[For Middle Grades] Simple Magic Tricks for Elementary School Students: Fun Magic Everyone Will Love!
Magic tricks that are a hit when performed at parties or fun gatherings.
Elementary school students surely want to learn magic and amaze everyone!
Isn’t that what you’re thinking?
This article introduces magic tricks suited for upper-elementary grades.
We’ve gathered simple yet impressive ideas, so feel free to use them as a reference and practice.
With magic, it’s important to perform with confidence!
Having someone watch you is part of the practice, so once you can run through the routine, show it to your family or friends and have them check how it looks!
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[For Upper Elementary Grades] Simple Magic Tricks for Elementary School Students: Fun Magic Everyone Will Love! (21–30)
A plastic bag that doesn’t leak even when you stick a pencil through it
This is a magic trick that makes viewers gasp: a plastic bag that doesn’t spill water even when you stab pencils through it.
In this trick, you poke a pencil into a water-filled plastic bag—then two, three, and so on.
Yet not a single drop leaks out.
What you need is a polyethylene bag.
Polyethylene actually has the property of shrinking when heated.
In other words, at the moment the pencil pierces the bag, the heat causes it to shrink and seal the gap around the pencil.
Be careful: other types of bags will leak.
Spill-proof water
You’d be a bit surprised if there were water that didn’t spill even when turned upside down, right? Let me show you a curious magic trick where water in a container won’t spill even when inverted.
First, to make it easy to see, pour colored water into a wine glass or similar, and cover the top with a piece of paper.
Then flip it over quickly.
See? The water doesn’t spill.
In more technical terms, this happens because the combined forces of water’s surface tension and atmospheric pressure are greater than the force of gravity on the water.
You can also do it with very thin paper like tissue, or even with non-paper items like a sieve, so try different materials—it’s fun!
[For Middle Grades] Simple Magic Tricks for Elementary School Students: Fun Magic Everyone Will Love! (31–40)
A coin that vanishes when rubbed on the table! Disappearing magic
Place a coin on the table and rub it with your palm… and it disappears! Because there are no unnecessary flourishes, this trick feels even more mysterious.
What you need is a technique called “lapping.” To reveal the result first: while you’re rubbing with your palm, you drop the coin under the table—onto your lap.
Reading that, you might think, “Wouldn’t that be obvious right away?” but if done well, it’s completely undetectable! The key is to repeat a sequence: when you move your hand forward, don’t move the coin; when you draw your hand back toward you, move the coin slightly.
Do this several times to gradually edge the coin toward the table’s rim, then let it fall at the end.
To finish, give the tabletop a quick circular rub and it will truly look like the coin has vanished.
Try practicing in front of a mirror or by recording yourself on video!
Magic that makes pen tips stick together
A simple yet good-looking and very easy magic trick where two pens appear to stick together at their tips.
The secret is very simple: prepare a strand of hair or a thin piece of fishing line, insert it through the tip of a pen, extend the ballpoint refill, and secure it.
Do the same from the other side with a second pen, and you’ll have two pens held together by the hair, making it look as if their tips are attached.
It’s also nice that you can do it anywhere as long as you have two ballpoint pens.
Magic that turns water into ice in an instant
This is a magic trick that turns water into ice using two paper cups.
First, you pour the water from one paper cup into the other.
Then you cast a spell and tip over the cup with the water…
Even though you poured in water, what comes out of the paper cup is ice! What on earth happened inside the cup? The secret behind this trick is surprisingly simple: the cup already has some tissues and ice hidden inside.
When you pour in the water, it soaks into the tissues, and by quickly tilting the cup, only the ice comes out.
Untearable banknote
If you put a bill inside an envelope and cut it with scissors, of course the bill will get cut along with the envelope, right? But in this magic trick, only the envelope gets cut while the bill remains intact! It makes people go, “How?!” but the secret is simple.
Make two slits on the back of the envelope and thread the bill through them.
That way, the middle section of the bill actually sits outside the envelope.
If you cut that middle part, only the envelope is cut, creating the illusion that the bill wasn’t cut at all! Practice with scrap paper first so you don’t accidentally cut real money.
Using play money, like novelty ‘one-million-yen’ bills, is a good idea!
A tissue vanishes from your hand! Disappearing magic
It’s a magic trick where the tissue that should be tightly clenched in your palm somehow disappears.
Prepare a single tissue, let a small bit stick out between your index finger and thumb, and roll the rest into a ball inside your palm.
Then tear off the part sticking out on top, and when you open your hand, the balled-up tissue is gone.
The method is: before you start, tear off the portion that sticks out between your index finger and thumb, and while you’re rolling it up, secretly transfer the tissue ball to your other hand.