Wyler, Ames - Funny Magic

Rose Wyler

& Gerald Ames

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Every young child— boy or girl— from the suburbs

to

the

inner

city — enjoys

a

There is fun in "fooling" someone else. There is even fun in "getting "trick."

fooled."

And

so for

all

children here

is

a

collection of simple sleight-of-hand tricks.

The young magician can dress up

like

a clown. It's easy in clothes that are too big, a hat that's too small and a red rub-

ber ball for a nose. This clown can balance a glass on the edge of a plate, smell colors, or push a knife right through a glass Then there's Noodle, the hand puppet. He's made from a handkerchief and he carries a pencil for a magic wand. Noodle can drop a penny through a plate or pull something very funny out of a hat. And there are more tricks — to be done by one child or sometimes two— and in!

structions for setting up a real magic

The materials used are all inexpensive and easily obtained. In fact, most of them can be found already available in the home or class-

show for

lots of friends.

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Easy Tricks for Young Magicians by Rose Wyler

& Gerald Ames

Pictures by Talivaldis Stubis

PARENTS' MAGAZINE PRESS/NEW YORK SAUSAIITO PUBLIC USRARt

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Text copyright © 1972 by Rose Wyler and Gerald Ames Illustrations copyright © 1972 by Talivaldis Stubis All rights reserved

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress Cataloging

in Publication

Data

Wyler, Rose, 1909Funny magic.

SUMMARY

Directions for performing a variety of simple magic tricks. 1.

:

Conjuring— Juvenile literature. [1. Magic I. Ames, Gerald, 1906joint author.

tricks] II.

Stubis, Talivaldis, illus. III. Title.

GV1548.W84

ISBN ISBN

793.8

0-8193-0584-7 0-8193-0585-5

73-39866 (lib.

bdg.)

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Contents Clown Tricks

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Noodle the Magician

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The Great Big Funny Magic Show

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Look at you,

all

dressed up

in clothes that are too big

and a hat

that's too small.

Hi, clown

Hi,

funny face

Your big red nose It's

is

a fake.

just a rubber ball,

cut to fit over your real nose.

People will laugh at you

and your

tricks because

the tricks will be funny.

And

to

make sure they work,

try them first in front of a mirror.

Are you ready, clown?

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Blow up

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Here

is

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a balloon by magic

your

first

clown

trick.

You

are looking for something.

You

look high

You

look into a paper bag on the table.

You turn

A red

the

and low.

bag upside down.

balloon falls out.

There You found what you wanted. !

You

let

the air out of the balloon

and drop the empty balloon

into the

Then you bend over the bag and blow, blow, blow.

You

look* into the bag.

You reach

into

it

and

the balloon, blown

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pull

out-

up big and round.

bag

The

trick

Use two red

Blow them

balloons.

up.

Stick one in the bag with sticky tape.

Drop

No

the other balloon in on top.

one will

know

there are two balloons

in the bag.

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!

Pretend

to pull a hair

from your head. Hold the make-believe hair between your finger and thumb

Turn your face

up.

Pretend to stand the hair on your big clown nose.

Take your hand away. Careful

now

Move your head

this

way and

that.

There You are balancing the hair. !

Now How

carefully take clever

it off

your nose

you are!

You wave and make a bow.

12

Lift a card with a hair Hold up the make-believe hair between your finger and thumb.

With your other hand, hold up a pack of cards.

Now

pretend to stick the end

of the make-believe hair

onto the card nearest you.

Slowly pull the hair up

and—

the card slowly rises.

The

trick:

Your thumb

is

on the nearest card

You push the card up with your thumb.

13

!

!

Smell a color Your friend Tom holds up a box of crayons.

You

sniff at

Tom

says,

it.

'The clown thinks

he can smell colors. Let's give

Tom so

him a

test."

turns you around

you can't see what he does.

He

takes

He

chooses one— say

and puts

He

tells

all

the crayons out of the box. it is

red—

back in the box.

it

you

to hold

your hands

behind your back.

He

puts the box in your hands.

Now for the

test

You hold the box and

sniff at

Tom

to

your nose

it.

asks, "Is the crayon blue?"

You shake your head. "Is

it

yellow?" You shake your head.

"Is

it

red?"

You bob your head up and down, yes, yes, yes

When Tom

gives you tests with other colors,

you smell the color every time.

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The

trick:

You are always right because you

When you

see the color.

the box is behind you,

stick

your thumb in

and scratch

When you

the crayon with your thumbnail.

hold the box to your nose,

you look at the color on your thumbnail.

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!

The

loose thread

You hold up your hand to

shade your eyes.

You

look

and

look.

Who

is

your

old friend Joe

that-

You shake You

slap

his hand.

him on the back.

You hug him.

Then you stare

at his shirt

and shake your head. There

is

a loose thread on his shirt

You take hold You

pull

it.

of the thread.

You

pull

and

pull.

The thread comes out and out It

reaches across the room.

You hand the end

to

someone

The thread keeps coming

else.

out, endlessly

The

trick:

You and Joe get ready together. Use a spool of thread.

Thread a needle with

it.

Put the spool inside Joe's

Run

the thread out through his shirt

Then take and

shirt.

let

off the needle

the thread

hang

loose.

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Balance a Can

glass

a glass be balanced

on the edge of a plate?

A good clown can do

it.

Your friends are pop-eyed

when you show them.

The

trick:

From

behind,

Your thumb

and holds

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it

it

is

looks like this.

under the

up.

glass,

Push a

Now

knife through the glass

hold up the glass, upside down.

Take a table knife and push

it

up

into the glass.

Pretend you want to make

it

go

through the bottom.

