Kids & Children

This is a wonderful participation routine for children's entertainers using the simplest of props - a wand, a silk, and an unprepared bag. Two children come up to assist. A silk is made invisible and handed to one child, while the second helper examines and then holds onto a bag. The invisible silk is 'blown' up into the air, caught on the end of the magic wand, which is then used to flick it over to the child holding the bag. The silk is supposed to now be inside the bag, but the child holding the bag seems to be unable to find it inside. Realising that the silk must still be invisible, the...

James Breedon, or as the kiddies affectionately call him, Uncle Jim, was one of the busiest children's entertainers on the South Coast, and author of this delightful book in which, with meticulous care, and in detail, he describes the effects and routines developed over the many years he has been entertaining Children.

In the pages of this book, the student will find the recipe for handling youngsters, and the development of the skills required; humour, tolerance, patience and inventiveness. The art of encouraging the shy, and of coping firmly with the over boisterous, without loss of temper....

From the Foreword:

• Publisher's Foreword
• Introduction
• Advice on Balloons
• The Rocket Balloons
• A Swan
• A Monkey
• A Rat
• An Elephant
• A Seal
• Oodles of Poodles
• The Van Dyke Poodle
• An Aeroplane
• A Goat
• A Dragonfly
• An Octopus
• Did William Tell?
• Toffee Apples!
• A Silly Mistake
• A Rocking Horse
• Rudolph Grows Up!
• Animals from One Balloon
• A Dog From One Balloon
• A Poodle From One Balloon ...

From the foreword:

Over the years I have learned that even a very experienced performer can find himself/herself in situations during a show where you need to stay calm and ignore random things that happen during your show. For the rest of it, speak your mind, but always be respectful. These lines will help you have control over your show and also enhance your professional image.

"I just read the book and there are plenty of good lines/ideas. My favorite are "Balloons Animales" and "Marketing Lines. Thanks Regardt for your sharing!!" - Guillaume Cerati

• Jumping castles
• Photographer
• Naughty children ...

From the Foreword by Ian Adair:

From the preface:

For children entertainers. A selection of routines, tricks, wheezes, dodges, gags and games from "The Billy Benbo All in One Show."

• The Benbo Treasure Chest
• The Chinese Wedding
• The Haunted Cottage
• Postscript To Supreme's Magic Gardener
• Robby The Mindreading Rabbit
• Roy Johnson's 'On The Slate' Routined For Children
• Prelude To Supreme's Percy Postman
• Streamlined 'Elusive Rabbits'
• The Benbo Washing Machine
• Supreme's Whirl-Away Wand Gag
• What's In A Name?
• The Games Master Revisited
• The Magic 'Silk' Shaker

1st edition 1981, 28 pages; PDF 40 pages.

Frances Marshall's Kid Stuff series is considered by many experts to be essential reading for anyone interested in performing magic for children. These ebooks contain full scripts, new routines, and advice for both show and business.

• kid Stuff
• The Puppet Rabbit Routine
• The Laurie Ireland Routine With The Egg And Bag Trick
• Comedy Wand, Handkerchief And Fan Routine
• The Foxwell Paper Race
• A Mental Trick For Kids
• Prelude To Any Rope Trick
• The Stomach Ache Tube
• Birthday Child Sequence
• Ideas For Kid Shows
• Spellbound
• Dressing The Doll
• Eddie Clever's Version Of The Sun And Moon
• Clown...

If you are a children's magician, then this ebook is for you. Although there are no specific trick explanations, Regardt focuses on full routines, their presentation, patter, and entertainment value rather than trick secrets. Most of all, these routines will entertain both the children and the adults. After all, how often do the mums and dads actually watch the show too? Here you learn to keep them happy as well.

Of course, the main focus is to still entertain the children, as that is the whole purpose of being booked as a children's magician at a party, or event. However, even though the...

