Simple tricks for children at home! Tricks for children at home

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 child 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 great for 5-6 year olds creative activity. 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. extraordinary property 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 performance begins, you need to put four coins in the spine of an 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 color 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 right 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 exactly 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 been halved. 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 the 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 banknote in half lengthwise and hold 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 a 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), candy in candy wrappers, 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!

He takes an empty glass, shows it to the audience, scoops confetti from the vase with it and pours it back from a fairly large height, 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 moment 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 is not possible right away, but after several exercises you can skillfully 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 much as it can be wound), placed in a side inner pocket and its tail (1-2 cm) is pulled with a needle through the fabric of the jacket to the outside. 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 carbon dioxide is released. 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

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). Secret trick: take white paper, 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. WITH

reverse side

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 diameter of the neck should be approximately twice the diameter of the rope. 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 ball sizes to get the focus to work perfectly.

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 the “magic power”, you just need to 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, and musical design. 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 other 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 cardboard box(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.

We will temporarily place a roof from the house between the table and the house, blocking the gap. Your young Copperfield crawls under the table and quietly waits there for the right moment. All 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 can 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. Ready? So, eni-beni-slave! An incredible, magical performance begins!

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Who doesn't love magic tricks? Everyone loves magic tricks - both adults and children. Because a trick is a little magic that, if desired and skillful, you can do yourself. Of course, this matter is not as simple as it seems at first glance, so to begin with, the tricks should be as simple as possible. But that doesn’t make them any less effective! We have put together magic tricks that you can show to kids or help your child master them himself - especially for little magicians! The most important thing in this matter is to learn magic spell: “hocus pocus alle op!” All! Now everything will definitely work out!

Piggy bank book

And this is not a simple piggy bank, but a magical one - there are more and more coins in it! We put five coins on the page of the book, close the book, and do not forget about the spell. We open the book - ten coins already fall out of it! Everything is elementary: five coins need to 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 kids can do this trick. A young magician appears before the audience. But something is wrong with his suit. Oh yes - he forgot to put on his bow tie! But this is a fixable matter, a wave of the magic wand - hello oops! - and the tie is already in its place! The secret is simple: we sew a thin elastic band to the tie, and hide the tie itself under the armpit. We thread the other end of the elastic through the buttonhole on the collar and pull it under the shirt to the waist, securing it. Now all that remains is to take the magic wand in your hand, wave it - the elastic band is released, and the butterfly “flies” to its place!

Magic spoon

Calmly stir sweet tea or compote with a teaspoon. And suddenly - hello oops! - the spoon is already hanging on our nose! Miracles! 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 the 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 lid

We hand out 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 the box and unmistakably determine where the lid 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, carefully take the box with the lids with your fingers by the middle - the heavy lid will outweigh it slightly. If the drawer remains in balance, then the desired lid is in the middle compartment. And, of course, the caps should be given to the spectators one at a time so that they do not have the opportunity to compare their weight.

I can read minds!

The child takes a book at random from the shelf and asks the audience to tell the page number. Then he leaves the room. The magician's assistant reads out 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 simply knows how to read. Behind the door lies the same book as the one that the child took out “at random” from the shelf. And he himself read the required top line behind the door!

Lord of Rice

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

Sleight of hand

For this trick we will need a bracelet, rope and a scarf. The assistant tightly ties the hands of the young magician, after which he gives him a bracelet and wraps the magician’s hands with a scarf, holding the ends of the scarf. After a couple of moments, the scarf 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. All that remains is to quietly drop the bracelet onto the rope and hide the second bracelet!

Candy made from... confetti?

For this sweet trick you will need a wide bowl filled with confetti to the middle and steam paper cups, but not simple ones, but a secret. Here it is, this secret: one of the cups should have a lid, onto which we glue confetti thickly and thickly. Then it's a matter of technology. We put candy in a glass with a lid and bury it in the bowl of 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 it back into the bowl from a fairly high height. Then he scoops up the confetti again (but in fact takes another glass, and hides the first one in the bowl), covers it with a handkerchief, reads a spell, removes the handkerchief - in front of us is a glass filled with delicious candies! The main thing is to carefully remove the lid along with the scarf - this is the second secret of our trick.

Non-bursting ball

Take the inflated one balloon and a long sharp knitting needle. A swing, a precise movement - and the knitting needle is inside the ball, but the ball is intact! This is possible with a little preparation and a series of training. You need to stick a piece of transparent tape on both sides of the ball, and the magician’s task is to learn how to hit exactly the marked places. It's not that easy and requires some dexterity. But the effect produced by the trick is worth the time and effort!

Fruit transformation

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

Coin - acrobat

Let's invite our viewers to pick up a coin from the table without touching it. It is unlikely that anyone will be able to do this. Meanwhile, it is enough to blow sharply on a 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. The trick is charming, but requires practice.

I know your date of birth!

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

Slippers and rug

The magician brings a 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 the slippers from his feet). The rug is removed - the slippers are revealed! But that's not all: While the magician bows, the slippers go backstage on their own (they are pulled by assistants on a fishing line)! This is an embarrassment! Let's go get the slippers!

Endless thread

There is a white thread on the magician's jacket; the magician tries to brush it off, but he fails. He asks the audience to remove the thread. The kind spectator pulls the thread, pulls, pulls, but it never ends! Soon the viewer becomes entangled in 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 secrecy - even if attentive spectators suspect something, a pencil in your pocket will not give away the secret - it’s not a reel!

