Here are five easy magic tricks that you can learn and perform for your friends
and family. Let's get started
First we're going to show you the tricks and then we'll show you how to do them.
What you'll need for this toothpick trick is a toothpick and a piece of tape.
Now I would suggest you use clear tape. I'm using a piece of bright green tape
here for explanation purposes. It's a lot easier, I think, for you to see. Now what
you do is just take your toothpick and put the little piece of tape on it and
now you're going to tape it onto your back of your thumbnail. Once you have it
taped to your thumb, you're ready to perform the trick. What you do is you
bend your thumb and hide the tape with your finger so people see your hand. And
it looks fairly natural as if you are holding a toothpick in your fingers. And
then to make the vanish happen, you simply reach forward, flip it out and you
can show your hand pretty much empty, except you have the thumb with the
toothpick behind your hand. Hold it and it vanishes in your hand. Just make sure
that the line of sight of your spectators is looking this way and that
the toothpick is hidden. If you start to turn, obviously they will see the
toothpick. And that is the toothpick trick.
What you do is set this right up in front of spectators. All you need is two
corks and you can do this anytime you have two corks or maybe even two
chapsticks or lipsticks or any object of a similar size. Place one cork in the crook of
your left hand take the other cork and place it in the crook of your right hand. Now
here's the secret. Now it looks as if you're just grabbing the cork here and
grabbing it here but of course you can't take it apart and that's
what spectators think they're seeing. So here's what you do. You take your left
forefinger place it on top and with your left thumb, place it on the bottom. Now here's the
difference. Instead of grabbing the corks like this you reach your thumb in and
grab the top there. So my thumb is going in and then you turn your hand grabbing
the bottom of the cork with your finger here. And now, from all perspectives it
looks like you're holding the corks but by simply turning your hands you can
release. Once again, a cork in the crook of the hand there, the other one there. The
forefinger thumb of the left hand thumb. This is the crucial part. The right thumb
reaches through, grabs the top. The hand sweeps under and the right forefinger grabs the cork
on the bottom. There, and now you're free to release your hands and turn the cork.
To perform the straw trick you'll need two straws. Plastic straws work best. This
is one of those interesting magic tricks where you are setting up the trick right
in front of spectators and the way you set it up is exactly what spectators see.
But from their perspective, it looks as if you've twisted them together but you
haven't. Here's how to do the trick. Take your left hand and hold the straw.
Let's say this one's vertical. Take your right hand and place the second straw across at a 90
degree angle and make sure that the right hand straw is on top. Now using
your right hand, take the bottom straw - the one that's on the bottom, the one you
laid down first. And you grab it and twist it around. So you've actually gone this
way and twisted it around. Now for your second straw you're going to take this
one and twist it around this one and hold it over here. So let me show you how
to do that. You twist it around - I guess that's clockwise - bring it over.
Now it's important at this point that as you bend the straws that you hold it at this
point right here. Then this one and then when you count one, two, three,
it appears the straws have penetrated through each other and come apart. So
once again left hand, right hand straw goes on top at a 90 degree angle. The
bottom most straw with your right hand. Meanwhile, you have to hold it here. Right
hand twists this one around and under. Hold with the left hand, take the right
hand, grab the straw. Now you're going to twist it around this way.
Hold it here. Bend the straw and then just count one, two, three and it appears
the straws have penetrated through each other. And of course, the straws are
ordinary and everything can be examined.
All you'll need for the rubber band and paper clip trick are two rubber bands
and a paper clip. You'll notice I'm using hair bands here because they show up a
little better on camera but you can use any two rubber bands and a paper clip.
Also, you'll note that I have bands of different colorf which helps me with
the explanation. But you should use two bands of the same color. That said, here's
the setup. Take your paper clipped band and place
it on your ring and small finger. Take the second band and place it on the
first and middle finger so you have something that looks like this. You have
your clip on a band here and another band here. Now here's the setup. You're
going to take the right band and pull it across and then pull the band on the
left and pull that across. And you'll notice that you form a triangle right
here. You place all of your fingers into this triangle and rest them on the tips
of your finger. Now you're ready to begin the trick. This part you don't show the
spectator but at this point you hold the clip and then when you open your hand,
the clip apparently jumps to the other fingers.
And if you like you can reverse the process and send the clip back. So once
again, you pull across across the different directions and you'll form
this triangle right there. All the fingers go inside
and from the spectator's standpoint, you have the clip here. And all you do is
open your hand and the band jumps. Now it is a little tricky and you have to get really
good at this setup. So in practice you should just be able to be almost setting
this up as you bring your hand up and have it set up within a second. And if
you talk to spectators they won't really notice. But that's the jumping paper clip
and rubber band trick.
All you need is an ordinary spoon and it's all in how you hold the hands.
It looks as if I'm bending the spoon but it's all in the right hand.
What I'm actually doing is, I'm loosely holding the spoon and then as I push
down the spoon actually moves in this motion. So if I can do this with one hand you
can see how that goes down. With cover from the other hand, it looks like
the spoon is bending. Bring it back, just spin it around and show it's fully
intact. For version 2 you'll need a nickel. So what you do is I just like to
hide the nickel in my hand here I show the spoon and then I place the nickel on
top right here on the spoon. And then as I'm setting this up, the nickel looks
like the tip of the spoon and the spoon handle but it is not. And then you can go
and do the bend and that adds an extra little convincer. When you bring it
back, just hide the nickel in your hand while showing the spoon. Once again,
it's a pivot here, kind of off of the little finger. Most of the work when I do
the trick is done by the right hand which allows the spoon handle to slide.
And the spoon is actually flat and unharmed But here, it makes it look as if
I bent it. One more time, bring it back fully intact. Do this at a dinner party
and your host won't be happy but if they have a good sense of humor they'll
laugh about it later. Well I hope you have fun performing these tricks for
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