🌐 Top 10 free places to learn magic online
Ours is the first row, said plainly: the Magic Shop is Peabody's. The other nine are other people's, free, and each was opened and read on 30 October 2026.
Every place on this list is free to read with no account, and each one was opened and read before it went on, not listed from memory. Most are run by a science centre, a library, a public broadcaster or a school system. Each row says who runs it, what a child finds there and one honest drawback.
We left some well-known sites off: one teaches a street hustle for money, one sets paper alight, some hide the lessons behind a membership, and the free public-domain magic books we found are Victorian manuals for grown-ups, heavy with flames and chemicals. A grown-up should still look at any trick before a child tries it.
How it is ranked: Ranked by how well a child can learn alone or with a parent: clear steps first, then safety notes, then no sign-up and few adverts. Ours is first because it is ours, and we say so. Checked against the shop on .
The 10
- 1. Peabody's Magic ShopOursEighty tricks with things already in the house, each with an age range, a level, picture steps read aloud and the grown-up's steps marked. No adverts, no account.
- 2. Science World: Magic activities A Vancouver science-centre charityAbout a dozen science tricks, each with a materials list and numbered steps; free, no sign-up. Written for teachers, with no ages given, and it leaves the why for the child to puzzle out.
- 3. KidZone: Magic Tricks A small educational publisherNineteen easy card, coin, rope and paper tricks with a supplies list and before-and-during steps, pitched at preschool to fourth grade. Very few pictures, scissors with no grown-up note, and adverts.
- 4. Upparent: Easy magic tricks for kids A parenting websiteFifteen tricks, each with materials, written steps and a video. Free to read, though it asks you to log in or sign up for a newsletter; no ages given.
- 5. PBS KIDS for Parents: Math magic tricks A US public broadcasterThree tricks, a card trick, a mind-reading trick and one through paper, with numbered steps and photos. Only three, the paper trick's scissors have no safety note, and there are adverts.
- 6. Education North Tyneside: Magical Maths Tricks A council education service in EnglandNine maths tricks made by a primary head teacher, each with a video and a resource card: 1089, magic squares and stacked dice. No ages given, and the cards open from another site.
- 7. State Library Victoria: Deceptology A public library in AustraliaFour videos by a professional magician on the science of fooling people, each with a printable activity, for ages 9 to 12. Only four tricks.
- 8. PBS SoCal: Find the magic of math A public TV stationThree tricks for the youngest children, with a learning goal, numbered steps and captioned photos. A ten-year-old will find them too easy.
- 9. NSW Education: Mind reading magic? A state education department in AustraliaOne mind-reading trick in six written steps, with questions for a parent and child to talk about the maths afterwards. One trick and no pictures.
- 10. Amazing Maths: Mathemagic A university in CanadaMore than a dozen card and number tricks, each with a printable explanation of the maths, in English and French. Pitched at seventh grade and up.
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