[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 excite at school: Recommended tricks you can do even during recess (21–30)
Magic you can do without practice
Simple methods that even beginners can rely on! Here are ideas for magic tricks you can do without practice.
These ideas are perfect if you’re feeling nervous about trying magic for the first time or want to start with something easy.
It’s pretty cool to perform a card trick, right? This time, let’s try a magic trick with playing cards that even beginners can learn.
All you need is one deck of cards.
Watch the explanation carefully and give it a try.
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.
[Easy] Magic tricks that liven up school. Recommended tricks you can do even during break time (31–40)
An eraser teleports
This is a magic trick where erasers placed in four locations are instantly teleported to one spot.
It’s best to use small erasers and have ones of the same type.
You place four erasers on the desk, but the trick is that you secretly hide one more eraser in your palm.
While concealing it in your hand, you line up the erasers you’re holding one by one.
Be careful so that the eraser in your hand isn’t visible to people around you.
Hide the last remaining eraser smoothly and amaze everyone at the end.
Mechanical pencil lead case penetration
A magic trick using a case that holds mechanical pencil leads.
It’s a penetration trick performed with two cases.
Nowadays, most people use mechanical pencils rather than wooden pencils, so I imagine many students carry these cases at school.
It’s a simple trick you can do casually during breaks.
With swift handling, it creates a mysterious effect that truly looks like a penetration.
Magic Knot
A knot magic trick using a silk cloth.
A knot that seems to have been tied right before the audience instantly comes undone with just a downward flick of the hand.
The cloth doesn’t have to be silk—you can substitute an ordinary handkerchief.
There’s a small key point in the way you tie it, and if you follow it, anyone can perform this simple trick.
Recommended for those who want to try magic but aren’t sure where to start.
Chopstick floating magic trick
This is a magic trick where a chopstick inserted into an empty plastic bottle slowly rises as if lifted by invisible force, without touching it.
The supporting hand only holds the bottom, and the gesturing hand does not touch the chopstick—this change creates a sense of mystery.
A fishing line is attached to the chopstick in advance and connected to the performer’s clothing, allowing the chopstick to be moved by adjusting the distance between the bottle and the clothing.
It’s also important to consider the viewing distance so the fishing line isn’t noticed.
A card trick that absolutely can’t be figured out
It’s a magic trick where you casually split a deck of cards, have someone memorize the picture and number on a card, return it to the deck, shuffle, and then name the exact position of that card.
After the shuffle, when the deck is spread, only the two jokers are face up, and they indicate how many cards down the selection lies—an effect that heightens the mystery.
The positions of the jokers are predetermined, and from their relative placement, the performer deduces the exact position of the chosen card.
It’s a routine that tests card-handling skills, such as false shuffles that make it look mixed while secretly restoring the original order.