[Magic] Crowd-Pleasers for Elementary Schools! A Collection of Magic Trick Ideas Perfect for Fun Parties
If you can perform magic tricks in a cool way, you might even become popular at school!
A lot of elementary school kids probably admire magic like that, don’t they?
But you might hesitate, thinking that magic is all difficult…
Actually, though, there are plenty of easy tricks that can still amaze everyone!
Even tricks that make you think “Oh, that’s all it was” once you know the secret can be surprisingly hard to detect if you present them with solid showmanship.
In this article, we’ll introduce simple magic tricks that are recommended for elementary school students!
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Age-guessing calculation magic
It’s a magic trick where you guess someone’s age after they pick a favorite number from 1 to 9.
By adding, multiplying, and subtracting specific numbers from their chosen number, you end up with a three-digit number.
The hundreds digit will be the number they first chose, and the last two digits will be their age.
The video is the 2024 version, so you’ll need to adjust the numbers to match the year, but it’s a fun trick—be sure to learn it and show it off! Note that it doesn’t work for ages 100 and above, so keep that in mind.
Erase the pen
This is a magic trick that lets you create the surprise of “The pen suddenly vanished right before your eyes!” It looks difficult, but once you get the hang of it, it’s easy to try.
The way to make the pen disappear is to place it on your palm, and as you close your hand, secretly stash the pen with your other hand.
Once you master hiding the pen inside your hand, you can add variations like holding the pen with both hands.
It’s a simple trick anyone can do with just a pen.
Be careful to keep your actions hidden when tilting or changing the pen’s direction, and give it a try.
Instant Magic! Telekinetic Chopsticks
Let me show you some simple magic tricks you can do with disposable chopsticks at a banquet hall.
By threading the chopsticks through a loop formed by your fingers, you can imbue them with “telekinetic power” so they appear to move without being touched.
First, cross a pair of Japanese disposable chopsticks and rub near the base with your right hand; the vibration grows stronger toward the tips, making the chopstick in your left hand hop up and down.
Another trick is to place the crossed chopsticks on a table and make them “move” with telekinesis.
In this one, you draw the audience’s gaze to the hand supposedly channeling power, while in reality you secretly blow on the chopsticks to make them move.
A simple number-guessing magic trick you can do with a 3×3 grid!
This is a prediction magic trick where anyone can easily guess the final number.
The trick uses a whiteboard with a 3×3 grid numbered 1–8 and some magnets.
First, have a spectator choose any number.
From that number, move clockwise the number of spaces indicated by the number you landed on.
For example, if the first choice is 6, move 6 spaces; if the next number you land on is 4, move 4 spaces, and so on.
After repeating this three times, you will always end up on 8.
So you place a paper with the number 8 stuck to the back of the whiteboard and reveal that it was “predicted” from the start.
The secret is very simple: just place the even numbers—2, 4, 6, and 8—in specific positions!
Read Your Mind! Math Magic
First, choose a number from 1 to 9.
Then add 1 to that number and multiply by 2, then add 6 and divide by 2.
Finally, subtract the number you originally chose, and you’ll end up with 4.
It’s a magic trick where no matter which number you pick, the final result is always 4, so as long as you remember the steps, anyone can perform this prediction trick successfully.
As long as the arithmetic or mathematical expression holds, you can change the content and arrange it in different ways, so why not come up with your own version?
Magic with moving tissues
This is a magic trick using tissues that anyone has.
You and your spectator each hold a crumpled tissue in your hands, but in an instant, yours appears to travel into the spectator’s hand.
It requires no setup, yet creates a surprising effect that involves your audience—so give it a try.
The secret: you pretend to grip the tissue in your left hand, but secretly move it to your right.
Then you hand over both that tissue and the one you were supposedly going to give the spectator, passing two tissues together and having them unknowingly hold both in their closed hand.
[Magic] Get the Crowd Going at Elementary School! A Collection of Perfect Tricks for Fun Parties (21–30)
Old notebooks like new!
Let me show you a simple magic trick using a notebook! If you rub the cover of a notebook covered in pencil scribbles with an eraser, it turns into a brand-new notebook.
Here’s how to do it.
First, on a two-page spread, write something in pencil.
Leave the next two-page spread blank, then write something on the following spread—repeat this pattern.
Next, simply cut off the bottom-right corner and the top-left corner of the pages you wrote on.
Mysteriously, when you flip the pages from the bottom, only the written pages open, and when you flip from the top, only the blank pages open—making the notebook look brand-new!