fF seas Show BACK-HLIP CARD eo Back-flip Card Seoysson ask them co show it 10 someone ee (awa yout). T iting which card they chose, When people know you do magic, they will ey spoil the wick, often ask to sce a card trick. The trouble is, many card tricks involve complicated, finger- twisting moves, But try this: if you can put a pack of cards behind your back, turn the whole pack over and then turn just the top card over, you can do this trick. Icis that easy. You have to have a reason for putting the cards behind your back, so explain that anyone can do a card trick when they can see the cards, buc it takes a rea/ magician to do it behind their back. Here, Michelle tries the trick out on Alexander. YOU WILL NEED THESE PROPS Pack of carels“a Stuuflle the cands, then hold thent king about doing tricks Hunn this card over and! pc it back like a fan, face down ins your hand tichinad gue Hearby peat the yoack on cop of the pack. Do this quire Ada friend co take a card ane hrebsind 3 and curn it quickly. Then bring che cuds 1 the remember it, but ano. t0 let you see it Piek of the sop card Free agai Hold the cards asa pack: All the 5 Pur the pack behine! your 6 turn over the rop carl and puc it again and pick off che top card. ack on the pack, Hus tun the pack over while you say you ate ards are fave up excep the top one, Ask your friend co slide his card into the packs keep the pack close eying to find your friend's cant Being He pack to the ont again and spread them out. Hocus pocas! One cant is face mp, an yes— it isthe very cate that was chosen! 2aA Migic Show COIN THROUGH HAND Coin Through Hand An impromptu trick is one that you can do anywhere with no preparation or “props”. All you need for this impromptu trick is your hands and a coin, which you can borrow, It is also very casy to do and is the first coin trick real magicians usually learn. You can really “act” this one. ‘The audience, at first, think they have caught you out, so they are even more surprised when the coin really does end up in your fist. Michael shows us how to do it. YOU WILL NEED THESE PROPS Coin Tip Use medium to kurge coin, if possible Sunall, light coins somvesions stick 10 your fingers and do not drop when you wane them 10. 22aA Magic Show COIN TUROUGTI LAND Hold the eoin above your lelt fis As you push the coin down. ie pen your fist and say “Whoops! 2 slides yp. ont of sight behind vone 3 Ie must have por stuele, halfway” mie hiough". you ‘The audience, though, chink they 1 asshown, and announce. ‘I'm going t0 push chis coin thromgh as Fingers. “Theres is ps Ihde of ny hal”, ean say lene wht ii “Cl ry again”. you say 2s you do Ir all happens so quickly she Now slowly urn your fst overand 4 ite sneaky bir. ‘The sneaky bie is 5 audience believe ic is sll hidden opet it up. “Ah, there itis!” ag, as you turn your left hand back ehind your agers. and you say, “Il over inzo a fist, your thumb almost ugive it a hareler push this brushes aggeinoe che tips of he Biagers Zz holding the coin, Just at this point you a ler the coin slip ou of your fingers and you catch it in your left hand, ‘which you make into a fist,Purple Hanky, ess, Tamdkerchiet, it is easier fis dl Red Hanky mata cie When you tear open the parcel atthe | of che erick, take care not to eeut People in the audience love to come up lithic tep cee capo he and help during a show. For this trick, vo wrong sil assistants are needed. Nicola cleverly chose Scott, who was wearing a purple T-shirt, to hold the wrapped purple silk hanky, and Tope, who was wearing red, to hold the wrapped red silk hanky, Scott and ‘Lope never let go of their parcels, but Nicola makes them keep changing sides. A wave of her wand and, “Hey presto”, the hankies have changed places. Now, that fs magic! How is it done? Well, the newspapers are not as ordinary as they seem. YOU WILL NEED THESE PROPS 2 pairs of sill hankies ins concrasting colours, such as red and purple Newspaper we ilue stick, “Sy Sticky tape ™ Your wand a6 Show PURPLE WANKY, RED I[ANKY Before the shows lay oe a silk elon top. Ds Told up the sheets of newspapers haadkerchiel on 9 sheee of he sanne with x sill in the ochee au put tem on yout table, wish newpaper and spread ghee round it ar, Make a seeret mark ont dh ‘ou wand and the sticky tape, Show for on il) with the glue stick we yo knw wach is which the audionee che remaining ewe sills Givin red sills in the paper 5‘ sticky tape to hold the parcel G Ask far uw volunteers, Give which has rhe: purple ne hidden gether, Now wrap the purple silk the wrapped red silk to samcene inside, and make a rough ball shape in the paper with the red one inside: wearing red, and the wrapped purple with sticky tape silk wo someone in purple and hold ic sk. ap places 8! ae sHie pile laper GF tl le holding once their parerh, ipuiple” parcel, Instead of a pur wave your wand inva ait Lo make the silk, you pull outs redone! Amd fiom magic work, the “red” you pull out a purplef A Magic Shaw X-RAY WAND AND RINGING UP YOU WILL NEED THESE PROPS X-ray Wand and Ringing Up Here are two special tricks using magic wands, but with a difference. The second trick uses your wooden wand, but the first one uses a hollow wand. Carl has made a hollow wand by rolling up a sheet of paper and painting it to look