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 the glass, the coin will no longer be visible, unless, of course, you look at it from the side, but if you look exactly from above, it will be visible This can become the basis for a focus. For example, you can glue 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!

Weightless glass

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

Trained button

Pour soda into a glass and put a small button in it. Now we turn to the button: “swim up!”, then: “swim 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 to the top, at the top they burst, and the button sinks again. All that remains is to calculate the time for your teams.

Unblown candle

Here again are 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 located exactly in the middle of the funnel, nothing happens, but if the flame is located at the edge of the funnel, the candle goes out immediately. The fact is that the air we blow out is scattered and distributed around the edges of the funnel. Therefore, no air flow remains in the middle, which is why the candle does not go out.

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Many of us wanted to become magicians as children. But not everyone understood that this was all real.
In this article we will talk about how you can become a magician.

How to learn to perform tricks and become a real magician? How to become a great magician - illusionist? Don't know yet? Then read this article carefully and follow the most important rules of a magician.

1. Do not reveal the secret of the trick, even if your friend asks you very much close friend, or girlfriend). All magic and magical transformation ends where the revelation of the secrets of tricks begins. I would like to note that many professional magicians keep most of their tricks secret not only from the audience, but also from their colleagues in magic.
I myself, being a member of the Russian Association of Illusionists, sometimes cannot find out the secret of this or that trick from my colleagues. And remember that even if the secret of the trick is very easy to find on the Internet, not everyone will go looking for it. And if they do, it won’t be right away. And while the trick is not solved, you, in the person of your viewer, will be a magical star against the background of ordinary people.

2. Do not show the same trick more than 2 times in a row. Ideal for most tricks once at most, although there are some tricks that require repeated performances for their magical effect. Remember that during the re-run the audience, already familiar with your trick, will pay attention to the details of the trick, trying to catch you in a fraud and publicly expose you, because everyone wants to be the smartest and most perceptive. And know that most spectators are not ready to perceive magic tricks as a miracle; they think that they are being deceived. Unfortunately, this is true.

3. You cannot learn to perform spectacular tricks without first rehearsing them. Learn patience, and do not try to quickly surprise your friends, because instead of surprise, your trick will easily turn into a blunder, which, like a label, can stick to you for a long time. Therefore, only the most persistent and patient students can become real magicians.

Well, now that we have talked about the three turtles on which the illusion genre stands, I will give you tips that will help improve your performance and help you establish contact with the audience:

- Don’t be silent while performing tricks. When you speak, the viewer is distracted by the manipulation of your hands. If the magician is silent, then the viewer is forced to look carefully at your hands and not be distracted.

But you shouldn’t comment on all your actions, the viewer already sees everything, your conversations will again lead to complete concentration of attention on your manipulations. It's better to just joke about what's happening or ask some questions. A thinking person is distracted from what is happening.

— The rules of a magician require exceptional cleanliness and well-groomedness of your hands, because they are your main tool, which is always at hand. The viewer constantly sees your hands, and if they do not have an aesthetic appearance, then the opinion about you will be formed, not in better side. The magician's kit should first of all include talcum powder for sweaty hands and moisturizer for too dry hands. Many people wonder how to learn to perform tricks if everything falls out of your hands? No way. You just need regular training on elasticity, stretching, strength of the hand and fingers, stretching them every day. Follow special exercise for example, crush a rubber ball with your free hand while watching your favorite movie, etc.

— Speaking of cards, to perform tricks they should be poker-sized, they are better visible from afar, not to mention the fact that they will perfectly train your fingers. Buy branded cards right away. The most popular cards in the world of magic tricks are Bicycle. Buy several decks of the same color at once, they will definitely come in handy when performing tricks.

— If the program of your performance consists of several tricks, then you need to plan the order of showing the tricks in such a way that the most spectacular ones are at the end of the program, and the time to prepare for the next trick is minimal. Don't hesitate during your speech.

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If you need to shift something unnoticed, then the best thing to do is move to the other end of the hall or stage, covering the shifting itself with your body, and it should look natural, as if you wanted to take something there, but then changed your mind. Most magicians use a magic wand for this; it was invented for this purpose, so that under the action of shifting, or taking the magic wand, you could take or shift the prepared object. Try to turn your back to the viewer less, and ideally don’t turn at all, firstly it’s uncivilized, and secondly the viewer understands that at this moment you are hiding or preparing something. Naturally, the viewer will no longer be very surprised by your trick. Another tip for moving and hiding magic tricks in your pocket. Try not to let your hand go into your pocket, but rather the pocket to go into your hand, then the viewer won’t even notice that you put something in your pocket. To do this, simply pointing your hand to the side, take a step with a turn so that your hand remains in place and your jacket pocket covers your hand. Of course he wrote it in a tricky way, but as best he could).
Each manipulation and palming should be accompanied by a distracting maneuver, be it a movement with a free hand or an appropriate joke. Always feel your angle relative to the viewer and under no circumstances look at your hands while performing a trick. Remember that if you look at the pocket, the viewer will also look at the pocket.

