Here's how you perform
the spoon from card box trick. You need a card
box
and you need to cut a hole in the bottom.
So what happens in the trick is that from this side
it looks like the spoon is coming out of
the box in an impossible way,
but what you're doing is, the spoon
extends out of the bottom.
You hold the box,
close it up and then when you're ready
to produce you just
open the box and pull out the spoon.
A rubber band goes on the thumb and
magically comes right off.
Here's how to set this trick up. You can use
any
rubber band. I happen to be using a hair
band because it shows up better on
camera here.
Put the rubber band on your thumb.
Now take your first finger and go under
here.
Not over like this but
under. Now use this finger, the first
finger to hook
a portion here and cross it over. So you
hook,
cross it over and then this comes over
and holds there. At this point it looks
like it's looped around twice on the
rubber band.
But on the thumb it's actually
not so. Once again for the trick that's here,
here, here, and here
and then magically comes right off.
You'll have a
fast and easy magic trick that you can perform with
any rubber band.
Let's do an easy trick with a magic cup here.
A little water. I'm going to use a skewer
but you can use
a pencil. Let's take the cup
and add a little water here.
Now with skewer we're going to take this
and see if something magic happens,
right about there.
The water doesn't leak. Is the water
still there?
I'll let you decide
and that is the magic
cup.
Here's what you're going to need for
this water trick you're going to need a
cup,
paper cup, actually you're going to need
two paper cups. You take the second one
and you cut it down
and then you use plastic wrap around it or
you might need to as I did here - because
you're taking the smaller diameter here
and trying to put it in the cup. So I
put some
extra rim from the first cup
around here.
And that helps it to stay where I wanted
it to stay because when I put this
in. And of course, spectators don't see
this part.
But you want it to rest near the top
and then that means because this is
shorter,
the bottom area is free to accept
the pencils. So you can pour the water in
here.
Puncture this with the pencil
and then pour the water out.
And you have a
cup that doesn't leak, a magic cup.
You may have heard thatin poker there's
something called a "hole card" and
what I have here
is a "whole card." Get it?
But here's what's really cool about
this easy magic trick. Even though you have a
what's called a hole card you can just
turn it over and a little magic, and
wave the hand, snap the finger. And check
it, out right there.
Right there the whole card becomes
reality.
Here's how you perform this easy magic trick. You're
going to need to make,
first of all, a gimmicked card.
So what I've done is I've taken two
cards, identical cards which were the
five of diamonds from two different
decks. But they have the
same back color and are the same
cards. Now there's two cards:
the first one is this card right here.
This is
one card and I cut a hole out.
And the hole matches a sticker that i
happen to have.
And of course, the sticker matches a
piece of paper.
Now you can do this trick with a with a black
sticker if you can find one or even use
electricians tape
and then use a black background. So it
would be black here
and then when you make the magic change later
then you'll peel off a piece
of electrician's tape. And it's fine if
this is square so you don't have to cut
a circle. It
just happened that I had these stickers
around so it made it a lot easier.
So anyway, getting back to the gimmick.
This card here is one card
with a hole in it. The second card is
this card here. It's folded in half. It's
whole.
It obviously doesn't have the hole in it.
But the difference is that this one's folded
and then this half
is glued to this card here. So this half
is glued at this point so you have two
thicknesses on this side,
and one thickness here. And of course, when
you close it up there'll be two
thicknesses there. And you have to keep
them together.
So here's how you perform the magic trick. Once
you have your
gimmicked card here, take your sticker and
stick it here. See? Obviously you want
this to look like
the way it did here. So you can
really show a hole and then when you
turn it over
it still looks like a hole but it's
actually the sticker and then you peel
it off.
So this starts here
closed. Now what I'm doing is holding it
like this
and as you can see I actually like to
have a little bit of a break. I let the
card descend a little bit and that makes
it a lot easier for the move.
So I clearly show the hole and
stick my finger through it so people can
see it's a real hole.
Now this side, actually I'm holding it
so there's a little
bit of a of it hanging down so it's easy
to grab. Now I take this hand
and what i do is when i reach underneath
to turn it over I actually
flip this over as I turn the card over.
So again, I
flip it like this and then turn it over.
So let me show that to you right here.
Now at this point the magic trick is pretty
much over you've already done the dirty
work.
Spectators just think that this is the
hole because they would be looking
through the card.
Then you perform the magic trick: wave the
hand and snap the finger. And then
to their amazement, you peel off the
sticker
and you performed a miracle.