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CAHOOTS NI MAGIC April's Magic Trick Number Magic! This trick is really impressive and works every time! Before your friends arrive write down a four figure number that is double the current year's date, i.e. if it is 2008, the number would be 4016. Seal this number in an envelope. Ask a volunteer to write down the following numbers; 1) The year they were born, i.e. 1998 2) Their age, i.e. 10 3) A year that something important happened to them, i.e. the year their baby sister was born or the year they moved to a new house. 4)The number of years that have passed since this important event to the current year, i.e. if it happened in 2006 they would write the number 2. Get another volunteer to total up these numbers. Open up the envelope. The total will be the same as the number you have already written down! March's Magic Trick Cut the Kings - This trick will make your friend look like a magical card dealer! How it's done... 1 - Before your friends arrive separate the Aces and Kings from a deck of cards. Place the four aces on the top of the deck of cards and then place the Kings on top of the Aces. 2 - Select a friend and ask them to deal out two piles of cards. Comment that they look like they could deal out an amazing hand of cards. They do not need to deal the entire deck so after a short while tell them that they can stop anytime they like. Place the undealt cards aside. 3 - Instruct your friend to choose a pile and deal it into two smaller piles. Ask them to do the same with the other pile. You should end up with four piles of cards. 4 - Get your friend to turn over the top card on each pile - they will all be Kings. Tell them you knew they could deal a great hand of cards and then ask them what card is higher than a King? - an Ace. Do some magical movements over the cards with your hands and then turn up the top card of each pile to reveal four Aces! Take a bow! February's Magic Trick A card location trick - A deck of cards is separated into two halves and shuffled by a spectator. They then select a card from one pile and place the card in the other pile. This pile is then mixed. By simply looking through the pile you will be able to locate the spectators card - magic! How it's done... 1 - Before your friends arrive separate a deck of cards into clubs, hearts, spades and diamonds. Mix the clubs and hearts together, and mix the spades and diamons together. Place the two piles together, one on top of the other, to form a single deck. 2 - When your friends arrive take out your deck of cards and split the deck at the halfway point and lay the two halves of the deck on the table. You should have one pile with clubs and hearts and a second pile containing spades and diamonds. 3 - Ask a friend to pick a card from one of the piles and memorise it. Ask them to place the card in the other pile and mix it. 4 - You will now find the card by looking through the pile of cards for the odd card. For example, if all the cards in the pile are clubs and hearts, look for a spade or diamond. This will be your friends card. Pull out the card and place it face down on the table. Reveal it dramatically to your friend as their card. Voila! January's Magic Trick Money Magic - A banknote is placed in one of three envelopes which are then mixed up by an audience member when you are not looking. You then rip up two of the envelopes leaving the third envelope unharmed with the banknote inside!
Picture 1 - Lay out three matching envelopes before your audience arrive and mark one of the envelopes with a small, faint pencil mark on both sides. This should only be visible to you. Picture 2 - Invite your friends in and ask one of them to lend you a banknote. Fold the banknote and two blank pieces of paper into quarters. Try to make them all the same size. Picture 3 - Get one of your friends to insert the pieces of paper and the banknote into the envelopes. Picture 4 - Turn your back and ask your friend to mix up the envelopes and lay them out in a row on a table so that neither you or them know where the money is. Picture 5 - Turn around and as try to spot the marked envelope as quickly as possible. Slam your hand down on the other two envelopes, pick them up and rip them to pieces. The faster you tear up the envelopes the more amazing the trick will appear. Picture 6 - Ask the person who lent you the money to remove their money from the remaining envelope. MAGIC! December's Magic Trick Bouncing bread roll - Make a bread roll bounce as it it were a tennis ball!
Picture 1 - Sit at a table and pick up a bread roll and hold it out at shoulder height (this trick would work just as well with a piece of fruit). Picture 2 - Bring your hand down below the table's edge as if you are about to bounce it like a bouncy ball. Picture 3 - When the bread roll is out of sight of the audience raise your foot ready to tap against the floor. This has to happen all very quickly if this trick is to work. Picture 4 - Instead of dropping the bread roll to bounce it, turn your hand upwards and flick the roll up into the air. You should be careful not to move the arm itself as this will give the game away - only the wrist should move. Tap your foot a split second before you toss the roll. This will sound like the bread roll has hit the ground and bounced back up. Picture 5 - Watch with amazement as the bread roll appears above the table. MAGIC! November's Magic Trick Read the mind of your friends with this magic book trick. Secret: Get two or three books that you have double copies of
The copies of the books must be kept in a seperate room. Ask one of your friends to pick a book and say the title. Get them to choose a random page number and also a number that could be allocated to a line in the page of the book. Lastly get somebody to pick a number between 1 and 10. This should indicate a word on a line. Leave the room and explain that you are doing this to avoid any cheating. When you are alone get your duplicate book and look up the page, line and word number that your friends shouted out. Return to the room and pretend to be using your magic powers to conjour up the chosen word in your minds eye! Reveal the word by writing it down on a large sheet of card and getting one of your friends to shout out the word first before you show your prediction. October's Magic Trick
Find a hidden coin under the bottle tops everytime! Secret:
Picture 1 - Attach some invisible thread or one of your hairs to the underside of a coin with some tape (in the pictures we have used green thread so you can see it better). Picture 2 - Place three bottle tops on a table and ask one of your friends to choose a bottle top and cover the coin with it. Picture 3 - Get your friend to switch the bottle tops around without you looking at them. Tell them you are going to guess which bottle top the coin is under by using your magic powers. Picture 4 - When they have finished mixing up the bottle tops have a look for your secret thread without being obvious. Picture 5 - Lift the bottle top with the coin under it and watch your friends be amazed. You can do this trick over and over again and get it right every time. September's Magic Trick Produce a silk napkin from thin air and dazzle your friends! Secret: Picture 1 - To prepare, place a silk handkerchief in front of you. Have one corner facing you. Picture 2 - Fold the silk in half, away from you. Picture 3 - Roll the silk away from you as tightly and neatly as possible.
