You have to involve them - you can't just perform wonders remotely, or they'll lose interest.

Magic is Good for Your Kids!

Children love Magic Tricks. They especially love a show that is given for them on a birthday. Some Magicians are now doing kids shows that actually teach the children simple Magic Tricks.

Nothing dangerous; just some card tricks, a few rope tricks. No balloons and sharp pins, no coins that could be swallowed, no magical fire that flares from nowhere. Just a few simple Magic Tricks.

How can this be good for a child? Well, for a start, the more interests a child has, the more interesting a personality they will develop. Magic can become an involving interest; one that could lead to a paying hobby or perhaps a career. It will certainly increase their popularity!

Next, Magic involves memory; you have to remember how to do it, where the card is and how to control it, the patter or story that goes with the trick, and how to produce a dramatic conclusion. This is repeated for each magic trick learned, and an enthusiastic Magician, even a young one, will learn many hundreds of magic tricks!

There is also an amount of manual dexterity needed – sleight of hand is a skill that needs to be practiced. Some tricks need the hands to perform minor contortions that can take months to perfect. Magicians who start young enough will develop hands as supple and powerful as a pianist or classical guitarist. Many older Magicians, myself included, who didn’t start young enough, have given up doing certain tricks because their fingers are no longer capable of bending that way.

Perhaps the most important thing that Magic will do for your child is to introduce them, subtly, to the concept of scepticism. It will demonstrate to them that not everything is what it seems; that just because someone tells them that something is so – it may not be.

Despite their serious side, Magic Tricks for kids are FUN and your children will love them.

MAGIC WHOOPEE
The magician borrows a (hard based) chair and produces a bag of cushions. The Birthday Boy is then invited to choose a cushion from the bag and sit on it. There is an immediate farting sound which will get everyone laughing. When the noise subsides, the audience is told that the cushions are Magic Whoopee Cushions, and that they will only 'perform' for someone whose birthday it is.

Members of the audience are invited to choose any cushion and sit on it - there is not a sound. When Birthday Boy sits on one, it farts. It won't fart when anyone else sits on it.

METHOD. There are no Whoopee Cushions, only a remote controlled Fart Machine (available from most joke shops) fixed to the underside of the chair with double sided tape. The remote control is in your pocket, or taped to your side so that a squeeze of your elbow sets it off. Be sure to recover the Fart Machine at the end of the trick and disable it - if it doesn't have an on/off switch, take the batteries out! Also please note; many of these Fart Machines give out a loud sound as soon as switched on - you need to switch it on BEFORE you go in to perform!

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