Super easy magic tricks kids can do! Fun tricks you can play right away
We’re introducing simple magic tricks that even preschoolers and early elementary school kids can do, complete with videos and explanations of how they work!
Magic tricks are a playtime full of delightful mysteries for children.
After watching a magic show, many kids probably think, “I want to amaze everyone too!”
In this article, we’ve gathered tricks that require no practice once you make the props, as well as tricks you can likely master in a day.
If your child is interested in magic, encourage them to give it a try!
Once they’ve got it down, have them perform in front of family and friends.
Getting used to performing in front of others is part of the practice too!
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Super-Easy Magic Tricks Kids Can Do! Fun Tricks You Can Play Right Away (41–50)
Water comes out of an empty bucket.
Some of you may be looking for a magic trick you can learn quickly.
One I recommend is the trick where water comes out of an empty bucket.
For this trick, you use a small bucket, a water balloon, and a pair of chopsticks with a needle attached to the tip.
First, inflate the water balloon and place it inside the bucket.
Then, while making sure the balloon doesn’t fall, turn the bucket upside down to show it.
Next, say you’re casting a spell with the chopsticks and pop the balloon with the needle at the tip.
Finally, pour the water out of the bucket to reveal the trick is complete.
Super Easy Magic Tricks Kids Can Do! Fun Tricks You Can Play Right Away (51–60)
A ping-pong ball riding on a ruler
If you try to place a ping-pong ball on a ruler, it’s unstable and just rolls off, right? But in this magic trick, the ping-pong ball sits on the ruler—and you can even make it move as if you’re controlling it.
The ruler is transparent, so you can see through it and it doesn’t look like anything suspicious is attached.
The secret is that this “ruler” is actually two identical rulers stuck together.
Tape the bottom edges together with cellophane tape and open the top slightly; then the ping-pong ball can sit on it with ease.
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The straw that never gets used up
There are five straws in one hand.
If you pull one out, it should become four…
but when you count, there are still five.
Pull out another one and it’s still five.
The mystery deepens, but the secret is very simple: a few gimmicked straws are mixed in.
The trick itself is easy—make a slightly shorter straw with a slit and insert a longer straw into it.
When you pull one out, you remove the inner long straw, leaving the outer straw behind.
You can do this with any number, but around five is easiest to see and count.
Magic of eating a balloon
You know those long, thin balloons used for balloon art, right? This trick is about seemingly stuffing one of those balloons into your mouth and “eating” it.
If you actually ate a balloon, you’d upset your stomach.
The secret to this magic is very simple: there’s a single hole in the balloon.
The placement of that hole is crucial.
After inflating the balloon, you tie it, and you make the hole on the side closer to the knot.
Once it’s inflated, you hold the balloon so that you cover the hole.
After putting the tip of the balloon into your mouth, you release your fingers and use your tongue to steadily push the balloon in.
Spoons stick to spoons.
You’ll want to have at least one spoon magic trick up your sleeve.
For the trick where one spoon sticks to another, you’ll use a magic prop called a thumb tip that fits over your thumb, a magnet, and two spoons.
Attach the magnet to the inside of the thumb tip, and you’re ready to go! While you’re letting the audience examine the spoon to make sure it’s normal, secretly put on the thumb tip.
Then hold the spoon—magnetism will carry over to the other spoon you’re not holding, and the two will stick together.
If you move your thumb so it’s farther from the joint between the spoons, they’ll come apart, so try adjusting to find the sweet spot.
A plastic bag that doesn’t leak even when you stick a pencil through it
A magic trick that gives viewers a chill: a plastic bag that doesn’t spill even when you stab it with pencils.
In this trick, you pierce a water-filled plastic bag with a pencil—then add a second and a third.
Yet not a single drop leaks out.
The key is to use a polyethylene bag.
Polyethylene actually has the property of shrinking when heated.
In other words, at the moment the pencil pierces the bag, it shrinks from the heat and seals the gap around the pencil.
Be careful: other types of bags will leak.
Even if you turn it upside down, no juice comes out!?
This is a magic trick where, while pouring the contents of a canned drink into a glass, the flow stops when you give a signal.
Not only does it stop, but you can freely control the start and stop, which creates an even more mysterious atmosphere.
The method is very simple: rotate the can’s pull tab and push its tip in so that when the can is turned upside down, the flow stops.
It’s important to show only the front of the can so that the audience doesn’t realize there’s something special about the pull tab.
Because it uses a scientific mechanism based on liquid flow, it remains a baffling trick even when you know the secret.
