Category: For Kids

Pick 2, Eliminate 1

This trick, just in time for Halloween, will leave audiences as if they just saw a ghost in amazement!

Check out Pick 2, Eliminate 1 to see this treat of a trick in action.

Want to learn the secret behind the trick? Find out how it’s done!

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A Ghoul-ishly Great Gag Trick!

This Halloween themed trick will leave your audiences howling!  Challenge:  Can you place 5 ghosts on top of 2 books so that each book has an odd number of ghosts on it?

For this gag trick, you will need two books and five ghost images. Feel free to use the attached PDF of ghost images to print and cut out for the trick.

Can you figure it out?  Click below to see how it’s done!

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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 »

A Drinking Water Betcha

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 »

The Number Soothsayer

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 »

Can You Balance a Coin on the Edge of a Dollar Bill?

Sounds impossible?  Not for you!  This one will take a little practice.  Here is how:

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Whisking a Paper out from under a Stack of Quarters!

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?

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The Haunted Mansion

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A murder was committed in the haunted mansion.  The specator’s job is to determine which of the 12 rooms it happened in.  “I understand”, you explain to the spectator, “that you are an excellent detective.  Is that true?”   The spectator makes a series of random moves on the above board, and winds up in one final room.  It proves to be the room the murder was committed in, matching your prediction!  Would you like to present this trick? Read more »

Floating a Silver Ball!

Make a silver ball float!

Between the Hands

Beneath one Hand

Beneath one Hand

Between the Palms

Between the Palms

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Half of 8 is…3?

Half of 8 is 3, you claim.  And you can prove it!  Do you know how? Read more »

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