If you want to learn to perform magic with paper, you've come to the right
place.
Hello everyone. In this video we're going to teach you several magic tricks that
only rely on paper. We're going to show you the tricks first and then we'll show
you how to make them and perform them.
Two boomerangs here and you'll notice that the pink one is larger than the yellow
one. Let's do a little magic spell here. I just snap the finger and we're going to
cause this yellow one to increase in size. And if I've been successful, check
it out, I think that the yellow one is now bigger than the pink one. But
wait ,there's one more thing I can do. If I just cause a little bit of a minor
spell here.If I snap the finger .we'll enlarge the pink one just a little bit
and you'll now notice that they are the same size.
Here's how to make your gimmicked envelope so you can perform the cut and
restore effect. Take your envelope - just an ordinary envelope. It could be pretty
much any size because you can cut it down to the size you need, depending on
what it is you're going to cut in half or apparently cut in half. Seal the
envelope. Now take some scissors. You're going to cut the ends off. What
you end up with is a tube made out of an envelope. Now it's nice to have the clean
front towards the spectators so we're going to gimmick the back, the part that
has the flap, the sealed flap. You're going to take your scissors and you're
just going to cut a couple of slits here. Don't go all the way but just go - it's
pretty much the full height of the envelope. And then when you push them
back together, you end up with a tube that has two slits in it. It's a secret
to the trick. Now let's talk about how you can perform the trick with your
gimmicked envelope. Have your envelope in hand and you have the slit right
there in your envelope. And of course, as we showed you in the construction, you
have the tube. So here's how you perform the trick.
Take whatever object - we're just using a piece of paper here. You feed
the object inside of the envelope. As you can see right there, and spectators view
would be here, feeding the envelope through and then feeding it through the
other slit there. And now the paper from the other side looks just like it's
passing through the envelope. But what you've done is actually slipped it out
the back and therein lies the secret. Now you're ready to perform the cut.
Remember, don't turn it like this and show the spectators. You don't want them
to see the back but you take your scissors and now the scissors go under
whatever the object is. Whether it's a bill or playing card and you cut with
the scissors. From the front, it looks as if you're cutting through whatever's
inside. Now it helps to hold everything here so it doesn't come apart. Move the
scissors - you've obviously clearly cut through. I like to hold it just for a
moment so spectators can let that sink in that somehow you've cut the object in
half the envelope or tube. Then you can remove the object and show it.
That it's whole trick and that's how you perform the cut and restore sawing trick.
What you'll need for this trick: you'll need two sheets of paper. It helps to have
different color papers and you can use the same colors for the boomerangs but
you'll probably want to label them so there's a little bit different about
them. For the trick itself you'll need a pair of scissors. You'll want some type
of pen or something to mark with. And what are these? What's the cup and the
soup mug for? Well, this is so you can actually create your own boomerang. So
let me show you how to do that. And let's set this aside for now
Take your two sheets of paper, line them up, and what you're gonna do is
go through the house and look for circles with bowls, plates, and cups,
whatever you have. I've chosen these two because what I want are two different
diameters. Here's a diameter here and a diameter here. So the larger diameter
object is going to create the outer diameter and the smaller one will create the inside
diameter. So let me show you how that works. I'm going to take this, place it
down. I'm going to trace along the edge. All I need is a semicircle so let's just do
that.
And I have a semi-circle. Now with this one, I'm going to use this small diameter
here to make an inner diameter. Now it's important you try and get this lined up
so so this is at the center here of the outer diameter. So I'm just going to
estimate here and let's draw an inner diameter and that's looking pretty good.
Perhaps it's not as even as I would like but that's okay for purposes of the trick.
That will work. So we have an outer diameter semicircle and inner diameter
semicircle. Lthe papers up and now you're going to use your scissors to cut
this out. You want the two papers together because you want these to be
identical so let's do that.
Now you have two arcs or rainbows and the last thing you have to do is you're
going to want to trim it somewhere about here so you don't have a pure semicircle . The
trick works a lot better when you have a shorter arc. So I'm just going to eyeball
that in. I'm going to do something right about there and something right about
there. Now you have your boomerangs. Here's how to perform the trick. As we
showed you in the construction, the boomerangs are the exact same size. It's
just an optical illusion. It turns out that whichever boomerang is held on top
always looks smaller. So no matter which way you hold them the upper boomerang
always looks smaller and that's the secret. So all you have to do is just
follow the storyline - just switch the positions and they'll seemingly
change in size for spectators. You'll need a few sheets of paper the same color of course.
You can use white printer paper. It's just fine. You'll need some tape - actually
the tape is optional but it really helps and I'll show you how why it helps. And
you'll need some glue as well as some scissors. So let's get started. First of
all, take your first sheet of paper and roll it into a column or tube.
Use a piece of tape and just for good measure, I'm going to put a piece of tape
along this seam here. And now I have a fairly nice clean tube. The part with the second sheet of
paper gets a little tricky. What you're going to do is make
something of a cone but it's not actually a column or tube.
You''re going to want a relatively small opening here. You might have to experiment a bit.
And you're going to want to keep it fairly wide at the other end. You're just making
a another cylinder but it's lopsided. One side is wider than the other. Take a
piece of tape and hold it there. It helps to have two pieces of tape on here because this
admittedly is a little awkward. While this trick is great for little
kids to perform, it's not an easy one for the kids to put together. So o an adult
might need to put this one together for the youngsters. We have a regular
cylinder over here and we have here a lopsided cylinder. What you're going to do is
cut a line right here so you want to straighten this out.
Now take your scissors and do the same thing over here.
I now have a cylinder that's slightly lopsided . Take this lopsided one and
insert it into the other tube or cylinder. There, that's looking pretty
good. So what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna put some glue on the inside of
here so that will take and hold this right inside here.
Now take your cone and place it inside so you're adhering this cone to the other
cylinder. But if you look from this direction, you'll see that there's this
cone here inside and there's actually room on the sides to put things over on
this side. It ilooks fairly normal and now it's ready to perform. The
trick, as you can see from this end, looks fairly normal. Something I
recommend is if you have some different colored tape like
maybe in a red or green or something, you can put it along this edge and kind of
seal it up. If you do this close up to people, they might notice that there's a
slightly slightly ragged edge here. You can show the tube empty and still have
room to hide things. And let's get into the explanation of the trick now that you've
made your tube. You're ready to set up for your trick. I'm going to be using a
handkerchief. Here's a very thin silk handkerchief. You can use confetti, ribbons whatever small objects that you can fit inside of the tube. So beforehand, I think
you already know the secret from what we've taught you ,but as you know there
is a secret compartment inside of here. And by using that little conical piece
inside of the other one, it creates a forced perspective. That's what it's
called. And it looks like the tube is normal however it is not. Before hand, take
your ribbons, confetti, whatever it is and you're just going to place it into the
tube
along the side right there. Now you're ready to begin the trick. You just walk
out you, show you have a tube and you can even do this so people can see that the
tube is empty. And then all you do is snap your finger, reach in and produce
your handkerchief, your confetti, whatever it is that you want to bring out. Well, I
hope you have fun performing these tricks for your family and friends.
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