— During your speech, there will always be a skeptic who does not believe in miracles and will constantly disturb you, shouting out various assumptions and guesses, and often ask you to show your second hand, raise your third leg, etc. There is no need to be afraid of such people. We just need to turn all our attention to them, explaining that we have a novice wizard and he is ready to help us. Bring the skeptic into the spotlight and show him personally a trick that he won’t figure out, or ask him to help you hold any object, preferably with his eyes closed, and then just forget about your annoying assistant)).

— For clothing, a classic formal suit or vest is best. Although trends modern fashion tried to reflect on appearance Magicians, showing us extravagant and sometimes garish costumes. I would like to note that the latter sometimes help the magician, distracting the viewer’s attention. If you are wearing boots or shoes, they should shine and sparkle like stars in a cloudless sky.

- If you are offered to take money during or after a performance, then it is better to take it along with a spectacular trick, for example a trick with changing a banknote, or the disappearance of a bill.

— To become a real magician, you need to take a mandatory course in Street Magic, in other words, walk around busy places in search of spectators and with the standard phrase “Do you like magic tricks?” or “Can I surprise you?” start to surprise. Such performances in front of an unfamiliar audience will give you invaluable experience, will give you confidence and, of course, will reveal all the mistakes, after correcting which you can safely go pro.

— Only a dead artist doesn’t worry before performances. Some people cope with anxiety by self-tuning, some with the help of drops of valerian, some drink strong drinks, although it is forbidden for a magician to drink, because not only you, but also your assistant or spectator can suffer. I am personally against any doping, because it is pure adrenaline and the unadulterated joy of successfully performing a trick. This is exactly why you perform tricks. If you drink before every performance, then at some point you will definitely find yourself unable to do anything without drinking. Alcohol is an addiction! It’s better to follow the path of self-hypnosis, imagine yourself as Copperfield, Napoleon, or anyone else, the main thing is that it helps you cope with fear and communicate with the public from the position of a winner. Convince yourself that you are a star, and work on the drive of your emotions, rejoice and be surprised along with your viewer. And even if something went wrong during a trick, or a treasured prop fell out, then don’t pretend that it’s a failure, learn to overcome defeats, and then they will turn into victories! And the last piece of advice: come up with your own catchphrase with which you will start communicating with the audience. Select an interested viewer from the crowd and start showing him the first trick.

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Simple and interesting magic tricks for children at home

Simple tricks for children at home

Perhaps one of the best ways to entertain a sad child is to show him a funny trick. Watching miraculous transformations or the disappearance of objects, any child will want to be in the place of the magician and repeat everything that the magician does. However, some tricks require special training and may simply be beyond the reach of a young wizard.

In this article we will tell you how to do magic tricks for children at home and give examples of the simplest magic tricks that can be performed at home without using special equipment.

Simple magic tricks for beginners at home

In order to perform the simplest magic tricks at home, you usually only need sleight of hand and a couple of ordinary household items. In addition, the magician must know a certain little trick that the audience is not even aware of in order for the magic to be truly interesting.

Try performing the following tricks in the company of your child’s friends, and you will be guaranteed cheerful laughter and cheerful smiles:

New Year's tricks for children

Do you want to surprise your children? new year party or a matinee? Then our New Year's tricks will fit perfectly. These simple tricks for children can be shown under New Year. Try including them in your entertainment program. These simple tricks Father Frost, Snow Maiden or even the children themselves can show it.

New Year's trick - colored water

This trick is good for Santa Claus. He tells the guys that he is not just Frost, but also a wizard. And he shows tricks in which clear water turns different colors.

For the focus you will need:

• 3 bottles (beautiful jars) with lids),
• 3 gouache colors: blue, red, green,
• 3 small pieces of sponge.

Preparing for Focus

We pour regular water into 3 identical bottles, but not to the very top!

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Glue 3 small pieces of sponge to the bottle caps. Apply a few drops of gouache to each sponge and carefully screw the cap onto the bottle. The sponge should not be visible from under the lid and should not touch the water!

Show focus

Santa Claus takes the bottle and says:

You are water, water as clear as frost,
Become opaque, make the water blue!

shakes a bottle with a sponge on which blue paint was previously dripped. As you guessed, shaking the water washes the paint off the sponge and turns it blue.

Santa Claus takes out the second bottle and says:

You are water, water, my beautiful friend,
If you don't become transparent, the water will become red!

shakes the bottle again (the one with red paint on the sponge).

And last, our wizard takes out the third bottle and says:

You are water, water, my friend, you are my cold one,
Become not transparent, become green water!

repeats the trick with water.

Children really like these tricks. This is not just a spectacular trick, but also a little magical, because it is performed by Santa Claus himself.

New Year's trick with freezing water

It is better to practice this trick well before showing it to the audience. But I think it will also be good for New Year's celebrations. General delight, great faith in magic and fairy tales is produced by this trick if Santa Claus himself shows it. By the way, not all adults know this trick, so it usually makes a great impression.

What you need for focus:

• freezer with an adjustable temperature of -18 degrees,
• a bottle of Coca-Cola or Sprite,
• plain water.

Preparing for Focus

The most important thing is careful preparation for the focus and several successful experiments. You need to set the freezer temperature to minus 18 degrees. Fill the bottle with water and put it in the freezer. Let's mark the time! Next, you need to monitor the cooling process of the water in the bottle. As soon as ice crystals begin to form on the surface of the water, you need to calculate how long the process lasted and subtract 10 minutes. Take out the bottle, open the cap and show the trick.

