Tricks for children for children's birthday. Easy tricks for kids

Thread on a jacket

You notice a white thread on your jacket and try to brush it off, but the thread remains on your jacket. Then you take it by the tip and pull. To your surprise (and the surprise of other people), it continues on. You pull further and further until a few meters of thread ends.

The secret of the trick: Before showing the trick, you put a small pencil in the inside pocket of your jacket, on which several meters of thread are wound from the spool. Using a needle, thread the tip of the thread through the fabric of the jacket to the outside. The main thing is that after demonstrating the trick, there are no traces left in your pocket if especially vigilant spectators decide to inspect your pockets. Therefore, the thread is wound on a pencil.

Three glasses and paper

Place two glass glasses on the table at some distance from each other. Place a piece of paper on top.
Pick up the third glass and invite the audience to place it between two glasses on a sheet of paper so that the paper does not bend. Nobody succeeds, of course. Then you demonstrate your "magical" abilities.

The secret of the trick: Fold a sheet of paper like an accordion along the long side, then it can easily support the weight of even a glass cup.

Magic rope

You sit down in front of the audience at the table, show them the rope, put it on the table and say: "I will tie a knot on this rope without the help of hands."
After this, cross your arms over your chest. Taking one end of the rope with your left hand and the other with your right, you spread your arms to the sides. There really was a knot in the rope!

The secret of the trick: There is no special secret here. You just need to take a rope at least 1 meter long. And, of course, carefully rehearse the act in order to be able to grab both ends of the rope from the table.

Magic "patch"

You ask the audience for two coins in denominations of 1 and 5 rubles. Place a 1 ruble coin on a small piece of paper, draw a mark around it with a pencil and then carefully cut out a hole with a diameter equal to this 1 ruble coin. After this, invite the audience to insert a 5-ruble coin into this hole. Nobody has any idea how to do this. Then you can easily solve the proposed problem.

The secret of the trick: Of course, a 5-ruble coin will not fit into such a small hole. But if you bend a piece of paper in half so that the fold line runs through the center of the hole, the hole will turn into a gap. Stretch the paper a little - the diameter of the hole is enough for a coin to slip through it with ease.

Without getting your hands wet

Take a large flat plate, place a coin on it and pour in a small amount of water until it covers the coin. Then ask the audience to take the coin without getting their hands wet.

The secret of the trick: You light a piece of paper and put it in a glass. Then quickly turn the glass over and place it on a plate near the coin. When the paper in the glass burns and goes out, the water from the plate will collect under it, and the coin will end up in a dry place.

Three layouts

Take any 21 cards and arrange them face up into three cards in seven rows. You should end up with three vertical columns of seven cards each. Invite one of the spectators to remember one card and say which column it is in. Carefully, one by one, place the cards in each column into piles, and then all the piles into one pile. In this case, a stack of cards from the column with the selected card must be placed in the middle between the other two. Then turn the stack face down, again arrange the cards in three columns of seven cards each, and again ask the spectator to indicate which column contains the selected card. Fold the cards into columns and place the indicated column of cards in the middle again. And finally, lay out the cards for the third time and again place the column with the selected card between the other two. Count out ten cards. The eleventh card comes out.

The Secret of Focus: the main thing is to always place the column with the hidden card between the other two.

Tricky trick

Take a deck of cards. Invite one of the spectators to choose and remember a card and put it on top of the deck without showing it to you. Then remove the deck and place its lower part on top. Lay out the cards face up and accurately indicate the hidden card.

The secret of the trick: To find the hidden card, we’ll use a little trick. Before demonstrating the trick, we remember the lowest card of the deck. Now, when laying out the deck, the hidden card will lie in front of the card that we spied.

Guessed card

You invite four spectators to sit at the table with you. You deal five cards to everyone. After this, the spectators must remember one card each from those in their hands. You collect the cards and lay them out on the table in five piles. Spectators choose one of the piles. You take the cards and fan them out to the audience. Then you ask which of them sees their card. Having received the answer, you accurately indicate the card that they remember.

The secret of the trick: You start collecting cards from the spectator who sits to your left and then go clockwise. Moreover, you collect all five cards at once, and not one at a time. Your cards will be the last to be collected, and they will be at the top of the deck. When you then arrange the cards into five piles, any one of them contains the cards in the order in which the spectators sit at the table. If, for example, a third spectator identifies “his” card, it will be third, counting from the top of the pile, etc.

Kings and ladies

Kings and queens are selected from the deck. You place them in front of the audience in two rows - separately for kings and separately for queens. You stack the cards, placing a stack of kings on top of a stack of queens. The resulting deck of eight cards can be removed by spectators any number of times. Then you hide the cards behind your back, take out two cards and show them to the audience. They see that it is the king and queen of the same suit.