like a real one. The X- ray Wand routine is perfect for when you are showing a trick to just one friend, because you actually teach them how to do it. They will be amazed to see a hole right through their hand. Ringing Up ZS ‘White paper ted Glue stick Black paint a Blacle thread Antise’s paintbrush Reusable = sticky tae Satery pin Q ws Your wand Ring is great fun because you can use a ring that you have borrowed from someone in the audience. People always enjoy seeing their own things behaving in strange magical ways.Xray Wand 3 Roll and glav 2 shoet of paper to Hold the papee wand up tm your Place your other hand, open Hat, form a tube: Thea pint i 0 look, 2 eye and look th is, keeping, about hallway along it, beside Hike send both eves open. the wand Now yuu will sooa hole right through your hand! Ringing Up Attach a black thread to your wand 2, Wisse you other Fingers sy 3 As you move the wari forward, with sticky tac. Tie the dived to a rove the wand slightlr away from the thread artached to the top a safety pi fix chis to your waist, Pua —yourselt WB SlaEES tO rie. How? your Eaners sind to the wand moves ring over dhe wand 10 reston your fist higher, pushing the ving, up ehe wand . 207y A Magic Show ‘TIME BOMB &SCAPE Time-bomb Escape How would you like to do a really dangerous and “death-defying” trick to add drama and suspense to your show? Imagine, then, being tied up ina time-bomb and escaping with only seconds to spare. You could pretend to be like Houdini, who was one of the greatest magicians and escapologists of all time, Before you start, ask a grown-up to make a small hole on each side of the box, about halfway up, for the ropes to go through. Tips Decorate your bax to make it look. really dangerous! Onev you are shut in the boxy yer the audience co vent denn from 30 t0 1 snd then, Hf you have ne eseaperh co shou “Bang Wicks practice, yen will find you can ell From the 1opes in anya five you few seconds, bart de noe jump out tna carly. The effect ts inch more leamatie it you leave it anil there ate ily tw we three seconds to spare! YOU WILL NEED THESE PROPS Large carbon lan that you ean fic into “4 Artist's painthrush Coloured sticky seers shapes Te livo Lengths of soft ropes each about 3-4 metres long,a ~ Climb inso the box wich an Ask one of your assisianss to tie Then ask rour aaistatts to loop a your hands with the sour. ie the z ope over each of your atms. They 3 avsistii stanabiny, yaar on each seat round ane wrist, thew ibe other must hold on firmly co checadsathe side. Ask them co push the free ends of dhe utick isthe ropes out through the sina haley inv the sidey of tus Ivy, and chen beep hold of them. ghtiy ropes, nor leititys yor un complied. You will be rapped! ecco it, firmly. bot Squae down ins Now they ean stare the countdown swith che audticnars 30, 29, 28. Push the loop back, et your hand 17 ionlyaiey scanty Even though you are tied up, you will be able ro work the rope free O) and let it slide up the back ot your cotuntelinviy ta spate, jump up Tike Palla lees she rope down the inside wrist dis free. Nev dl the ajack-in-the box, holding your arms in the air to show they are free. df your wrist under the sille scart other on 229Clowning Around MONKEY JUGGLING y Monkey Juggling 4) No, you are not going to juggle monkeys, only bananas. This trick is as easy as falling out of a tree, bur to make it funny you have ab aanigan . bean bags to get in some silly monkey business. i | l Place a beanbay or banana unde: alin 3 Catch the: Lean bag in your cupped jarinand hald one in your left ur right hand, tuck the bs leit hand. Tack the bean hag held in hand, Cup your right hand, Release the in your left hand u your tight hand undee your let sem. As bean bag tucked under your right arn As you buing your ts you beings your right ann dose, release stud earch i smoothly ant your tight sclease the bean bag tucked tinder the bean buy. tucked under your hand while makings monkey noises. Ta really goto Saagh, ert sing your ars «ae lope arosend the stage ‘ike « monkey 4S itch the bean bag in your eupped tight hand. Now you statt the whole touting again. The aim is tn practise this s0 that you become very quick, By the way, did you keep doing de monkey noises or were you just going bananas:Around BUNCE OF TULIPS Bunch of Tulips |" \ What a beautiful bunch of tulips! These PHN balloon flowers last longer than real tulips and they do not need watering! You could tie a big, colourful ribbon around the stems to make a lovely present. EMILE Inflate only Bem (Sin) af one se your finger to pus balloon, leaving a very long 2 into the bull Balloons «hold of the kiwot with the 2 anti es hand. Kemeve vour finger f the inflated fou inside the balloon, While holding ce bie of the knot very firruly, rwist the é, 40 do nor give up alter balloon, as shown, the first actempr, Uuniniluied section. This will be the stem: reaclies she oe of the tulip. Knot the end Hold the section two ends of the inflated section ofthe ps balloon several times, This will hold the knot in phe Ff yon want ra be really caning, you cxn mucke the tlipe sttnd up by inserting shin plese ide the blloos before ou influ chen ‘age 4 Now thar you have made one beautiful tulip, oan to make a whole bunich in different coloursGP