Do-it-yourself magic tricks. Easy tricks for kids. Guessing the date of birth
We bring to your attention 10 amazing magic tricks, experiments, or science shows that you can do with your own hands at home.
At your child's birthday party, weekend or vacation, make the most of your time and become the center of attention of many eyes! 🙂
An experienced organizer of scientific shows helped us in preparing the post - Professor Nicolas. He explained the principles behind a particular focus.
1 - Lava lamp
1. Surely many of you have seen a lamp that has a liquid inside that imitates hot lava. Looks magical.
2. Water is poured into sunflower oil and food coloring (red or blue) is added.
3. After that, we add effervescent aspirin to the vessel and observe a striking effect.
4. During the reaction, colored water rises and falls through the oil without mixing with it. And if you turn off the light and turn on the flashlight, the "real magic" will begin.
: “Water and oil have different densities, and also have the property of not mixing, no matter how we shake the bottle. When we add effervescent tablets inside the bottle, they dissolve in water and begin to release carbon dioxide and set the liquid in motion.”
Want to put on a real science show? More experiences can be found in the book.
2 - Experience with soda
5. Surely at home or in a nearby store there are several cans of soda for the holiday. Before you drink them, ask the guys the question: “What happens if you submerge soda cans in water?”
Drown? Will they swim? Depends on the soda.
Invite the children to guess in advance what will happen to a particular jar and conduct an experiment.
6. We take the cans and gently lower them into the water.
7. It turns out that despite the same volume, they have different weights. That is why some banks sink and others do not.
Commentary by Professor Nicolas: “All our cans have the same volume, but the mass of each can is different, which means that the density is different. What is density? This is the value of mass divided by volume. Since the volume of all cans is the same, the density will be higher for one of them, whose mass is greater.
Whether a jar will float in a container or sink depends on the ratio of its density to that of water. If the density of the can is less, then it will be on the surface, otherwise the can will go to the bottom.
But what makes a regular cola can denser (heavier) than a diet drink can?
It's all about the sugar! Unlike ordinary cola, where granulated sugar is used as a sweetener, a special sweetener is added to diet cola, which weighs much less. So how much sugar is in a typical soda can? The difference in mass between regular soda and its dietary counterpart will give us the answer!”
3 - Paper cover
Ask the audience a question: “What happens if you turn a glass of water over?” Of course it will spill! And if you press the paper to the glass and turn it over? The paper will fall and the water will still spill on the floor? Let's check.
10. Carefully cut out the paper.
11. Put on top of the glass.
12. And carefully turn the glass over. The paper has stuck to the glass, as if magnetized, and the water does not pour out. Miracles!
Commentary by Professor Nicolas: “Although it’s not so obvious, but in fact we are in the real ocean, only in this ocean there is not water, but air that presses on all objects, including you and me, we just got used to it to this pressure that we do not notice it at all. When we cover a glass of water with a piece of paper and turn it over, water presses on the sheet on one side, and air on the other side (from the very bottom)! The air pressure turned out to be greater than the pressure of the water in the glass, so the leaf does not fall.
4 - Soap Volcano
How to make a small volcano erupt at home?
14. You will need baking soda, vinegar, some dish detergent and cardboard.
16. Dilute vinegar in water, add washing liquid and tint everything with iodine.
17. We wrap everything with dark cardboard - this will be the “body” of the volcano. A pinch of soda falls into the glass, and the volcano begins to erupt.
Commentary by Professor Nicolas: “As a result of the interaction of vinegar with soda, a real chemical reaction occurs with the release of carbon dioxide. And liquid soap and dye, interacting with carbon dioxide, form a colored soap foam - that's the eruption.
5 - Candle pump
Can a candle change the laws of gravity and lift water up?
19. We put a candle on a saucer and light it.
20. Pour tinted water on a saucer.
21. Cover the candle with a glass. After a while, the water will be drawn into the glass against the laws of gravity.
Commentary by Professor Nicolas: What does the pump do? Changes pressure: increases (then water or air begins to “run away”) or, conversely, decreases (then gas or liquid begins to “arrive”). When we covered the burning candle with a glass, the candle went out, the air inside the glass cooled, and therefore the pressure decreased, so the water from the bowl began to be sucked in.
Games and experiments with water and fire are in the book "Experiments of Professor Nicolas".
6 - Water in the sieve
We continue to study the magical properties of water and surrounding objects. Ask someone present to put on a bandage and pour water through it. As we can see, it passes through the holes in the bandage without any difficulty.
Bet with others that you can make it so that water will not pass through the bandage without any additional tricks.
