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December 16th, 2009 by Barb Church

Whenever you see someone pulling off some fun little magic tricks at a party or a get together, don’t you sometimes wish that could be you doing the performing? Well, now you can; and it is as easy as pie just to get started when you have a computer and can browse the Internet for some of these fun and easy magic tricks.

When some people think of magic or hear the word mentioned, usually think of tricks done with a deck of playing cards because these are some of the simplest tricks around. If you browse the Internet for easy magic tricks, you will see a lot of these mentioned and explained as well, so you can get started by learning a few fun tricks. One that is a real jaw dropper for most people is called the Color Card Prediction where someone in the crowd chooses a card from the deck, slips it back in the deck, but when you spread the cards out now, the chosen card is the only card of another color in the deck. Weird. There’s one called Dealing a Royal Flush, or the Rising Card which is fun to watch—it just takes a little more skill than some of the others, but it’s impressive.

First, when magic is mentioned we think of cards, but what follows close behind? Yep, money. Remember seeing a coin being pulled from behind someone’s ear out of thin air, or how about this—–this is one of the more dramatic of the easy magic tricks with money—–called the Vanishing Coin. Put 4 coins in your hand, close your hand, open, and Lookee lookee, now there is only 3 coins. Or take a couple of dollar bills, roll them tightly together, and then unroll—-what do we have here? The bill that was on the top is now on the bottom—-how the heck did you do that?

Easy magic tricks abound on the Internet, you just have to search for them. Do you or your kids love everything about the Harry Potter series? Then these tricks are certain crowd pleasers especially if you have a lot of kids present; and if you dress up or dress your little performer up in a long robe and a pair of large round eyeglasses, you will have the Hogwarts effect that will help pull these tricks off. Here’s a fun one: The Levitating Ring where a finger ring slowly rises up a pencil—or even a magic wand, if you really want a crowd reaction. Then move on to The Magnetic Hand—you flare out a hands worth of playing cards and lift them into the air as if they were glued to your hand by a magnet. What a cool trick for kids to watch.

The next time you go to a party, plan on being the life of it by performing some easy magic tricks you picked up while browsing the Internet……here’s one: it’s called Dark Magic. You leave the room, someone in the room selects an object and tells the group what it is, leaves it in place: you return into the room and identify the chosen object. Whoooooooo. Or, how about the Mental Prediction. This one is based on a quirk in mathematics and can be done one on one with a friend or to everyone in the room. Spooky.

And what would a sit down, gathered around the table, old fashioned family dinner be without someone performing easy magic tricks at the table to the amusement of everyone. Here we have the Butter Knife through the Napkin routine; or the Vanishing Toothpick that mysteriously disappears into your hands; or the famous Spoon Bend, where you make a spoon appear to bend and then release it to show that it is just as straight as when you started. Just hope no one beans a dinner roll off your head after that one. Lots of laughs.

Yup, magic can be lots of fun and provide a few belly laughs all around, and what makes it even more fun is the fact that we all could be a magician of sorts if we wanted to. All that is necessary is to get to a computer, browse up easy magic tricks on the Internet, and practice a few of them until you get them to a point where you can perform them believably without screwing up and without fainting from fear. A good share of us are hams at heart, and performing these tricks is a fun way to express yourself when the time is right.

Barb Church is an author and publisher on such topics as magic tricks. For more information on magic for beginners visit our site.

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