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 (21–30)
The spoon sticks to the magnet.
It’s a science magic trick where a spoon turns into a magnet just by doing one simple thing! If you rub a magnet on the spoon a few times, the spoon itself becomes magnetic.
If you hide the magnet well, the trick will look really cool! Give it a try.
A magic trick where a bill passes through a spoon
It’s a magic trick where you sharply strike the crease of a folded bill with a spoon, the spoon appears to pierce through the bill, but when you remove the spoon and unfold the bill, it’s back to normal.
You prepare two spoons, hold them slightly offset so the back spoon sticks out, and place the folded bill between them.
By pressing the front spoon against the inside of the crease, the back spoon sticks out farther and becomes visible first, making it look as though it pierced the bill.
To avoid revealing that you’re holding two spoons, it’s best to use plain, flat spoons with minimal decoration.
Melting spoon
Prepare a glass of water and a metal spoon.
Put a drop of a mysterious liquid into the glass, then place the spoon in it.
The spoon will start to melt into a goo from the tip.
It’s a very curious magic trick that uses the power of science.
How to bend a fork
This is a video demonstrating fork bending.
The performer first checks whether the fork can be bent.
Naturally, it doesn’t physically bend.
The key to bending it lies in how you wobble the fork.
By shaking it vigorously up and down, you create a visual illusion.
Using an optical illusion, you trick the brain into thinking it’s bending.
After tapping the fork on the table, hold it between the ring finger and pinky of one hand.
Slowly tilt the fork to create the appearance that it’s bending.
This produces the illusion that the fork is bending.
Increasing spoons and forks
When you give the single spoon in your hand a light shake, it instantly becomes two.
Shake it again and it turns into three, four, and so on.
The same goes for a fork—it multiplies with each shake.
To top it off, when you shake the spoon, a fork appears instead.
It’s a simple and stylish piece of magic.
Make a coin disappear with a spoon
This is a magic trick where you use a spoon to make a coin that should be there disappear.
All you need is a spoon and a coin.
The method is simple, but what matters is how skillfully you make the coin vanish.
Practice until you can do it smoothly.
A fork that won’t fall from your hand
The fork I’m holding sticks to my palm and doesn’t fall even when I open my hand.
To reveal the trick: there’s a knife hidden in the watch strap, and it simply presses against the fork in my palm to keep it from falling—a very simple, classic magic trick.
In conclusion
As mentioned at the beginning, spoons and forks are everyday items, so they’re easy to prepare as props for magic tricks and make them easy to try.
That said, many of the tricks introduced this time will render the spoon unusable as a regular utensil, so I recommend buying a batch of inexpensive ones at a 100-yen shop (or dollar store) specifically for magic.