22. Cut off a piece of bandage.
23. Wrap a bandage around a glass or champagne glass.
24. Turn the glass over - the water does not spill out!
Commentary by Professor Nicolas: “Due to such a property of water as surface tension, water molecules want to be together all the time and it is not so easy to separate them (they are such wonderful girlfriends!). And if the size of the holes is small (as in our case), then the film does not tear even under the weight of water!”
7 - Diving bell
And to secure your honorary title of Water Mage and Master of the Elements, promise that you can deliver paper to the bottom of any ocean (or bath or even a basin) without soaking it.
25. Have those present write their names on a piece of paper.
26. We fold the sheet, put it in a glass so that it rests against its walls and does not slide down. Immerse the leaf in an inverted glass to the bottom of the tank.
27. Paper stays dry - water can't get to it! After you pull out the sheet - let the audience make sure that it is really dry.
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It's very easy to make children see you as a real wizard. All you need is sleight of hand and boundless imagination. Science will do the rest for you.
website collected for you 6 elementary scientific experiments that will certainly make your children believe in miracles.
Experience #1
We need one ziplock bag, water, blue food coloring, extra hands and a little imagination.
Tint a small amount of water with 4-5 drops of blue food coloring.
For greater credibility, clouds and waves can be drawn on the package, and then poured with tinted water.
After you need to tightly seal the bag and stick it to the window with adhesive tape. The result will have to wait a little, but it's worth it. Now you have your own weather in the house. And your children will be able to watch the rain pour right into the little sea.
Exposure of the focus
Since the Earth has a limited amount of water, there is such a phenomenon on it as the water cycle in nature. Under warm sunlight, the water in the bag evaporates, turning into steam. As it cools at the top, it reverts to liquid form and falls as precipitation. This phenomenon can be observed in the package for several days. In nature, this phenomenon is infinite.
Experience No. 2
We need water, a transparent glass jar with a lid (preferably longer), dishwashing liquid, sparkles and heroic strength.
Fill the jar 3/4 full with water, add a few drops of dishwashing liquid. After a few seconds, add dye and glitter. This will help you see the tornado better. We close the container, spin it in a spiral and admire.
Exposure of the focus
When you swirl the jar in a circular motion, you create a whirlwind of water that looks like a mini tornado. Water quickly rotates around the center of the vortex due to centrifugal force. Centrifugal force is the force inside a guiding object or liquid such as water, relative to the center of its circular path. Whirlwinds are found in nature, but there they are very scary.
Experience No. 3
We need 5 small glasses, 1 glass of hot water, a tablespoon, a syringe and an inquisitive sweet tooth. Skittles: 2 red candies, 4 orange, 6 yellow, 8 green and 10 purple.
Pour 2 tablespoons of water into each glass. We count the required number of sweets and lay them out in glasses. Hot water will help the candy dissolve faster. If you notice that the sweets do not dissolve well, put the cup in the microwave for 30 seconds. Then let the liquid cool to room temperature.
With a syringe or a large pipette, pour the colors into a small jar, starting with the thickest and densest (purple) and ending with the least dense (red). You need to drip the syrup very carefully, otherwise everything will mix. First, it is better to drip on the walls of the jar so that the syrup itself slowly flows down. You end up with Skittles Rainbow Jam.
Exposure of the focus
Experience No. 4
We need a lemon, a cotton swab, a bottle, any decorations of your choice (hearts, sparkles, beads) and a sea of love.
Squeeze some lemon juice into a glass and dunk a Q-tip into it to write your secret message.
To develop the inscription, heat it (iron it, hold it over a fire or in the oven). Be careful not to let the kids do it themselves.
Exposure of the focus
Lemon juice is an organic substance that can oxidize (react with oxygen). When heated, it turns brown and "burns" faster than paper. Orange juice, milk, vinegar, wine, honey and onion juice give the same effect.
Experience No. 5
We need gummy worms, baking soda, vinegar, cutting board, sharp knife, two clean glasses.
Cut each worm into 4 pieces. It is better to pre-moisten the knife with a little water so that the marmalade does not stick so much. Dilute 3 tablespoons of baking soda in warm water.
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In today's article, we, as always, continue to review the most interesting tricks and their secrets! However, today's trick is very unusual!
And it is unusual in that it can be used to win disputes! Yes Yes! In the right hands, this trick will be a powerful weapon! In addition, it can be shown with a deck of 36 cards. Plus, it's incredibly lightweight. Absolutely anyone can repeat it after a couple of days of training.
Together, we get the trick that anyone with absolutely any deck of cards can perform at absolutely any time! Just the perfect trick!
So, before showing the trick, we can give the viewer a deck to mix it up as he pleases. This is another plus of the trick. There is absolutely no charge and no preliminary preparation!
