Magic tricks you can perform at a birthday party: classic crowd-pleasers and surprise effects
Are there any of you who are thinking, “I want to perform magic at a birthday celebration for someone special—like a friend, partner, or family member!”?
A magic performance can liven up a birthday party, and if you can pull off a surprising routine, you can amaze and delight the birthday person.
In this article, we’ll introduce a selection of magic tricks that are perfect for birthday parties.
We’ve chosen not only surprise tricks that let you present a gift or a message, but also classic coin and card magic, as well as tricks you can do using items commonly found at a dinner or drinking party.
Use this as a reference.
If you find a trick you want to try, practice it well and add it to your repertoire!
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Magic tricks you can perform at a birthday party: surprise effects and classic crowd-pleasers (51–60)
The card teleports from the spectator’s palm!

Here’s an introduction to a magic trick where a playing card teleports.
It’s an easy trick that requires no advance setup or special preparation, yet it looks professional.
From a deck in your hand, you’ll teleport one card into a nearby card box in an instant.
In magic, hand movements and leading the audience to believe what you want them to often matter most.
That applies here too: paying attention to how you cut the cards and guiding the audience’s assumptions are the key points.
Why not practice and perform it so the spectators can’t figure out the secret?
Simple and amazing magic

This is a magic trick where you guess a card chosen from a shuffled deck, and it’s absolutely incredible.
I’ve heard that Arashi’s Ninomiya once performed the same trick, and it’s definitely the kind of magic that would amaze people on TV.
It does require practice, but it’s guaranteed to astonish your audience—why not give it a try?
Revealing the Secrets of Simple Pro-Level Magic

What would you think if the numbers of a card chosen in a magic trick just happened to match? You’d probably be surprised and amazed, right? Of course, since it’s a magic trick, it didn’t happen by chance.
In advance, four types of cards are selected, four of each.
Let’s place all sixteen cards on top of the rest of the deck and start the trick.
Be careful when shuffling so you don’t break up the set of sixteen, and watch the order in which you arrange them.
You’ll need to memorize a few steps, but in return you’ll be able to perform a professional-level trick.
A genuine paper-bag magic trick you can use at birthday parties and more!

This is a magic trick that looks professional using a paper bag.
It’s an easy trick you can do with a paper bag that you can prepare right away.
It’s also one of those ideas that gets attention as a surprise when giving a small gift.
You can use it as a casual, easy magic trick too.
Magic tricks you can perform at a birthday party: surprise effects and crowd-pleasing classics (61–70)
Let’s do magic with things around us.

Hold a coin in one hand, wave a permanent marker over it, and when you open your hand the coin has vanished.
But here’s the surprising part: when you pull off the marker’s cap, the coin pops out! It’s a short but astonishing magic trick.
It does take practice, but since you can do it with everyday items, it’s an easy trick to try.
The selected card comes out of the mouth.

For those who find simply guessing a card a bit dull, this magic trick is highly recommended.
At the moment you shuffle the deck, you secretly fold one card into quarters, then produce it from your mouth to reveal the selection—a unique and surprising routine.
The technique of folding a card into quarters can be applied to other tricks as well, so it’s definitely worth learning.
Two cards far apart stick together?!

They say they’ll use playing cards to do a compatibility reading and begin that way, and because it doesn’t feel overtly like a magic trick, it might be a great way to start a routine.
If you perform this trick first and then move on to other tricks, the excitement seems likely to build gradually.



