Top 4 Magic Tricks for Kids:
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Reds and Blacks Card Trick
A Card Trick
This is an easy to learn and implement trick...with little practice you can master it with ease.
Materials Needed:
1 Standard Card Deck
Preparation:
Separate the deck into two decks by color: one black deck, one red deck. Put the "mini" decks back together (but don't shuffle them).
The Trick:
Separate the decks and lay them face down on a flat surface in front of your audience. Have a person from the audience choose 1 card from each pile at random, memorize them, and then place each card into the opposite pile it was selected from.
Have him/her shuffle each deck seperately...then place the two decks back together.
Now you can look through the deck and find the 2 cards that don't match the color of the cards that surround them. Easy!
Notes: Practice this trick before performing. It's easy to get confused on how a card trick works just from reading about it. Having a deck of cards in your hands as you try and learn the tricks on this page will make it much easy to learn, understand and then master.
Salty Cards
A Card Trick
Materials Needed:
1 Standard Card Deck
A good pinch of salt secretly stored in your pocket
How the Trick Appears:
With nothing more than kicking a deck of cards you can tell which is the chosen card.
How the Trick Works:
Have a shuffled deck of cards on the floor. Have a person look through the deck and pick a card. Have him/her place his card on top of the deck. Now have them cut the deck into five piles. (Remember the chosen card is on the top of the first pile.)
Now by pointing to the piles have them put the deck back together in a different order.
The trick is that as you are pointing at the card piles, instructing the audience member to put them back together... you take a pinch of salt and drop it on top of the chosen card as you point to it. (Slick, eh?)
Then lightly kick the deck of cards with your right foot, slide into the cards to make them glide to the left.
Examine the deck; the place in the deck with the most distance between one card and the next is the chosen card.
Notes: Practice this trick before performing to get a feel for how and how hard to kick the cards, and how to "see" the chosen card.