- turn a small part of the deck face up
- let's start flipping through the deck and the first two cards that will lie face down will be the spectator's cards
The viewer needs, of course, to remember these cards. After that, we will remove them to the center of the deck, and thoroughly mix the deck.
Another huge plus of this trick is that after we put the spectator's cards into the deck, the spectator himself can shuffle the cards!
This is simply the greatest advantage of any trick at all. In this way, viewers are convinced that their card cannot be found in any way.
Now we will use one very interesting way to find the spectator's cards: we will scroll through the decks and we will remove some cards either to the center, then to the bottom of the deck, or leave them at the top.
Here is such a very strange and unusual way, but it is fully working!
After that, mix the deck again a couple of times.
We show the viewer one card, which lies at the bottom of the deck. It must be her! But the viewer says it's not! Hmm, strange. Okay, let's put it on the table for now.
Let's try again. And again, it's not her! Yes, how so? Let's put it on the table too.
Finally, we will show him the last card, in the hope that at least we will guess with it. But it wasn't there, unfortunately.
And at this moment, the viewer understands that he will 100% win the dispute, because we never found his card. Well, that's why we'll have to use the power of magic. We ask him what cards he memorized. We snap a finger, turn over those cards that are on the table and ... these are they !!!
This is just a powerful blow to the mind of the viewer. After all, he saw how we put completely different cards on the table!
Tricks with such a “crap” effect simply take out the brain of absolutely any viewer. But the trick is also incredibly simple and anyone can repeat it. So I advise you to learn it and become the most interesting person in your company!
And the trick is based on one of the simplest card techniques. It is called "shift", in the original "glide".
Shift Training
Demonstration and teaching focus
I strongly recommend that absolutely every card tricker learn this trick, because its effect will simply blow the mind of anyone. And if you want to win some kind of argument, and even do it gracefully, then this is an even greater reason to learn and train it.
Its effect is very similar to our trick today, only it does not use the entire deck, but only four cards. Specifically - four Aces!
Briefly describe, we offer the viewer to choose a card, after which we lose it in the deck. Then we show the viewer four aces, and when clicked, one of the Aces turns into a spectator's card!
Well, that's all I have for today! These are the interesting tricks we have today and their secrets!
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Tricks at home do not require long preparation and special mechanisms. Their main secret lies in sleight of hand and small tricks.
Magic at home? Why not? Many ordinary things and objects to which we do not attach special importance can become magical in the hands of a clever conjurer and illusionist. Everyone knows that magic tricks can make any celebration memorable, especially if it's a child's birthday. After all, the tricks done by your beloved dad will be remembered by the birthday man for life!
The magical properties of water have long been used by famous illusionists around the world, and not only by them. However, you probably observed some of them in physics lessons, studying optics or the law of Archimedes. Tricks with water have simple manipulations and a grandiose effect. By the way, half the success of the audience depends on the ability of the magician to beautifully arrange the performance. Remember the incredible performances of David Copperfield? Tricks at home do not require long preparation and special mechanisms. Their main secret lies in sleight of hand and small tricks. Let's learn how to perform tricks with water and surprise family and friends.
- water illusion. Pour water into a glass. Place it in front of a sheet or monitor with arrows on it. The water will miraculously change their direction. Rays of light, when passing from air to water, change their direction, approaching the perpendicular. Water has a higher refractive index than air. A glass of water acts as a magnifying glass.
- Pepper and water. Pour water into a bowl and sprinkle with pepper. When you touch the surface of the water with your finger, nothing will happen. Now put a drop of soapy water on your finger and touch the surface of the water again. Peppercorns will scatter to the edges of the bowl. Surface tension forces the pepper to float on the surface. Soap breaks the surface tension of water. It spreads, capturing grains of pepper.
- Water and whiskey. Fill one shot glass with water and the other with whiskey. Put the plastic card on the glass of water, turn it over and place it on the glass of whiskey so that the card is between the glasses. Slightly shift it, creating a gap for mixing liquids. After 10 minutes, the whiskey and water will switch places. This effect can be explained by the fact that whiskey and water have different densities. The whiskey is lighter and floats up. Water is heavier, it sinks down.
- fire resistant Balloon. Fill balloon water and place it over the candle flame. The water will absorb the heat, cooling the ball at the bottom and preventing it from popping.
- Glowing stream. Make a hole at the bottom of the plastic bottle. Fill it up with water. Direct laser pointer right on the hole. Put your hand up and you will see how a colored water jet will flow onto it, which in this focus acts as an optical fiber, transmitting light.
