Simple magic tricks that delight kids: surprising to watch and make you want to try them yourself.
I’ve gathered a bunch of kid-pleasing magic tricks that are perfect for a quick performance! Children in kindergartens, daycare centers, and elementary schools all love magic.
Some kids watch intently, some want to know the secret, and others are so amazed they ask you to do it again—there are all kinds of reactions.
In this article, assuming the goal is to delight children, I’ll introduce a variety of tricks—from ones that are truly simple and over in a flash to those that require a bit of setup.
Master them and be sure to perform them in front of the kids!
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Easy magic tricks kids will love: surprising to watch and fun to try (71–80)
Water that freezes in an instant
It’s a science-based magic trick where water freezes instantly.
In this trick, the water you pour into a container solidifies in a flash—its dreamy appearance is a big part of the appeal.
What you’ll need for this trick is sodium acetate.
Put it in a container with water and heat it in a microwave.
Heat it until it dissolves.
Then chill it in the refrigerator for about 10 minutes.
That’s all the prep.
After that, pour the water slowly, and it will freeze.
If you’re curious about why this happens, look it up!
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 a trick where water comes out of an empty bucket.
For this trick, you’ll 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 set it inside the bucket.
Then, while making sure the balloon doesn’t fall out, 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 on the tip.
Finally, pour the water out of the bucket to reveal the effect, and you’re done.
The magical straw that makes water rise
Wouldn’t it be strange if a straw stuck in a cup started drawing up water all by itself? With that, let me introduce a magic trick: the magical straw that makes water rise.
All you need for this trick is an ordinary cup filled with water and a straw cut slightly shorter than usual.
When you insert the straw, grip the tip firmly and then release it.
The straw will start drawing up the water on its own.
It works on the same principle as a pump.
It can also be fun to mime sucking the water up in midair as part of the performance.
Simple magic tricks that delight children: surprising to watch and fun to try (81–90)
The ball placed in the box disappears.
An ordinary white square box, with nothing but a round hole in the lid.
If you drop a ball into that hole, it should go into the box, right? But in this magic trick, when you look inside the box next, the ball that should be there has disappeared! The trick is actually very simple: the bottom of the box is designed to flap and create a hollow space.
If you lightly press from the back with your finger, the bottom overlaps with the side, so when you put the ball in, the bottom is effectively open.
Then you just slide the box to drop the ball under the table, and before showing the inside, you restore the bottom to its original position.
That’s all there is to it.
Simple magic! Appearance of a wand!
This is a cane magic trick where you make a cane appear out of nowhere.
Rather than just producing it, you make it feel even more mysterious by spinning and displaying the cane after it appears.
Spinning it also makes the method harder to figure out, so it’s a recommended approach for those who don’t want the secret to be exposed.
Pop a balloon with a cotton swab
This is a magic trick anyone can easily master: popping a balloon with a cotton swab.
Naturally, if you poke a balloon with something sharp, it will pop.
But if you poke it with something soft like a cotton swab, it normally shouldn’t.
However, with a certain method, you can pop a balloon just by touching it with a cotton swab.
The method 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 also reproduce this using an actual orange instead of the oil.
Magic where a face illustration stretches
This is a comedic magic trick where, when you hold your hand over a sheet of paper with a character illustration, the character’s face stretches.
The method is very simple: prepare the stretched face parts separately, hide them inside your hand, and then place them onto the illustration at the same moment you cover it with your hand.
Make a slit at the character’s neck in the illustration so you can insert the stretched face.
Because the gimmick is simple, make sure to get laughs from the striking contrast between the illustration before and after the stretch.
