Vanishing and Reappearing Water I | ★ |
To do this trick, you will also need a plastic glass. Very slowly fill up the magic water vase until the water level is just below the secret hole at the top of the back of the vase. (If you want, you can fill the vase in front of your audience.) Pick up the vase with your finger over the secret hole and pour some water into the glass...very little will come out. Say, “Look, there is no water here.” Put the vase down and remove your finger from the hole. Wait for a few seconds, say, “Abracadabra, make water appear,” and then pour some water again without covering the hole. The water will really pour out this time because you are not covering the hole.
Colored Water | ★★★ |
Effect: This trick is similar to the previous trick but this time the water will appear to change color as well.
Performance: Before the performance, secretly fill the vanishing water vase with water mixed with blue food coloring. During the performance, have a glass of water dyed red on the table and pour that into the vase. The red dye will mix with the blue and turn purple. Then, when you pour the water out, it will look like purple is coming out even though the audience saw you pour in red! You can do the same trick with yellow and red to make orange or yellow and blue to make green.
Tip: Experiment to find the perfect amount of food coloring and water so that the water noticeably changes color.
Vanishing and Reappearing Water II | ★ |
Set up this trick in the same way as in the Vanishing and Reappearing Water I Trick. Tell your audience that you are going to make the water vanish. Hold up the vase to your mouth and make it appear as though you are drinking the water (make sure you secretly keep your thumb over the hole at the top so that very little water actually goes into your mouth). After “appearing” to drink the water, hold it upside down (with your thumb over the hole) and say, “See, it’s gone!” The audience will laugh.
Next, tell the audience that the water is passing from your body back inside the vase. Turn the vase upside down without covering the hole. Water will come out and the audience will wonder how water could have passed from your body into an apparently empty vase.
A Thimble Passes Through a Handkerchief ★
Secretly place the small yellow thimble on your right index finger, cover it with your handkerchief, and place the large thimble on top of the handkerchief making sure that the small thimble is underneath. Show the audience a thimble on a handkerchief, gather up the four corners with your left hand and pull. This will reveal the small thimble underneath! (Note: See page 2 for some ideas to use in place of the handkerchief.)
The Color-Changing
Thimble in a Handkerchief ★
Cover your left fist with a handkerchief and secretly tuck the large red thimble into your fist. Show the audience the small yellow thimble on the index finger of your right hand. Place it into the handkerchief (which contains the red thimble). Remove the handkerchief to show the thimble is now red! (See page 2 for items you can use in place of a handkerchief.)
One Thimble to Two | ★ |
Start with a small red thimble on your right index finger and large red thimble on top of this. (Your audience should think you have just one.) Take the handkerchief in your left hand. Hold up your left hand so the audience can see that you are only holding the handkerchief (and that no thimbles are hidden in your left hand). Now, hold the handkerchief in front of your right hand. Use your left hand to quickly and quietly remove the larger thimble and place it on your right middle finger. (It may help to play music in the background so the audience doesn’t hear you sliding the top thimble off your finger.) Take away the handkerchief and the audience now sees two thimbles on your right hand!
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