The evergreen market of children's parties will make you feel like a 'magician farmer.' You can harvest 12months of the year. In this ebook of practical money-making tips, I will share my closest guarded secrets I have never told anyone before. I have been making use of these secrets for almost 2 decades and they have truly been my 'Money Magnet' throughout the years. I will cover topics such as

• Performance packages, Marketing, Invoicing, Designing, Financial planning, and many more.
• This ebook is really a personal treasure of mine.
• If you are serious about making money in the Children's...

An adventure into glove and rod puppet theatre.

From the introduction:

Over 40 one-liners and jokes. Comedy should be used to enhance your magic, as you are not a comedian, but rather an entertainer. But by saying that; can you imagine any performance more entertaining than a comedy magician? I don't think so. This ebook will surely add value to your performance.

One-liners and jokes for:

1. Arrival
2. Sit down
3. Warm-up
4. Performance
5. Goodbye

1st edition 2021, PDF 19 pages.

A comedy version of the sometimes tragic bullet catch that plays for laughs and eliminates any danger or controversy. Especially geared for outdoor performances, it allows you to catch a jelly bean propelled by a toy slingshot and can provide welcomed humor and a degree of silliness to your children's shows. Easy to construct, safe and sure to please.

1st edition 2021, PDF 4 pages, video 42 s.

Gregg Webb teaches a routine for causing a ball to appear in his hand and vanish multiple times, using an oversize magic wand. The routine uses one ball, and a simple-to-make wand: this is a great family-oriented trick for children's shows.

1st edition 2021, PDF 4 pages hand lettered text with illustrations.

This ebook describes a number of new variety acts for the amateur entertainer that will enable him to present up-to- date versions of Chapeaugraphy (making many hats from one brim), Mind Reading, Chinese Paper Folding, Magic Spelling, Paper Tearing, Lightning Cartoons, Shadowgraphs and Magic.

Practically all the materials used to construct the simple props can be found in the home or bought in local stores, and great use is made of ordinary newspaper.

It is vital that talk and action should be practised together, so a detailed script with full patter and performing notes is given with...

Novel punch and puppet routines.

This ebook is really part 2 of Professional Punch, the first book of novelty puppet routines. If you enjoyed the routines there you will get more here. As before very little script is included, leaving you to adapt the ideas to your own style. All the included routines have been audience tested.

• Opening Remarks
• Buzz Buzz the Honey Bee
• Pop goes the Pudding
• Katie Caterpillar
• The Lion Tamer
• Saucy Sammy Seal
• Splin Win - the Chinese Magician
• Lollipops
• Daphne Duck and Cockie Cuthbert
• The Boxing Kangaroo
• The Wrestlers Pete the Pounder v Mick the Mauler
• Witchy Whoops ...

This is the first ebook to offer a complete course of instruction in preparing and performing rag picture shows, which make a highly entertaining act for the amateur - and professional - conjuror. Rag pictures are composed of shapes cut out of felt, foam plastic, or any other suitable material and placed on a display board covered with black velvet or any other stuff with a surface pile to which the shapes will adhere. A few basic shapes can be used in a remarkable variety of ways; for instance, the handbag which Cinderella takes to the Ball later becomes the skirt of her wedding dress, while...

A classic of routines and advice for working with what some call "the little monsters" (children); now updated for the modern performer. Here's a book for all magicians; whether you specialize in giving kid shows or just want a few new routines that are time tested by this seasoned entertainer. The seventeen tricks are described in complete detail and with every word of patter, including several original comedy routines that offer the maximum in entertainment value and audience response with a minimum of preparation or investment.

The book stresses the psychology and presentation necessary...

From the opening remarks:

In this ebook Eric Hawkesworth deals with the whole art of entertaining with puppets. He gives detailed instructions on how to make many different kinds of puppets, and the stages for them to perform on - everything from a Punch and Judy booth to a model theatre. Construction methods are simple and clearly illustrated by the author's diagrams, and the materials are inexpensive. Each section of the ebook describes a complete act using a particular form of puppet - glove, 'living' marionette (in which the performer's head appears as the head of the miniature puppet), finger, shadow, rod, and string....

