Does anyone have any cool routines scripts for this effect?

I do kids shows and trying to gather ideas.

Thank you.

MagicJac
Miami, Fl

Sammy Smith has a great kid-friendly routine called Ball Brothers' Traveling Circus in his book, Big Laughs for Little People. It’s a really fun routine!

https://www.spsmagic.com/products/big-la......e-people

P.S. The other stuff in this book is wonderful too.

I really like the routine from Practical Magic's site. In fact, I purchased their Stratosphere Deluxe simply because I wanted to use their routine. The prop, by the way, is a great solid piece and worth the price over the standard metal and joker box (the box I never used anyway.)

If you use the U.F. Grant/MAK Magic similarly sized props (Strat-O-Spheres & Crystal Silk Cylinder) you can combine these elements so your audience sees just one cover and one one clear tube; this enables you to perform a silk dying effect--three white silks to three colored silks-- change the 3 colored silks into three colored balls and then go into your regular Strat-O-Spheres routine.

Julie

In my school shows, when I did Strat-O-Spheres (I'm retired now), I patter about following directions, pointing out that the red ball has a problem following directions--namely to stay at the top of the tube. At the end, instead of using the box that comes with the trick to vanish the red ball, I end the routine by putting the red ball back into my prop/suitcase, telling it: "You can come back when you're ready to follow directions!" When the red ball _does_ reappear, I tell the kids: "You know why he came back? Because he's ready to follow directions." So I simply put the the three balls into the covered tube in the right order. When I lift the cover, the three balls are in proper order, and I tell the kids "Give the red ball a big hand for following directions." Surprisingly, the kids applaud enthusiastically for the red ball following directions.

----- Amado "Sonny" Narvaez

4 effects I've done through the 50's - 80's==just the basics, with YOUR imagination, YOU should know -WHATs WHAT===#1-'The Three Pigs', using the 20th Century silks-and 2 Vol. The Wolf keeps chasing the multi colored silk, it vanishes . The silks are of course the 3 pigs (1st vol. is the wolf), Pig-(multi color), keeps running around until vanishes -when 1st vol. says-WOLF WOLF and is found where they hid in 2nd Vol hand with tails tied together.-- #2- "Alice in Wonderland",- Die Box (Rabbets House) Die (rabbets Toy) - Mad Hatter (?) lives in the HAT - steals Rabbets toy, (that rabbet left out side -top of box))-takes toy to his Hat -rabbet finds it, and takes it(shell) home- Momma Rabbets says - 'put it away, in your room' - Mad Hatter steals it again.Sucker effect - then, Found -in his Hat again, -#3- Spot card- "want to see a picture of my Pet Spot " and his 3 sisters -4 brothers - 6 cousins.. etc.-- -#4, 'Coin Pail" "I have a Magic Wishing Well at home - this is its bucket- gather wishes (coins) That will be $400.please, L-O-L

Silly Billy's last book that is a compilation of over 100 routines has one that is a Christmas themed. It talks about Rudolph and racing with two other reindeers.

MagicJac

You can find a nice routine on Danny Orleans DVDs

https://www.amazekids.com/videos/art-of-......ownload/

You will get so much more than a great stratosphere routine. You learn how to be entertaining.
And isn't that what its all about.

Best of luck

Mark

Awesome guys thanks so much !!! Feels great to get so much help from all the fellow magicians here !!

MagicJac
Miami, Fl

Please, can anyone let me know who invented the Stat o Spheres trick? Was UF Grant??
Thanks a lot!

Yes, U.F. Grant invented Strat-O-Spheres. First marketed in 1962.

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If you can find a copy of this book, "MAGIC OF THE WORLD" by John Mulholland, he has routine in there called "Der Rote Geist" which is German for the Red Ghost. The routine uses a cardboard tube and round blocks of wood instead of the Strat-O-Spheres balls. He explains how a magician in Vienna told a story about a ghost's ability to go through walls, locked doors, and every other kind of barrier. On the final demonstration, I put the red ball in the box, which I really don't like - will probably switch to a devil's hank.. I have the kids say BOO as loud as they can to scare the ghost. When the box is opened, a 12" silk flutters out. Hmmmm...You guys did not say BOO loud enough, let's try it again. 12" silk vanished via TT. Red ball reappears in Strat-O-Spheres tube. I am in the process of making the props as described in the book so it "Packs Flat and Plays Big". Be sure to put a thin piece of foam or a think piece of indoor/outdoor carpet in the box so the ball does not make a noise when it is dropped in.