Magic using drawings and illustrations. Recommended tricks for parties and performances.
In this article, we introduce magic tricks that use drawings and illustrations on paper! There are lots of fun ideas, like pictures becoming real, transforming into something else, or even moving.
Picture-based magic is easy to understand, so it’s great for kids’ events like birthday parties.
Many ideas require some preparation in advance, but once you set them up, you can use them repeatedly, making them beginner-friendly.
There are also videos explaining how to perform the tricks, so be sure to check them out and give them a try!
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Magic using drawings and illustrations. Recommended tricks for parties and performances (11–20)
A mysterious magic where a drawing gets colored in an instant
A magic trick where a black-and-white picture instantly turns into color! All you need is a colored picture, a clear file folder, and drawing paper.
Cut the clear file to the same size as the sheet of drawing paper with the colored picture you prepared in advance, place it inside, and trace the picture with a pen.
Next, create the mechanism by combining a colored sheet of drawing paper for the frame with a white sheet, and load the clear file and the picture-drawn paper inside—then you’re all set! If you assemble the mechanism in the correct order, this trick will always work, so give it a try!
A magic trick where a light bulb drawn on paper becomes real
You’d be surprised if something you drew actually appeared, right? What would happen if you hid a light bulb behind a sketchbook, and it popped out in place of the one in your drawing? It would definitely be startling, wouldn’t it? In magic, hand and arm movements are generally very important.
Let’s keep the magic going by using the sketchbook to conceal the fact that you’re holding a light bulb.
It might take practice until you get used to it, but that effort will let you perform a trick that makes everyone gasp.
You don’t need many props, so feel free to give it a try!
The picture disappears?! Magic Book
How about using a magic book that you can perform with no practice? A “magic book” is a general term for products that look like picture books.
At first glance, they look like ordinary illustrations, but depending on where you grasp the pages when you flip through them, they appear blank.
In other words, a magic book contains both blank pages and pages with illustrations.
Some versions are collaborations with anime characters and are available for purchase, so try looking for them.
No matter which one you buy, you can perform it the same way.
A picture-worthy six-faced 3D puzzle
Let me introduce a photogenic six-sided 3D puzzle that excites with a fantastical presentation.
First, prepare a six-sided 3D puzzle made of paper.
Since you won’t actually move it, you can simply prepare a box with illustrations of the six-sided puzzle drawn on each face.
Make sure one face has two illustrations layered on top of each other.
Next, press the six-sided 3D puzzle onto a sketchbook, and at the same time, drop the overlapping illustration onto a sheet of drawing paper—that’s it.
If you glue the illustrations in place, it will look even more authentic.
Magic Envelope
Sure to delight, let me introduce a magical envelope.
This routine is crafted like a piece of theater woven into magic.
First, you take out the magic envelope.
When you put a small drawing of a crab inside, it comes out larger.
Sometimes, what you put in reappears as something completely different.
Try presenting it with a sense of story.
By the way, the back of the envelope opens wide, and that’s where you’re actually inserting and removing the illustrations.
The trick is to swap the illustrations with as little hand movement as possible.
Animal Guessing Sheet
Would you like to show off the Animal Guessing Sheets? This is a magic trick set that comes with cards featuring animal illustrations.
First, show the first card with animals and have the spectator choose just one animal they like.
They shouldn’t say it out loud—only decide in their mind.
Next, show the second card and ask whether the chosen animal appears on the front or the back.
Then repeat the process with the third and fourth cards in the same way.
By the end, you’ll be able to tell which animal they chose.
Magic using drawings and illustrations. Recommended tricks for parties and performances (21–30)
Magic Sketchbook
It’s a curious magic trick where the colors appear and disappear as you flip through the pages quickly.
That said, if you carefully turn each page one by one, it doesn’t look that way.
The trick is that when folding a single sheet, the angles are changed and the pages are bound in an alternating alignment, so different pages turn depending on where you catch with your finger.
It’s not something that easily comes to mind, but it’s a gimmick that kids would love.