[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)
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.
Magic that makes your hand unable to open
Have you ever seen that hypnosis on TV or social media where your hands won’t open? You can actually experience that phenomenon yourself, the one you might have thought was “Totally fake!” when watching through a screen.
First, interlock your hands by hooking your fingers together and pull them apart as hard as you can for 15 seconds.
Next, let go, but keep your hands in the same shape.
Wait another 15 seconds like this.
You should start to feel a tingling, strange sensation in your hands.
After 15 seconds, try to gently open your hands.
You’ll probably find they won’t move.
To make this hypnosis-like trick work, it’s easier to succeed if you approach it thinking “I want it to work!” rather than “There’s no way this will work!!”
[Easy] Magic tricks that liven up school. Recommended tricks you can do even during break time (31–40)
Magic that changes color in an instant
It’s a magic trick that looks mysterious precisely because the change happens in an instant: the paper clipped in place changes color the moment you take it away.
In fact, while the paper of the initial color is clipped, the paper with the changed color is stacked behind it, and the original paper is retracted to the base of the clip by a concealed rubber band at the same moment the clip is released.
It’s important to be mindful of how you apply pressure to the clip, to achieve a speed that doesn’t reveal the rubber-assisted movement.
Because the color changes distinctly within a small area, it helps the audience focus on the phenomenon right in front of them, which enhances the effect’s appeal.
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.
Pen Magic
Simple and delightful! Here are some pen magic ideas.
Magic tricks using pens are probably easy for students to try, right? This time, let’s take on seven tricks while watching the tutorial video.
What you’ll need includes a pen, pens of different colors, and an empty tablet-candy box, among other things.
Since seven pen-centered tricks are introduced, you could learn them all, but it also sounds fun to find the ones that suit you best.
Magic that changes origami
It’s a magic trick where you supposedly cut a square hole in a sheet of origami paper folded in half, but when you snap it open, the hole has changed into a different shape.
In fact, there’s another piece of origami paper with the desired hole already cut, layered together, and when you open it, you flip that one to the front to show the audience.
It’s important to stack them so the hidden sheet won’t get cut when you use the scissors, and to prepare a shape that’s smaller than the hole you cut in front of them.
How you hold the paper when opening it—so they don’t realize there are two layers—may also be a crucial point.
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.