Having Fun With Easy Magic Tricks

Unless you grew up under a rock somewhere, you have been exposed to magicians at an early age, and like most people, have been fascinated and have loved the art for as long as you can remember. Well, here are a few easy ways to bring back that fascination you remember from long ago, and the thrill you still feel when magic is in the air, and you can be the performer this time, doing some of these easy magic tricks.

Here’s a few suggestions on how to get started with your own little traveling magic show; nothing big or really impressive, but something that will get you some slaps on the back and an invitation to another party. Most people, when the word magic is mentioned, think of a deck of cards right off the bat. Card tricks are the most prominent easy magic tricks to learn, and here are a few that will get you off on the right foot. How about Dealing a Royal Flush for starters. This is a good one if you are a slick talker—there’s more talk than sleight of hand here and it’s easy to learn. Then there is the Color Card Prediction—–a spectator chooses a card from the deck, returns it to the deck and “abracadabra” it’s the only card of a different color in the deck. Another called the Rising Card takes a little skill but you can find all these on the Internet under easy magic tricks.

Okay, now what. Oh yeah—easy magic tricks with money——that’s always good for a crowd pleaser. Take for example, coins—-you remember seeing a magician pull a coin from behind someone’s ear in a crowd, or how about this trick called the Vanishing Coin———-start with 4 coins in your hand, close your hand, open it, and lo and behold! There are 3 coins now in your hand. Move on to paper money—lots of fun little tricks here: take for example the bill roll—–pick up 2 dollar bills of different denominations and roll them together in a tight roll——then unroll them—-Yikes—the bill that was on the bottom is now on the top. Cool stuff—-and you could be doing this yourself with a little practice.

If you or your kids, or the neighborhood kids are into Harry Potter—–here are a few fun and easy magic tricks based on the goings on at Hogwarts. Just add a long robe and big eyeglasses to your prestidigitator and he/she will look authentic. Try this one: the Levitating Ring: a finger ring levitates up a pencil, or use a magic wand for a better effect. Then there is the Magnetic Hand: learn how to make a flared hand of playing cards stick to your hand as if magnetized and lift them into the air. You can just hear the kids howling with glee in the audience now.

The next time you go to a party, plan on being the life of it by performing some easy magic tricks you picked up while browsing the Internet……here’s one: it’s called Dark Magic. You leave the room, someone in the room selects an object and tells the group what it is, leaves it in place: you return into the room and identify the chosen object. Whoooooooo. Or, how about the Mental Prediction. This one is based on a quirk in mathematics and can be done one on one with a friend or to everyone in the room. Spooky.

Okay, here we are, around the dinner table once again and you are about to freak everyone out with your battery of easy magic tricks that you gleaned from the Internet when no one was looking, and learned so you can now pull the wool over their eyes. Start with the Butter Knife Through The Napkin and watch their eyes pop; or how about this one, the Vanishing Toothpick. You play with the toothpick until it mysteriously disappears into your hand. Then you move on to bigger and better things—-like the Spoon Bend. Pick up a spoon, make it look like you are bending it, and then show that it is as straight as it ever was—-what a great maneuver with everyone watching closely everything you do, and you can still pull it off.

Yup, magic can be lots of fun and provide a few belly laughs all around, and what makes it even more fun is the fact that we all could be a magician of sorts if we wanted to. All that is necessary is to get to a computer, browse up easy magic tricks on the Internet, and practice a few of them until you get them to a point where you can perform them believably without screwing up and without fainting from fear. A good share of us are hams at heart, and performing these tricks is a fun way to express yourself when the time is right.

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