Magic that gets kids excited on Children's Day: A collection of simple tricks
Have you ever wanted to make Children’s Day even more exciting? Not just with gifts and meals—if you perform magic where mysterious things happen right before their eyes, the kids’ faces are sure to light up! From tricks using familiar items like tissues, origami paper, and paper cups, to unique ones that make use of smartphones or snacks, there are plenty of tricks you can try without any special preparation.
In this article, we’ll introduce magic that’s perfect for Children’s Day.
They’re all things you can do with just a few simple tips, so be sure to enjoy them together as a family!
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Magic to Excite Children’s Day: A Collection of Simple Trick Ideas (71–80)
Magic goods from a 100-yen shop
Recommended for those who say they don’t have time to practice magic or the skills to perform it are store-bought magic goods.
These days, even 100-yen shops sell a wide variety of items like wands, coins, and playing cards.
If you’re short on time or confidence, why not make use of them?
Elevator card
We use four red and four black playing cards.
The black cards are a run of numbers from 2 to 5.
In this trick, a black card that supposedly gets placed in the middle of the red cards mysteriously jumps to the top with a tap! It really uses only eight cards, but you begin by secretly offsetting one card as you hold the packet.
Once you get the hang of it, it’s easy, but it will fool your audience!
A coin passes through a glass
A magic trick where you tap a coin resting on your palm a few times with the bottom of a glass, and the coin that should have been on your palm seems to pass through the bottom and end up inside the glass.
There’s no gimmick involved; at the moment you tap with the bottom of the glass, you subtly lift the coin and scoop it up with the glass.
It takes a bit of practice.
Pen magic that produces a coin
It’s a magic trick where, after signaling with a ballpoint pen to a hand that should be empty, a coin appears in the hand.
In fact, a coin is fitted into the pen’s clip from the beginning, and while keeping that part out of view, you move it into the hand.
Pay attention to how you hold the pen when showing that your hand is empty, and how you conceal the coin when moving the pen.
If the clip or coin catches inside your hand, people will suspect a gimmick, so it’s also crucial to judge the position where it can be removed smoothly.
Potato Chips Switcheroo Magic
This is a magic trick where you hold a potato chips tube behind a paper bag to signal a change, and it swaps with a different flavor tube that was supposedly inside the bag.
You use two types of tubes, and you prepare a gimmick in advance on one of them, so be mindful of how you present it to avoid giving anything away.
The preparation involves attaching the outer label of a different flavor to half of the tube, so it’s important to remove and handle it in a way that doesn’t reveal the back half, along with a smooth wrist turn.
To prevent the gimmick from being discovered, it’s also a good idea to clean up quickly after performing the trick.
A magic trick where a pair of disposable chopsticks pierces through a handkerchief
It’s a magic trick where it looks like a chopstick forcefully pierces a handkerchief, but when you pull the chopstick out and unfold the handkerchief, there isn’t a single hole.
The secret is that when it seemed to go through, the chopstick was actually positioned in front of the handkerchief, merely creating the illusion of penetration.
You shape the handkerchief as if it were wrapped around the chopstick—using the chopstick at that stage—then use your fingertips to bring only the chopstick forward from there.
The key points are forming the handkerchief in a way that doesn’t reveal the chopstick’s movement and handling everything smoothly.
A magic trick where chopsticks end up in your nose
This is a magic trick that looks both comical and mysterious: a chopstick pressed against the nose is sucked into the nostril in an instant.
To emphasize that it really went into the nose, be mindful to mimic inhaling air and to show a surprised expression when it “gets sucked in.” Without moving the chopstick itself, you slide your hand along it while it’s held to the nose, and ultimately conceal the chopstick inside your hand.
It’s also crucial to decide how you’ll handle the chopstick hidden in your hand to convincingly show that it was sucked in and vanished.