Picture 4 - Roll the silk from one end to the other, again as tightly as possible. Picture 5 - Leave the end of the silk sticking out of the roll. Picture 6 - This shows you a secret view of where you place the silk in your hand. Hold the end of the roll between your thumb and forefinger. Picture 7 - From the front your audience should not be able to see the silk. Point at something imaginary in the air. Picture 8 - Reach up to that point and let the silk unroll. It should appear as if from nowhere! August's Magic Trick Amaze your friends with this fantastic napkin trick. Effect:Tear a paper napkin into pieces and magically make the pieces weld themselves together again. The napkins in the drawings below are in different colours for ease of explanation but you should use two napkins of the same colour. Secret: Picture 1 - Put some glue on the top right corner of a paper napkin. Picture 2 - Place your second napkin over the first napkin and glue them to each other at the top right corner. Picture 3 - Scrunch up the napkin on top into a tight ball. This should all be done before your friends arrive. Picture 4 - Hold the flat napkin up so that the scrumpled up napkin facing you and your friends can't see it. Rip the napkin down the centre. Picture 5 - Place the left half of the napkin in front of the right half. Rip it down the centre. Picture 6 - Place the left pieces in front of the right, then turn the strip sideways. Rip the strip down the centre. Picture 7 - Place the pieces in front of the right again. Rip one final time down the centre. Picture 8 - Place the final pieces of paper in front of the right-hand. Squeeze the edges together. As you squeeze, secretly turn them round so that the complete napkin is facing your friends. Picture 9 - Start to open out the napkin, keeping hold of the other ripped napkin in your right hand. Picture 10 - Fold out the entire napkin. Picture 11 - The ripped pieces are hidden behind the folded out napkin. To finish the trick off crumple the napkin and throw it away. Voila! July's Magic Trick For this months trick lets master a basic coin technique called 'Finger Palm and Production' Effect: The Finger Palm is an essential grip in coin magic. It allows you to secretly hold and therefore hide a coin in your hand. The coin can be made to appear from anywhere, using the Finger Palm Production. Secret: Position the coin at the base of your right second and third fingers. It is held in place by the creases in your skin and your fingers curling ro und it to hold it. Pretend that you have seen something floating in the air before you. Point at it with your hand holding the coin. The audience should not be able to see the coin. As you reach for whatever you have seen use your thumb to push the coin from its position at the base of your fingers to the fingertips (see secret view!). The coin should look as if it has appeaered from nowhere. June's Magic Trick Dazzle your friends with the amazing clinging cutlery trick! Effect:A fork is made to cling to your hand - the secret is explained to your friends but moments later the fork is once again made to cling to your hand in an even more amazing way! Secret: Hold a fork in your left hand. Grip your left wrist with your right hand and open your left hand out wide. The right first finger stretches out to hold the fork in place (do this secretly!). From the front this should look like the fork is stuck to your hand. You can either stop the trick here or you can show your friends at this point how you did the trick. THEN, return your hand to the same position. Remove your right hand completly - the fork should stay suspended on its own!! Secret 2: The last picture above shows how the knife is held in place using a watch strap (you should have done this from the start of the whole trick!) When you pretended to reveal the secret earlier to your friends, the knife is covered by your first finger. MAGIC!! (Warning - Make sure an adult is present and never use sharp cutlery). May's Magic Trick Effect: Someone picks a random card, then puts it back in the deck, then you magically find it! Secret: Get one of your audience to shuffle a deck of cards and then pick one out at random. Ask them to look closely at their card and memorise it. Then you take the deck of cards, split it in the middle and have the person insert their mystery card back into the deck. BUT here's the secret... when you split (or 'cut') the deck in two, have a quick sneaky glance at the bottom card of the top half of the deck. Remember this well - it will be your 'locator' card which will help you find the mystery card. After your audience member has put their card on top of the bottom half of the pile, you set the top half on top of it. This will mean that your locator card will be right next to the audience member's mystery card. Now get the audience member to cut the cards a few times - but not shuffle them. This means that your locator card should stay next to the mystery card. Then all you have to do is take the deck of cards, flick through them until you find your locator card and then pull out the mystery card as it will be the one next to your locator! Magic!! Hint: Remember to practice plenty of times before you show anyone and never do the same trick for someone twice - don't give them the chance to work out how you did it! ---------------------------------------------------- This is an Experiment sent to us from Daniel Wright Expanding Air Equipment: Jug of hot water Plastic bottle Large Bowl 1 Balloon 1: Put an empty bottle in the freezer for 1 hour. 2: Take the bottle out and stretch the balloon over the mouth of the bottle. 3: Put the bottle in the bowl and pour hot water around the bottle. 4: The air expands in the bottle which causes the balloon to blow up. (A Little Hint - Make sure you have your parents help in this experiment as there is hot water involved). Thanks Daniel for sending us this experiment and we hope you all enjoy it.
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