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Hello everyone. Every magician needs a magic wand and for this we have a downloadable printable PDF
file with this video that allows you to create your own magic wands. Now these wands make great
party favors and they're also great for any budding magician. And also for classroom or
Scout Pack kinds of activities. Best of all we teach several tricks in this video that
you can perform with a magic wand. You can teach these tricks to the kids. So let's get
started make your wand. Download our template and you're going to have something that looks
like this. Don't worry that there's writing over here on your template. All I've done
there is just let you know where you can find the tricks for for the wand and so
it just has the YouTube channel and this video listed there. But once you make your wand it's
going to be rolled up inside of your magic wand. To make your wand from our template
just simply cut right here after cutting your paper. You'll have something that looks like
this. And then all you have to do is turn it over and roll it up into a magic wand.
And you have something like that looks like this now. You can use tape to keep this together. You
can always use rubber bands but I like glue or tape. And you'll have your magic wand.
After taping it you'll have a magic wand. You might be able to use glue
but you'll probably have to use rubber bands or something to hold it while the
glue or paste dries. There you have a magic wand. Now we have three easy tricks we're
going to teach you. First one's called a shrinking wand. [Music]
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What you're going to need is you're going to need a piece of paper that's the same width
as one of the tips to the wand. And then what you're going to do is just make something of a
sleeve. This one has to be a little bigger than here and then I'll show you how to do the trick.
[Music] So cut out a strip of paper and here you're going to make a fake
tip here. It has to be a little bigger because you want it to easily slide along
the wand here. Now you have a fake tip of a magic wand that slides and
you're ready to perform the trick. Here's what it looks like. [Music]
You have your sleeve here on the tip right here. And then this is called the shrinking
wad because what you do is just push and it looks as if the wand just shrinking. And then
pull it back. But all you're doing is just pushing the tip right here behind your arm.
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Goes into the hand and then magi,c all I do is grab my wrist here and the pencil adheres to
my hand. Check it out. It's all good. Tell you wha,t I'm going to show you how to do
this. Very simple. Just grab the pencil here and then when I put my hand under,
see what you didn't see was... When it looks like I'm just grabbing the wrist, let's see,
I'm actually holding it with my finger here. And that is the secret. So it looks like it's holding
the pencil stuck to my hand, it's actually my finger here. That's doing all of the magic. Okay,
that was kind of a cheap trick wasn't it? So tell you what. Let me see if I can do a little more
magical method this time. I'm going to grab my wrist and once again I perform the trick,
just as I showed you. See? But wait, I'm going to let go of my hand here. [Music]
Here's how to perform the magnetic pencil. I like to use my left hand to hold the pencil
on my right hand to cause the magic to happen. Now when you perform the trick it looks like
you're just grabbing your wrist here and somehow the pencil sticks but it's not the
case. Here's what happens. See? You grab and then see how my hand is grabbing here and then
you can let go of your hand it appears that the pencil is adhering to the hand. [Music]
But the secret is you're extending a finger here from the right hand. So that's step one. Now see,
how I released it there what I like to do is to get into it. I grab the pencil with my left hand
and then as I'm putting my right hand around the wrist here, I just kind of undercover here extend
my finger. And then let all the other fingers reach around and I'm still holding the pencil
with my left hand. And then at this point I can release and then let it go. Now to the way I like
to get out of this I like to just kind of slam it on the table like this and at that point say,
I just shifted my finger over as I as I slammed it down, So now the finger moved to here and then I
can show everything to be clean like there. For the second phase you're going to need a second
pencil. And so what's the secret? Watch. What no one sees is the watch, the watch right here is the
secret to the trick. So what you do is beforehand you place a pencil underneath the watch.
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Now this one's a little trickier to get into but what you do is it's very similar to the
other way. You just under her,e see, they don't know that there's a pencil attached under the
watch here. Take the other pencil, place it in and grab it with the other hand and then
you do the same thing as you did before. In fact it's fun to show the trick and then,
and then here you can do this and everybody kind of laughs and says "ha ha." They know how it's
done. But what's really cool is you can let go and there's nothing seemingly holding the pencil
in place. And you can pretty much do what we did last time. Just kind of drop it and then bring
your hand back and then everybody can examine the pencil. But of course you have a pencil
right here underneath your wristwatch. Pretty sneaky huh? But that is the magnetic pencil.
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Well I hope you have fun performing these tricks for your friends and
family. Please give us a like and please subscribe for more tricks in the future.
And please comment below if you have any tricks that you would like us to
teach in future videos. Thank you so much for watching. See you next time. [Music]