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What you're gonna need to do is cut out
four pieces of cardboard. These are 4
inches by 6 inches so you need four of
them. Now why am I showing you three here?
It's because I've already done a
treatment with one of them, so we'll talk
about this in just a moment. You're going to
need 4 of these cards and you're going to
need some black construction paper. I
found it at my local dollar store for what I
think was 99 cents for two giant sheets.
And this is perfect for what I have in
mind. What we're going to do is
take the four pieces of cardboard. You
need four pieces of the black including
this piece here, which I've already
prepared. And you're just going to glue
the black onto one side of the cardboard.
By the way, this is just an Amazon Prime
box that I just cut up. It even says
Amazon Prime on it still. But we're
going to turn it into a magic trick. Now
another option is that you could
possibly use a vertical facial tissue
box. So if you just take this apart. you
could cut out panels. Though these
aren't cut for this, you could cut
out panels and line the inside as well
as I guess, you could actually take a
marker and just mark it. Maybe with a wide
marker. And color the inside black
with a marker. Or of course, if you have
poster paints, that works for this as
well. As for these pieces of cardboard, so
you don't have to have the black
construction paper. Just use poster
paints. So we're going to turn these black
on one side by gluing the panels.
If you're following along with me, you should
have four pieces of cardboard with black
on one side, one square or rectangle gets
special treatment as you'll notice here.
I've cut out diagonal slots here. Now you
don't have to use diagonal slots, you can
use vertical slots like a jail cell. Or
if you want, you can cut out circles. But
what you want to do is have one of
these sections where the spectator can
actually see through the panel. This will
form the front panel. We're actually not
making a box we're making a tube. So once
you have that, then you're ready to go to
the next step. Now you have your three
pieces of cardboard with black on one
side. You have your special one that's
cut out with black on the inside. Now
we're going to make a tube. So you're
going to need some tape. Just remember that
the black side always goes inside and
each panel is going to form part
of this tube that we're making.
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At this point, we're not worried about the
outside. I'll show you what we're going to
do with three sides of a tube. Now for
the front.
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I've taped four of the squares together,
all four, but I haven't closed the tube yet.
And there's a reason why. It's because
we're going to have to work around this
right here. So here's what I would
suggest. I'm going to use this point. We're
just decorating this. I'm going to use
wrapping paper here and so I'm going to
just spread some spread some glue on to
these panels. Then I'm going to stick the
wrapping paper on. And then I'm going to
trim it off. So let's do that. Kind of an
option. I guess if you wanted a kind of a
rough look with your box or tube
here, you can do that. It's up to you.
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Remember the black side is on the
inside and your wrapping paper goes on
the outside. So after gluing these I'm
now going to trim it. Well now you've
wrapped your four panels with some
wrapping paper or decorated it any way that you
wish. Remember black is on the inside and
you have your slots here. Now we're just
going to tape this together forming a tube.
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There you have it, part one of your trick.
Part two, you're going to need a bright
piece of paper. You could use white
but the main thing is you don't want to use
black or a dark color. Something that
really contrasts because you're going to
want this to be seen inside of here. Now
you're going to cut this piece of paper to
the height of your box. So in this case, I
it's six inches high and now we're going to
just use some tape and form a cylinder.
Now the only real requirement for the
cylinder is that it has to easily fit
inside of the box. So just kind of
measure it. Make sure it's easy to fit
and easy to grab. And that's looking
pretty good right about there.
Two cylinders and you put
the cylinder into the tube and you're
just about ready. You have one more thing
you have to do. You're going to need one
more sheet of black paper. Now this black
paper will be maybe an inch shorter so
this one's five inches tall. And you're
going to make this into a cylinder. The
only real requirement is that this cylinder
has to easily fit inside of the other
cylinder right here. So this one's going
to be smaller and just make sure it
easily fits.
You've put together your prop. So you
have a black tube and the black
tube goes into the orange or the
brighter tube, and you have a lid. And
now we're going to talk now about how to
perform the trick. Secret is, inside of
the black tube is where you load
whatever it is you want to produce. Now
for the example here, I'm just going to
produce a silk handkerchief. It's nice, bright
green so you can easily see it. You can
pretty much produce whatever you can fit
into this tube.
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I'm loading in a handkerchief into the
tube right there as you can see. This is
before everybody comes over to watch
your show.
Put the bright one over that and you put
the tube over everything. And now you're
ready to perform the trick. So here's how.
You show your box sitting on a
table. You bring it up. You show that there's
nothing here.
Take out this tube and there's nothing
there.
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And finally you just snap your finger,
wave your hand, whatever you want to do.
And you reach inside and pull out
whatever it is you want to produce. Now
of course the secret is, you can remove
this one and show it empty. But when you
pull this one out,
what spectators don't know is, there's
still another tube under here hiding
something. And you can see now, you can
see why we had the slots cut in the
front. So first of all you leave the tube
in. You show this empty. You show this
empty and then whatever's inside of the
black tube is what you produce. Now of
course, you can make this box a lot
bigger and produce say a stuffed animal.
So this trick is only limited by
whatever it is you want to produce and
there's a lot of variations. And so I
think you're going to have fun with it. Just
remember, one thing is that you want a
low angle because if you perform the
trick like this, people might see the
black tube inside. Well I hope the kids
in your life are having a blast
performing these easy magic tricks for
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