Easy Magic Tricks for Kids and Beginners

Do you want to impress your friends with a few easy magic tricks? Whether you're an adult or a kid, learning the following illusions using cards, coins, or other simple objects is fun.

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How to Bend a Spoon

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The Spoon Bend is a classic trick that every smart aleck needs to know. You grab any spoon, press down on it with your hands, and appear to bend it. As your stunned spectators register what you just did, you lift the spoon and show that it is unbent, just as you found it.
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The Magic Tube

The magic tube is as much a craft project as it is a magic trick. This trick is particularly good for kids since it uses ordinary household materials. The magician shows his audience an empty tube and then magically produces items such as ribbons or silk handkerchiefs from within the tube.
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Easy Rope Magic: Threading the Needle

Here's a great trick where a magician apparently and quickly threads a piece of rope through a rope needle. It's easy to learn and perform, and all you need is a length of rope and some talent for sleight-of-hand.
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The Magnetic Pencil 2

After showing that a pencil sticks to your hand as you grasp your wrist, you suddenly let go of your "grabbing" hand and the pencil mysteriously stays in place. Notice the wristwatch in the photo? It's critical to the trick's success (but don't let the audience in on it).

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Vanishing a Coin With Rings

This trick makes it appear like the magician can make a coin disappear. The props for this trick include a couple of rings and a playing card. It requires a bit of pre-construction but is probably suitable for kids (with a parent's help for the younger magicians).
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The Impassable Corks

In the impassable corks, you hold two wine corks that are seemingly interlocked, and somehow pull the corks through each other. It's a fast, visual trick you can also perform with rolled dollar bills and other objects roughly the same size as wine corks.

This trick is probably too difficult for younger magicians, but is a good option for older kids and beginning adult magicians.
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Cold as Ice

In the Cold as Ice trick, you seemingly defy the law of physics as water appears to freeze instantly. The magician pours some water into a cup, utters the secret or magic words, turns over the cup, and finds a chunk of ice where the water should be. With a little setup, this trick is easy for even the littlest magician.
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How to Levitate or Float a Card From Hand to Hand

Here’s a stunning levitation where you cause a playing card to mysteriously float from one hand to the other. There’s some crafting involved and you’ll have to watch your lighting and clothing and distance, but we’ll talk you through the process.

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How to Float and Spin a Playing Card in Midair

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Here's a magic trick that is sure to get the attention of spectators. You bring out a playing card and then cause it to spin in midair and then rise up to your hand.
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Puncture a Bill With a Pen and Magically Restore It

Here's an easy magic trick that makes it appear that you have punched a hole in a bill with a pen, but the bill magically restores itself or was never punched in the first place.
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The Color Changing Card

Color Changing Card

In this trick, a spectator's selected card mysteriously changes colors from the rest of the cards.
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The Rising Card

In the Rising Card trick, you have a spectator select a card and then lose it in the deck. You rest your first finger on top of the deck and as you lift your finger, the spectator's card mysteriously ascends with it. This should get a rise from spectators.

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That Thumb Thing

That Thumb Thing is an age-old trick that you can do anytime, anywhere. In an instant, you seemingly pull your thumb apart and then put it back together again. If you're an uncle or grandpa, you have to learn this trick to tease the kids.
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Jumping Rubber Band

In the Jumping Rubber Band, a rubber band mysteriously jumps from your pinkie and ring fingers to the first and middle fingers of the same hand and then back again. All you need is a rubber band.
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The Banana Buster

Learn how to mysteriously segment a banana in the Banana Buster. By executing an ultra-secret ninja move, the magician causes a banana to separate into pieces while it is still inside the peel. This trick is an easy one that only requires a little preparation. If you're hungry, you can eat the banana when you're done.