This is a great activity to have for those den meetings when you need a fast filler.

See if the boys can guess what will happen when they cut it.

LINKS:

1. The Möbius Strip Bellevue Community College
2. Zoom
3. College of Charrleston

Prepare for this trick by dividing a deck of playing cards into two piles — one of red cards, one of black.

Place them facedown on a table.

Ask someone to pick any card from either pile and show it to someone else but not to you. Pick up the rest of the pile the person chose from and put it In your pocket. Ask the person to put his card anywhere In the remaining pile.

Now pick up the pile and fan them out without letting the audience see them. Find the card that is a different color from all the others and show it, asking, “Is this the one you chose?”

It will be, of course.

Another version of this trick.

Loop one rubber band over the first two fingers of your right hand. Place a second rubber band over the tips of all four fingers, twisting it between each finger. Now grasp the loop of the first rubber band with your left hand bend the fingers of the right hand, and pull it over all four fingertips.

When you straighten the fingers quickly, the first rubber band will jump mysteriously to the third and fourth fingers as shown. Make it jump back by repeating the process.

Here you hand a spectator an ordinary handkerchief behind his back. You snap your fingers. When he removes the handkerchief, a knot has mysteriously formed in the center.

METHOD: Begin by placing a handkerchief over the hand as shown in Figure 1. Note that end B hangs down lower than end A. Note too that end B is clipped between the third and fourth fingers.

The right hand turns palm down. In the same motion end A is clipped between the first and second fingers, Figure 2. Release the third and fourth finger's grip on end B.

With a sharp downward movement of your right hand, shake the handkerchief off your right wrist. The result is that a knot is tied in the center of the handkerchief, Figure 3.

Fig 1

Fig 2

Fig 3

With just a bit of practice the one-hand knot can be formed instantly. If you have trouble getting the handkerchief to slide off your hand, twist it rope fashion before placing it on your hand in Figure 1 (or use a rope). If the knot is formed in view of the audience, it happens so quickly that it will appear as if you shook the handkerchief and a knot mysteriously formed in the center.

This was one of Rosemary Johnson's favorite tricks at the 2001 Jamboree.

It comes right out of the Cub Scout Magic Book.

1. For this trick there should be a cloth on the table so that when the coin drops the sound will not be heard. The handkerchief or napkin used should NOT be the thin sort that can be seen through. Place a coin on a napkin that is on a table.

2. Corner A is to be near the table edge near you. Take corner A and fold the handkerchief away from you, bringing A over and about an inch beyond the corner B. The coin is now covered.

3. With both hands take hold of the coin through the handkerchief or napkin and roll both of them away from you.

4. When the roll is almost over to corner A, the corner B will come out on your side. Stop rolling, because B must not go over corner A.

5.Put a finger of one hand on corner A to hold it down. With thumb and finger of the other hand take corner B and draw it back slowly to your side of the table.

6. The coin has disappeared. It will be under the handkerchief. Pick this up, show the coin, and say that it was magic that made it go through.

Cut heavy card board into pieces as shown in the square. Do not cut along the dotted lines. Shuffle the pieces and ask boys to make a T and then a square with them. Keep i pieces in the set in an envelope

Tie a piece of string around wrists of your “victim” (one of the boys in your den). Loop another piece of string over your victims wrist and tie it to your wrists. You are now locked together.

Challenge victim to get away without breaking the string or untying a knot. When he gives up, show him how.

Push the center of your string through the loop on the inside of your victims wrist, bring this new loop back over his hand and draw it back through the wrist loop. You will be free. For double fun, tie two victims. together in the same way.

See diagram for help on doing trick.

Make a buttonholer from a tongue depressor or craft stick with a loop of string through a hole in one end of it. The loop must be shorter than the stick. Have boys loop string through the buttonhole in another Cub Scout's shirt pocket. The trick is to remove it without untying string.

To attach the buttonholer to the shirt, pull the pocket flap through the loop of the string until the point of the stick can be inserted in the buttonhole and the string drawn up tight. It is impossible to remove the stick in the usual way, since the string is shorter than the stick. Show boys how they can remove it by pulling the string back over the lapel and withdrawing stick, eye first.

Free Magic Tricks For Kids, Parents and Beginners of all Ages.

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Here is a list of the tricks we've brought to you these past two weeks, and links to visit them again. Remember, a magician never tells his audience his secrets!!

Rita and Shelly have contributed a number of fun magic tricks that are easy to do and have really wonderful results. So jump in and learn how to astound your friends!