This is a silent film of a magic show for children performed by Geoffrey Buckhurst probably from the early 1950s. Among the tricks he performs is the Zombie, Egg bag, Torn and Restored Rope, Diminishing Cards, and many other bits and pieces to entertain the kids.

This is performance only, no explanations of the tricks are provided. An interesting window into magic for children during the 1950s.

1st edition ~1950s; video length 11 min 42 s.

This work was sponsored by the Quaker Oats Company and includes ads for their Puffed Wheat and Puffed Rice products.

• How to Tear Paper Napkin After It Is Twisted
• Mysterious Trick With Paper
• Trick of Unsmashable Match Box
• Here Is a Number Trick With Which to Baffle Your Friends
• How to Remove Dime Under Glass Without Touching Either
• How to Invert Glass of Water Without Spilling It
• How to Fill Glass Twice Without Emptying First Contents
• Tells How to Blow Candle Out Through Bottle
• Here's How You Can Add Five Matches to Six and Make Nine
• Three Matches Can Be Lifted With One
• How You Can...

This ebook is for the parent, the teacher, the entertainer, the artist. It will give you the ability to use balloons, not just as a standard decoration, but as a piece of entertainment for all ages. This ebook will turn you into the 'balloon party extraordinaire' you always dreamed you could be.

It is 100 pages of games, magic tricks and jokes all together in this single downloadable PDF.

• Introduction
  • Disclaimers
  • Balloons: In A Nutshell
  • Balloons: Not Just For Kids!
  • Balloon Colour
  • Shapes And Sizes
  • How To Tie A Balloon
  • The Party Venue
  • Outside?
  • Floor Markings
  • Prizes?
  • To Eliminate...

Ten routines performed to a real live audience and then fully explained for you to use in your own show. Templates for all the effects are included in a zip file to be printed out (check your digital shelf). Most of the effects in this video can be customised for the client and themed to suit a Christmas, Halloween, or Easter show etc. The tricks together can form a complete show for your audiences.

• Pencil Madness - A pencil on a board changes direction before revealing two comical pictures.
• Birthday Wish List - A number of items are shown and eliminated leaving one, the gift nobody wants. ...

Funny stuff to make kids roar.

• Introduction
• Inflatable Rabbit and In the Bag
• My snake has Escaped! and Fingernails
• In bed with a Bug and The Rose
• Half-price Tie, The Mirror, and The Wrong Way
• The Bell ...

It's witty and it's full of wisdom. These are the ramblings of Mark Lewis on Internet forums. Irreverent and funny at times and full of deep thinking about magic and mentalism at other times.

Many incredible anecdotes of his varied life as a fortune teller, magician and hypnotist. In addition to this are techniques described on how to pitch svengali decks, how to do psychic readings, and most important of all how to do magic with showmanship and verve.

Included is a video clip of his legendary svengali deck routine which he has performed all over the world thousands of times plus tips...

A unique effect using an ordinary balloon. The performer holds the balloon by the neck. Without any false moves he uses a pair of scissors to cut a small portion of the bottom end off. This cutting action is repeated three more times until all that remains is the neck of the mutilated balloon. Putting this to his lips, he blows into the neck. Immediately the balloon restores itself and inflates to its full size. The performer then pops the balloon using the points of the scissors, startling his audience. This can lead into a dove production if you wish.

1st edition 2019, PDF 4 pages.

Kid Stuff Five is aimed at the school show magician, and was compiled with the help of many magicians actually working in this field. The ebook contains hundreds of pages, with dozens of tricks, routines, ideas, etc.

