[For Elementary School Students] Simple and Amazing! Magic Tricks You Can Do with a Handkerchief
Surprise your friends, teachers, and family with a big “Wow!”
In this article, we’ll introduce jaw-dropping magic tricks using a handkerchief that will leave everyone speechless!
Imagine putting on a magic show during school recreation time—wouldn’t that make you a hero?
Objects wrapped in a handkerchief vanish, or even the handkerchief itself disappears… It’s all fun magic that will have everyone asking, “How does that work?!”
They’re easy enough for elementary school students, so give them a try at school or at home!
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[For Elementary School Students] Simple and Amazing! A Collection of Magic Tricks You Can Do with a Handkerchief (1–10)
A safety pin that passes through a handkerchief
It’s a magic trick where, even though you’ve supposedly fastened a safety pin to a handkerchief, if you cover it with another handkerchief and pull sharply, the safety pin slips out without tearing anything.
The key is the motion of wrapping the handkerchief after inserting the safety pin; the way force is applied there allows you to secretly unfasten the pin out of sight.
After that, you simply pull the safety pin out, making it look as though it passed right through the fabric.
Note that the clasp and the needle rub against the handkerchief, so there’s a risk of damaging the fabric.
A magic trick where a handkerchief appears out of thin air
It’s a magic trick where a handkerchief appears out of thin air, and when you hold your hand over the emerged handkerchief, more handkerchiefs appear one after another.
The visual of a handkerchief larger than your palm materializing under your hand gives it a mysterious feel.
The method is simple: you hold a ball that contains the handkerchiefs and extract them one by one.
Be mindful of how you take out and hold the ball so it remains unseen from the audience.
Decorating the ball with tape to blend with your skin tone and arranging the handkerchiefs so they can be pulled out smoothly are also important points.
The handkerchief disappears!?
An amazing magic trick where a handkerchief vanishes right before your eyes! In fact, anyone can do it easily using a magic prop called a thumb tip.
Put it on one of your thumbs in advance, and at the moment you start pushing the handkerchief into your hand, quietly remove it.
Stuff the handkerchief into the removed thumb tip, and when you finally open your hand to show it, slip the tip back onto your finger—trick complete! If you spread your hands too boldly, people might notice you’re wearing it, so adjust your angles so it looks like a real finger.
[For Elementary School Students] Easy and Amazing! A Collection of Magic Tricks You Can Do with a Handkerchief (11–20)
A flower appears from the handkerchief!
A simple yet flashy magic trick where, when you blow on a handkerchief you’re holding, a single flower appears at that spot.
Be sure to clearly show both sides of the handkerchief to the audience to emphasize there’s no gimmick.
You secretly hide the flower behind one arm, and during the final motion of lifting the handkerchief, you transfer the flower into the handkerchief.
For a better visual when it appears, it’s preferable for the stem to be somewhat long, so it’s important to use your whole arm to fully conceal the flower as you proceed.
A pen appears from the handkerchief!
It’s a mysterious magic trick where a pen appears from a single handkerchief.
This trick uses a technique of secretly hiding an object in your hand and revealing it at the right moment.
First, wear a shirt with a breast pocket and put the handkerchief in that pocket.
Next, hold the pen so that your right hand covers the tip.
At this point, grip the pen by the tip so that the entire pen is concealed along your wrist.
Then take the handkerchief from your breast pocket and naturally drape it over your right hand.
Finally, re-grip the pen through the handkerchief and flip the handkerchief back—making the pen seem to appear from it!
The hole in the handkerchief disappears.
An astonishing magic trick where you appear to drive a ballpoint pen through a spectator’s handkerchief! Borrow an ungimmicked handkerchief and pen on the spot.
Place the pen against the center of the handkerchief and flip it over.
Have the spectator touch it to confirm the pen is inside.
Flip it over again, show the pen, and as you return it into the handkerchief, quietly slide the pen out on the side closest to you.
From there, just move as if the pen is still protruding through the cloth.
The key to success is how naturally you extract the pen!
A handkerchief that gets sucked in and tied together
It’s a magic trick using a prop called the Illusion Handkerchief: the handkerchief gets sucked into a hole in the backing card and links with the handkerchief on the side.
Before it’s sucked in, you clearly show both sides, so there’s little suspicion about the front handkerchief or the one on the side.
Since the backing card is folded, everyone naturally suspects the gap inside the card, but you can turn that to your advantage by revealing a message written inside—it’s a great moment to build excitement.
Choose different colors for each handkerchief, too; making it look colorful when they connect is important.