So, if the water starts to freeze after 30 minutes, then you need to remove the bottle after 20 minutes.

How to hit a bottle to make water freeze?
You need to either forcefully place the bottle on the table, and then the water will begin to freeze from the bottom. Or hit sharply and quite hard (but not so hard that the glass cracks!) on the bottle with a magic metal wand or knife.

Before performing a trick, you need to practice several times. It is better to carry out the trick in your apartment (or with a tested refrigerator), because the freezing time in different freezers can vary significantly.

Show focus

Santa Claus says that he is a real Frost, and can freeze the guys, and if they don’t believe him, he will show it on the water (grandfather is given a bottle prepared in advance). You can pour a little water into the glass - showing the audience that the water in the bottle is liquid.
Then place the bottle on the table with a knock and the water begins to quickly turn into ice.

Coin guessing trick

This trick is also good for New Year's party. For example, Santa Claus says that he is not just an old man, but a wizard and can even see through opaque objects. He says that he can guess which coin you will hide under the cup.

What you need for focus:

• coins of different denominations,
• tea cup with handle.

Preparing for Focus

You need an assistant for this trick. In kindergarten, this could be a teacher or a teacher at school. The magician needs to agree in advance with the assistant on exactly how he will place the cup.

The trick is that the assistant places the cup with the handle in a certain direction. For example, if the handle of a cup is at 12 o'clock, then there is 1 ruble, if at 3 o'clock - 5 rubles, at 6 o'clock - 50 kopecks, at 9 o'clock - you can put not a coin but a paper bill.

Show focus

Santa Claus tells the children that he will guess which coin they will hide under the cup. You can not just turn away, but even leave the room. The assistant puts a coin under the cup and grandfather easily guesses.

I hope these New Year's tricks will make your holiday brighter and more interesting.

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N Unusual things often happen literally before our eyes - and at the same time the magician does not have to demonstrate any special sleight of hand or use any cunning devices. Stories about how to perform magic tricks can be photocopied and given to your students as instructions. Or even the whole class should somehow unusually and funny design a textbook for the School of Young Magicians, collecting all the recipes for magic tricks there (and continuing to add to it).

The balls change places

First, let's imagine what this trick looks like from the outside. The magician gives the audience the opportunity to see and hold two small balls in their hands: one of them, say, blue, the other red. Then he takes a red handkerchief and, wrapping a red ball in it, gives this handkerchief to the audience. The magician with a blue scarf and a blue ball does exactly the same thing.
A magic wand is taken from the table. Several movements with it (“passes”), several vague spells. Spectators are asked to unwrap their scarves. And - lo and behold! – there was a red ball in the blue scarf, and a blue ball in the red one. But the magician never touched the scarves or the balls. Well, did the balls themselves change places? Of course not.
The secret of the trick is not that difficult, although it will take some time to learn how to perform it cleanly. The magician, of course, changed the balls. How it's done? You need to have not two, but three balls (another one, say, blue).
Before you start performing the trick, pinch this third ball discreetly under the little finger of your right hand. For better disguise, take your magic wand in the same hand. (Just a pencil? No, it’s better to make yourself a special bright stick.)
Place scarves on the table, and on them - a ball that the audience examined. To free your hand, place the stick under your armpit (left arm). Then, with your left hand, take the red ball and place it in your right hand so that the ball is held with your thumb and forefinger, and the rest are bent (the blue ball is hidden under the little finger).
Decisive moment! Again, take a red scarf with your left hand and cover your right hand with the balls with it. Then you take the scarf along with the ball and give it to the audience. But together with which ball?

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Of course, you pretend to take the red ball from your fingertips, but in reality you take the blue ball from under your little finger. In its place, you quietly send a red ball - the one that the audience saw. Now all that remains is to do the same with the blue scarf. You will wrap the red ball in it, which is under your little finger, and you will hide the blue ball, which the audience just saw on your fingertips, under your little finger, trying to get rid of it (put it in your pocket) as soon as the attention of the audience is diverted by the miracle that has occurred .

Let the match be broken

First, about what the trick looks like to the uninitiated. You take a handkerchief (clean, of course) from your pocket and place it on the table. Ask one of the spectators to take a match from the matchbox and mark it “so that it cannot be replaced.” Wrap this match in a scarf. You address the audience with the words: “Please break this match.” The request is willingly fulfilled. You put a handkerchief with a broken match on the table, unwrap it - the match turns out to be intact! Is this the match? There’s no doubt about it – it’s the same one, that’s the mark.
Secret. The trick is very simple. This is what amazes the audience. The secret is just as simple. Of course, you made the viewer break some other match. How it's done? You place a match in the border of the scarf in advance. When you place the scarf on the table, do it so that the border is facing you. You place the match that the audience marked in the middle of the scarf.
You need to wrap it in a scarf in a clever way. First, cover the lying match with the side of the scarf that is closer to you (here the second match is hidden in the border), then with the opposite side of the scarf, then with the right and finally with the left side of the scarf. The marked match is behind one layer of the scarf. You clamp it with your hand, and let the audience break the second, previously hidden match. They naturally cannot feel that they are breaking the wrong match.
All that remains is to put the scarf on the table and unfold it, making a few “magic movements” and saying a few “magic words”. Of course, you can show the audience that the scarf is empty. But don’t give it to them - and the secret of the trick will remain unsolved, which will preserve the opportunity for you to repeat it someday.