• INTRODUCING MR. BINK
• THE MAGIC ZOO
  • Construction of the Magic Zoo
  • Some Final Construction Notes
  • Selection of Tricks for Children
  • "I Understand You Do Children's Birthday Parties"
  • "I Need Someone to Help Me"
  • "OK Kids, Let's Quiet Down a Bit"
  • "It's All Right, Ronald, He Won't Bite You"
  • "And, How Much Do You Charge?"
  • "And In Conclusion - - "
• ON SCHOOL SHOWS
• BALLOON...

Bill Larsen reveals the inside secrets for performing magic to children in this newly revised ebook.

Aside from the author's sage and practical advice, garnered from hundreds of shows for youngsters, you get twelve entertaining routines using standard equipment you likely already own. Now you, too, can crack this lucrative field and beat out the local competition. Included are tricks using toys, animals, rings, coins, handkerchiefs, silks, etc. Most of the described effects include full patter.

Best of all, this edition has been newly revised and updated with performance suggestions and...

This little pamphlet is deceptively packed with information that can help you to increase your status as a children's entertainer, and increase your income. It helps to fill a gap in a branch of entertainment sadly neglected. Bill Lainsbury is a Games Master, and has been for many years. Because of this second string to his bow he has been able to work through summer and winter commanding good fees for a little outlay. In this manuscript he passes on hints and advice to enable you to start up yourself as a Games Master. Details of performance, age groups, kind of games to play, etc. are all...

Ready to up your game beyond a pencil balloon animal . . . but don't have time to learn a complicated series of sculptures large enough for the platform or stage? Want a multi-phased balloon sculpture that plays well on stage and also serves equally well as a back-of-the-room sales piece? In spite of the fact that you only create one balloon reindeer as part of your show, no one in your audience needs be disappointed since they can purchase a kit (thoughtfully provided by you) with the necessary balloons and an instruction sheet that explains how to make one of the reindeers at home.

This...

With only a wireless doorbell, a stenographer's pad, and the routine you'll find here, your audiences will now get to enjoy listening in on your conversation with a child as you ask them a series of questions while they're supposedly holding a lie detector between their hands.

Please note that the way this is currently routined it is not a magic trick per se but rather an interlude that might be used to test your volunteer before using him/her in a magic trick.

And from a performer's point of view, here's what I believe to be the best part. This three to five minute routine requires NO...

A series of four visual ghost stories with a magical paper folding twist particularly suitable for grades K-6 where they want scary stories (but not too scary).

For each of the four stories you will get a PDF to print fold and glue, as well as a video where Dave is presenting the story. A separate video explains how the paper is to be folded, glued and presented.

1st edition 2018

In this very comprehensive ebook by a master Punch performer, you get an education in an art that will pay you well, if you want to use it to make money. Too few magicians have anything to offer but magic, and in some cities, too many are trying for the same jobs. "Punch" is a great addition to any magician's repertoire. Added to his magic show, it is a riotous finale. Sold separately, it is a show in itself.

Contents:

• Reminiscences of a Punch Man - Delightful reading and great background for this new art you are studying.
• The Complete Punch & Judy Play

From the Foreword by Ali Bongo:

"This is perhaps, the greatest 'come on', or 'bally stunt' the world has ever known." - Floyd Thayer

The premise is simple; the performer invites a boy up and shows him a half-dollar. The performer says, "This is the one and only RED HOT COIN. After years...

25 new, good and unusual tricks plus ideas, gags, and advice. Text has been updated. This is a vintage release by U. F. Grant in the early 50s. Admittedly, a few of the tricks are dated; but, on the other hand, there are some excellent ideas suitable for today's audiences. In this release, you will find kid tricks not seen today. Your chance to be different from all the other kid show performers. The 'No Batteries' effect is novel and worth the price of this release alone. This release also contains a supplement of ideas and advice. An interesting read for Grant fans. Here is what you get.

