Easy! Magic tricks that liven up a Christmas party. Simple tricks and their secrets revealed.
When it comes to livening up a Christmas party, nothing beats magic!
At a party with attendees of all ages, magic is something everyone can watch and enjoy together.
In this article, we’ll introduce magic tricks that are perfect for Christmas parties.
You might think, “Magic sounds hard…,” but the tricks we’re sharing here are simple.
Practice a bit in your spare time and help get the crowd excited!
Let’s make your Christmas party even more fun with magic!
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Easy! Magic tricks that liven up a Christmas party: Simple tricks and reveals (1–10)
Chase the present!
This is a magic trick where the audience participates by guessing which paper cup is hiding the present.
It’s not where it’s supposed to be and then appears somewhere else.
Next, without even shuffling the cups, it shows up in a different place again… how mysterious.
The secret is that there’s a hole in the bottom of the paper cup.
It’s truly the perfect trick for Christmas.
A pencil snaps clean in two on soft paper!?
A hard pencil and a soft notepad.
With that notepad, you’ll apparently snap the pencil clean in half—it’s a magic trick.
The secret is simple! You make it look like you’re breaking the pencil by swinging the notepad, but you’re actually using your index finger.
The key is to move your arm quickly so that doesn’t get noticed.
Easy magic that pops out of the box
This is a magic trick with a mysterious box that will amaze children: you place a box where there was nothing, cast a spell, and presents or ghosts appear from inside.
The gimmick is very easy to make with things you have at home.
The mysterious box is made from an empty tissue box, and the items inside are made from a milk carton.
Make the milk carton just the right size to be completely hidden in the box, and draw and attach illustrations—like a cake—on its surface.
Then stick a small magnet inside the milk carton, and simply attach another magnet to your own thumb.
Use a bandage or similar to secure the magnet in place.
Easy! Party-pleasing magic tricks for a Christmas gathering: Simple magic and reveals (11–20)
Magic that turns drawings into real sweets
This is a magic trick where the illustration printed on a snack package turns into a real snack.
Prepare a box with a drawing of the snack and carefully cut out the picture of the snack.
Attach the cut-out picture, and once you’re holding the real snack in your hand, you’re ready.
When performing the trick, stick the illustration on the box to your fingertips and slide it so that the cut-out area isn’t visible.
Finally, when you open your hand, a real snack appears.
It’s also fun to try it with Christmas-themed snacks.
Surprise card magic to incorporate when giving a present
This is an application of a magic trick where you have someone choose a card, return it to the deck, shuffle, and then divine the card by naming it from the deck’s face.
Following the numbers that are face-up within the deck, you turn over cards and the selected card finally appears.
Then, when you turn over the cards in between, cards appear that show the date and a message for Christmas, as well as a card indicating where a present is hidden.
The face-up numbers and the message are prepared in advance as a set and stacked near the top of the deck.
After that, you control the cuts so that the chosen card is placed on top of that set, and you shuffle in a way that preserves the order.
It’s crucial to use riffling and shuffling techniques that don’t reveal there are face-up cards mixed into the deck.
Magic where something unexpected comes out of a Pringles can
At first it seems like a magic trick where a plastic bottle cap returns to a snack tube, but then even larger objects appear or the item turns brand-new, adding fresh surprises.
To make it clear, you can combine a potato chip tube with a potato—something larger than the cap and related to the snack, and less likely to reveal it’s been switched to a new one.
You draw attention to the cap, produce the potato from your pocket, then, while directing attention to the potato, you secretly switch it for a brand-new one you’ve placed under the table.
Key points include the gaps between your fingers while holding it, the angle of your hands, and lifting it smoothly and naturally without arousing suspicion.
A coin that disappears when tapped with a pen
Let me show you a magic trick you can do with just a pen and a coin.
You tap the coin in your palm with a pen held in the other hand, and the coin disappears.
Then, when you remove the pen cap, the coin drops out from inside…
That’s the trick.
Even if you watch the whole sequence, it’s over before you can say, “Huh? What?” Here’s the secret: you pretend to tap the coin in your left hand with the pen, but at that exact moment you secretly move the coin into your right hand—the one holding the pen.
Then, when you take off the pen cap, you let the coin fall from your right hand.
Practice hard and amaze everyone around you!