How to read letters without opening the envelopes

This, of course, is more of a joke than a real trick, especially since, as we will see, everything is based on simple cunning and collusion. But the action shown looks quite impressive and can amuse the audience a lot.
"The Magician" declares that he would like to finally discover the abilities he has hidden for so long: he can read minds. But since this is difficult to prove, he invites those present to write down their thoughts on pieces of paper, seal these sheets of paper in envelopes, and hand the envelopes to him. If there is any doubt as to whether such a question was asked accurately, the evidence will be there. In any case, even if they doubt that he read thoughts, let them admit that he can read letters without opening the envelopes - that’s also something.
An assistant is needed to perform this trick. The assistant distributes sheets of paper and envelopes to those who wish. The questions are written down, the sheets of paper are put into envelopes, and the envelopes are sealed. The assistant collects them on a tray and brings them to the “mind reader.”
For the uninitiated, what follows looks like this. The magician takes an envelope from the tray, puts it on a stand - everyone can see the envelope - and says: “So... They ask me what the weather will be like tomorrow morning. Well, I haven’t heard the weather report, but I think it will be clear and sunny, unless, of course, it rains... I’ll check if I’m wrong,” with these words he opens the envelope and reads: “What will the weather be like tomorrow morning? » The magician is satisfied: “Well, everything is correct. Was there such a question? - he addresses the audience. Someone’s voice is heard: “It was, it was. That's what I asked."
The guessing session continues. The magician takes envelope after envelope. The amazing thing is that he actually somehow knows what he is being asked about. Well, okay, let’s say he conspired with someone, but not with everyone! After all the envelopes are opened, the most careful check reveals nothing: indeed, the contents of all the envelopes are guessed correctly.
Secret. What is the trick? It is truly impossible to come to an agreement with everyone. But with one you can, and that’s enough. (In addition, of course, the assistant is also privy to the secret.) The point is that one issue is discussed in advance. The envelope with this question should go on the tray first, and the envelopes with the real questions will fall on it.
When the envelopes reach our magician, he announces the contents not of the one he took from above and opened, but of the envelope lying below with the agreed question (then receiving confirmation from the one with whom he conspired). And when he opens “to check” the envelope lying on top and now standing on the stand in front of everyone, he insidiously recognizes the question that he is actually being asked. And so - envelope after envelope.
There is no point in delaying the demonstration of this trick-joke. Even if you open only some of the envelopes (8-10 in total), it looks very convincing. Note that success will increase if the answers to questions are lively and witty. Resourcefulness is required here: there is very little time to think. So, although the trick is based on cunning, you still have to work and show your abilities.

How to take off a shirt without taking off your jacket

The performer invites one of the spectators and seats him on a chair. Smiling slyly, he approaches the messenger of the audience and looks at him carefully. Then he takes his hand and, pulling the sleeve of his jacket to his elbow, unbuttons the cuff buttons on his shirt. The performer does the same with the other sleeve of the shirt of the viewer who meekly obeys him. “So, the sleeves of the shirt are loose,” says the performer. “Now we will take off the tie and unbutton the top three buttons.”
Everyone is watching this strange procedure in bewilderment. And the magician, approaching the viewer from behind, takes hold of the collar of his shirt and begins to pull it out from under his jacket.

To the surprise of the audience, the shirt easily slides off its owner and ends up in the hands of the performer. Now the viewer was left in a jacket, but without a shirt.
The secret lies in the figurehead. The magician makes an agreement in advance with one of his comrades and prepares him for the performance. The role of the assistant in in this case not difficult. Before demonstrating a trick, you should not just put on a shirt. The assistant will only need to throw it on and fasten the top three buttons (for this number you will need a shirt that buttons all the way through).
The tie is put on and tied as expected. The arms are not inserted into the sleeves, but only a cuff is fastened around each arm. After this, a jacket is put on over the shirt. The “secret” assistant calmly waits when his help is needed.

Magic circle

Stock up on a piece of chalk. Announce that you need a volunteer to cast a spell on him using just a piece of chalk. A volunteer has been found. You invite him to stand in the middle of the room and say that you will now draw a circle around him from which he will not be able to get out - neither step over it nor jump over it, despite the fact that his legs will not be tied, but only his hands will be tied behind his back.
Most likely they won't believe you. But you lightly draw a circle with a piece of chalk - no, not on the floor, but on the jacket, or shirt, or jacket of the volunteer. Let him try to get out of this circle! You could take off your jacket, but your hands are tied...
What no one has seen

Address your friends with something like this: “Do you want to see something that none of you have ever seen before, something that I myself have never seen, and something that neither you nor I will ever see again?” Your friends will probably doubt your ability to show this.
Then you can calmly take the nut out of your pocket. Crack it, give everyone the opportunity to look at the kernel of the nut (no one has really ever seen this kernel!) and then just as calmly eat this kernel.

Thread and needle

Of course, threading a needle is not that difficult. But who will be able to do this without looking, holding their hands behind their back? Probably no one. But you can do this, which you will demonstrate to the audience: in one hand - a thread, in the other - a needle, hands behind your back, a little effort - and in front of everyone there is already a needle with a thread threaded into it.
The secret is simple: you prepared a needle with a thread threaded into it in advance and hid it by sticking it into the back of your jacket. Showing the trick, you simply pulled it out. All you have to do is hide the empty needle and get rid of the thread you were holding in your hand.

