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My Son has just turned 4 and keeps wanting to "do magic"

Anyone suggest anything out there that is relatively cheap, durable and suitable for a 4 year old to think he's doing something magic?!

Thanks in advance

Dynamic coins. First trick I purchased myself for £10 at the age of 5!

Beardy wrote:Dynamic coins. First trick I purchased myself for £10 at the age of 5!

My first proper trick as well!

Can't believe I didn't think of that

Thanks Beardy

I've got a whole stack of Marvins stuff I would be happy to let go to a good home if you're interested.
PM me if so

I got dynamic coins as my first trick (after stripper and sven cards from the toy shop)

ACE T wrote:I got dynamic coins as my first trick (after stripper and sven cards from the toy shop)

Bought all three together, Ideal Home Exhibition about 20 years ago, Marvin's Magic stand!

Also some sort of piece of perspex that you could stick a pencil through, and some chains for the hands!

Dynamic coins
penetration frame
egg and vase
colour changing rope
Rope to hanky
appearing flower, (not sure what it is really called but it is a little vase and flower appears)
Nickles to dimes
Penny to dime
coin slide

and the list goes on. Of course it depends on the six year old.

bmat wrote:Of course it depends on the six year old.

Four year old, even.

Do they do RRTCM in picturebook form?

This is John. John likes cards. Look at John's hand. See his phalanx? etc.

What about the ball/cup/vase thing? It's in most basic magic kits.

Lethal Tender? Dead simple and he'll think it's great because it looks like he's using Dad's cards.

Ooooh vanishing crayons...

http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalo ... 173720887#

One of my first tricks ever was the color changing ball to jumbo square, and it's a trick that I still perform today. I love to make the vanish really obvious, and make the trick kind of childish, never gotten any bad reactions with that trick.

Marvins magic showtime set, is pitched at children from 4 years old, and contains a puppet bunny along with the simple colourfull props.
Its listed under magic made easy.

http://marvinsmagic-online.co.uk/shop/i ... p?cPath=22" target="_blank

ACE T wrote:Ooooh vanishing crayons...

http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalo ... 173720887#" target="_blank

In my experience all crayons tend to become vanishing crayons in one way or another

My gut instinct kicked in for a moment then, but within a second or two I realised I probably don't need to suggest that a magician encourages his kid to practice before doing shows... instead of what usually seems to happen with magic sets where they get an hour to go through it the day they get it before the adults start asking for a show.

(Kid then loses interest pretty quickly and the set does what millions of others have done and sits gathering dust on a shelf.)
(Seen it happen.)

BigShot wrote:... instead of what usually seems to happen with magic sets where they get an hour to go through it the day they get it before the adults start asking for a show.

(Kid then loses interest pretty quickly and the set does what millions of others have done and sits gathering dust on a shelf.)
(Seen it happen.)

Happened to me! I didn't get back to properly trying to learn magic until this year. That's a more than 20 year hiatus...

-Stacy

I wonder how many people on here have the same sort of story.

It never happened to me, but my sister got a Paul Daniels magic set for Christmas one year and the exact same thing happened with her. That one was even worse than the standard I think because rather than the expected "wow that's amazing" to a trick done almost completely exposed and referring to the instructions every step of the way some smartarse decided to point it out each time. "I've seen that." "You've got it there." and so on.
Grr!

I think if I ever give a young'un a trick/set as a present I'll do it so nobody else knows and tell them to practice before they show anyone.