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Hi all

I keep popping in and out, but not really posting that much, I need to get back into posting, so here we go.

As some of you may already know, I regularly work at the Chilrdens Museum in Halifax called Eureka! My next weekend event there is a Harry Potter themed weekend.

Im currently working on the routines, and one idea I had was to be able to teach something very simple to the kids as I do walk around magic.

Id like to rack your combined brains and see what you could suggest for this, as I think it would be nice if the kids could go away having learnt something different which could set off a future generation of magicians.

Best

Mark

I had a similar situation a few months back, and I also wanted to teach a bit of magic.

The most important question to figure - is the age range of the group. The ages will give a better idea of what level of difficulty you can present them.

Some suggestions given to me were:

Teach them how to make a flapper board (Thanks to magicdiscoman for that gem of an idea)

Stop Light Cards

There were a few others. To date, I've used both of those ideas, as well as these:

Sponge balls (I went out and bought a big bag of them and passed them out. Taught them two basic vanishes and a 1 to 2 multiplication. I got a bit of criticism from a few people (none here) that I was exposing methods that were too widespread and would ruin future reactions. However, I quieted those complaints when AFTER the teaching session I performed an entire 5 minute sponge routine that not one kid could figure out (I was rather happy with myself that day).

Princess Card Trick - This can be REALLY expensive if you don't print your own cards. I printed my own, and this went down really well.

To my own surprise, I was also able to teach a group of kids how to do a five card mental prediction effect using a down under deal. I thought it might have been over their heads, but only one kid had a bit of trouble, and after a few minutes of showing him, he had it cold.

The effect is actually pretty strong. I use it from time to time with a spectator of any age. PM me if you're interested. It only requires normal cards, so you can snag up a few cheap decks and build the packets for them.

If I think of more, I'll post them.

In my kids show act I usually teach the a neat trick with a rubber band that jumps from the index finger and the middle finger, to the fore finger and the pinky
It's really easy to teach and to do, and all you need is a bag of rubber bands to give to the kids that will cost you pennies.

It's kind of hard to explain in writing, PM me if you are interested.

cut and restored rope then finish with stiff rope, teach the restore bit.

colour changing feather then floating feather, teach the palming colour change.

french drop vanish then spellbound change, teach french.

all avalable in nearly all kids magic books.