Where did the coin come from and where did it go?

This trick is good to show in small company. By the way, the tricks of magicians make a particularly strong impression when they happen right under our noses. Take two coins. Press them between your fingers. Now you begin to quickly rub the coins one against the other. But what is it? Where did the third coin come from?
Based on this visual illusion, you can come up with various comic scenes. For example, this one. You start by showing the audience: three coins moving between your fingers - in general, this does not surprise them (but we know that there are actually two of them). So give someone all these “three” coins, let him hold them tightly in his fist.
And then with a light magic touch you turn three coins into two. Where did the “third” coin go? You need to look in someone’s pocket, pretend that you have found it, but not show it separately (after all, it’s not there!), but set the coins in motion again... Here it is, here!

The appearance of a magic wand

A real magician, naturally, must have a magic wand. The easiest way to make it is from wood. The diameter of the stick should be 10–15 mm, and the length should be 20–30 cm. It should be covered with black glossy paper, and the ends at a distance of 5 cm with white paper.
Some tricks require a hollow wand. Using a round stick as a template, you can glue it out of drawing paper or thin cardboard a tight tube. Of course, it must be painted exactly like the first stick.
The performer greets the audience and says: “My main assistant is a magic wand, and it is always with me. But carrying it in my pocket is very cumbersome, so I hide it in a matchbox.” Next he shows an ordinary matchbox.
The audience laughs; no one can believe that a long magic wand can fit in a matchbox. The magician opens the box and takes out a long wooden stick.

Secret. Cut off one of the narrow walls of the matchbox box, slide the box into the case and hide the box in your pocket. Place the stick in the left sleeve of your jacket so that it rests on your forearm. Secure it with a rubber first aid ring around your wrist. During the demonstration, take out a matchbox and transfer it to your left hand. Spectators should not see that one of the walls is missing. Transferring the box to your left hand, you put it on the end of the stick. You open the box and take out a wand from it. The box closes and hides in your pocket.

The appearance of the scarf

The performer shows a sheet of cardboard, rolls it into a tube and looks through it at the audience. He passes a magic wand through the tube to once again show that there is nothing there. And he immediately pulls out a handkerchief from the tube.
Secret. This focus can be a natural continuation of the previous one. It uses the hollow magic wand described above and a hook bent from wire, which is sewn to one of the corners of the handkerchief. Before demonstrating the trick, push the scarf inside the magic wand with a pencil so that the hook sticks out. After you show both sides of the piece of cardboard to the audience, roll it into a tube with an internal diameter slightly larger than the diameter of the wand.
Look at the audience through the tube. Pass a magic wand through it. In this case, hook the hook onto the edge of the tube. And when you pull it out from the other side, the scarf will remain hanging inside the tube. Say the spell and pull the scarf out of the tube.

Phoenix match

The performer informs the audience that it costs him nothing to relight a match that has already burned once. Naturally, this statement will cause incredulous looks from those gathered at the table. Then the magician, in front of everyone, takes one of the matches from the ashtray, strikes it on the box - and it... lights up.
Secret. The match used in the trick must be prepared in advance. Use a sharp knife to grind off some of the wood near the head. Now paint the worn-off part with black ink or leather paint. This match will look burnt. All that remains is to throw it in the ashtray in advance, and the rest is up to your acting abilities.

I offer you some wonderful tricks that children will be delighted with.
You can show pre-school children yourself, but older children at their party can “reincarnate” (by putting on a robe and taking a magic wand) into a wizard or magician and surprise their guests!

Invisible ink
To conduct the experiment you will need: half a lemon, cotton wool, a match, a cup of water, a sheet of paper.
1. Squeeze the juice from the lemon into a cup and add the same amount of water.
2. Dip a match or a toothpick with cotton wool wrapped into the solution lemon juice and water and write something on paper with this match.
3. When the “ink” is dry, heat the paper over the turned on table lamp. Previously invisible words will appear on paper.

Lemon inflates a balloon
To conduct the experiment you will need: 1 tsp. baking soda, lemon juice, 3 tbsp. vinegar, balloon, electrical tape, glass and bottle, funnel.
1. Pour water into a bottle and dissolve a teaspoon of baking soda in it.

2. In a separate bowl, mix lemon juice and 3 tablespoons of vinegar and pour into a bottle through a funnel.
3. Quickly place the ball on the neck of the bottle and secure it tightly with electrical tape.
Look what's happening! Baking soda and lemon juice mixed with vinegar come into chemical reaction, release carbon dioxide and create pressure that inflates the balloon.

Lemon launches a rocket into space
To conduct the experiment you will need: a bottle (glass), a cork from wine bottle, colored paper, glue, 3 tbsp lemon juice, 1 tsp. baking soda, a piece toilet paper.

1. Cut it out of colored paper and glue it on both sides wine cork strips of paper to make a mock-up of a rocket. We try on the “rocket” on the bottle so that the cork fits into the neck of the bottle without effort.
2. Pour and mix water and lemon juice in a bottle.

3. Wrap it up baking soda into a piece of toilet paper so that you can insert it into the neck of the bottle and wrap it with thread.