- Luminous tonic. If you turn on the ultraviolet lamp, the tonic bottle will light up. Why? Quinine, which is part of the drink, converts ultraviolet radiation into the visible spectrum.
- Cork from a kapron grid. Cut off a piece of nylon mesh, place it on the neck of the bottle and fix it with an elastic band. Fill the bottle with water through the mesh. If you cover the neck of the bottle with your palm and turn it over, then water will not flow through this mesh. Due to the binding properties of water, “membranes” are formed in the small holes of the mesh. The difference in pressure between the air outside and the water inside keeps the latter from flowing out.
- Water ice cream. Place a bottle of distilled water in the freezer. When the water temperature reaches zero degrees, then carefully remove the bottle. Squeezing it or hitting it on the table will cause the water to freeze. Try pouring it into your palm. The absence of impurities in purified water allows you to move its freezing point to a level below zero. If you shake the bottle, the water will freeze at zero degrees.
Any viewer at least once in his life wanted to know the secrets of illusionists and conjurers, in this article we will tell you how to make simple tricks for children at home. For novice magicians aged 8-10, you can come up with a whole performance and an unforgettable show for peers for a birthday at home and beyond.
Interesting tricks for children do not require special skills and special equipment, a child of 8 - 10 years old can easily cope with them. To start the performance, you need to carefully prepare and hone your skills to make the focus perfect. An amazing birthday trick will get your offspring bathed in standing ovations and applause, as well as raise his self-esteem.
- In order for the tricks to be performed in accordance with all the rules, the kid should come up with a costume and a stage image. Ask your child who he wants to be more, a street magician performing card tricks, an illusionist like David Copperfield, or even a real magician and wizard. Based on the preferences of your child, make the necessary props and costume to match the image.
- It is not difficult to learn how to impress the audience with tricks, the main thing is to develop sleight of hand and achieve mastery in distraction. Simple magic tricks for children can be based on physical and chemical properties objects and substances.
For example, light chemical tricks are performed using liquids (water, oil, soda, milk, etc.). Showing such simple miracles in kindergarten or for a birthday at home for 10 year old children, you can simultaneously teach them science. At the age of 10, children become more socialized, and such tricks perfectly develop communication skills and leadership qualities.
How to pierce a water bag without spilling water
For this scientific trick, you will need a plastic bag, a pencil, and water. Ordinary tap water is poured into the bag; for showiness, you can tint it with food coloring or just watercolor. Then we tie a bag of collected water and pierce it with a pencil. And voila! The package does not leak and the liquid remains in its place.
The whole trick lies in the property of the liquid, it's just physics, but from the outside it looks like an extraordinary miracle.
How to slip a coin through a table
Tricks with coins for children are probably the most popular. How often do we see in films how little peanuts have adult uncles getting a coin from behind their ear? But this is just sleight of hand, but being at home you can slightly change the focus with the coin. To do this, you need an ordinary table and a coin. The highlight of this magic lies in the penetration of the coin through the surface of the table. It is quite simple to execute it.
- First of all, you need to sit at the table so that the viewer does not see your legs under the table. All actions are performed with two hands. The active hand (right) is constantly in sight, and the left is under the table (we pretend that we are catching a coin). The most difficult moment is to quietly throw a coin from the edge of the table into the left hand.
- By doing this movement with three fingers, we create the appearance of holding a coin. Then at the same time we clap the palm of the right hand on the table, and with the left we knock the coin from under the bottom. Next, just take out a coin and expose it all as magic.
Focus coin through table
The balloon that can't burst
This scam is similar to the previous one with water and a pencil. Only instead of a bag we use a balloon, and a pencil - a long, thin and sharp knitting needle. To make the trick work, you first need to stick a tiny piece of transparent tape on the ball. You need to glue on both sides symmetrically. You can take a few more balls, but without adhesive tape. This is done in order to show that the balls are ordinary, and burst from the needle.
Then the kid inflates the "enchanted" ball, and pierces it into the places of the pasted adhesive tape through and through. And about a miracle! The ball did not burst, only you need to practice in advance.
Water turns to ice
A fun trick to freeze a liquid based on the chemical properties of water. As you know, at temperatures below 0 degrees, the liquid turns into ice. But this trick is spectacular, especially if you perform it on the birthday of 10 year old peers who do not yet know the laws of physics and chemistry.
- You need to take a plastic bottle, fill it with tap water and put it in the freezer in the refrigerator for about two hours. Be sure to make sure that the water does not freeze, but only becomes very cold close to solidification. Then you can get ice for drinks and start pouring icy liquid from the bottle onto it, everyone will be delighted with what they see freezing and turning the liquid into a solid state, i.e. into the ice.
