Magic tricks
Amaze and entertain your friends and family by performing…
Have you ever seen a magic trick performed in front of you? Maybe you’ve been amazed by a magician’s display on TV? Seeing magic being done is fun but performing it can be even more thrilling.
Magic creates an illusion. This means that people watching believe something happened when it didn’t really. For example, if a magician makes a coin disappear in their hand and then reappear from behind a person’s ear, that didn’t really happen; the magician’s quick hands, how they disguised the coin and distracted the person’s attention made the person think that’s what happened.
Close-up magic can involve a magician using objects such as cards, coins and pieces of paper. Often these will seem to disappear or suddenly display words or information on them. Other magic can be much grander, such as making people or big objects disappear.
Start with a simple trick that makes kes a torn tissue reappear in one piece. You need two small mall iden identical tissues (keep one hidden) and to be sitting at a table, with a pen to use as a magic wand on your lap. To start, without anyone seeing, squeeze one tissue into a small ball and hide it under two middle fingers in a loose fist. Now begin your trick by ripping the other tissue into pieces with both hands. Tuck the pieces into the bottom of the fist. As you do, push the complete tissue ball to the top of your fist so the audience can see it poking out.
Now take the tissue ball from the top of your fist and put it into your other hand, again making a fist but without unfolding the tissue. Put the first fist in your lap and drop the pieces as you pick up the wand, making sure nobody sees the torn pieces fall. With the wand, tap the tissue in your hand, then magically reveal the tissue as being back together.