4. Place the bag of soda into the bottle and plug it with a rocket stopper, but not too tightly.
5. Place the bottle on a plane and move away to a safe distance. Our rocket will fly up with a loud bang. Just don't put it under the chandelier!

Running toothpicks
To conduct the experiment you will need: a bowl of water, 8 wooden toothpicks, a pipette, a piece of refined sugar (not instant), dishwashing liquid.

1. Place toothpicks in rays in a bowl of water.
2. Carefully lower a piece of sugar into the center of the bowl; the toothpicks will begin to gather towards the center.
3. Remove the sugar with a teaspoon and drop a few drops of dishwashing liquid into the center of the bowl with a pipette - the toothpicks will “scatter”!
What's going on? The sugar absorbs the water, creating a movement that moves the toothpicks towards the center. The soap, spreading over the water, carries along the water particles, and they cause the toothpicks to scatter. Explain to the children that you showed them a magic trick, and all magic tricks are based on certain natural physical phenomena that they will study at school.

Mighty Shell
To conduct the experiment you will need: 4 halves eggshells, scissors, narrow adhesive tape, several full tin cans.
1. Wrap some tape around the middle of each eggshell half.

2. Using scissors, cut off the excess shell so that the edges are even.
3. Place the four halves of the shell with the dome up so that they form a square.
4. Carefully place a jar on top, then another and another... until the shell bursts.

How many jars could the fragile shells bear? Add up the weight indicated on the labels and find out how many cans you can put in to make the trick a success. The secret of strength is in the dome-shaped shape of the shell.

Teach an egg to swim
To conduct the experiment you will need: a raw egg, a glass of water, a few tablespoons of salt.
1. Place a raw egg in a glass of clean tap water - the egg will sink to the bottom of the glass.
2. Take the egg out of the glass and dissolve a few tablespoons of salt in the water.
3. Place the egg in a glass of salted water - the egg will remain floating on the surface of the water.

Salt increases the density of water. The more salt there is in the water, the more difficult it is to drown in it. In the famous Dead Sea, the water is so salty that a person can lie on its surface without any effort, without fear of drowning.

"Bait" for ice
To carry out the experiment you will need: thread, ice cube, glass of water, pinch of salt.

Bet a friend that you can use a thread to remove an ice cube from a glass of water without getting your hands wet.

1. Place the ice in the water.

2. Place the thread on the edge of the glass so that one end of it lies on an ice cube floating on the surface of the water.
3. Sprinkle some salt on the ice and wait 5-10 minutes.
4. Take the free end of the thread and pull out the ice cube from the glass.

Salt, once on the ice, slightly melts a small area of ​​it. Within 5-10 minutes, the salt dissolves in water, and clean water on the surface of the ice freezes along with the thread.

Record weight
To conduct the experiment you will need: 2 cans from coffee or canned food, a sheet of paper, an empty glass jar.

1. Place two tin cans at a distance of 30 cm from each other.
2. Place a sheet of paper on top to create a “bridge.”
3. Place an empty glass jar on the sheet. The paper will not support the weight of the can and will bend down.
4. Now fold the sheet of paper like an accordion.
5. Let's put this "accordion" on two tin cans and put a glass jar on it. The accordion does not bend!

Magic rope

The magician takes a thin rope approximately 50 cm long. He cuts a 10 cm long piece from it and, folding it in half, hides it in the fist of his left hand. After which it’s time to go out in public.
When going out into public view, you must hold a long rope right hand from the middle so that its ends hang down. A long rope is placed in the left hand and pressed thumb. At the same time, the audience must be in the dark about the fact that there is a piece of rope in the magician’s fist. Therefore, they should only see the outer side of the performer's left hand. By the way, the short piece of rope needs to be held with the thumb of your left hand.
Now a loop is pulled out from the hidden piece of rope with your right hand. Naive viewers will think that this is the same long rope. The loop is cut with scissors and its cut ends are shown to the audience. Then, with the index finger of the right hand, these scraps are pushed into the left fist. A magic spell is pronounced, something like “Abra-mop-kadabra”, and then, holding the rope with both hands, the magician spreads them as wide as possible - as far as the length of his arms and the length of the rope will allow. In general, it will seem to the audience that the rope is intact.

Telepathy

To convince gullible guests of your telepathic abilities, you need to start guessing their thoughts.
One of the most simple ways consists of placing twelve matches in a row on the table. The first nine need to be numbered by writing numbers on them, or simply put a piece of paper with a number next to each match.
After this, the audience is invited to make one of the posted matches, and the presenter chooses any number, for example seventeen.
And while the audience is thinking, he must calculate which match accounts for this number. That is, continue counting after the ninth match, and when the matches end, start from the first. Thus, the number seventeen will fall on the fifth match.
Now the presenter can ask the audience to count the matches in the same way, starting from the one that corresponds to the number they have in mind up to seventeen, and at the same time he can turn away. Then the presenter loudly declares that the number seventeen falls on the fifth match.