- You can also invite the public to try ice cream from their favorite carbonated drink. To begin, before your show, shake up a soda bottle and refrigerate as above. Constantly make sure that the drink does not harden, this time is for different refrigerators individually. Therefore, from time to time go and check that no ice has formed.
- Then, when it's time for the performance, take out the soda bottle (the main thing is not to shake it so as not to spoil the focus) open the lid gradually releasing the gas. Then slowly pour the drink into the chilled container, and you will see how it turns into ice cream before your eyes. Also, this magic can be arranged right in the bottle. To do this, shake the chilled soda.
- If you prefer to experiment with water, then you can pour it into a cold cup and drop a piece of ice into it. The effect will be the same, only the liquid does not freeze immediately, but rather sticks to the ice. Stirring with a spoon or straw, you get a homogeneous mass. If you use a sweet drink, then it is quite possible to eat it as ice cream and offer it to those who wish. It turns out a kind of molecular cooking.
Matchbox
- Even a kid in kindergarten will make the funny and simplest trick with the help of a matchbox. First you need to prepare the props, take a matchbox and pull out the inner box for storing matches from it, cut it in the center and turn one of the halves upside down. Then, using adhesive tape or paper, glue the box so that it consists of two halves turned in different directions.
- Next, put the matches into the glued box and put them back into the boxes. The following actions: the box is taken and the inner box is pulled out halfway (so that the gluing is not visible), the observers see the matches, then the box is closed and turned back to the viewer.
Everyone thinks that by turning the box over and opening it all the matches will fall out. But it was not there! You pull out the box, but the matches remain in place, and for the viewer, the magic lies in the fact that the box inside turned over by itself.
Focus with ropes
You will need two participants and two identical ropes. To begin with, one participant (No. 1) is tied with a rope on his wrists in the form of handcuffs. The second participant is tied with a rope on one hand, the rope itself is passed through the “fetters” of the first (crosswise) and the second end of the rope is tied to participant No. 2. Then they are asked to free themselves from the fetters, without removing the ropes from their wrists and without cutting them.
From the outside, this case does not look very tricky, and it seems that it is impossible to free oneself. But there is a way out, and this is how: a rope is taken from participant No. 2 somewhere in the middle and its loop is threaded into the loop on the wrist of the first participant. Then the threaded loop No. 2, the participant No. 1 puts on himself on the arm through which the loop of the second was passed. And participant No. 2 throws off the loop at No. 1 and is released.
Trick with rope
Magic kits
A set of tricks for children can be given to your little one for her birthday or simply bought for logical development and thinking. Ready kits can be purchased in online stores, such kits usually come with instructions for performing tricks.
These can be chemical or physical experiments, illusions, card tricks, practical jokes and much more. These simple tricks at home prepare the child for science and by playing with their parents, they develop oratory skills and develop creativity.
Experience with soda
The ingenious abracadabra with soda at first sight fascinates and confuses onlookers. The trick itself is to restore a crumpled aluminum soda can, followed by pouring a drink from a supposedly “empty” container.
To begin with, you will need a half-liter jar of your favorite drink (not opened). As well as a needle, adhesive tape and a black circle of paper (the size of a hole in a jar). First of all, you need to pierce the jar with a needle in some place (preferably higher and closer to the top).
- Thus, we release pressure and part of the drink from the can. After, when the drink comes out by about one third, we seal the hole with tape. Then gently crush the jar itself, giving it a used look. We put a black circle of paper on the lid. From a distance, it will look like the jar is open and there is a hole in it.
- Everything is ready for the performance, now you tell the audience that with the help of magic you can restore the can of coveted soda. You take the crumpled container and carefully show that it seems to be empty.
- Then with the words - abracadabra, shake the bottle slightly and make mysterious gestures with your hands (due to the internal pressure of the gas in the jar from shaking, it will begin to burst and the remaining drink will straighten the bent aluminum). Then, distracting with other hands, and with words, carefully and imperceptibly remove the black circle with your thumb. Next, you open the cap of the bottle (revealing the ring) and pour the drink into a glass.
paper cover
Another experience built on science and physics. Again liquid, glass, but now still paper. Fill a glass with water (about halfway), and cut off a piece of paper a little larger than the diameter of the neck of the glass. Then cover the glass with a sheet of paper and quickly turn it over, holding the paper.
And lo and behold, the water did not spill, but remained in the glass. You can modify this experience with the help of a dye for the liquid and you can take different volumes of vessels. It can be a small glass, a liter jar, a vase, etc. The main thing is that the neck of the vessels should be even.
Cool trick with water in a glass
