Magic tricks using spoons and forks: Recommended tricks for parties and performances
Of course, events like New Year’s parties and year-end gatherings, as well as casual get-togethers with friends or small family birthday celebrations, are perfect occasions to have a few simple magic tricks up your sleeve.
While it’s fine to prepare in advance, being able to quickly perform a trick using everyday items without elaborate setup can also showcase your flair.
In this article, we introduce easy magic tricks using spoons and forks.
They’re suitable for everyone from children to adults, so feel free to give them a try.
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Magic using spoons and forks: Recommended tricks for parties and performances (11–20)
Spoon Twist
This is also an application of spoon bending, and it’s a trick you’ll want to try when you want to make an extra impact.
Once you’ve learned spoon bending, you’ll see that this isn’t difficult either.
It’s a trick you can use when spoon bending alone doesn’t fully satisfy your audience.
The spoon held in (my/your) mouth?
It’s a magic trick where, after holding a spoon in your mouth and performing various actions, you take it out and the tip has turned into a fork.
The method is simple—you’re just switching the spoon and fork midway—but the overall movement and flow of patter guide the audience’s gaze effectively.
It’s also important that you never explicitly state what will happen; by introducing many attention-grabbing props like playing cards, you divert attention away from the switch.
It’s crucial to avoid letting people clearly see the moment you put it in your mouth, and to incorporate techniques throughout that prevent the audience from realizing the exact moment of the switch.
Multiplying Spoon
It’s a magic trick where the number of spoons appears to increase rapidly in the split second when you move a spoon forward and then bring it back.
The method is very simple: multiple spoons are overlapped so they look like a single spoon, and you slide them by applying pressure to the handle.
There are also commercially available props with an axle attached to the handle, which make the sliding much easier.
While the overall presentation is important, it’s also recommended to plan your patter so the flow of conversation distracts from any sounds made while sliding the spoons.
Return the bent spoon to its original shape
It’s a magic trick where you seem to bend a spoon with force, only for it to return to its original shape the moment you take your hands off.
The key is to cover it firmly with your hands; the method is simple—you just hook the handle and tip the whole spoon downward.
To make it look like you’re actually bending the spoon, it’s important to tense your arms and hands and lower it slowly.
Be mindful of how you layer your hands so there are no gaps that would reveal the spoon, and make sure to release it smoothly so it looks like it instantly returned to normal.
X-ray Spoon
You take two ordinary spoons and cover your eyes with the bowls.
There are no holes or gaps—there’s no way you could see anything.
And yet, in that state, you pick up a deck of cards and inexplicably keep naming the numbers written on them.
It’s a baffling magic trick.
Flying Spoon
There are eight spoons and eight forks lined up on the table.
Other items to prepare are a CD-ROM and a toy finger.
Put a small magnet inside the toy finger.
Next, try stacking the spoons and you’ll see they seem to become a single one.
They looked like they had become one, but they were actually stacked.
If you put the toy finger over your thumb and slide the spoon, it looks as if it’s floating.
Magic using spoons and forks: Recommended tricks for parties and performances (21–30)
Fork bending and cutting magic
It’s a shocking fork-bending trick where the fork not only bends but even snaps off and falls when you shake it.
Bending a fork might be easy, but cutting it all the way through is hard, right? Actually, even beginners can do it, so give it a try!