Making a Flower out of a Napkin!
Summer is almost here, flowers are coming out. What a great time for you to create a flower out of a napkin! Learn this and you’ll be a big hit with mom, or the ladies in your life! Here’s how to do it: Read more »
Summer is almost here, flowers are coming out. What a great time for you to create a flower out of a napkin! Learn this and you’ll be a big hit with mom, or the ladies in your life! Here’s how to do it: Read more »
Are you up for a challenge? Get 6 straws. (Pencils that are all the same size, or toothpicks will also work.) Can you make 4 triangles–without bending or cutting any of the straws?
Got an idea? Check it with our answer. Read more »
I use this in my show as a comic interlude. It usually gets a good laugh! I hope you’ll have fun with it.
Effect: You “hypnotize” a spectator who sits in a chair holding a cup of water atop her head. When she looks in the cup, the water has disappeared, without her knowing where it went! The audience knows and thinks it’s funny! What do you do? Read more »
Set a cup of water on the table. Cover it with a sheet of newspaper. Claim that you can drink the water without touching the newspaper! Sounds impossible? Here’s how: Read more »
A glass of water is on the table. “I am going to go out of the room”, you explain, “and I’ll bet the water will be gone before I walk back in.” Would you take this bet? Read more »
This one is a favorite of mine. Two spectators each hold out any number of fingers on one of their hands. (E.g. one might put out 3 fingers and the other, 2.) A third spectator tells the magician, who is looking the other way, the total (in this example, 5). The magician immediately announces that spectator #1 is holding out 2 fingers, and #2 is holding out 3. Just lucky? No, because you play 2 more rounds and the magician is correct each time! How can she possibly know this? Read more »
It used to be that only Santa could do this. But now, so can you! Here’s how…
Santa needs your help! The 4 sides below–top, bottom, right, and left–each have 6 reindeer. Santa wants to move the 4 reindeer in the middle pen to the outer pens–and still have 6 reindeer on each side. Is this possible? Can you advise him how?
Sounds impossible? Not for you! This one will take a little practice. Here is how:
Do you know the stunt where you whisk the tablecloth out from under the dishes? This is its smaller cousin. Can you yank a sheet of paper out from under a stack of quarters, without disturbing the coins?