Hello there!

Im trying to make a new act with a safari theme. Im just in a thinking phase and looking for good idea for the show. So here is some of my though:

It is a 30 minuttes show located in the "jungle". I enter the stage a little stressed with my suit on. I tell them that we are going on a trip to the jungle, but we cant dress like this. I play some jungle sounds on the PA while I do a quickchange from suit to "safari/jungle outfit". a talk about what I will look after and on the trip I meet a lot of magical things like egg, flowers, animals and so on.

What kind of effects would you use to a show like this?

best regards

Alexander

"Jungle Hook" by Wayne Mattox would fit perfectly. It's a great take on PM, with kid interaction and some nice business. I highly recommend this, probably available from Practical Magic in the UK.

Cut and restored vine

Which is like cut and restored rope but you have to do it within 6 seconds...

If you work with doves, or ice cream bars consider a "net" to catch them.

"Lion Tamer" from my Hardboard and Duct Tape Magic Book 1 on The Magic Nook.

Spellbinder's "ABC Stung Revisited" from The Wizards' Journal #21.

Many card effects, like the Four Card Monte found in The Wizards' Journal #17, can be made with jungle animals - either cartoons or photos gathered from the Web collections of free clip-art.

Hello!
I 'm planning a show with the theme safari. It's like the jungle.
In my story I get from the safari. And I tell the children that I have seen it all.
My ideas :
Chico the Mind Reader (Bill Abbott)
Elephant in the Room or snake basket ( Frontier Magic )
Flito Flower ( it's a magic- Flower)
Gangavase ( I always had fresh water ... )
And lastly, I show the children my travel diary (Magic -coloring -book ) . This book has been specially printed. On the left is the day history (First Day , I met a monkey ( Chico ) .........
on the right side is a coloring picture of me and chico . Every trick , which I have shown is in the coloring book as a coloring picture. I show the normal routine and tell the children that they get a coloring book as a gift after the show. This is of course a normal coloring book , but with my stories and images ( specially made ) .
So the children get a nice coloring book with my address and information about me.The children will tell their parents about the great stories and the great magician . This coloring book is used for long.

Greetings from Germany
Frank

Nice!

Thank you all for taking your time to answer! I will work with some of these ideas!

Magic George: haha, funny!

Frank Wessels: Some cool stuff you have going on there! Thumbs up!

Harris: Good idea with the "net". Can use that in many settings!

Potty: I will check out that effect!

Deja Zoo.

Juggling with animal print balls or beanbags. (Make sure the bags show as different colors when in motion.)

Orangutan puppet.

-Mary Mowder

Good idea Mary!

Would love to mix juggling to my magic act!

Ostrich egg juggling.

Nigel agrees on the puppets.

Are you going to wear a complete costume , themed hat or drums?

....and can you do the Tarzan/Carol. Burnett bit?

Additional "bits".

Banana cut without peeling

Coconuts and balls with fruit ending

Thanks Alexander. The vine joke was a bit of an afterthought there was a genuine suggestion there too! Just order green rope and say it's a vine.

For professors nightmare you could tell a story about how hard it is to swing from vine to vine as they are all different lengths! Talking of vine swinging, the monkey bar would fit this premise too!

I love Frank's idea with the jungle diary that writes itself. Very clever.

George

Magicgeorge:
" I love Frank's idea with the jungle diary that writes itself. Very clever."
haugaas1991:
"Some cool stuff you have going on there! Thumbs up!"


Thank you both

Frank

The travel diary idea would also work as a "Magic Story Book" (see Qua-Fiki's "Magic Story Book" section at The Magic Nook) in which a new page with a picture and story appears in the book as kids choose cards "at random" to determine what comes next. For example- the book is blank to begin with. Someone from the audience chooses a picture card and it (for example) is a picture of a monkey. Now the book is opened again and a single page has appeared with a photo of your monkey puppet and a little story about what is about to happen. You make your monkey puppet appear and do your magic routine with it. Then have another card chosen , which makes a new page appear in the diary and leads into the next trick... and so on.

It´s not a diary, but a magic colouring book:(jungle theme)
http://www.difattamagic.com/index.php?pa......&find=Go

at the end of the site

Frank

You could also do "will the cards match" using jungle animals as pictures.