Every kid goes through a stage where they want to perform the cleverest magic tricks for every member of the family, and our 6 Easiest Coin Magic Tricks Ever for Kids should definitely be tried out. Magic can be stupefying, confusing and just plain amazing if pulled off with enough skill and practice. In Abracadabra The 10 Best Magicians In the World, find out all about the professional magicians.
But if you’re just a beginner looking for a few ways to spice things up around the dinner table, you should check out our list.
None of the tricks are difficult, but you should keep in mind that the more you practice, the more likely you are to produce a wow factor. If I saw a 10-year-old pass a quarter through his hand, I would be quite taken aback.
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No tall hat or magic wand is required. You won’t have to drink a magic potion to receive powers, and you won’t have to pull innocent rabbits by the ears. The materials required for these tricks are simple and can be found within your own house. Most don’t require much more than a few ordinary coins. It doesn’t even matter which type of coin.
To truly determine the easiest and most effective magic tricks, we’ve contrived a points system using 7 different lists of magic tricks. They consist of two lists from sites specifically made for easy magic tricks, two typical how-to sites, two Youtube video lists made by actual kids, and one professional, adult magic site where you actually have to buy the tricks. Each type of trick received one point for how many times it appeared on each of the lists.
There are many different types of magic tricks in the world, with many variations. For instance, there are different ways to make a coin bend, whether by producing a visual illusion or by using a special type of bending coin. For this reason, for each point, we didn’t pin it down to one specific trick, but several that produce the same result (like a bent coin).
Prepare to dazzle your audience with the 6 Easiest Coin Magic Tricks Ever for Kids.
6. Coin Bending – 2/7 points.
Your audience will think you’re a superhero who can bend metal when really you’re just an artful magician and already bent coin is cleverly hidden. Your audience will think you’re a superhero who can bend metal when really you’re just an artful magician and already bent coin is cleverly hidden. Try it with a larger coin too, like a quarter or half-dollar. The bigger the coin, the clearer it will be that you actually bent it.
5. Coin Transformation – 2/7 points.
Transforming one type of coin into another can be stupefying to observers. Simply hide one while revealing the other. But make sure to use coins that are decidedly different in appearance and shape, so that no one doubts your powers.
4. Hand Penetration – 2/7 points.
A great rendition included holding two coins, one in an invisible thumb grip, then claiming to find the soft spot in that same hand, but instead of pushing the first coin through, holding onto it with one hand while dropping the coin held in the other. Everyone will think you’ve magically found a hole in your hand and pushed a coin through it.
3. Coin Vanishing through Paper, Napkin or Handkerchief – 3/7 points.
Some magicians use special cloths designed to cleverly hide the coin, sometimes within the seam. Others fold coins into paper and create slits large enough for the coin to slip into their hand or pocket. This is sure to amaze your audience.
2. Coin through Bottle or Glass – 7/7 points.
Magicians featured in our lists pass a coin through everything from a cup to a glass bottle to a plastic water bottle. Perhaps the easiest variation was from one of our kid YouTube tricksters. He made a small invisible slit with a razor blade right below the paper wrapped around a plastic water bottle, then pushed the coin through with ease.
1. Coin Vanishing Tricks – 11/7 points.
This magic trick is so common that it received more than the amount of points possible. But that’s because different variations appeared on the same lists twice or more. Something as seemingly impossible as making a coin vanish is surprisingly the easiest out of the 6 Easiest Coin Magic Tricks for Kids. Most vanishing tricks include wearing long sleeves and slipping the coin inside, dropping the coin on the ground, or simply hiding the coin in your hand by some clever grip of the fingers.
Any kid who performs these 6 Easiest Coin Magic Tricks Ever for Kids will automatically be declared a child prodigy by all observers. There’s no doubt about it.
