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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Magician from Today! A Gentle Introduction to Magic (11–20)
Magic using an eraser case
Here’s a simple magic trick you can do with an eraser from your pencil case.
Try it at school, the office, or at home.
First, cut out just two sides of the eraser’s sleeve and stick them onto the eraser.
Prepare this modified eraser.
Then, show only the side without the sleeve, and as you blow on it, secretly rotate the eraser 180 degrees in your hand.
It will instantly look like the sleeve has appeared.
Just make sure they don’t get a chance to examine the eraser and see that only two sides have the sleeve, and it’ll be perfect.
Even elementary schoolers can do it! Guess the trump card numbers
This is a playing card magic trick where you guess the card someone has chosen.
In this trick, the spectator returns their chosen card to any spot they like, and you pretend not to know where it is—but in fact, from the moment it’s returned, the performer already knows its location.
The key to making this trick work is the bottom card of the deck.
While squaring the deck and demonstrating that the cards are well shuffled, make sure to firmly remember what that bottom card is.
Then, at the moment the chosen card is returned to the deck, place the key card directly on top of it.
By doing this, you’re able to keep track of the position of the chosen card!
Magician from Today! A Gentle Introduction to Magic Tricks (21–30)
Simple chopstick magic
It’s a magic trick where a pair of disposable chopsticks moves as if it were alive when you hover your hand over it.
When you hold your hand over it, it comes closer; when you bring your hand near, it scurries away.
The method is simple: staple a single rubber band to the back of the chopsticks, hook that rubber band onto the thumb of the hand holding the chopsticks, and then the rubber band’s tension makes it slide and move smoothly.
Age-guessing calculation magic
It’s a magic trick where you guess someone’s age after they pick a favorite number from 1 to 9.
By adding, multiplying, and subtracting specific numbers from their chosen number, you end up with a three-digit number.
The hundreds digit will be the number they first chose, and the last two digits will be their age.
The video is the 2024 version, so you’ll need to adjust the numbers to match the year, but it’s a fun trick—be sure to learn it and show it off! Note that it doesn’t work for ages 100 and above, so keep that in mind.
Calculation magic that results in 6
It’s a magic trick I like to show when I want people to get interested in numbers.
In this trick, you create equations that always come out to 6.
For example, if you insert plus signs into “2 2 2,” the equation works and equals 6.
Or if you insert multiplication and subtraction into “3 3 3,” the answer also becomes 6.
By inserting symbols like this, you neatly complete the equations and calculate as if by magic.
If you’re interested, try coming up with your own equations too.
Let’s predict the sum of four numbers!
Let’s try predicting a total using a 4×4 grid of numbers.
First, have a spectator choose one number from the grid.
Circle the chosen number, then cross out the squares directly above, below, to the left, and to the right of it.
Repeat this process, and in the end, add up the four remaining numbers—that total is what you’ll predict.
The trick is, no matter which numbers are chosen, the total will always be 20! By setting eight numbers along the top and right edges so that paired sums equal 20, and then filling the grid by adding those values, you can construct a table where the total is guaranteed to be 20 every time.
99-times-table calculation magic
In elementary school, we memorize the multiplication table (the times table) like a chant.
The usual table goes up to 9, but in this trick we take on the 99-times table! Without long multiplication or mental math, you’ll produce the answer instantly.
The secret is that the result for multiplying by 99 can be formed by taking the answer for multiplying by 9, splitting it into the hundreds and ones places, and simply putting a 9 in the tens place.
For example, 99×2 is 198, and 99×3 is 297.
If you first write the hundreds and ones digits and then quickly fill in the tens digit with a 9, most people will think, “You only wrote a 9—there’s no way that’s correct.” Show them it matches perfectly and give them a surprise!