Kid's Magic Secrets: Simple Magic Tricks & Why They Work - Softcover

Bree, Loris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1892147084 ISBN 13: 9781892147080

Verlag: MARLOR PR, 2003

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Using everyday items found in most homes, aspiring young magicians can dazzle friends and family with this best-selling kid's guide to performing magic tricks. With the help of this book, young magicians can magically make things appear and disappear, make rubber bands seem to go through fingers, and make ghostly names appear on water tumblers. There are eight fun categories of magic ranging from All Wet to Amazingly Mysterious. Of course, there's Pick-A-Card--Any Card! Each activity includes step- by- step directions complete with hundreds of delightful illustrations. Each trick is followed by an explanation of the scientific or mathematic principles that make it work.

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Loris Bree is a former speech and language therapist in a Minnesota public school system who specialized in helping children with disabilities. She holds a Masters Degree from the University of Minnesota and brings to children's books her love of children, sense of humor, and her educational background and experience. As a therapist, she encountered children's problems who faced the unknowns of travel and helped make it an uplifting family experience as well as a fun book for kids. Educator approved, her books have a strong family affiliation and give support through a helpful and proven structure. She is the author of Kid's Trip Diary, Kid's Travel Fun Book, Kid's Magic Secrets and Kid's Squish Book.  Her partner, Marlin Bree, worked with her in the development of her books for children.

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Kids' Magic Secrets

Simple Magic Tricks & Why They Work

By Loris Bree, Marlin Bree

Marlor Press, Inc

Copyright © 2007 Loris and Marlin Bree
All rights reserved.

ISBN: 978-1-892147-08-0

Contents

Introduction, 
KITCHEN WIZARD, 
OFFICE MAGIC, 
PICK A CARD, ANY CARD, 
PAPER, PAPER, WHO'S GOT PAPER?, 
BODY OF MAGIC, 
ALL WET, 
SCARF IT UP, 
AMAZINGLY MYSTERIOUS, 
Index, 

CHAPTER 1

BANANA SURPRISE

ZOW! YOU PEEL BACK A BANANA - AND IT'S ALREADY SLICED

Your audience will see you peel an ordinary banana. When you pull back the peeling, the banana will already be sliced into chunks. Incredible.

YOU WILL NEED

1. A ripe banana

2. A plate or bowl

3. A clean needle and thread

1. On the day of your magical appearance but before your audience arrives you can prepare your banana. Stick the threaded needle into a spot on a ridge of the banana, near the top (Step 1). Bring the needle out at the next ridge but leave a three to five inch tail of thread hanging out from the first hole.

2. Push the needle back into the second hole (Step 2) and bring it back out at the next ridge. Put the needle back into the third hole and bring it out at the next ridge. Continue to follow these steps until you bring the needle out at the first hole.

3. Hold both ends of the thread in your hand and pull the thread until it comes out of the hole. You've just made a secret slice in the banana. Nobody can see the tiny needle hole

4. Now make another invisible slice about an inch below the first hole. Repeat the steps. You can slice the entire banana or only make four or five slices.

5. Put the needle and thread out of sight. Leave the banana and plate on the table or in a box with your other magic supplies.

6. When it is time for your trick, tell your audience:"I really like my bananas sliced but my mother doesn't want me fooling around with knives. I think I've finally solved my problem. I use magic."

7. Hold up the banana and say,"BANANA, BE SLICED." Then you wave your hand back and forth and up and down around the banana. If you want to, you can repeat,"BANANA, BE SLICED."

8. Holding the banana over a plate or napkin, begin to peel the banana. As you peel the slices will fall on the plate. Wow. Look at their faces!

9. Extra fun step: If you are very careful to only use a fine needle and fine thread, you can let someone from the audience look at the banana before you begin so they can see that it is not peeled or sliced.

HOW THE TRICK WORKS

This uses a mathematical or scientific concept called sectioning. It means to divide something into slices or parts. By putting a thread in at a banana seam, you divide the fruit, section by section. Tension on the thread cuts the section inside without peeling the banana. The result? To the audience, it's magic!

COINS IN A BOTTLE

YOU MAKE COINS FLIP INTO A

BOTTLE WITHOUT TOUCHING THEM

You show your audience some coins and a bottle. You put a card across the bottle, put the coins on top. You challenge them to get the coins into the bottle without touching them. They can't do it. Then you show them how. Stupendous!

YOU WILL NEED

1. An empty bottle or jar. The bottle opening must be larger than the coins.

2. A square piece of cardboard, like a file card or a square cut from a cereal or tissue box. Cut your card so that it is square (3 x 3 inches is great) and larger than the bottle opening.

3. Two or three coins

HOW THE TRICK WORKS

1. You show the audience a bottle and some coins. You might even ask for coins from your audience. Tell them that you'd like two or three pennies or nickels.

2. When you have your coins and the bottle, hold them up for the audience to see. Tell them you will put the bottle on the table and will place the coins so they will leap into the bottle without being touched by you.

3. Put the bottle on the table, hold up the card and wave it at the audience as you place it on top of the bottle. Then place the coins on the cardboard just above the bottle opening. Tell the audience that you will move the cardboard from the top of the jar and get the coins inside without touching the coins or the jar.

4. Flick or snap the edge of the card, quickly and sharply, with your finger. The card should snap out from between the coins and the bottle. The coins drop into the bottle without your touching them.

FLICK!

5. You need to practice this several times until the coins always drop in. If the card moves a little too slowly the coins will fly after the card instead of dropping into the bottle.

FLICK!

HOW THE TRICK WORKS:

The coins are sitting on top of the card. Inertia wants the coins to stay still. The card snaps away so quickly that the coins are not able to follow the card. Gravity pulls them down into the bottle.

GHOSTLY GLASSES

NAMES APPEAR ON GLASSES, AS IF BY MAGIC

You say a magic word and name one of your guests as you pick up an ordinary glass. Put the glass in the refrigerator. At the end of your magic show, you remove each glass, and as each guest's name appears on the frosty side, you give the glass to them. Surprising!

YOU'LL NEED

1. A glass for each of your guests.

2. A small jar or container

3. Liquid detergent

4. A tray

5. A drink for your guests. This can be kool-aid, lemonade or a soda

HOW IT WORKS

1. Before your guests arrive, put just a little bit of water in the small glass or container. Add a drop of liquid detergent. With your finger, carefully print the first name of one of your guests on a glass. Continue until you have printed the name of each of your guests on one of the glasses.

HINT: If you use glasses that look different, you'll need to remember which name you printed on which glass. If the glasses are identical, it won't matter. Put the glasses on your table and allow them to dry so the printing won't show.

2. When your guests arrive and are seated to watch your magic, tell them that you are preparing drinks for after the show and you want to be sure that everyone has a glass. Then tell them that the glasses are magic glasses

3. Pick up each glass and say,"Alakazam, this glass is (Bill's) glass." If you have a magic wand or want to use a special magic wave, you can then wave over the glass before you put it on the tray. Continue as you pick up each glass, fill the tray and name each guest. If you have different glasses you'll want to be sure you remember which glass is for each guest. Some of the guests may remember which glass was supposed to be theirs.

4. Tell the guests that you will now put the glasses in the refrigerator to cool so the drinks will be very cool and delicious. Then you or your helper will take the tray to the refrigerator or freezer. The glasses should be in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes.

5. At the end of the show bring the...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: MARLOR PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1892147084
• ISBN 13: 9781892147080
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zeichner: Bree Marlin
• Anzahl der Seiten: 112
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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