Instructions / Assembly

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TRICKS WITH EVERYDAY ITEMS
83. MAKE IT JUMP
You make a rubber band jump magically from one pair of fingers to
another.
SUPPLIES NEEDED: Rubber band
SECRET SETUP: Place a rubber band around your first two fingers as
shown in the first picture. Now curl your fingers in and secretly put the
band over the tips of the fingers as shown in picture two.
SHOW: To make the band jump, just straighten out your fingers as in the
third picture. When you do the same thing in reverse, the band can be
made to jump back.
84. FOOLING BY SOUND
SUPPLIES NEEDED: Any coin
SHOW: Have the coin in your hand, which you toss from one hand to another. Tell one of the guests to take
it and "give" it to them across the table. They go to take it but there is no coin, yet they distinctly heard
the click as you put the coin down. The secret is that you had the coin in the other hand and clicked it on
the table as you reached the empty hand over toward them, making a move as if putting down a coin. This
fools anyone since the sound is so convincing!
85. MAKING EASY MONEY
Double the amount of money your friend has.
SUPPLIES NEEDED: Small paper plate and 10 dimes
SHOW:
Ask your friends if they’d like to make some easy money. If they would, they first have to invest some.
Have a small paper plate on your hand. Tell them to count five dimes into it. Then tell them to hold their
hands together, cupped, and you put the five dimes back in their hands. When they count them, they have
TEN. (Actually, you had five dimes secretly held beneath the plate and when you tipped it to pour the coins
into their hands, you let go of them, so they slid into the cupped hands also).
86. FEEL THE COLOR
SUPPLIES NEEDED: Box of crayons
THE SECRET: You can see the color under your nail.
SHOW:
1. State to the audience that you can tell what color
anything is just by touching it.
2. To prove it, give out the box of crayons. Then, turn
your back to the audience. With your back turned, tell
the audience to select one crayon and hand it to you.
3. While keeping the crayon behind your back and totally out of your view, turn to face the audience.
4. With your hands behind your back, make a very small scratch in the crayon with your thumbnail.
See FIGURE 1. As you are doing this, try to look puzzled.
5. As if you are thinking really hard, bring your hand up to your face and rub your forehead. While doing
this, take a quick glance under your thumbnail to see what the color is. See FIGURE 2.
6. Say, "Aha, I've got it!" and then say the color. Then show the crayon again to prove you are correct.
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