Simple Magic! Fun Tricks Kids Can Do & Revealed Secrets!
Are you thinking, “Doing magic looks difficult”? In fact, anyone can easily perform amazing tricks using everyday items like rubber bands, tissues, and balloons.
You don’t need to be especially dexterous, either.
What really matters is just knowing a few simple tips.
In this article, we’ll introduce a variety of easy magic tricks that require little preparation and can be performed right away.
Try casually showing them off at parties or gatherings to liven up the event!
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Coin and Money Magic (11–20)
A magic trick where the chocolate candy disappears in an instant
This is a magic trick where the chocolate coating on a Pocky stick seems to peel off and then instantly go back on.
You pre-peel the chocolate halfway, and with a twist of the wrist, make it look like it comes off in a flash.
You also hold a piece of chocolate in the other hand; when you wave that hand over the Pocky, you rotate the stick half a turn and show the chocolate in your hand, making it appear as if the chocolate has peeled off and solidified.
It’s the kind of trick where studying which angles best present the effect is crucial.
How to make a vivid coin disappear
A classic of coin magic: the coin you were just holding vanishes.
You appear to transfer the coin from your right hand to your left; when you open your left hand, the coin is gone.
To explain: although it looks like you move the coin to your left hand, you’re actually using the coin’s glint and afterimage to create the illusion of a transfer, while secretly keeping it in your right hand.
This technique is called the Retention Vanish.
To get a clean-looking afterimage, shiny silver coins like 100-yen or 500-yen pieces are easy to handle.
Practice many times so it looks natural!
Smartphone & Digital Magic (1–10)
Smartphone magic that’s going super viral
It’s a magic trick where a series of 6s displayed on a smartphone calculator suddenly turns into a series of 9s.
Even after flipping the phone upside down several times, the 6s stay 6s, but in a certain instant they really do flip—and that’s what feels mysterious.
The key is the numerical setup beforehand: you prepare a calculation that adds a series of 3s to a series of 6s so that simply pressing “=” will turn them into a series of 9s.
Then, while moving the phone, you just brush the “=” button for a moment, and you can show the numbers changing.
Smartphone Calculator Magic
This is a simple magic trick using the iPhone’s calculator.
On a screen showing five 9s in a row, you slide your finger across and the 9s decrease one by one; when there’s only a single 9 left, you wave your hand over the screen and… five 9s appear again.
It’s a mysterious trick that makes you wonder how just waving your hand could do that, but all it does is enter a calculation and use built-in iPhone features.
First, you enter the formula, then close the app once.
After reopening it, you continue as if starting from the beginning.
The part where the 9s decrease one by one when you slide is an iPhone feature, and when you wave your hand, you simply press the = with the palm of your hand—that’s the secret.
Simple magic you can do with your smartphone
It’s a magic trick where you have someone choose a card from a deck, and when you hold a smartphone camera over that card, it reveals what the card is.
The mysterious part is that it looks as if you can see through the card to its suit and number, and when you actually flip it over, it matches exactly.
The key is how you hold and present the cards, and you also use psychology about where people tend to choose, so you can make them pick a specific card.
Then, if you’ve pre-recorded footage of taking out and putting away that forced card, you can make it look like you’re reading it with X-ray vision.
3 smartphone magic tricks
This is a magic trick where various phenomena happen around a smartphone—something that might feel especially uncanny to people who use their phones every day.
The phone remains steady even in situations where it should lose balance, the numbers on a calculator vanish with just a wave of the hand, a coin passes through—impossible scenarios unfold one after another.
The secret is thread for stabilization, pre-set calculations and a swipe for the calculator, and a coin set up in advance, so proceed in a way that doesn’t reveal the preparation.
If your hands are examined front and back too closely, you’ll be exposed, so keeping a brisk pace is also crucial.
A magic trick where a handkerchief passes through a smartphone screen
It’s a magic trick that looks all the more mysterious because you can see it clearly: a handkerchief slowly passes through a smartphone that doesn’t appear to have any holes.
The handkerchief visible in front of the phone and the one visible behind it move in perfect sync, which is why it really looks like it’s penetrating.
In reality, the handkerchief is rigged with a plastic part that has a hole, and by concealing this piece with the hand while aligning it with the phone, it creates the illusion of penetration even though the handkerchief is merely passing underneath the phone.
The key points are the mechanism itself and the positioning of the hands so the portion of the handkerchief that passes under the phone isn’t visible.