The secret of the trick: Initially, you stack the cards so that the sequence of suits in both decks is the same. Behind your back, you divide the deck into two four-card decks and take the top card from each mini-deck. It will always be the king and queen of the same suit.

Intended number

Invite one of the spectators to think of a number. After this, the spectator must multiply it by 2, then add 8, divide by 2 and subtract the number he has in mind. After a significant pause, you announce that the resulting number is 4.

The secret of the trick: There is no secret, pure mathematics!

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 there will be thunderous applause and surprise from friends the best medicine 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 you stir it. Even with little acting ability, a few seconds are enough to convince the audience of this trick of the extraordinary properties of 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 put a lead circle equal in diameter to the lid under the seal in advance. Give the caps to the audience one at a time so they don't have a chance to compare them. When you get the box in your hand, discreetly take it with your fingertips by the middle. 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 any page number. Then he leaves the room, and the assistant, for example, mother, at this time reads aloud the top line on the selected page.

The kid returns to the room and asks the audience to think about the line they 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 memorizes the top line on the correct page.

Balloon and knitting needle

The young magician holds in his hands an inflated balloon. Then he takes long knitting needle, pierces the ball right through, but magic ball remains intact. To demonstrate to the audience that the ball is the most ordinary, the child gently 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 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 the child’s hand can easily fit, and 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 a sleeve of a worn shirt or sweater. In the meantime, the assistants hold the handkerchief, imperceptibly hides the bracelet in his pocket, and shifts it 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 cut 4 cm long in the middle part of the pencil. Showing the trick, move the pencil from the side of the bill opposite from the audience so that the half of the bill enters 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, says magic spells, 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 is 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 in a candy 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" cup rises above the bowl and is shown to the audience, the remnants of confetti pour 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 gropes for a prepared loop of fishing line through the handkerchief and pulls the handkerchief from the glass 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 under it is not noticeable. After that, the young magician puts the handkerchief aside, and shows a glass full of sweets to the surprised spectators. 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 keep your hand close to the coin and blow hard on it from a distance of 5 centimeters. The air compressed by your breath will lift the coin and throw it into your hand. It doesn’t work right away, but after a few exercises, you can deftly do this trick: you blew and here 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 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 has appeared in the glass!

Obedient button

Pour soda into a glass. Young magician takes a small button and puts it in the glass. The button will be at the bottom. Immediately or a little later, he moves his hand over the glass and says: “Button, 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 gather 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 pre-practice, 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

Blowing out a candle is nothing easier, but try blowing it out through a wide funnel, blowing into it through the narrow end, or through a paper tube folded into a pound. If you have a candle right in front of the middle of the tube, it will be completely impossible to blow out the candle. The flame, despite all the efforts, still stands and does not even waver. Try to place the funnel so that it is at the edge of it, and the flame will immediately go out. This happens because the streams of air coming out of the mouth pass through the narrow part of the funnel and disperse in its wide part, then they go along the walls of the funnel and bypass the candle flame. If the flame is level with the edge of the funnel, then the same stream of air blows it out. This trick will seem interesting and strange to the audience.

Glass on paper

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” (shaken in water potato starch). 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 test their drawing skills by taking a brush and drawing something on the clean slate Whatman paper or cardboard.

Living water

A child draws on a blank piece of paper with a simple pencil outline of the flower, 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 the powder was, the smallest particles of paint will remain invisible. WITH reverse side sheet of paper where the child will later draw a flower, mark the outline with barely noticeable dots. When showing, water should be poured slowly, from the side of the stem. The paper will get wet from the water, and the paint will gradually color the flower through it!

magic vase

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. glass bottle make it 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 sizes ball so that the focus is perfect.

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.

Akhalai mahalai! The rope does not 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 " magical power", just 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, musical arrangement. The costume will depend on the role the child chooses. If he wants to be a wizard, then he a long one will do wide robe embroidered with stars. Or maybe he will represent a gnome or another 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.

Between the table and the house we will temporarily place a roof from 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. 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 will 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-raba! Incredible magical performance begins!

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Do you want to surprise your children, cause them surprise, joyful smiles and real delight?

Give them real magic that can be easily done at home without special skills and with a little preparation.

Magic water

A magician draws a flower on a blank sheet of paper. He pours water on the flower, and it becomes colorful before our eyes.

The secret of the trick: for the trick to be successful, you need to prepare a stencil of the flower (you only need the outline of the flower so that the inside of the flower is simply not there). Then the outline of the flower should be placed on a piece of paper and covered with aniline powder. Choose the color yourself. You can also make several flowers of different colors.

Leaving the outline of the flower, blow off the aniline powder. Where there was powder, the smallest particles will still remain. Holding the outline of the flower, carefully turn the leaf over and mark the outline of the flower on the other side of the leaf with barely visible dots.

