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Hi guys, I need a bit of help. Been booked to do a kids party tomorrow with 12 hours notice! Except I dont do kids magic! Its my cousins 6th birthday and Iv been volunteered

Any ideas for tricks that I can make or adapt, Im pretty good at craft-type things. So far Im thinking:

Just Chance (with 4 kids prizes and my mobile phone)

Clear forcing bag with the Sankey effect with the chocolate wrappers

6 card repeat with jumbo cards

I have an Impressionable mind board that might fly with the older kids (11 plus)

Any other ideas?

Thanks
Lauren

Have you got any slush powder? I stopped doing children's parties a year ago.
How about a cut and restored rope that is always good to do. I like the just a change idea, they will like that.

if doing anything with different coloured things, particularly balloons, you could try miscalling the colours for extra mileage. Kids love silly.

If you have any balloons, bet one of the kids that whatever pet they have, you have one in your pocket/box. Then pull out balloon and turn it into a dog for example. If they say cat, still make a dog and write cat on it with a sharpie.

good luck

That has given me an idea. Get a modelling balloon and a TT. Put the balloon in the TT then do a joke about how you will make a dog appear in you hand. Produce the balloon and then make a dog.

Zombie and linking rings are quite usable in a kids' show. As other have said, a TT is great and very usable. You have a change bag? Hanki into a long stream of hankies with a pair of knickers on the end! Big laughs!

Bend some balloons if you're able. Passes the time and kids love 'em.

Alternatively (and I personally favour this idea), tell them they're all going to die and launch into a bizarre routine.

themagicwand wrote:Alternatively (and I personally favour this idea), tell them they're all going to die and launch into a bizarre routine.

Great idea! Children's séance - fun for all the family.

I'd steer clear of the 'heavy' mentalism for small kids. I'm guessing many of the guests will be six too.

The jumbo six card repeat sounds good.

In fact, apart from the Impressionable Minds Board, I think the effects you've named are excellent choices (assuming kids these days can count up to six and subtract three. I'm really not sure. [/old git]).

Do you do sponge ball routines?

I saw a very good children's magician a couple of years back and he did some card tricks. The really tiny children didn't get them, but the slightly older ones did. Maybe make it easy by not having a card selected, but use the Joker. Colour changes, and very visual stuff can work.

You could teach them a trick. You know, bendy pencil, looking through your hand, straitjacket escape from burning rope, that kind of thing.

themagicwand wrote:...Alternatively (and I personally favour this idea), tell them they're all going to die and launch into a bizarre routine.

And when they run, screaming and crying from the room, you can turn around and say "See, I told you I don't do kids magic!" Bet you never get "volunteered" again.

Last time I was asked to show magic to some kids, I had about three seconds notice; I had nothing on me except Black and White Surprise, so I showed them that. Considering the kids were between five and ten, it went down surprisingly well.

Ropes, Zombie balls and sponges need a routine which i dont have time to learn I haven't done linking rings in about 6 months either. No I don't have slush powder sadly

I do like the balloon ideas, a dog is the only animal i can make at the minute so its usable

I just found the 3 frog monte hiding in my loft, so that definatly a choice
I also just found dissapearing crayons and a colouring book from when I was into magic as a kid.

The sister of the lad whos birthday it is is 11 and quite a good artist so I was going to use the impressonable mind board to 'guess' her drawing with the help of my magic hat/balloon/ whatever

themagicwand wrote:Zombie and linking rings are quite usable in a kids' show. As other have said, a TT is great and very usable. You have a change bag? Hanki into a long stream of hankies with a pair of knickers on the end! Big laughs!

Bend some balloons if you're able. Passes the time and kids love 'em.

Alternatively (and I personally favour this idea), tell them they're all going to die and launch into a bizarre routine.

I have a change bag but dont have any matching pairs of silks. I have a few juggling silks that i was going to turn into sweets. I can use the idea of miscalling the colours there.

I love your idea of the bizzare, i wish i had one of those evil latex rabbit puppets Don't think they'll be volunteering me again

lozey wrote:I have a change bag but dont have any matching pairs of silks

use underwear

if you have a pair of silks stick one on the end of a line of socks, tack stich them end to end or use a stapler, ideal for all thoughs odd socks.

show first silk and say your going to make it vanish, place in bag then wip out and stick it in your pocket hanging out, pretends that they havant noticed and look in the bag and say its gone, make pass and say its back, do this a couple of times ignoring the clammering children.....
say ok you caught me i'll do it for real now, stick it in the same side as the rolled silk / socks and show it gone.
now to bring it back, do the change then say incidently when i did this last time some kid told me to put a sock in it....... so i did produce line of socks and silk at end, remeber to casualy turn bag inside out at end.

lozey wrote:The sister of the lad whos birthday it is is 11 and quite a good artist so I was going to use the impressonable mind board to 'guess' her drawing with the help of my magic hat/balloon/ whatever

I thought there was probably an older child around, which is why I mentioned the magician who lost the smaller children. I like the presentation you're suggesting, though. If you do it after the vanishing crayons into colouring book, it should fit right in.