incinerate soe rONN YOU WILL NEED THESE MATERIALS AND TOOLS ve Tissue paper Wear a cotton Tshirt or woollen jumper Balloon Snowstorm Electricity is strange stuff. It is invisible, which means we cannot see it. But it is also very powerful, and it can be very dangerous. We use clectricity in our homes in lots of different ways, to make things such as light bulbs, heaters, vacuum-cleaners, washing machines, radios and music players. This electricity is very strong. NEVER mess about with this electricity. However, you can make Balloons, work, Charge your balloon Suatic clocericigy is in ciny bits, calla pers Those can be positive or ve, just like the twa connections ona burcery (see the esperinient culled Barcety Light Shaw). An objece such as rhalloon has att equal number of positive and negative charges over iis so over a whole balloon there is sicigy. Bor when a balloon ix cubed against your own different electricity, material, such as a Tishint, some of the positive charge and stay there. Th wi siagative charges on the balloon, which male it “sticky”. onte the T shist which is safe and fun. It does nor move along wires and it is not as powerful as mains electricity. Ir is called static electricity. Making static electricity is easier on ‘old, day days. On ssaem, humid the air itsels Full of sie Children might need help blowing up and tying allows Lorenza has charged his balloon with slalic dloctricny, by rubbing it 1 sticks to is Ieshire and aceracts the tissue paper “sma fake’ - a2 124Blow ps ballvan quite hard and li the neck, Do not blow your palloon up so much that it bursty, Hur make sure it is Lainly hard, since a sth «utah balloon does not work so well ‘Hold the balloon near the “snow Ve: fakes ae lifted up by the static electricity on the balloon, After & litre while, the electricity leaks away and the Flakes fall softly. eee some "snow" be tearing oF clttinig tiwae papet ino Hite bits ne, you could make cach “Pake™ a pointed star with viv Aides. like teal snow Makes, Rub your balloon again to te: Stace then hold iy near a friends bar and see what happens Tor the best effect, choose someone with longish hair Push and Pull There are ovo ty charge, positive and nega Changs 1 pull each ks (0 which are differen autract onher together. So the t h the opposite ch 00 anything w even war. Loienve is held charged balloon neat a Te should arract che wearer andl bien BALLOON Rub the balloon several times on Dou Tshirt or woolly sweater Rub i qyuite fast uel dhe ballon cries to Mick” to the T'shite ot sweater, The balloon is now charged! with static lectricity che stream toxmards it, Charges which ate che same eepel, or push each ocher avvex: Se the balloon pushes away cnytling with dhe sume charge as itself such as another charged balloon. Wrice or draw whar hapgens in your Science Rocorel Sook when you try out these experimentsLY? join SAMENESS Magic Wands Tc always looks good, in your show, to wave your wand whenever you wish the “magic” to happen. Nhat Han has also discovered some tricks thar use the wand itself. She can make the wand “magnetic”; it will cling to her hand with, apparently, nothing holding it in place. She can, or so it appears, push the wand right into her leg and ic doesn’t hurt her. She can also make her wand stiff one YOU WILL NEED THESE minute and PROPS bendy the next. How does she do that? Your wand, or a peneil White paper SN Scissors Glue stick: ww 210)Magnetic Wand Ifyou aie holding. a wand and you ] y " open your hand. ir falls ter the Hoo Ob dent Painless Wand Nhat Han toils up a piece of white paper and glues it 10 anake # cube the same size as the tip of her wand. Wobbly Wand A Magic Show MAGIC WANDS qe oe Hf you are a mmaycuin, like Banke other side of her 2s fan, ce will seay tn your panel, Can you see her secret? Ty hand all by ieself 3 an has pustied che wand She hid che lower wand tip in her Disnine seem to hurt! i dial no hand snc! pushed che: paper tube down the wand with her other hand. Next, she holds it loosely berween Qe: J thumb, about one third 1 Wie i oe tom side vo side 2The Coin Fold ‘Tricks with money always get the audience's attention, especially if you we the money disappear and it belongs to someone in the audience! Alexander finds that the coin fold shown here is a very useful method for helping to make a coin vanish easily, But he had to practise hard to perfect his technique, especially making the coin reappear from Michelle's car. YOU WILL NEED THESE PROPS Tip Because che andienen yes you wrap the coin ia the paper, their eyes seay on chi This misdirection’ allows you w <érop the coin into your hac. paper packMagic Show THE COIN FOLD bESBS down. Ie helpyif you from the other side 7 ace de cain ay the eniddle of the Li and fold abour one-third of * Fold over about one-third fiom Gently lift the pacleage, so that the Now you can teat ups the package coin slides out of the secret gap in front of the audience, Or you a fiend to hold, and and stays hidden ia: your hang. Hold it with your second and third fingers 3 Tus the paper and coin over, carefully, holding the coin in the fole of the paper, as Alexander Jt Now fold she Map at the top over Y che other folds. Pur the package in your left hancl and hola comer of the fap with your left chum.