• Little Miss Muffett
• Spot The Silks
• Candy Cascade
• Over The Rainbow
• A Giant For Christmas
• Miraculous Penetration
• Five Interludes
• Fancy That!
• The Banger
• Smarties
• The Great Gold Robbery
• Two Novel Silk Vanishes
• Red And Green Rabbits
• Animal Speller
• Travelling Tube
• The Magic Word
• I'll Do It Again
• Mysto
• Paper Tearing
• The Ribbon Egg
• The Magic Poster
• Turkish Delight
• Fly-Over Silks
• A Letter For The Conjuror
• Matinee If Wet
• Dis-A-Bell
• Yogi Dresses Up
• Tie Tactic
• Growing Tassel
• Growing Rope
• The Presentation Of Magic For Minors

1st edition 1967, 87 pages; 1st digital edition...

With these instructions and the included artwork, you can quickly make up a fascinating magic trick to perform in children's shows about building, construction or tools. You show a folder with over 20 different tools and have a child choose just one to think of. The child never says the name of her tool out loud, but you will magically know which one she chose. Next you show seven cards that each have a picture of a toolbox. Each toolbox is filled with different tools. You set aside some toolboxes where the child sees her tool. Then you automatically know which tool the child has chosen. ...

An exciting collection of kidshow magic that focuses on bugs and books - including tricks, routines, ideas and resources to help you make your next magic show one with a theme that really appeals to kids.

• original bug tricks and routines
• bug art and bug fonts
• commercial bug magic resources
• bug prop resources
• factual bug information
• bug jokes

1st edition 2017, 68 pages.

There is something special about a magician and clown working as a team. Many years ago Mark Wilson, his assistant Nani Darnel and a clown named Rebo brought the Magic Land of Alakazam to life. It was a smash television hit. This ebook identifies the benefits of a clown/magician team. It also helps identify the ways a performance can be produced.

• A Clown’s World
• A Magician’s World
• Working Together
• Individual Segments
• Working with Volunteers
• Wrapping it Up

1st edition 2017, 19 pages.

This ebook provides an entirely different approach to entertaining children. Original material and suggestions - "bread and butter" information by an experienced performer. This volume explains the psychology and know-how of working children's shows.

The following is an excerpt from the book:

Only an experienced performer could write a book of this kind. No...

No one can really call himself a magician, unless he can pull a rabbit out of a hat. It is the most expected trick in magic today. Even though few magicians do it; you always have kids asking, "Are you going to pull a rabbit out of a hat?"

Potential clients calling about birthday parties, often ask if you can pull a rabbit out of a hat. Some magician's try to pacify the mothers or children using a mirror box production of a rabbit. Good try, but it is not the same. People want to see a rabbit produced from an empty top hat, or even a borrowed hat. If you can do this; you have a big advantage...

Various balloon animals you can make from one modeling balloon.

Jim Davis has made as high as a thousand animals a week in Chicago's Old Town. With 56 detailed photos from life, he teaches you how to make over a dozen new and different animals, each from one balloon. These little animals have life, vivaciousness and sheer adorableness. Watch people stand in line for them as you make them. Get in on this commercial way to add more money to your magic work. Ebook includes actual patter lines and jokes, plenty of tips and every bit of instruction you need.

• Dedication
• Introduction By John...

Includes full access to the following videos (available via YouTube and as download from your digital shelf):

• Wolfie's Kids Magic Part 1 and 2
• Xmas Magic
• Balloon Modeling

Kids Party Magic is a practical book of magic for children's magicians that contains entertaining and many original tricks that you can add to your show right away. Included are themed tricks around Easter and Christmas, as well as insights into the theory of performing for kids.

Are you looking for new comedy items and gags to perform with assistants?...

A great trick for kid shows, especially at Halloween. Two kids take an equal turn at removing apples from a bowl. Yet one child ends up with 5 apples and the other 2 apples. Baffling to an audience. Magician directs from a distance.

These are some of the most unusual effects ever developed for a stand-up performer. Effects your audiences haven't seen before. These routines are based on an ancient close-up effect that has been revised so it can be seen on the largest stage or in someone's living room. You can work this under any conditions with no angle problems or special props. Routines...