Magic that excites crowds at cultural and school festivals
Magic at school festivals is always such a hit!
If you perform some fun tricks on the gym stage, everyone will be thrilled.
Here, we’ll introduce a variety of ideas—from simple tricks you can do easily to ones that require a bit of practice.
With some clever gimmicks, there are surprisingly easy tricks that can wow everyone.
Master skills like a professional magician and entertain the crowd at the festival.
With enough practice, you’re sure to put on a delightful magic show!
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Magic that excites at cultural and school festivals (71–80)
Eraser Case Magic
A fun and amusing transposition magic trick where an eraser case slipped onto a right-hand finger mysteriously disappears and reappears.
Items needed: an eraser case.
Performance impact: A.
Difficulty: Easy.
Practice required: Can be done with a little practice.
A magic trick that turns white paper into 10,000-yen bills
An amazing magic trick: you take a white piece of paper about the size of a banknote, fold it up small, then snap it open…
and it turns into a 10,000-yen bill! If a plain piece of paper turned into 10,000 yen, everyone’s excitement would go through the roof, right? (Haha.) Of course, there’s no such easy win—there’s a secret to it.
You tightly fold a 10,000-yen bill with a clip attached, then attach the white paper to the clip.
Next, you fold the white paper forward again and again to hide the clip.
When you quickly unfold the 10,000-yen bill that’s been hidden behind the folded white paper, the white paper ends up concealed behind the bill.
That’s the mechanism.
Once you memorize the folding method, you can perform this trick anytime, anywhere!
Two 1,000-yen bills slipping through right before my eyes
As the centerpiece of the school festival, this magic trick is perfect! It’s so mysterious how the bills pass through each other even though they’re overlapping.
The audience will definitely be amazed.
If you perform it on stage, the whole venue is sure to get excited.
The key is smooth movements and facial expressions.
Practice a lot and aim for a natural performance.
It’s also a good idea to team up with friends and put care into the staging and BGM.
It will surely become a wonderful magic show that stays in everyone’s hearts.
Severed Thumb Magic
It’s a simple magic trick where you ‘cut off’ your thumb and make it move on its own! The secret is easy: you just bend the thumb of your other hand and make it look like the thumb you’re holding.
But if you add music and perform it effectively, you’ll really capture the audience’s hearts.
You’re sure to see everyone’s smiles! If you perform it on the gym stage, it could become a highlight attraction that livens up the school festival.
Keep practicing and you’ll become a magician to rival the pros!
Coin-through-bottle magic anyone can do: the lidded bottle edition
A magic trick you often see involves a jar with a tightly sealable lid and a coin that appears to pass through it.
It’s commonly seen, but many people still don’t know the secret.
There are several variations of this penetration trick, but this one is quite simple: beforehand, you stick a coin to the underside of the jar lid using double-sided tape.
Then you place another coin on top of the firmly closed lid and give it a sharp tap from above.
The coin on the inside drops into the jar, making it look as though the coin on top has penetrated the lid.
The key is how skillfully you conceal the coin on the lid.
A magic trick that makes ropes of different lengths become the same
A magic trick using three ropes of different lengths is super fun for a school festival.
By folding each rope once and opening them all at the same time, they somehow end up the same length.
If you perform it right in front of the audience, they’ll definitely be like, “Huh? How does that work?” It’s perfect for the stage in the gym, too.
You might need some practice at first, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes easy.
Let’s surprise everyone!
Penetrating Magic with a Plastic Bottle Cap
It’s a magic trick where, by slamming the cap down with force, the cap appears to pass through into a plastic bottle.
There are two possible methods: one where you crush a soft, thin cap and push it through the bottle’s mouth, and another where you insert a cap through a slit and conceal it with the label.
In both cases you use two caps, and it’s important that the forceful motion of hitting the bottom disguises the hidden cap.
If you perform the two methods in sequence, the audience will be surprised because the first method clearly couldn’t have been used the second time.