Magic balls

This trick is not difficult, but it requires rehearsal, just like all the others. In order to demonstrate this miracle to amazed spectators, you will need an assistant. And besides that, there are not too big balls.
The assistant faces the audience, holding a plate of balls in his hands. The magician stands next to him and strokes his head.
At this time, a ball appears from the assistant’s mouth. The magician takes this ball and places it on a plate. Then he stands on the other side of his assistant and strokes his head again. Another ball appears...
This is repeated until a certain number of balls appear. At the same time, the assistant must diligently pretend that each appearance of the ball is given to him with great difficulty.
Well, the secret of this trick is as follows. The assistant puts one ball in his mouth, and the magician hides the rest of the balls in his pockets. When they appear before the audience, the assistant already has a ball in his mouth, and the magician quietly pulls out another one from his pocket and holds it in his right hand. Then he strokes the assistant’s head with his left hand, and when a ball appears from his mouth, he immediately raises his right hand, as if to take it. The ball that appeared from the assistant's mouth is pushed back by the magician's hand, and the audience is shown the ball that was held in the hand. Then it is placed on the plate, and the magician, standing on the other side, holds the second ball in his left hand. In this case, he will stroke the assistant’s head with his right hand, and raise his left hand to his mouth to accept the ball. According to this principle, all other balls appear.

Magic ring

To reproduce this trick, you will need a very ordinary glass goblet and a handkerchief. In addition, you will need two identical rings. Moreover, the viewer should have one ring, and the magician should have the other. Best to use wedding rings, since then the audience will not guess about the substitution. And the substitution consists in replacing the spectator's ring with the magician's ring. But first things first.
A magician's ring is tied to the middle of the scarf on a silk thread approximately 10 cm long. Then they take his ring from the viewer.
Holding the handkerchief by the corners, the magician carefully shakes it, while turning towards himself the side of the handkerchief in which the attached ring is located. Then he wraps the occupied ring (actually the one that is suspended on a rope) in a scarf and invites one of the spectators to take the ring through the scarf, while holding it as tightly as possible. The place where the focus is performed should be slightly darkened.
The owner of the ring holds it tightly and at the same time is in full confidence that this is his thing. The folds of the scarf hang down. The magician places the glass on the table and asks the owner of the ring to hold his hand over the glass, around which he places the folds of the scarf. Then the magician releases the ring, and it falls into the glass, clinking picturesquely.
The magician takes the hat in the same hand that holds the real ring. The tips of his fingers are inside the hat, and the ring is clamped between them. This way he can safely show that the hat is empty. After that, he puts the hat under the table, and the released ring ends up in it. Now everything is quite simple. The magician takes the extreme corner of the scarf, says: “Krible-krable-booms”, throws away the scarf and takes out a hat with a ring, which is safely returned to the owner.

The smell of a coin

You need to identify the coin that you held in your hands for a few seconds before.
For this trick, one of the spectators is selected as an assistant. You will need several metal coins of any denomination and a saucer. The magician invites his assistant to choose one of the coins and explains to him that after he himself goes into the next room, he must take this coin and rub it in his palms for 30 seconds to “awaken” the smell.
After this coin, along with the others, has been placed back on the saucer, the magician quickly enters the room. Taking the saucer in his hands, he carefully sniffs all the coins and, of course, finds the right one.
The secret of this trick is very simple. While the coin is rubbed in your palms, it heats up. So there are cold coins and one warm coin in the saucer. When the magician sniffs the coins, he quietly touches them with the tip of his nose and finds it.
To repeat the trick, you will have to wait for the coin to cool down again. And it’s better not to perform this trick in very hot weather - you could make a mistake.

Card miracle

Any card is taken and placed on top of the deck. Then the deck is turned over in your hands with the picture facing up. The selected card will be at the bottom of the deck. You need to hold the cards so that thumb was above the deck, and the remaining fingers were below. Under the deck, your fingers should protrude about 3 cm, and your thumb should hold the cards at a distance of 1.5 cm from their edge.
Now the presenter asks one of the spectators to click the cards with their index finger downward, which will cause all the cards to fly out of the hand, except for the bottom one, which the presenter will hold with his finger. You can even wet your bottom fingers to help the card stick to them better. In general, it will remain and face down. Then, with a significant look, he will be able to name her.

Great mathematician

Numbers from 1 to 9 are written on a piece of paper. Then one of the guests is invited to guess three numbers, but so that they come in order. After he does this, let him add them up and name the resulting amount. For example, if he chose 4, 5, 6, then the sum in this case will be equal to 15. When the sum is named, the presenter will immediately name the intended numbers.
To do this trick, you need some math skills. Of course, you won’t have to calculate sines and cosines in your head, but mental calculation skills will come in handy. When the amount is named, you need to quickly divide it by 3 (that is, by the number of hidden numbers). In this case it will be five.
Now you should name, in addition to the resulting number, two more standing before and after it. That is, 4 and 6. The whole effect of this trick is in the speed with which the answer is given.

Magic handkerchief

To perform this trick, you will need a thin gauze scarf. Once the main props have been found, you can begin the trick itself. The candle is covered with a handkerchief and a burning match is placed on top. When the candle lights up, the leader moves the handkerchief to different sides. The candle continues to burn, but the handkerchief does not light up. The host puts out the candle and shows the astonished guests a completely intact scarf.
The whole secret of this trick lies in the special design of the candle. An ordinary round gas lighter is inserted into a tube made of thick white paper. When the lighter is turned on, the gas passes freely through the thin scarf. In order to prevent the scarf itself from catching fire, it is enough to constantly move it in one direction or the other.