Kids & Children in Magic & Conjuring: page 2

Jack Collins performed as Weedy the Clown. This ebook covers pretty much everything you need to know about clowning:

• Make-up and Costume
• Routines and Props
• Competitions
• Walk around Gags
• Other Ways of Making Money

1st digital edition 2013, 70 pages.

From the introduction by Edwin Hooper:

A full stage balloon show adds another options for booking, and can really set you apart from the competition!

Here are just some of the benefits you can offer your clients with a full-stage balloon show...

• COLOR: That's an obvious benefit, and an attractive one. Never underestimate the power of a colorful stage.
• SOUND: The sound of balloons being twisted is anything but "boring". Add fun background music, and you're set.
• MOVEMENT: When balloons are being tossed about, shot off fingers, twisted and balanced, you have a non-stop sea of movement throughout the room.
• AUDIENCE INTERACTION:...

Spring Animal puppets are a powerful addition to any children's show and these notes will really improve your routines. If you use a spring animal or puppet in your show (or plan to), this ebook is for you.

Turn your ordinary spring animal puppet into a real character in your show...

• Material & Tools you'll need: You're going to be working with leather, a metal spring, a tail and sewing. Here's the tools and materials used in the workshop.
• Transferring the old spring into a new body: Usually the outer "skin" wears out faster than the spring. You may also want to convert a different animal...

Instructional download DVD that teaches 33 different modelling balloon creations - most of which are single balloon animals which Stephen gives out to the children at the end of his show. He also discusses his A1 Balloon Poster / A-Frame backdrop and provides the PSD and JPEG file for it for you to make your own (see your digital shelf for the zip file to download). Almost all the models feature both front and over the shoulder shots of the creation process.

1. Dog
2. Hat
3. Ladybird Bracelet
4. Rabbit
5. Parrot
6. Ray Gun
7. Sword
8. Butterfly
9. Spiderman
10. Flower
11. Aeroplane
12. Giraffe
13. Mouse
14. Butterfly Bracelet ...

If you have ever wanted to be a children's entertainer then this download DVD will teach you everything you will need to know from advertising and marketing strategies to the party games he plays and equipment he uses. Stephen discusses everything about his show and business strategies including all the tactics which have made his one of the business children's entertainers in the UK.

1. What do I charge?
2. Price Increasing
3. How much do I earn?
4. How many shows do I do?
5. Weddings
6. Confirmation Sheets
7. Confirmation Number
8. Cancellations
9. Deposits
10. Packages
11. Competitors
12. Website
13. Prices on my website ...

A primer to help magicians get started with safety based magic, and shows.

• Foundational Groundwork
• Potential Markets
• Sources for Material
• Sample Routines
• The Blend
• Hand Out Materials
• Wrapping it up

1st edition 2016, 18 pages.

• 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 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 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.

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....

From the opening remarks:

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...

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...

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 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...

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.

An adventure into glove and rod puppet theatre.

From the introduction:

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.

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 ...

Excerpt from the introduction by David Hemingway:

Wilfred Tyler chats with Martin Breese on how to entertain children with magic. Tyler's philosophy put in one sentence is: "Playing with magic." Learn the secrets of an accomplished pro.

runtime 1 hour 10 minutes

A host of original 'real world' routines for the children's entertainer with integrated links to instructional videos via YouTube. Have a sneak peak at the free preview.

Whether you perform kid shows in Childcare, Birthday Parties, Shopping Centres, or Festivals there is a mix of new usable material for you in Yubble Drig!

Content:

1. Concentration (Utilising Tel's Bells prop)
2. Magic Drawing Board Gag (Utilising Axtell Magic Drawing Board)
3. Newspaper Gag
4. Yo-Yo Go Home
5. Battery Gag
6. My Best Rabbit from Hat 'Outs & Gags'
7. Great Bottle of Coke (Coin in Bottle routine for kids) ...

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