yddraig wrote:Anyone got any ideas of something magical that will appeal and be understood by a toddler, he was the main reason I rekindled my interest in magic in the first place, teach him not to believe his eyes as he grows up. But does anyone have the same problem as me, because he has no preconceptions of what’s possible he takes vanishing coins, bending coins and colour changing cards in his stride and fails to be impressed by anything less than a chocolate button or Thomas the Tank! Ah well.
You've hit it right on the head. He doesn't know enough about the world yet to have any idea of what is possible or impossible, so even if something is striking it's not necessarily impressive to him.
Children up to the age of about five see the world in purely magical terms, and magical thinking to some degree persists until puberty -- and beyond for some of us! Children's normal magical thinking includes, for instance, acceptance that wishing properly can make anything happen, magic words and gestures have special power, all objects are essentially alive and sentient, and everyone's mind is readable (at least by adults).
At that sort of age, if you want to give a fun lesson in the ways of the world, a good storybook would make more impact than a magic trick.
