[Easy] Magic tricks that will liven up the classroom: Recommended tricks you can do even during recess
For anyone thinking, “I want to do something exciting during school breaks or at events like the culture festival!” why not try your hand at magic? In this article, we’ll introduce magic tricks you can perform at school.
We’ve focused on simple tricks you can do with items found at school or with your own belongings.
Even though they’re simple, they’re all solid tricks that will surprise and excite your audience—sure to make you the star of your class! Practice magic using stationery, coins, and more, and show them off in all kinds of school settings.
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Easy Magic Tricks That Get Everyone Excited at School: Recommended Tricks You Can Do During Recess (11–20)
Ball penetration magic
Do you know the Cups and Balls? It’s said to be the most famous and also the oldest magic trick.
The idea is simple: you hide a ball under a cup, and when you lift it again, the ball has multiplied.
Many of you have probably seen it.
There are several variations of how to do it, but the easiest is to load a ball into the cup in advance.
With a small ball, if you tilt the cup, it slides into a corner and stays out of sight.
First, buy a set and give it a try.
Magic that changes a pen’s color
It’s an easy-to-understand magic trick where the color of a pen changes when you wave your other hand over the pen you’re holding.
The method is very simple: you secretly hold another pen in the hand you’re waving, and at the moment you wave it, you switch the pens.
The core move involves pinching the pen with your thumb, index, and middle fingers, hiding it along the inside of your wrist, and producing or vanishing the pen with finger movements and a wrist turn.
Once you master quick finger action, you can make it look like the pen changes color in an instant.
Delicate technique is the key point.
Magic that makes glue disappear
This is a magic trick where you cover a glue stick with a handkerchief and, on cue, make the glue that should be inside disappear.
The method is simple: at the moment you cover it with the handkerchief, you drop the glue under the table and use your thumb to create a shape that makes it look like the glue is still inside the handkerchief.
If there’s a sound when it falls, you’ll give it away, so be sure to devise a way to drop it onto your lap quietly.
Key points include using a larger handkerchief so it’s not obvious that the glue has been dropped, and keeping the thumb-formed shape that suggests the glue is inside firmly maintained.
Rubber Band Penetration Magic
Have the spectator hold a stretched rubber band with both hands.
Thread another rubber band through it and hook it over your index finger and thumb.
This creates two large loops that should be impossible to separate—yet, with a signal, the rubber band appears to pass right through the other.
The trick is simple: while pretending to check that they can’t pass through, you secretly move your index finger to unhook the band.
Using rubber bands of the same color and employing motions that make overlaps hard to observe are key details to avoid exposure.
Involving the audience also helps amplify the sense of surprise.
The answer is always 3!? A mysterious calculation
Have the audience think of a favorite number, then follow your instructions to calculate.
First, add 1 to the number they thought of.
Next, double that result and then add 4.
After that, divide by 2, and finally subtract the original number they thought of… Did the answer come out to 3? With this curious calculation, no matter what number they start with, if they follow the steps correctly, they will always end up with 3.
Since the audience likely doesn’t know it will be 3, reveal that you had predicted the number after they get their answer to amaze them.
Telekinesis Magic
A telekinetic magic trick you can easily do anywhere.
An item threaded onto a rubber band appears to naturally rise as if defying gravity.
The secret is to subtly loosen a single stretched rubber band so that it looks as though the item is climbing upward.
This trick is quite well-known, having been featured on TV and elsewhere.
The method is very simple, but it may surprise people more than you’d expect!
[Easy] Magic tricks that excite at school: Recommended tricks you can do even during recess (21–30)
The tissue disappears!
A vanishing trick using tissue paper.
While drawing attention to one hand, the performer hides the remaining tissue in the other hand to make it look like it disappeared.
You can probably use other thin materials like toilet paper as well.
If you keep the sequence smooth from the start and casually move the hand that’s concealing the tissue, you might be able to fool people more easily than you’d expect.