A week of magic

How Flick plans a magic trick a day

1. How old is the magician? 5 or 6 · 7, 8 or 9 · 10, 11 or 12 (skipped when Peabody already knows your grade)
2. What can you use this week? Just my hands · Pencil, paper, cards or coins · Kitchen things too
3. Who will see the show at the end of the week? The whole family · One friend · Just me

From those three answers Flick picks seven tricks that fit the magician's age. Nights one to six go easiest first, each from a different shelf of the shop than the night before where it can, so the week has a card trick, a mind-reading trick, something that floats and something that vanishes rather than six of one kind. Night seven is the closer: for a family show, the biggest trick there is; for one friend, a trick with a helper; just for you, the one that takes longest to learn. Tricks you have already shown somebody go to the back of the queue.

Each night has a button: tap it once when you have practised, twice when you have shown somebody. The ticks are kept on this device and nowhere else. Print the week and you get a strip of seven boxes for the fridge, with a line on each for who you showed. The idea behind it is in our post on a week of magic, seven tricks one a night, and the practice log on the printables page goes with it.