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 (51–60)
Moving chopsticks
For young children, it’s great to do magic tricks using everyday items! One recommendation is a trick with disposable chopsticks.
You’ll create a surprising effect where the chopstick in your hand seems to slide on its own! Of course, there’s a secret: a rubber band is attached to the end of the chopstick.
Hook the rubber band onto your finger while holding the chopstick, and then gradually loosen your grip…
The rubber band’s pull makes the chopstick glide smoothly.
It’s also fun to make the gimmick yourself, like a little craft project!
Rubber Band Linking Magic
It’s a magic trick where you hold a rubber band in each hand, simply cross them, and the two bands appear to link together—and then, with another puff of air, they return to normal.
The secret is that there’s a catch point on one of the rubber bands.
You push a thumbtack through one rubber band and cut off the head of the tack with pliers.
Then you just hook the other rubber band onto the protruding pin.
As long as you set up the gimmick, it’s an easy trick to perform.
The disappearing chopsticks envelope magic trick
It’s a magic trick where you put a pair of disposable chopsticks into an envelope, give a signal, and the chopsticks seem to vanish so the envelope can be crushed flat.
If the contents were something soft, it would just look like you were crushing them along with the envelope, but because it’s something rigid like chopsticks, it conveys the idea that they’ve actually disappeared.
In reality, what looked like chopsticks is just a paper tube with chopstick-like wrinkles, made of soft paper, so the whole envelope can be easily crushed.
Since a close look would reveal the fake, it’s important to handle everything smoothly up to the moment you put it into the envelope.
A ball comes out of a paper cup.
A magic trick where a ball appears from a paper cup that’s supposed to be empty.
It’s an easy idea anyone can try with just a paper cup and a ball.
Make a hole in the center of the cup and create a place to hold the ball.
After placing the ball inside the cup, shake the cup up and down in front of the audience to show that there’s “nothing” inside.
When you release your finger from the hole, the ball suddenly pops out of the cup—that’s the secret.
Tennis balls or colorful plastic balls that match the size of the paper cup are recommended.
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A glass on a plate
Here’s a magic trick where you balance a glass of water on a vertically positioned paper plate.
First, you demonstrate how difficult it is by trying with an empty glass, showing that placing it on the plate is hard.
Then, you boldly try it again with the glass filled with water.
As the tension rises, it gets really exciting when you succeed—but in fact, it’s a simple trick where you’re secretly supporting the back of the paper plate with your thumb!
Potato Chips Switcheroo Magic
This is a magic trick where you hold a potato chips tube behind a paper bag to signal a change, and it swaps with a different flavor tube that was supposedly inside the bag.
You use two types of tubes, and you prepare a gimmick in advance on one of them, so be mindful of how you present it to avoid giving anything away.
The preparation involves attaching the outer label of a different flavor to half of the tube, so it’s important to remove and handle it in a way that doesn’t reveal the back half, along with a smooth wrist turn.
To prevent the gimmick from being discovered, it’s also a good idea to clean up quickly after performing the trick.
Pop a balloon with a cotton swab
This is a magic trick anyone can easily master: popping a balloon with a cotton swab.
As you’d expect, if you poke a balloon with something sharp, it will pop.
But if you poke it with something soft, like a cotton swab, it shouldn’t pop.
However, using a certain method, you can pop a balloon just by poking it with a cotton swab.
The trick is to soak the tip of the cotton swab in orange oil.
That’s because limonene, a component found in oranges, dissolves the balloon.
By the way, you can reproduce this not only with oil but also with an actual orange.
