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Hello everyone. In this video I'm going
to teach you several tricks that you
can make for kids and teach them so
they can perform them for family and
friends. All you're going to need are basic
craft items: scissors, tape, and maybe some
glue. We're going to first show you the
tricks and then we'll show you how to
make them and teach them to the kids so
they can perform them. Let's get started.
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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 and then just snap the fingers.
We're going to cause this yellow one to
increase in size. And if I've been
successful, check it out, I think that
worked. The yellow one is now bigger than
the pink one. Wait. There's one more thing.
I can just cause a little bit of
a minor spell here. If I snap my fingers,
this increases the pink one just a little
bit and you'll now notice that they are
the same size. I have here a coin. It's
probably something you've never seen
before. It's an English penny and it's made
of copper, which is why it's brown. Which is
going to go into this piece of paper right
here.
And you'll notice that I have a second
piece of paper here. We're going to fold
that in and fold the final piece of
paper. Now for the magic. Everything
should be secure but if I snap my finger...
Let's see...some magic occurred. We're
going to unfold the paper. Unfold this paper.
and we have one more paper to go. But
look. We now have a silver coin, a Kennedy
half-dollar. How's that for a magic
exchange rate?
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And here's the explanation for the
vanishing coi. Now you need a card.
You're going to need a coin, preferably the
bigger the batter for a more effective
vanish. And you're going to need a piece of
paper. Actually you're going to need two sheets of
paper and I'll explain why. Now what I
have here is a seemingly innocent roll
of tape and this is the top of a mason
jar here that's for making and canning jams. I
guess what I've done is...I wanted to
perform this trick without buying
anything. Normally what I would do is
just go to the dolllar store and buy a
bunch of cheap bracelets because those work
great. But I found this roll of tape and I
found this mason jar ring in my house and what I've
done is...I've taken a piece of matching
paper here and cut out a circle to
completely cover the openings here.
That's the secret. So once you have your
other piece of paper cut out that
matches the one that you're performing
on, you're ready to go and doesn't that
look great? They look completely natural.
So what you're going to do here, we'll use
the mason jar. Don't do this in
performance but just for explanation
purposes here, you have your gimmicked
ring which is the Mason ring here, a jar
ring. And you have your card you've
covered and then you move it over. Place
it over the coin. You snap your finger
and the coin appears to vanish but of
course it's just underneath the material
here. Now take your card. Place it on top.
Snap the finger and move it over and the
coin returns. And that's the explanation
for the vanishing coin.
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Here's what you'll need for the 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 boomerangs or arcs. So let me show you how to
do that. So let's set this aside for now.
Take your two sheets of paper and line them
up. What you're going to do is take your - you
have to go through the house and look
for circles with bowls, plates, cups,
whatever you have. I've chosen these two
because what I want are two different
diameters: a diameter here and a
diameter here. So the larger diameter
objects is going to create the outer diameter.
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 and
trace along the edge. All I need is a
semicircle so let's just do that. And I
have a semicircle. Now with this one, I'm
going to use this small diameter here to
make an inner diameter. Now it's
important that 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 an inner diameter semicircle.
Line the 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.
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 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 here. 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,
switch the positions and they'll
seemingly change in size for
spectators.
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With this trick you're going to need three
sheets of paper and what I'll do is, I'll
put the dimensions of everything up on
the screen later on. But here, I have a
blue sheet of paper and what I've done
is just taking a regular
eight-and-a-half by 11-inch sheet and lopped
this off so it's a eight and a half by
eight and a half-inch square. This is the
normal distance on your standard printer
paper. Second one is a little smaller and
we have two smaller pieces that match
that are identical and are even smaller.
So the two of these are the key. They have to
be identical and then what you do is
take each sheet of paper and fold it in
thirds so you have something that
approximates a square. That's done
with all of the sheets of paper here.
I've done that and here I've done that.
Now the secret lies in these two pieces
of paper. You're going to need some glue
and what you're going to do is take your
glue and glue these two pieces
back-to-back.
As much as possible, you want these two
to fold in virtually the identical or
same way so you just create a single
packet here and therein lies the secret
of the trick. So let's get into the
performance and how to perform the trick.
All right, I'm going to show you how to
do the trick. I'm just gonna do it in
reverse. As you know from the
construction there's another side to
this piece of paper and so inside of
here, I have a different coin. So in this
case, we're just going to go backwards. I
have the copper coin, the English penny
inside of here.
Fold it up nice and tidy and I'm ready
to start the trick. So I take my silver
coin and I fold it in. Now here's the
sneaky part. It's a little bit of
misdirection. But when I say "look at this
second piece of paper," I lift up this
piece of paper here, but watch what I do.
When I put it back down I've actually
turned it over. Let me show that to you
again.
So I lift this piece of paper pointing
out this piece of paper and then when I
put it down I turn it over. A little bit
of misdirection. Pointing at the
pink paper that's how I make the
switch. So now the other side's on top. So
now the coin will switch. So now if I
open this up, you'll notice that it's
switched to the copper coin already but
of course at this point you've already
done all the sneaky magic work. So all
you have to do is fold up these pieces
of paper. You can claim that you're just
making everything as secure as possible.
Snap your fingers and remember that coin
that went in?
Ppen it up and it's changed into a
copper coin and that is the
transformation of a coin.
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 why it helps. And
you'll need some glue as well some
scissors. So let's get started. First of
all, take your first sheet of paper and
roll it into a column. Use a piece of
tape
and just for good measure I'm gonna put
a piece of tape along this seam here.
And now I have a fairly nice clean tube.
Second sheet of paper. Now this part gets
a little tricky. What you're going to do
is make something of a cone but it's not
actually a cone.
It's going to have a rather 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
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 an adult
will need to put this one together for
the youngsters. We have our regular
cylinder over here and we have here a
lopsided cylinder. What we'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 you
insert it into the other cone or
cylinder there. That's looking pretty
good.
so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to
put some glue on the inside of here so
that will take and hold this right
inside here.
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Now take your cone, 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 hide things. Over on
this side it looks fairly normal
and there now, it's ready to perform the
trick. As you can see from this end it looks
fairly normal. Something I would
recommend is if you have some different
colored tape colored tape here 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. So
you can show the tube empty and still
have room to hide things and let's get
into the explanation of the trick. Now
you've made your tube you're ready to
set up for your trick. I've going to be
using a handkerchief here, a very thin
silk handkerchief. You can use confetti or
you can use ribbons. Whatever 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. Beforehand, 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 the tube and
you can even do this so people can see
that the tube is empty. And then all you
do is snap your fingers, reach in and
produce
your handkerchief, your confetti whatever
it is that you want to bring out. Well I
hope the kids in your life are having a
blast performing these magic tricks for
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