Simple magic tricks using stationery: recommended tricks for parties and performances
We’re introducing quick and easy magic tricks you can casually perform during school or work breaks, or as icebreakers at parties.
All the tricks featured in this article use stationery you can always find at school or the office!
Isn’t it great that, without any special props or advanced skills like a magician, you can quickly entertain people around you with familiar, everyday items like stationery?
These are magic tricks you can do anywhere as long as you have some stationery, so try mastering a few and liven up the moment!
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Simple magic tricks using stationery. Recommended tricks for parties and performances (21–30)
The rubber band I thought I had cut came back to life.
For those who want to perform real magic, the rubber band restoration trick is highly recommended.
After cutting a rubber band with scissors, just pull it while saying “1, 2, 3,” and it instantly returns to normal! The secret is that you actually use two rubber bands, creating the illusion that it has been restored.
If you roll up a rubber band into a small ball, it’s easy to hide in your hand.
People will be amazed, saying, “But you cut it—how?!” guaranteed.
Happy Clip Magic
Thread a rubber band through a long, narrow strip of paper to secure it, then insert a white and a red clip.
When you give it a sharp pull, the once plain white paper suddenly reveals the character for “congratulations” (祝).
On top of that, the clips and the rubber band end up linked together.
It’s really mysterious how that works!
Simple magic tricks using stationery: recommended tricks for parties and performances (31–40)
Pen magic that produces a coin
It’s a magic trick where, after signaling with a ballpoint pen to a hand that should be empty, a coin appears in the hand.
In fact, a coin is fitted into the pen’s clip from the beginning, and while keeping that part out of view, you move it into the hand.
Pay attention to how you hold the pen when showing that your hand is empty, and how you conceal the coin when moving the pen.
If the clip or coin catches inside your hand, people will suspect a gimmick, so it’s also crucial to judge the position where it can be removed smoothly.
The magic trick where the eraser cover you removed goes back to its original place
A mysterious magic trick where you remove the eraser’s sleeve right in front of someone, but when you blow on it, the sleeve somehow goes back on! In reality, you’ve cut a sleeve in half and attached it to the eraser, so all you need to do is roll it while blowing to reveal the attached side—super easy.
A magic trick where both the pencil and the eraser disappear
Hold a pencil in your right hand and an eraser in your left.
Clench your left hand, then tap it with the pencil in your right hand, and the pencil will appear to vanish.
In reality, you hide the pencil in the collar of your shirt in that brief moment, then reveal it as if to say, “It’s actually here,” while secretly tucking the eraser from your left hand into a pocket or elsewhere.
Then, when you tap again with the pencil you produced, it looks as if it disappears.
It’s a magic trick where the presentation is crucial.
A plastic bag that doesn’t leak even when you stick a pencil through it
A magic trick that gives viewers a chill: a plastic bag that won’t leak even when you stab it with pencils.
In this trick, you pierce a water-filled plastic bag with a pencil—then with two, three, and more.
Yet not a single drop spills.
The key is to use a polyethylene bag.
Polyethylene actually shrinks when heated.
In other words, at the moment of piercing, the heat causes it to contract and seal the gap around the pencil.
Be careful: other types of bags will leak.
The pen in my hand disappears in an instant.
For those who like flashy visuals, I recommend a trick where the pen in your hand seems to vanish in an instant.
The basic setup is to pinch both ends of the pen between the thumbs and index fingers of your left and right hands.
Then, apply pressure with the fingers of your dominant hand and pull inward.
From the front, it should look as if the pen has disappeared.
If you repeatedly make the pen appear and disappear using the same method, you’re sure to amaze your audience.
If possible, angle your dominant-hand side slightly toward the spectator to make it harder to detect.