[For Kids] Magic Tricks You Can Perform at Daycare or Kindergarten
Kids love mysterious things and surprising performances, don’t they?
When you hear “magic,” you might think it takes a lot of preparation, but even tricks with simple secrets can amaze children.
This time, we’ve gathered ideas for magic tricks that are easy to perform and easy for kids to watch.
When they see the magic, children might start wondering how it works and let their imaginations run.
Let’s incorporate some outstanding magic into childcare to spark children’s imaginations.
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[For Children] Magic Ideas (51–60) to Perform at Nursery Schools and Kindergartens
Magic where legs disappear
It’s a magic trick where you cover your feet with a black cloth, give a signal, and when you lift the cloth, the feet that should be there have vanished.
The key point is the angle at which you show the gaps in the cloth, and the mechanism is simple: you’re just moving your feet to a position where they can’t be seen.
You place your weight on the leg pulled back, lift the other leg up, and keep your body position unchanged, so your ability to maintain posture is tested.
Let’s proceed while balancing mystery and ease: figure out how low you can lower your foot to make it look like it has disappeared.
Balloon Resurrection Magic
A trick that’s sure to amaze anyone: the resurrecting balloon magic.
In this one, you blow into a balloon that had its tip cut off, and it somehow inflates.
The secret actually lies in the balloon itself.
Beforehand, you set it up by pushing a second, identical balloon inside the first one, and when you cut with scissors, you only cut the outer balloon.
So when you blow air into it, the balloon that inflates is the hidden inner one.
If you set it up well, the effect looks so natural that even close-up viewers won’t notice how it’s done.
Spoon bending
Spoon bending may be the most famous trick in magic.
Because everyone knows it, it’s sure to be a hit at any fun gathering! Seeing a hard spoon bend with a soft “twist” makes you look just like a psychic.
It’s a simple trick that uses the principle of leverage, but it’s one that really excites an audience! The key is performance—make it look like you bent it with the power of a demon lord.
I recommend practicing while having a colleague watch your demonstration.
Easy magic using Pocky
You take an ordinary-looking Pocky stick with chocolate on it, spin it around to show there’s nothing unusual, then lightly stroke the top of the Pocky with your other hand… and amazingly, the chocolate disappears from the Pocky and reappears in that hand as a little chocolate ball! After eating the chocolate, you blow on the Pocky, and the chocolate returns to the stick—like magic.
In reality, the chocolate on one side of the Pocky has been shaved off, and when you show it, you rotate your wrist so you’re always showing the same side.
The other hand is secretly holding a chocolate ball from the start—that’s the trick.
Piercing Magic
This is a magic trick where you drop a pen into a plastic bottle whose mouth is blocked with a five-yen coin, and it seems to pierce through.
The key is to first insert the pen into the hole of the five-yen coin and show the audience, saying, “See? It doesn’t go through.” This makes them think you’re going to pass it through that hole.
In reality, the pen doesn’t go through the hole.
Instead, thanks to the momentum and weight of the falling pen, it slips through the gap between the tilted five-yen coin and the bottle.
If your hands are visible, the secret will be exposed, so hide the pen’s path with a tube made from rolled construction paper.
The trick is to drop the pen along the outside of the tube!