Accordingly, during the trick, the magician will circle the flower point by point, and then slowly pour water onto the flower (preferably from the stem side). Thus, the dye from the aniline powder will gradually appear and the flower will become colorful.

Velcro spoon

Making it so that the spoon sticks to the body part is very easy! Dip the spoon into the sweet tea, remove it and press it to a convex part of the body, such as a finger, nose or chin. We wait until the tea dries a little, and “voila!” the spoon stuck.

The secret is that sweet tea will reliably stick the spoon to the selected part of the body.

Miracle Banana

Want to easily surprise your guests at the table? Show your guests a whole banana that is perfectly miraculously cut into pieces!

The secret of the trick: you need to pierce the banana in several places with a long needle. When piercing a banana in one place, you need to make several up and down movements, as if cutting the inside of the banana. And so that the places where we pierced the peel do not turn black, pour a little lemon juice. That's all! The miracle banana is ready.

Magic coloring of water

The magician takes turns taking several closed glass jars with plain water inside. He shakes each jar in turn and says magic words, and the water inside becomes colored: red, blue, green, etc.

The secret of the trick is very simple: Spread gouache of any color on the inside of the lid of the jar, pour water into the jar and screw on the lid. When we shake the water in the jar, it reaches the gouache and the water turns the color of the gouache. It's easy and simple, and the kids love it!

Ball magnet

The magician takes the balloon and sprinkles confetti on top. Confetti sticks to the balloon and the balloon becomes decorated colorful confetti. The secret of the trick: you need to inflate the ball and electrify it with fur or wool (rub it against the ball), after which the ball will begin to attract paper objects. The effect will be quite long.

Dancer coin

The magician places a coin on the neck of the bottle, and the coin begins to jump on the neck.

The secret of the trick: you need to prepare a coin that will completely cover the neck of the bottle, a bottle with a narrow neck and water. Then the opened bottle should be placed in the freezer for 60 minutes. We take out the bottle and put a coin moistened with water on the neck. And she starts jumping. This is explained by the fact that gases expand when heated.

Multicolored milk

The magician takes a bowl of milk and drips colorful dyes into it. Children watch as various multi-colored stains and patterns appear. Then the magician drops a drop into the milk liquid soap and this is where the real magic begins! The paint runs away from the drop as if by magic!

After that, children can add some dyes themselves, take leaves and print multi-colored beauty on pieces of paper.

Children's delight in magic tricks simply knows no bounds! And if you teach your child to do these magic tricks with their own hands, they will be able to amaze their friends with their magical abilities!

I wish you a great holiday,
Ekaterina Akhmetzyanova, author of the article.

Scenario for the holiday or ask any questions you can.

Who doesn't love magic tricks? Everyone loves 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 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 the magic spell: “hocus pocus alle op!” All! Now everything will definitely work!

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 from above 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 young magician's hands, 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 sufficiently 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 delicious sweets! 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 sessions. 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 the coin from a distance of about 5 cm - it will jump up, 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 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 accurately names the viewer's date of birth! 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 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. 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 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 one 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 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.

Video: tricks and their secrets

Simple trick with cards - video

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Children love to perform magic tricks and surprise us adults. This is not only interesting, but also useful, develops the child’s logic and thinking, develops dexterity, intelligence, memory, and ingenuity. And how children love applause! Here are how many interesting tricks were found - all of them are within the power of children:

1. Magic wand: glue a cylinder out of paper and decorate it as a magic wand. Fill one part inside with serpentine, the other with confetti, now the baby turns into a wizard. In front of everyone, he wraps the stick in newspaper and shakes it. Confetti sprinkles from the package, then he turns the newspaper over and takes out a streamer. After this, you need to crumple the newspaper together with the stick.

2. Match in balance: the child places an ordinary match on his index finger, holding it from above thumb. Removes thumb. The match remains in a vertical position.
SECRET: you need to wet your fingers a little, press the match harder with your thumb to your index finger. When the child carefully removes his thumb, the match, with its lower end stuck to index finger, will maintain balance for some time.

3. 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: take white paper and 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 the powder was, the smallest particles of paint will remain invisible. On the back side of the sheet, where the child will later draw a flower, mark the outline with barely noticeable dots. When showing, water should be poured slowly, from the side of the stem. The paper will get wet from the water, and the paint will gradually color the flower through it!

4. Water is a deceiver: if you place a transparent glass on a large copper coin, then 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!

5. Obedient newspaper: our young magician announces that he can make the newspaper stand upright.
SECRET: Unfold a whole newspaper and grab it by opposite corners - with one hand from above and the other from below. After this, stretch the newspaper so that a fold forms in the center.

