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 school cultural festivals (31–40)
Floating sake bottle
Let me introduce the “Tokkuri Floating Magic,” perfect for a school festival magic show.
Place a tokkuri (sake flask) on the table, put a rope inside it, and when you lift the rope—amazingly, the flask floats in midair! The method is very simple, yet the effect is incredibly impressive and will astonish your audience.
Perform it on stage and the whole venue is sure to erupt with a big “Whoa!” With practice, you can showcase a skill on par with the pros.
I can’t wait to see everyone’s amazed faces!
Resurrecting Rope
I also recommend the magic trick called the “restoring rope.” First, you tie the two ends of a rope together.
Then you cut the middle with scissors.
Normally, that should leave you with two pieces, right? But in this trick, the rope remains as a single piece.
The secret lies in the rope itself.
In fact, there are originally two ropes: a long one and a short one, and what you actually cut is the short one—so it looks like the rope has been restored.
Since it doesn’t rely on any elaborate gimmicks, it’s a great trick for showcasing your sleight of hand and patter.
Levitating an empty can in midair
Levitation-style magic is visually flashy and really gets the crowd excited.
That said, many people probably think it has a high barrier to entry.
But there are tricks you can try quite easily.
One of them is levitating an empty can.
As the name suggests, it’s a routine where you make an empty can float in midair, and the method is actually quite simple.
You make a hole in the back of the can and insert a support rod that extends from your sleeve.
With the right presentation and patter, you can make it look like it’s truly floating.
Levitation (sitting in midair) magic
Have you ever seen the illusion where someone looks like they’re sitting cross-legged in midair? No matter how you look at it, it seems like they’re floating, and it’s pretty mysterious.
But of course, even that illusion has a trick: in reality, an iron pipe is welded to a base plate, and that pipe supports the seat the person is sitting on.
The pipe is shaped to run along the arm, and by wearing clothing together with the pipe, it becomes completely invisible from the outside.
It’s a bit of an elaborate setup, but if you know someone who can weld iron, you might ask them to help you make one.
Magic of eating a balloon
I’m going to introduce a flashy, high-impact magic trick that’s super easy and recommended for anyone.
You know those long balloons used for balloon art? This trick makes it look like you’re munching and swallowing one of those big, long balloons—maybe you’ve seen it on TV.
The secret is actually very simple: before inflating the balloon, use a toothpick to poke a small hole near where you’ll blow it up.
Just make sure that when you tie the balloon after inflating, you tie it above the hole.
Then, put the opposite end in your mouth and use your tongue to push the balloon inward—the air will escape through the hole, making it look like you’re swallowing it.
It’s a trick that reads clearly even in large spaces, so it’s perfect for events like school festivals!
Magic that excites at cultural and school festival booths (41–50)
Magic you can do with items from a 100-yen shop
These are magic tricks that focus on convenience, using familiar items you can pick up at a 100-yen shop.
For example, the angle of a lollipop on a stick appears to change, or when you press an inflated balloon against a smartphone and let the air out, the phone ends up inside the balloon.
The simplicity actually makes them look even more mysterious, doesn’t it? They say they’re not changing the angle of their hand, yet they’re really using that angle; or they’re just using the size of the balloon to make things stick—since the methods are simple, even if you get found out, you can probably turn it into a laugh.
As a setup for a bigger trick, it might even be fun to deliberately reveal the secrets as you go.
Acrobatic performance
https://www.tiktok.com/@parkour.okinawa/video/6765773895514574082Acrobatic performances, where physical ability really matters, would look so cool if you could showcase them at a school festival.
These performances often combine gymnastics and dance, and when they succeed, the crowd gets really fired up.
Performing with multiple people can refine the act even more, allowing for complex formations and adding depth to the expression.
When deciding the flow of the performance, choosing a story or theme and discussing it together as a group might further improve your performance as a team and strengthen your bond.
