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Julie Inner circle 3943 Posts 
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A small chop cup might just catch the imagination of your little one.
(Plus you can easily adapt a routine for adults, too!) Julie |
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MRSharpe Special user Never a dull moment with 940 Posts
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Plenty of talk here about fire magic, but only one cautionary note. Certain types of magic should not be done for young children and fire magic is one of them, particularly flash paper. What does a piece of flash paper look like to a kid? It looks just like a piece of toilet paper and little kids are prone to try and get magic to work for themselves but getting a piece of toilet paper and then lighting it on fire. It's an accident waiting to happen. No fire magic for little kids!
Custom Props Designer and Fabricator as well as Performer from Indiana, USA
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frankvomit Elite user 485 Posts
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Https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DvhyWz-cv0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrs-BX624cI heres a couple sponge ball things I do and I get killer reactions with these. the vids were taken when I was still putting the routines together so I do them a lot smoother now but its just an example of what you can do with spongeballs . |
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krowboom Loyal user Chicago area 233 Posts
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I do a lot of shows for kids and for me anything with fire or poking things with swords and spikes are real no nos. Kids like to imitate and you sure wouldn't want them copying fire tricks and knife penetrations. In addition to what's already been suggested try Tommy James. He has a lot of great effects for kids. Look into Silly Billy. He's supposed to be a top kid magician. I do vent and kids love puppets. Of course you have to learn ventriloquism first but it's well worth it.
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts
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On Jul 9, 2014, MRSharpe wrote: FIRE TRICKS -- FOR CHILDREN!!!!!!!!!<<<<<<<<<<< NO! >>>>>>>>>>>> MRSharpe IS ABSOLUTELY RIGHT~!!! BEFORE you do fire tricks for kids, YOU HAD BETTER BUY PLENTY OF HOSPITAL INSURANCE....AND PLENTY OF INSURANCE ON YOUR HOME....AND IF YOU ARE A WORKING PERFORMER DOING KID SHOWS, YOU HAD BETTER BUY THE IBM OR SAM OR CFA LIABILITY INSURANCE!!!!!!!!! I strongly recommend that you visit the burn unit in the nearest children's hospital. FIRE IS A GOOD SERVANT, BUT, A BAD MASTER!!! KIDS ARE FASCINATED BY FIRE!!! KIDS "PLAYING" WITH FIRE ARE AN "ACCIDENT"(?) W A I T I N G TO HAPPEN!!!!!!!! If you need to do fire tricks to "entertain" children, I suggest that you should go see a psychiatrist. I've been entertaining kids for 68 years. A few of those who read my comments think that I'm a grumpy old man. Those who know me, know that I'm anything but. PERCY ABBOTT once sold a kid "magician" a flash pot ("BANG/POOF"). The resulting law suit nearly put the Abbott Magic Co. out of business. Flash paper, flash string, black gunpowder, ARE NOT TOYS!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts
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On Aug 1, 2014, krowboom wrote: This makes THREE of us, who KNOW that FIRE and KIDS can be a LETHAL COMBINATION!!!
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts
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On Jul 2, 2014, Ray Bertrand wrote: HOORAY RAY! At least there are FOUR OF US! To those who recommended ALTERNATIVES to FIRE TRICKS::::::Thanks for your POSITIVE SUGGESTIONS!
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts
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On Jun 30, 2014, Ed_Millis wrote: Oops! I was reading rapidly, and "missed" your comment! THANKS FOR YOUR PRECAUTIONARY NOTE!
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magic_man_jim Regular user 118 Posts
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I agree no fire for kids at all!!!! I just tried the quiet approach of just mentioning something else. I know how some people are here at the Café and didn't want to start another riot thread. But since others have commented openly I would never do a fire effect for children. But hey silks are pretty...they would like that!!!
Magic is not to fool...but allows you to believe!
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts
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Thanks "M_M_J" for chiming in! Chicago schools have had several school fires with children DYING.
