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mysticalmike Special user Saratoga Springs, NY 509 Posts |
Hi I am looking for some little tricks to give my son for his birthday. he is going to be 6. I know a ball and vase. Anyone have any other ideas.
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DomKabala Inner circle I've grown old after diggin' holes for 2827 Posts |
Sponge Rabbits, 2 Card Monte, Color Changing Hanky, Magic Coloring Book. Look in Toys R Us for Magic Marvin magic sets. I bought one for my niece a couple years ago. She loved it...for about 2 weeks
Cardamagically, <<<KRaZy4KaRdZ>>>
We don't stop playing when we grow old...we grow old when we stop playing.
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Michael J. Douglas Inner circle WV, USA 1645 Posts |
The kits are excellent, and usually cheaper than buying tricks separately. How many times have you heard, "It all started when I got a magic kit for my birthday....?" I've even found several of the small Fantasma kits in dollar stores!
Michael J.
�Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things.� --from Shakespeare�s �As You Like It� |
solidoak Loyal user 201 Posts |
My son loved Spikes thru Coin and the trick (can't remember the name) where two dots on a blue plastic flap change color when you close and re-open. Color changing Hanky, color vision, a coin slide (the one where the penny disappears and reappears as you slide it into the cover) and a simple drawer box are also great for real young kids.
Good luck trying to keep all the pieces from getting lost. That would be real magic at that age. Rick |
mysticalmike Special user Saratoga Springs, NY 509 Posts |
Ok that's what meant I am looking for some good magic sets. I nee one for kids 5 and up. anyone have any ideas.
mike |
CJRichard Special user Massachusetts 542 Posts |
My six year old daughter uses my old chick pan, a plastic egg and vase, an old temple screen and a color changing hank. At five, she even combined two tricks together, making the egg disappear from the vase and reappear via the chick pan.
I've had her help me practice cups and balls by having her place a ball on a cup and cover it with another cup before it penetrates. Unfortunately, she thinks that she can really make the balls do anything she wants them to, so she requests things that I cannot make happen yet. I have to tell her that we're still practicing the magic and when we get better at it, the balls might go where we want them to. . . I haven't bought her anything of her own, yet, and I'm cautious about giving her things that her playmates might see, but as magis6 says, they sell some little sets in the dollar stores now.
"You know some of you are laughin', but there's people here tryin' to learn. . ." -Pop Haydn
"I know of no other art that proclaims itself 'easy to do.'" -Master Payne Ezekiel the Green |
mysticalmike Special user Saratoga Springs, NY 509 Posts |
Ok here my problem he has disability that y I am starting out easy. so I think I am going to toys r us to get him something.
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CJRichard Special user Massachusetts 542 Posts |
This just reminded me of a gawd-awful piece of apparatus that came in a magic set I got as a kid.
The effect was making a coin vanish or change to a different coin. It was done with this large, red plastic prop that was about the size of a dove pan. (To vanish a coin!) You put the coin in a little circle in the center of the base. Put the cover on. Then you secretly slid a metal tab on the back side. This caused an ever so subtle Ka-THUNK! sound. Then, upon lifting the cover. . . Presto, the coin was gone.
"You know some of you are laughin', but there's people here tryin' to learn. . ." -Pop Haydn
"I know of no other art that proclaims itself 'easy to do.'" -Master Payne Ezekiel the Green |
abc Inner circle South African in Taiwan 1081 Posts |
Just remembered a story from when I got my first set. Didn't really get into magic until a good 7 or 8 years later but I recall this little booklet that had you stick 3 or 4 coins to the bottom of a table with "Presstick" and then pull them of one by one when you count the 4 or 5 coins on the table and every time a new one appears. Couldn't find the "Presstick"one evening and decided to use Chewing Gum on my mom's dinner table. Can still remember the punishment.
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DaddyDoodle Loyal user Northern Hemisphere 277 Posts |
Melissa & Doug, makers of the fabulous wooden toyhs for children, make 3 (I believe that's the #) different sets that are quite good for smaller children. I have teh deluxe set that I'm planning on giving my daughter @ age 6-7. We gave her the smaller (6 trick) set for her 4th birthday. The tricks are self-working and very simple to perform. She actually performed one of them at her 4th birthday party. Another idea is tricks like the flower (in pot) from wand, etc. These go well with the coordination level of the age.
Tally-ho! And Tuscarora too!
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The Magic Ref Veteran user Flint, Mi. 302 Posts |
Nickles to Dimes
Be Young...Have Fun!
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mysticalmike Special user Saratoga Springs, NY 509 Posts |
Thanks all for you help I bought him a magic marvens magic set.
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ssucahyo Inner circle 1954 Posts |
Fantastic coins rom Chu's Hong Kong.
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cheekychap Regular user 141 Posts |
There is some good 1s out there now
My daughter is 6, and has asked for a gross magic set as a present, which aint your standard magic set There’s also 1 called glow in the dark magic that I’ll get her too, and myself of course. lol Just to see if there’s any ideas I can use with it. lol Even comes with a backing light, and DVD, I think this also has a ball and vase trick mysticalmike which might help you. They can be seen here :- http://www.argos.co.uk/static/product/partnumber/3693603.htm And here :- http://www.argos.co.uk/static/product/partnumber/0814038.htm I just think maybe the unusual keeps them a bit more interested Aint sure if you can get these in the U.S.A., or not though, so I’d be willing to go out, and get them for you, and maybe put them up on my ebay for you to buy, and send you them if that helps with crimbo. I just love watching the wee 1s doing magic. I remember when my wee 1 tried to do her 1st coin vanish. lol There she was in front of me wringing her hands together trying to get that coin to vanish, then decided if I could see her hands the coin wouldn’t go, so she’s now got them behind her back still wringing them like mad, switching the coin from hand to hand wondering what to do with the coin, and praying like mad that it would just go And as always in the end its shut your eyes dad, and turn your back (even to the extreme of covering your eyes with your back turned, just incase you do peek a bit ) And so with a count to 10 the coin is gone. I think the count is important, as there still unsure what to do with the coin. As I have peeked, and it’s a laugh watching there worried faces. lol Her head is turning this way and that still thinking where to put it. So in the end, it was either run into another room to hide the coin, just incase I could see it if it was in the same room as me, or the coin went under the nearest cushion available, never once thinking to just put it in her pocket. Then she learned how to sleeve it pretty good, though you’d think she was being arrested when you turned back. Now she does a mean pitch, and ditch for the vanish. The greatest bit of all though is there faces when you turn around, and they've made the coin finally vanish, and gone for good. Man, you just cant beat that. |
Thoughtreader Inner circle Calgary, Alberta, Canada 1565 Posts |
There is an awesome book available titled "For Grandmas, Grandpas...guiding kids to magic-land By Rosemary Atwell Haire". It's a book where she delightfully recounts her adventures in guiding her grandson along the hazard-strewn road to Magic. Not only will you see how Rosemary developed a new hobby and special relationship with Michael, but she tells you how to follow in her footsteps and do the same. Even if you are a seasoned magical performer, and you do kid's shows, you too can benefit from the tips, hints, comments on what plays and what doesn't for kids, the advice on themeing your shows, the practical examples of themed programs, and how you can twist a standard effect to fit a theme.
PSIncerely Yours, Paul Alberstat |
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