[Easy] A Beginner’s Guide to Card Magic: Tricks Even Elementary School Kids Can Do Right Away
Are you thinking that card magic looks difficult even though you want to try it? In fact, even elementary school students can perform simple card tricks that astonish everyone, as long as they learn a few easy tips.
You can amaze people by correctly identifying a friend’s chosen card or instantly arranging mixed-up cards, all without special props or complicated techniques.
Here, we’ll introduce card tricks you’ll want to try right away—from routines that succeed just by following the steps to tricks that get the crowd excited with a touch of performance.
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Magic using Aces, Queens, and special playing cards: Applied Techniques (1–10)
The card disappears in the palm of the hand.
Let me introduce an easy card magic trick you can do with a single playing card! It takes a little practice, but once you get the hang of it, it’s great for performances and really gets the crowd going.
If you watch the video carefully, you’ll see that the trick involves hiding the card in your palm using your fingers.
The key is to keep the card from being seen, so try practicing in front of a mirror.
Once you’re used to it, you can come up with your own techniques and have even more fun with it.
Scattered cards return to their original state
A mysterious magic trick where a deck that should have been mixed face up and face down instantly returns to a state where only the target cards are face up.
First, take out four cards of the same suit and mix them with twelve random cards.
By adjusting how you shuffle and how you stack the cards after distributing them haphazardly, you end up with only the four cards of the same suit—supposedly all jumbled—appearing face up.
Then, after this trick, let’s perform a similar trick using the entire deck.
You’ll create a situation where only the card chosen by a watching friend is face up.
Here, you use a deck that’s half normal cards and half cards whose faces and backs are just patterned, without numbers.
The key to this sequence is performing a trick first with an ordinary, ungimmicked deck, and then doing a trick with a deck that has a perfect secret built in.
A magic trick where the four queens come together that you can do with only simple preparation
It’s a magic trick where, despite appearing to have no setup or gimmick, the four Queens somehow end up together.
First, have the spectator split the deck into two piles, turn the top pile face up, and place it on top of the other pile.
Then take the card at the boundary between the face-up and face-down sections and turn it face up.
A Queen will appear here.
When you return this card to the deck… all four Queens astonishingly appear face up together.
To perform this trick, pre-set the deck by placing three Queens on top, and directly beneath them, set two dummy cards and a total of three cards including a Queen face up.
If you then follow the steps shown in the video, you’ll succeed—so memorize the procedure and give it a try.
Color Change: Card (Trump) Magic Technique
If you want to try magic but worry that the techniques and prep might be tough, I recommend simple card tricks like this one.
In this trick, just by stroking the cards with your hand, the card changes into a different one.
The method is simple: as you stroke the cards, use the center of your palm to pull out the card that’s one below and bring it to the front.
When you reveal the suddenly changed card, adding a sound effect like saying “pop!” or whistling works well.
Start by practicing slowly, and work up to doing it quickly!
Magic and Applied Techniques Using Aces, Queens, and Special Cards (11–20)
A magic trick where the mate cards match
In a deck of cards, there are cards that share the same color and number but differ only in suit—for example, the Ace of Diamonds and the Ace of Hearts.
These are called mate cards.
In this magic trick, the mate of a card located at a number chosen by the spectator in one packet will appear at the same number in the other packet.
The secret is to set up several pairs of mate cards at the top and bottom of the deck beforehand.
Other than that, you just follow the steps as shown.
Please watch the video, learn the procedure, and give it a try!
An elevator card you can do with just one basic technique
It’s a magic trick you often see on TV, where a card that should be in the middle of the deck rises to the top.
Among tricks of this type, the one I’m about to introduce has a simple method.
First, have someone choose one card from the deck.
Meanwhile, split the deck into two piles and hold one in each hand.
Ask them to place the chosen card on top of the pile in your left hand.
Then say, “This isn’t a guessing trick, so I’ll take a look!” Flip the card over to confirm the selection, and as you turn it face down again, secretly place the bottom card of the pile in your right hand on top of the selected card.
Next, place that combined card onto the top of the right-hand pile, and then place the left-hand pile on top of that.
It looks like the selected card has been placed in the middle of the deck… but in fact, the selected card is on top.
It’s easy to do, hard to detect, and sure to impress—highly recommended.
Card Trick: “Convenient Magic”
This is a card trick titled “Convenient Magic,” in which you correctly identify a card chosen by a spectator.
The charm of this trick is that it doesn’t require pre-setting the order of the deck or using difficult sleights, so even beginners can give it a try.
First, have the spectator think of any number from 1 to 20, then remember the card that appears when you turn over that many cards from the top of the deck.
After that, you make various attempts to find the card—but the remembered card doesn’t show up… or so it seems.
Suddenly, the chosen card appears at the very top of the deck that was set aside.
Although this trick creates a very mysterious impression, it’s actually guaranteed to work as long as you grasp a few very simple points and follow the explanation steps as instructed.
It’s highly recommended for beginners, so give it a try!