When I was a program consultant for the School Assembly Service in Chicago, I often "inherited" the MC job at our annual auditions for new talent. New talent would present about 18-20 minutes of the program that they proposed to do. We had an average of 20 school administrators, plus our staff of program consultants to observe how the talent's program would appeal to Jr. Hi kids. We had several magicians auditioning that day. The first was a young man who opened a "box" and proceeded to lay various fire props on his table. I told him that schools in Chicago did not allow even lighting a match. He ignored me and set his props on stage. I opened the curtain, keeping one hand on the rope, and he lit a torch. Elizabeth Carlson,owner/manager of the SAS, came running down the aisle, screaming: "No fire!" as I closed the curtain I said, "Betty, I TOLD him!" He packed up and left. Some adults are fascinated by fire (as most children are). Some magicians are fascinated by fire, too. When kids see adults (and magicians) PLAYING WITH FIRE, guess what happens.
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts
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This morning on the national TV news:::::THE "LATEST GAME" FOR YOUNG TEEN AGERS IS THE >>>FIRE CHALLENGE<<<~!
Young kids are dousing themselves in FLAMMABLE FLUIDS, AND SETTING THEMSELVES ON FIRE!!!!!!!!!
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george1953 Inner circle Mallorca (Spain) 5943 Posts
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Sounds like great fun, waste of time showing them a fire wallet then.
By failing to prepare, we are preparing to fail.
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LewisF New user 14 Posts
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Transpositions and vanishes are often not so impressive to kids (unless incredibly visual). Get them to interact a lot and you make stuff more impressive. Tricks like a lubor's lens are great because they involve an object doing something it shouldn't. Also jumbo coins are great and all wierd props are lovely for kids (and often adults as well).
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RogerTheShrubber Veteran user 301 Posts
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There's a matchbook trick in Joshua Jay's book that I did for a guy whose kids were present. The next day my wife got a call from his wife, who informed us that she caught her kids trying to duplicate it. Their oldest is nine. So in addition to the many calls in this thread for no fire magic in front of kids, I would remind anyone of that which I didn't think about for so much as a moment: the presence of a parent doesn't make it any better at all.
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george1953 Inner circle Mallorca (Spain) 5943 Posts
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The Tamariz rabbits always goes over well with kids. You might have to search a bit for the cards though !
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts
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I'm glad that I'm not the only "grumpy old man" (!!!hee hee!!!) [see my very strong post on page 1 of this thread)
I'll add one more FIRE "story"..... Greg Bordner (current owner of Abbott's Magic Co.) was a teenage magician, MANY years ago! (hey...his dad owned Abbott's!). Abbott's made and sold a FIRE BOWL. The bowl was fueled with a flammable fluid. It was ignited by tipping the bowl from "standing on edge" to a horizontal position. Two chemicals reacted. The ignition was instantaneous! He had "safely" (?) loaded it backstage. Then, he noticed that his shoe was untied. He bent down to tie his shoe--AND REMOVED HIS COAT IN RECORD TIME. Abbott's doesn't make fire bowls anymore. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- George~! Re: fire wallet post above -- du hast recht! vous avez raison, Hee Hee. --Maybe a fire attache case??? HEE HEE!
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regimbeaup New user 58 Posts
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Not for kids obviously but the cigarette through lighter is really impressive, and you finish clean:)
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TomasKancyper New user 78 Posts
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Angle z by daniel madison. Extremely visual and you can make it funny
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Dick Oslund Inner circle 8357 Posts
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Si Tomas! (HERE COMES THE "BUT"); BUT, FIRE AND KIDS DO >>>NOT<<< GO TOGETHER!!!
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1KJ Inner circle Warning: We will run out of new tricks in 4388 Posts
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I have a three year old daughter. She doesn't get cards, but she loves coin magic! Learn tenkai pennies and there is a slew of things you could do. I do a little routine where I show my hands empty, take a penny in one hand and say I'm going to make it go to the other hand. I close both hands and make a magic move. I open the other hand and it's empty. I open the first hand and it has a dime. I ignore that it's a dime and I say "Rats, it didn't work. Let me try again." I do this a few times, each time the coin changes from one to the other. My three year old picks up on it pretty quickly and starts laughing that the coin changed.
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