[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] Easy and Amazing! A Collection of Magic Tricks You Can Do with a Handkerchief (11–20)
A handkerchief instantly teleports into the bottle
It’s a magic trick where you signal after putting a handkerchief into your palm, and the handkerchief vanishes, only to reappear inside a plastic bottle placed in a tube.
You clearly show beforehand that there’s no gimmick in the bottle, which adds to the sense of mystery.
Inside the tube, there’s a setup consisting of a chopstick with a magnet attached and a handkerchief wrapped around it; by inserting this gimmick, you’re actually loading the handkerchief into the plastic bottle.
The handkerchief that goes into your hand is hidden inside a thumb tip, so proceed while paying attention to angles and presentation so neither gimmick is exposed.
Ghost Handkerchief
This is a magic trick where the center of a folded handkerchief begins to move, as if a ghost trapped inside had come to life.
Even if the handkerchief is examined beforehand, no gimmick can be found, and after folding it, the performer’s hands are merely placed to the side—those details add to the mystery.
In reality, a mechanism is embedded in the handkerchief, and folding it into a specific shape activates the gimmick that makes it move.
As long as you have this handkerchief, anyone can perform the trick by paying attention to the folding method and where to place your hands, so let’s focus on presenting it more smoothly.
Magic newspaper! A magic trick where the handkerchief placed inside a newspaper disappears.
This is a magic trick where you push a handkerchief into a rolled-up newspaper using a magic tube, blow on it, and when you open the newspaper, the handkerchief you put in has vanished.
The key is the magic tube used to push it in: it actually retrieves the handkerchief that’s been draped over the newspaper.
Beforehand, place a thin stick, such as a chopstick, inside the magic tube.
After rolling up the newspaper, secretly transfer this stick from the tube into the rolled newspaper.
Then lay the handkerchief so it covers the stick, and insert both the handkerchief and the stick back into the tube to retrieve them.
To avoid suspicion about the tube’s contents, it’s best to show the inside a few times at moments when the handkerchief and stick are not inside.
A magic trick where a hole in a handkerchief moves
It’s a magic trick where, when you apply force to a safety pin stuck through a handkerchief, the position appears to move—and the hole seems to move as well—without tearing the handkerchief.
The safety pin used is pre-prepared: the needle is shortened or angled so it’s easy to unfasten and lets the handkerchief slide smoothly.
After inserting it, you fold the handkerchief so that force is applied to the pin, then secretly unfasten the pin, slide it, and reinsert it, creating the illusion that the hole has moved.
Since the actual method is simply moving an unfastened pin, the key is how you fold and display the handkerchief so that this action isn’t visible.
A floating magic trick using a handkerchief and a fork
It’s a magic trick where the center of a spread handkerchief rises as if something were hidden inside it.
In one of the hands holding a corner of the handkerchief, there’s an L-shaped gimmick made by combining two forks, and moving this lifts the center.
Because the gimmick is large enough to reach the center of the handkerchief, it’s important to think about concealment, such as pre-layering it under a spread handkerchief.
Pay attention to details like the angle of your hands so it doesn’t look unnatural and choosing a handkerchief that isn’t see-through so the gimmick won’t show.
Let’s proceed with careful attention to these finer points.
A tissue pierces through the handkerchief.
The tissue that was supposed to be balled up in the cup seems to pass right through the handkerchief! The key to this magic trick is using magnets cleverly.
Prepare in advance a tissue that’s been rolled up with a magnet hidden inside.
Next, when you roll up the tissue that you’ll put into the cup, quietly slip it inside at the moment you’re rolling it.
Then drape the handkerchief over the cup that contains the magnetized tissue, and when you press the handkerchief down, gently place the other magnetized tissue on top of the handkerchief.
The tissue inside the cup and the tissue on top of the handkerchief will stick together, making it look as if it passed right through!
[For Elementary School Students] Simple and Amazing! A Collection of Magic Tricks You Can Do with a Handkerchief (21–30)
Handkerchief egg
This is a magic trick where you take a handkerchief out of your pocket, put it in your hand, sprinkle some magic powder, and it turns into a pure white egg.
In fact, the egg is fake, and the trick is simply that you stuff the handkerchief into a hole on the side you’re not showing.
What’s important here is how you produce the egg and how you present it so the audience doesn’t catch on: while you act like you’re searching for where the handkerchief went, you produce the egg from the opposite side.
After that, just be careful that your hand position doesn’t look unnatural, and once you’ve packed the handkerchief inside, you’re done.
Since the method is easy to expose if attention is focused on the hand that’s inserting the handkerchief, it’s also important to misdirect with the sprinkling of magic powder or with patter.