Are your kids getting a little bored here at the end of the summer? It’s about this time that kids are a little restless…they have done everything that can do with their summer but it’s not quite time to go back to school. How many times this week have you heard from your kids…”I’m bored! There’s nothing to do!”? Ugh…if you are tired of hearing this, throw a little curve ball their way and teach them a couple of easy magic tricks that they can play with and actually learn how to go and wow their friends. Here is the first one….
Three Magic Coins. Kids love this one, they can’t wrap their brain around it, and yet it’s so easy to teach them. Once they know how it’s done, they will be thrilled to go try it on their friends. This one is for older kids. Here’s how it works: palm a coin in your right hand, with the head side up, it doesn’t matter which coin you use. Now hold out your left hand and tell your children “I have 3 magic coins, a dime, a nickel, and a penny”. Make sure one of the coins you say is actually the coin palmed in your right hand. Now with your right hand, pretend to lay the 3 coins in your left palm. Now ask them to pick one! If they actually say the one you have palmed, perfect. If they say another one, ask them if they want to keep it, or give it to you? Proceed with whatever their response it. Ask them to chose another one, and proceed as above, until they say the one that you have palmed. Once they do ask them to take that coin (it’s pretend at this point) and throw it in the air, and call it Heads or Tails. When they call it, grab the “coin” out of the air with your right hand.
Now, if they said Heads…open your right palm and reveal the coin to your spectator with the heads up. If they said Tails…before revealing the coin, place is on the top of your left hand, and then gently remove your right hand, showing their chosen coin with the Tails up. Trust me, they will go crazy! They will inevitably ask you to do the trick again, which you must refuse. Just ask them if they want to learn it….teach it to them and then go take a nap for a few hours while they wrestle with it on their own!
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