradually begin to accumulate in the inverted glass.

Magician’s Serving

Sleight of Hand and Something Else

Each of us has ever seen the same trick with the tablecloth, which is torn off the dining table right from under the plates and glasses. However, if you’ve tried this trick at home, chances are it ended disastrously. The whole trick here is pulling the canvas down, and not on itself, and in the location of the tablecloth itself. Set the table so that the tablecloth does not hang from the edge opposite your position. The farther from the edge of the table this side of the tablecloth is, the easier it will be to pull it off the other edge. nine0003

Soaring rings

Make them levitate

Stretch the elastic band between your hands, first thread it into the ring. Clamp a small section of this gum in the fist of one hand so that it is not visible. Pull the visible part so that the hand with the hidden part of the rubber thread is lower, respectively, your ring will roll down to it. Then slowly release the hidden piece of gum, and with it the ring will begin to rise to the other hand. From the outside, it will look as if the ring itself begins to soar and rise. nine0003

Flash Freeze

Shake or hit the bottle hard to spread the ice

Place a bottle of water in the freezer for several hours. After, carefully remove, being careful not to disturb the water inside, and shake it vigorously. Now watch the ice instantly spread over your bottle.

Grass whistle

Make an impressively annoying whistle from a blade of grass

Pick a flat blade of grass from your lawn. Then put it in your palms, as shown in the figure and squeeze your thumbs tightly so that a small hole forms between them. The original whistle is ready. To impress or greatly piss off your friends, you only need to blow into the hole. A sharp sound immediately pierces the ears. nine0003 Happiness is in your hands

Make America’s famous President smile broadly or be very sad. To do this, you need a five-dollar bill. To cheer or sadden the sixteenth president of America, make three vertical folds, two of which should go through the corners of the mouth, and one right in the center of the lips. But bend the one in the middle inward, and bend the other two outward. The banknote will be curved in a zigzag, and its center, when viewed from the side, will resemble the letter “M”. Now, by changing your viewing angle, you will make the Lincoln on the banknote either smile or be sad. nine0003

Napkin magic knot

Tie a handkerchief into a knot without letting go of the ends

Lay a standard rag napkin on the table and invite your friends to tie this fabric into a knot, but without letting go of the ends. They are unlikely to succeed. But you know what needs to be done. To tie it, simply cross your arms over your chest before grasping the ends of the napkin. The hand of one hand should be on top of the elbow joint, and the other, respectively, from below. Next, just spread your arms in different directions, and the knot will tie itself. nine0003

Coin on the edge of a bill

Surprise by balancing a coin on a thin edge of a banknote

Place a solid banknote on the table. Place a coin on its edge so that the coin rests comfortably on it without your help. You can slightly move the ends of the bill, forming a small angle. Then slowly pull out the banknote in a straight stripe. The coin will remain on the edge of the bill.

Bubble Discs

Blow Up a Bubble Disc

First you need to scrape all the paint off your disc so that it is completely clean. Then bring the lighter to the clean side of the disk and light it. As soon as the disk begins to melt, quickly blow on this place, forming a large plastic bubble. nine0003

Flying cup

Make the glass float

Poke your thumb into one of the sides of the plastic cup. Make sure no one sees this. Place this part towards you, and the other towards the viewer. Hide the glass in your palms so that the thumbs are on the back side of the viewer. Insert one of your thumbs into the hole, and then slowly open your palms. It will seem as if the glass will float between your palms.

Balance fork

Two forks, a glass and a burning match

Insert a match into the gap between the tines of the forks as shown. If done correctly, you should be able to balance the match with the forks on the rim of the glass.

Interlock two closed pins

Magic for beginners

On one of the pins, slightly loosen the spring so that it does not close, but it does not show that it is open. If you deftly move the second pin, you can imperceptibly for the viewer to thread one pin into another and also separate the two pins. Your friends will definitely believe in magic, thanks to such a simple trick. nine0003

Moonwalk

Dance Like Michael

If you really want to dance like the King of Pop, you have to do it right. The trick to the moonwalk is to keep your weight on your bent toe foot while your other foot slides back on your heel. As soon as the second leg is one step further from the first, transfer the weight to it and repeat the same steps.

These simple tricks will really surprise your friends and guests. After all, many of them do not even require special training or any training at all. A little dexterity and you’re ready to impress. We hope that our selection will please you and give scope for your creativity.