[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 Kids] Magic Tricks to Perform at Nurseries and Kindergartens (21–30)
[Magic Theater] Animals Moving House
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Let me introduce a magic trick you can do with origami.
It’s called “Animal Moving Day,” and the positions of three animals attached to the mechanism mysteriously switch places.
Ask the children which animal they want to end up in the middle, and fold the one they choose first.
When you flip it over and open the flap, surprise—the chosen animal has moved to the center! If you don’t flip it over, the animals stay in their original positions, so it’s also fun to add a bit of showmanship by saying, “Looks like the move isn’t finished yet,” and opening it without flipping it first.
Magic newspaper! A magic trick where the handkerchief placed inside a newspaper disappears.
This is a magic trick where you use a magic tube to push a handkerchief into a rolled-up newspaper, blow on it, and when you open the newspaper, the handkerchief you supposedly put in has vanished.
The key is the magic tube used for pushing—the handkerchief draped over the newspaper is actually collected inside this tube.
Beforehand, place a thin stick like a chopstick inside the tube; after rolling up the newspaper, secretly transfer this stick from the tube into the newspaper—that’s the trick.
Then you lay the handkerchief so it covers the stick, and push both the handkerchief and the stick back into the tube to retrieve them.
To avoid arousing suspicion about the tube, it’s recommended to show the inside a few times at moments when neither the handkerchief nor the stick is inside.
[For Kids] Magic Ideas to Perform at Daycare and Kindergarten (31–40)
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 bucket that keeps producing gifts one after another
Presents keep appearing one after another, and the kids are sure to be thrilled! Here’s a magic trick using a bucket.
Cover the bucket with newspaper, secure it with a rubber band, and as you chant a magic spell and tear the newspaper, more and more presents appear from inside.
The key to this trick is to secretly hide a bag filled with presents behind the newspaper, and when you’ve taken out all the presents, roll up the newspaper together with the bag so it stays out of sight.
The performance is crucial, so practice several times and master it so the secret won’t be discovered!
The character’s face got stretched!
This is a magic trick where, with a little “magic,” only the face of a character that kids love stretches out comically.
The stretched face is funny too, so children will be thrilled.
First, prepare the gimmick.
Make a slit under the character’s neck, then draw and cut out an enlarged, elongated version of the character’s face sized to fit into that slit.
Hide the stretched face behind your right hand, insert it into the slit, show it to everyone, then pull it out.
Practicing in front of a mirror will help you perform it more convincingly.
A magic trick that turns a round hole in a newspaper into a square one
This is a magic trick where you fold a newspaper, make a round cut with scissors, and when you unfold it you’d expect a round hole—but it’s actually a square hole.
The secret is that a sheet of newspaper with a square hole has been layered on top of the one being cut, and it’s cleverly concealed.
How you fold the newspaper with the square hole is also important; fold it in a way that keeps the scissors from hitting that part.
To avoid giving away that there are two layers, choose a newspaper that looks very similar and stack them perfectly so there are no gaps.
Pop-Out! Card Magic
This is a magic trick where the chosen card automatically pops out of a bag.
The mechanism is simple, so your performance skills will be put to the test! You’ll need cardstock, a felt-tip pen, one rubber band, a stapler, and scissors.
First, make the gimmicked bag out of cardstock.
Make it larger than the cards.
Install a rubber band on the inside, then staple the bag closed.
Next, make the cards—create about five with different designs.
It’s fine to copy and paste your favorite characters onto them.
Turn the cards face down, have someone choose one, and put the remaining cards into the bag first.
Finally, put the chosen card into the bag while hooking it onto the rubber band.
When you let go, only the chosen card will pop out of the bag.