6. 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, to me!” The button slowly rises up. He passes his hand over the glass again and says: “Button down!” She will obediently lower herself.
SECRET: 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 pre-practice, calculate the time before commanding the button "up" or "down".

7. Glowing ball: the young sorcerer shows a tennis ball, count to 3 and light appears inside the ball. The light is moving! Achieving this effect is very simple.
SECRET: there should be a light source three meters from the ball. And in the ball there is a round hole with a diameter of up to 1 cm. When showing the ball, spectators need to cover the hole with their finger. Counting to three, turn the hole towards the light bulb, and, removing your finger, open it. It seems that light appears in the ball. And for it to move, you need to move the ball up and down, left and right, without turning it.

8. Through the table: a child sits at a table covered with a tablecloth. The audience is on the other side of the table. There is a glass on the table. The kid covers it with a sheet of foil and presses it on all sides so that it turns out something like a case. Then he moves the case with the glass towards himself, showing the audience that there are no holes in the table, and returns it to its original place. After this, he hits the foil with his palm - the foil crumples, and from under the table comes the sound of a glass falling on the floor.
SECRET: after moving the case with the glass to the edge of the table, the child drops the glass onto his lap. Then he hits the empty foil with his palm and at the same time allows the glass to fall to the floor.

9. Paper will bear anything: the child puts two glasses on the table, puts a sheet of paper on them and asks: “If you put a third glass on top, will the sheet of paper withstand its weight?” Everyone will say no. Then you need to fold a sheet of paper like an accordion. Now you can safely place a glass on it.

10. “I knew that you would guess this number!”: the child suggests guessing a number from 1 to 5. He asks what number was guessed. The spectator admits that he wished for, for example, 3. The magician asks to go to the piano on which the card lies and turn it over (the number 3 is written on it). Next, the number of the next viewer is guessed, etc.
SECRET: you need to write cards with numbers in advance and hide them in different places. The most important thing is to remember where the card with which number is located.

11. What no one has seen: the child says to the audience, “Do you want to see something that none of you have ever seen before and that neither you nor I will ever see?” Then he calmly takes a nut out of his pocket, frees it from the shell (pre-cracked), gives everyone the opportunity to look at the kernel of the nut (no one has really ever seen this kernel) and then just as calmly eats this kernel (no one really will ever see it).

12. Independent box: having pulled the matchbox halfway out of the case, the child shows it to the audience. Turns the box with the hole facing down. Now the box appeared on the other side of the case, but again with the opening facing up. It's as if it hadn't been turned over! You can repeat it again - the effect is the same. SECRET: cut the boxes into 2 equal parts. Turn one of them upside down and the other upside down. In this position, glue both parts with a thin strip of paper (this will not be visible in the case).

13. Instant transformation of an orange into an apple: the young wizard shows everyone the orange, covers it with a bright scarf, casts magic spells, pulls off the scarf, and there is already an apple on his palm!
SECRET: Carefully remove the peel from the orange in advance. Then place an apple (it should be slightly smaller than an orange) into this peel. When showing, the child, tightly holding an apple in an orange peel, shows everyone what is in his hand. Then, with a deft movement, he removes the scarf from the apple along with the peel.

14. Paper and paper clip: the child shows the audience a piece of paper with a paper clip attached to it. Asks the audience to remove the paperclip without touching it. Nothing will work if there is no ingenuity. And it's easy to do. You need to fold the sheet in half in advance, and put a paper clip on the bend. If you then stretch the ends of the sheet to the sides, the paper itself will release the paper clip.

15. Trick with a mug and ice: the child pours some water into a mug. Then he says a few magic words and turns it over, only instead of water, a piece of ice will fall out of the mug.
SECRET: you will need a tall opaque glass, a dense sponge (sponge) and a piece of ice, a jug from where you need to pour water. Place the sponge in the mug beforehand, make sure it is secure and does not fall out. Place a piece of ice on top of the sponge and you can perform the trick. Pour some water into a mug. Of course, you should experiment in advance with the amount of water that the sponge can absorb - the more, the more effective the focus. Just not too much, otherwise a decent amount of “unfrozen” water will pour out along with the ice. after saying the magic word and turning the mug over, after a piece of ice falls out instead of water, you need to try to hide the mug with a sponge as soon as possible.

16. Rising Pencil: The magician places the pencil in the vase - and following the commands of the young magician, the pencil slowly rises and falls inside the vase.
SECRET: the pencil moves with the help of a thin, invisible thread. Prepare a very thin nylon thread and tie and glue to one end of the pencil. Tie the other end of the thread to a button on the magician's clothing. Place the end of the pencil with the tied thread into the vase. Moving away or approaching the vase, the magician pulls the thread, setting the pencil inside the vase in motion.