Here are some magic trick ideas using balloons.
Balloons, which you can easily get even at 100-yen shops, are versatile items that add flair and liven up any occasion.
They’re perfect for school festival booths and party entertainment!
Balloons are also popular as children’s toys, so they’re sure to be a hit at daycare and kindergarten events as well.
Some tricks that seem difficult at first glance often turn out to have simple mechanisms or use science, making them easy to try!
Be sure to learn a few and show them off.
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Skewer-through-balloon magic that doesn’t pop the balloon
There are two spots on a balloon where it won’t pop, even if you stick a skewer into them.
Still, even knowing that, it’s scary to actually stab a balloon with a skewer! If you can overcome that fear, people who see this magic trick will look at you with admiration.
A smartphone goes inside a balloon.
It’s a striking and entertaining magic trick where, when you press a smartphone against an inflated balloon, it appears to go inside the balloon.
You can use anyone’s smartphone, and it’s easy to practice while still delivering a strong impact.
Magic of eating a balloon!?
It’s the magic trick you often see on TV or from street performers where they appear to swallow a balloon.
This trick comes with an explanation, so please do not actually swallow it as-is! Once you see how it’s done, you’ll want to perform it for someone yourself!
Water comes out of an empty bucket.
Some of you may be looking for a magic trick you can learn quickly.
One I recommend is a trick where water comes out of an empty bucket.
For this trick, you’ll use a small bucket, a water balloon, and a pair of chopsticks with a needle attached to the tip.
First, inflate the water balloon and set it inside the bucket.
Then, while making sure the balloon doesn’t fall out, turn the bucket upside down to show it.
Next, say you’re casting a spell with the chopsticks and pop the balloon with the needle on the tip.
Finally, pour the water out of the bucket to reveal the effect, and you’re done.
A magic trick where a plastic bottle cap goes into a balloon
It’s a mysterious magic trick where, somehow, a plastic bottle cap ends up inside an inflated balloon with the opening sealed.
First, prepare a plastic bottle cap with a magnet attached and place it inside the balloon.
Also attach a magnet to one of the fingers on one hand.
At the start of the trick, be careful so the cap inside isn’t visible, and use the magnet on your finger to hold the cap in place so it doesn’t move.
With your other hand, hold another plastic bottle cap of the same shape and color.
As you pretend to push it into the balloon, release the first hand so the cap attached to the magnet drops inside the balloon, while you secretly keep the cap outside hidden in your hand.
And just like that, you create the astonishing illusion of a cap entering the balloon!
Balloons that pop and change colors one after another
Just when you think a dark blue balloon has been placed in the bowl, it pops and more and more balloons of different colors appear.
Simply watching the vibrant changes of the balloons makes your heart dance.
If you cover them with a handkerchief, it would be fun to reveal a different balloon each time you lift it.
A balloon that keeps spinning in the air
If you connect balloons together into a donut shape and blow a hair dryer at them, they’ll keep spinning without falling.
Adults might think, “Well, you’re just blowing air on them,” but for children it feels like a heart-thumping kind of magic, doesn’t it?