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Ooh, a good one. Here's what they'll see.
You hold up your pointer finger and grab the tip with your other hand. You pull, and the finger slowly stretches out, longer and longer. Then you push it back, and it's the normal size again.
Works by itself, or one simple move. It works the first try.
Nothing at all. Just your hands.
The Rubber Pencil. Hold a pencil loosely near one end and wiggle it up and down, and it looks bendy, like rubber. You can learn it in under a minute, and it works the very first try.
Yes, and those are the handiest tricks you can own, because you always have them with you. Number tricks need nothing but your voice, and some illusions need only your hands.
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You hold up your pointer finger and grab the tip with your other hand. You pull, and the finger slowly stretches out, longer and longer. Then you push it back, and it's the normal size again. It's a level 1 apprentice trick for ages 5 to 9 (grades K–3rd), takes 3 minutes to learn, and needs nothing but your hands. Flick, the shop's rabbit, reads every step aloud with a picture, so a child can follow it alone.
The finger never grows. The fist round it starts with the finger bent inside, and as you slide the fist away you straighten the finger, so it looks like it's stretching.
Nothing at all: this one is done with your hands.
“My fingers are made of chewing gum. Watch. If I pull… really… hard… it stretches! Better put it back before it snaps.”
If somebody sees the bend, say "fine, you try!" and let them. It's funny when they can't stretch theirs.
🌈 Transformation. Something changes into something else. Almost every trick ever invented is one of eight kinds, and knowing which one you're watching is how magicians work out how a new trick is done.
The skill it teaches: Patter: what you say. A trick is a story, not a thing that happens. Perform it and it counts towards the Showstopper badge.
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