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 that excites on Children's Day. A collection of easy magic tricks (1–10)
Magic of Light
This is a magic trick where, when you place an illustration of a lit candle into water, only the flame part disappears as if real fire had touched water.
The key is that the illustration is inside a bag; when you put it in water, refraction makes the illustration inside invisible.
Since the candle’s body is drawn not only on the inner sheet but also on the bag itself, only the lines on the bag remain visible, making it look as if the flame has gone out.
If the inner illustration and the bag’s lines shift while you move it, the secret will be revealed, so a crucial point is to hold them carefully aligned.
Magic where sweets come out of a paper cup
This is a magic trick where you signal to a paper cup that seemed empty—even when turned upside down—and when you turn it over again, candy appears.
In fact, the paper cup has a slit, and when you first turn it over, you press on the slit to keep the candy from coming out.
Since the candy is inside from the start, when you first turn the cup over, present it as empty by tilting it at an angle that hides the contents.
Smooth hand movements that don’t reveal you’re operating the gimmick are also an important point.
Head-dropping magic
It’s that magic trick you’ve probably seen on TV where the head suddenly drops with a thud.
There’s a small gimmick inside the jacket you wear, but you can easily make it with a wire hanger, a long S-hook, and vinyl tape.
If you do it out of the blue, you’ll probably hear some screams!
Magic that Excites on Children’s Day: A Collection of Easy Tricks (11–20)
A banknote that should have been cut but isn’t
You seem to stab a knife through a bill sandwiched in paper, yet when you take the bill out it’s perfectly fine with no hole! It’s a surprising magic trick, but the method is simple.
First prepare a sheet of paper folded in half, and fold the bill in half the same way.
Line up the creases and place the bill between the folded paper.
Holding it with the creases at the top, insert the knife from below, but shift the bill to one side so that you only pierce the paper.
Be mindful of your finger movements while performing so it doesn’t reveal that you moved the bill to one side.
The disappearing chopsticks envelope magic trick
It’s a magic trick where you put a pair of disposable chopsticks into an envelope, give a signal, and the chopsticks seem to vanish so the envelope can be crushed flat.
If the contents were something soft, it would just look like you were crushing them along with the envelope, but because it’s something rigid like chopsticks, it conveys the idea that they’ve actually disappeared.
In reality, what looked like chopsticks is just a paper tube with chopstick-like wrinkles, made of soft paper, so the whole envelope can be easily crushed.
Since a close look would reveal the fake, it’s important to handle everything smoothly up to the moment you put it into the envelope.
Magic that changes origami
It’s a magic trick where you supposedly cut a square hole in a sheet of origami paper folded in half, but when you snap it open, the hole has changed into a different shape.
In fact, there’s another piece of origami paper with the desired hole already cut, layered together, and when you open it, you flip that one to the front to show the audience.
It’s important to stack them so the hidden sheet won’t get cut when you use the scissors, and to prepare a shape that’s smaller than the hole you cut in front of them.
How you hold the paper when opening it—so they don’t realize there are two layers—may also be a crucial point.
A magic trick you can do with seven playing cards
This is a magic trick where you return the chosen card to a packet of seven cards, and then flawlessly name which card it was.
The key is how you mix the cards after the return—at this point, you bring the selected card to the bottom of the packet.
From there, you use techniques like catching a pinky break and turning over two cards at once to secretly move the selected card.
Adding a phase where a seemingly different card is placed in the spectator’s hand but then transforms into the chosen card makes the effect even more astonishing.