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 (41–50)
Magic that changes color in an instant
It’s a magic trick that looks mysterious precisely because the change happens in an instant: the paper clipped in place changes color the moment you take it away.
In fact, while the paper of the initial color is clipped, the paper with the changed color is stacked behind it, and the original paper is retracted to the base of the clip by a concealed rubber band at the same moment the clip is released.
It’s important to be mindful of how you apply pressure to the clip, to achieve a speed that doesn’t reveal the rubber-assisted movement.
Because the color changes distinctly within a small area, it helps the audience focus on the phenomenon right in front of them, which enhances the effect’s appeal.
Surprise Notepad
“Surprise Notepad” is a magic trick item sold by the toy maker Tenyo.
At first glance it looks like an ordinary notepad, but if you draw a picture of a banknote on the pad and pull it with your finger, a real bill appears! If there were no trick to it, it would be a truly wonderful notepad, right? (laughs) Since it’s a commercially available product, anyone can do it just by reading the instructions—an easy-to-use magic item.
If you want to pick up some magic skills without much hassle, definitely check it out!
ascending clip
It’s a magic trick where you thread a clip onto a rubber band that’s been cut into a string, and the clip seems to move on its own.
Of course, it’s not really moving by itself—you’re taking advantage of the rubber’s elasticity, pulling and slackening it so it looks like the clip is moving!
Revealing the Secret of the Rubber Band Teleportation Magic Trick
This is a simple magic trick where a rubber band that’s hooked around the index and middle fingers appears to jump to the ring and little fingers.
The key is how you hook the rubber band in the part hidden by your palm: the band stretched between the pinky and thumb is firmly secured.
When you release the thumb, it jumps to the opposite side; then when you release the pinky, it jumps again.
Because it’s done in two stages, it creates an even stronger sense of mystery.
The angle of your wrist to prevent the audience from noticing the complex hooking, and the way you move your fingers so they don’t realize it’s fixed, are also crucial points.
Guessing the selected card using a rubber band
This is a magic trick where you return the chosen card to the deck, shuffle, and a rubber band hooked on your hand pulls that card out from inside the deck.
The key points are where you return the selected card and how you shuffle.
When returning the card, split the deck into two packets without drawing attention, then shuffle so the top packet comes to the bottom; this places the selected card at the bottom.
Next, while saying you’re going to wrap the whole deck with a rubber band, secretly hook the rubber band through the selected card using your pinky.
Smooth, unnoticeable motions and precise finger work are crucial, so practice until the actions feel natural and seamless.
When you rub the rubber band, it disappears in an instant.
It’s a magic trick where you stretch a rubber band with both hands and knead it in the middle, and then the rubber band seems to vanish from your hands.
The method is simple: wear another rubber band of the same color on one wrist, and you’re just returning the rubber band there.
Hook a finger into the rubber band on your wrist and make it look like you’re pinching the band between both hands.
Then release the hooked finger and slowly guide the band back to the bundle on your wrist.
If the position of the wrist bundle shifts, it will look suspicious, so try to pull from as close to the bundle as possible.
It’s also important to smoothly transition from the stretching action to the vanish so you don’t draw attention to the small details.
The rubber bands switch colors.
This is a magic trick where you stretch two rubber bands to make a pattern, then shrink them and blow on them to instantly reverse the colors.
With one wrist turned over, stretch the rubber bands in an X shape and hook a rubber band of a different color around them.
Then, when you turn the flipped wrist back to match the orientation of the other hand, the colors in the pattern switch places.
Since it’s obvious that the wrist orientation changes, make sure to direct the audience’s gaze firmly to the rubber bands so they don’t notice, and focus on smooth, fluid overall movement.
In conclusion
We’ve introduced magic tricks using stationery that you can easily perform anywhere—at school, at work, and more.
What did you think? Some of you may have tried them right away while reading the article.
They’re that simple, and using everyday stationery really makes you want to give them a go, doesn’t it? Be sure to try them out quickly whenever you have a spare moment!