You

try. Click!

The knife You push

hits the

bottom of the

glass.

up again.

it

The knife does not go through.

You make a

face.

You try again. There the knife goes right up !

through the

The

trick:

The

last

you

slide it

It

seems

glass.

time you push up the knife,

to

behind the glass.

go through the bottom.

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!

!

How to fix a watch Look at your wrist and shake your head.

No watch What

time

is it?

Borrow a watch from Suzy. Hold

it

Look at

in

your

left

hand.

it.

Put the watch

to

your ear,

then shake your head.

Something

is

wrong with

Well, you will fix

the

watch

it.

Pass the watch to your right hand. Raise your right hand high-

dash the watch to the

floor.

Crash ! Good-bye watch

Then pick up the

pieces.

Surprise The pieces are only nails !

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y

The

trick:

Just 'pretend to

to

pass the watch

your right hand,

but really keep

Have

it

in your left hand.

the nails ready in your right hand.

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22

V Meet Noodle. He's only a puppet

but he can do magic tricks.

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Noodle

is

His face

:

a hand puppet.

is

made of paper,

taped onto a handkerchief.

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*

To hold the puppet, put your hand under the handkerchief.

Move your hand and Noodle will nod his head, yes, or shake his head, no.

Your thumb and a finger are

And

is

his hands.

he clever with his hands

He can even and use

it

pick up a pencil

as a magic wand.

Put the handkerchief over a pop and Noodle

will stand all

bottle

by himself.

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Surprise from a hat

A hat lies on the table. What

is

under

Have Noodle There

is

it?

pick

up the

nothing under

hat.

it.

Noodle turns the hat over

and puts

it

back on the

table.

Noodle waves his wand over the hat.

Then he reaches

into

it

and

pulls

out—

a long ribbon.

The

trick:

Use a

Put

roll of

the roll

paper ribbon.

under the band inside the

hat.

It will stay there

when

the hat is right side up.

When

the hat is turned over,

the roll of ribbon slips down.

Then Noodle can take hold and

of the end

pull the ribbon out.

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!

The You

rabbit gets

say,

"Can you

away pull

anything

else

out of the empty hat?"

Noodle nods, yes.

"What?

A

rabbit?"

Again Noodle nods. Noodle picks up the hat

and shows the There

He

is

inside.

nothing in

it.

puts the hat down,

reaches into

and shakes

it,

his head.

"What's the matter, Noodle? Did the rabbit get away?"

The puppet nods,

yes.

"Too bad!"

Then Noodle does

pull

something

out of the hat— a carrot

"What do you know !" you

say.

"That's the carrot the rabbit was eating."

The

trick

Have

the carrot ready on your lap.

When Noodle

reaches into the hat,

drop the carrot in with your other hand.

Do so

this

behind the puppet,

nobody sees

it.

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!

Drop

a penny through a plate

Say, "Noodle's next trick

is

Wrap

the

put

it

on a small plate,

and

set the plate on a glass.

penny

with a penny."

in a piece of paper,

Pick up the puppet.

Give him his magic wand.

He waves

it

over the plate,

then taps the plate.

He

taps until— clink—

the

penny

It

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falls into the glass.

drops right through the plate

Does

it

really?

Shake out the paper. Yes,

it's

empty.

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The tHck:

Rub some soap on

the bottom of the plate.

Then press a penny against and make

it stick.

Nobody knows about But what about

and

fall

let

this penny.

the other one?

You only pretend You really

the plate

to

that

wrap

penny

it

in the paper.

slip out

into your lap.

When Noodle

taps the plate,

push the plate a

The penny that

little.

is

stuck on

it

rubs against the rim of the glass. It

comes loose and

falls into the glass.

The tame

bee

You hold out your hand and show a

wad

You

of paper shaped like a bee.

say, "This is Noodle's

His name

Bumble

is

tame bee

Bumble.

doesn't sting-

do you Bumble? B-z-z-z.

Bumble says

no."

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Bumble's house It's

You

is

on the

table.

a paper cup, standing upside down. set

Bumble on

the cup

so Noodle can see him.

Pretend

Say

to

to take the bee in

your hand.

Bumble,

"Do you want

to fly

around a

little?"

You open your hand— it's empty. You look up

in the air.

Noodle looks,

too.

"There goes Bumble," you say. " '

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Bz-z-z-z-z-z-z-z-z.

"

"Now, Bumble, come back home.

Go

into

Noodle

your house." lifts

the edge of the cup a

so the bee can get

Pick up the cup

The

under

little

it.

and— there

is

the bee

trick:

Half the bottom

is

This doesn't show

cut out of the cup.

when you do

the trick

People sitting in front of you just see the side of the cup.

When you pretend push

it

to

into the hole.

catch the bee,

Noodle's cookies You open a magazine and turn some pages.

Show Noodle "Here

is

It tells

how

the magazine and say,

a good recipe. to

Do you want

make magic

to

cookies.

make some?"

The puppet nods.

You read what goes

"Two

into the cookies—

pickles,

one chopped-up mitten, a dab of shoe polish.

For magic cookies you don't need an oven.

Mix things

right in the magazine."

Noodle just pretends into the magazine.

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to toss

each thing

You shake the magazine andout come some real cookies.

Good for Noodle

The

trick

Get the magazine ready this way. Paste two pages together at the bottom, This makes a pocket.

Put some cookies

into

it.

The cookies stay there while you read the recipe.

They

fall

upside

out

when you

down and shake

hold the magazine it.

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Here are some more good

tricks.

For some of them you need a helper or two.

Work on them

together.

Then, when you are ready, call in

your friends

to

see—

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