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When I was growing up I had 3 older brothers and magic was a part of our birthday parties and daily life. Someone was always trying to learn a new trick and we went through several magic sets in our family over the years. By the time I was old enough to try the magic tricks I had seen them done 1000's of times and was fairly proficient at most of them. The easier the better I thought and card tricks seemed to be the ones I learned the fastest. Coin tricks required more slight of hand and hiding the coin in a sleeve or behind my fingers which was just too hard with small hands. I mastered the magic rings at a young age and was able to amaze my friends with the ability to seemingly force metal hoops together at will. Of course back then we didn't have the Internet or magic DVD's which allow young magicians to watch the intricacies of magic tricks and learn how to "manage" a trick and present it to an audience without messing up. I would spent hours trying to perfect all the magic tricks that came in my first magic set.

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The top selling magic trick set on Amazon is the Melissa and Doug Deluxe Magic Set which costs $22.99 and gets great reviews from customers who bought it. You won't find levitation tricks and other extreme magic tricks, but the magic kit offers up the basic tricks like disappearing objects, multiplying coins, cylinder squeeze, secret silks, magic number prediction, and the "Great Escape" trick. You can find it online HERE. Today we see all sorts of incredible magic tricks based on illusion done by David Copperfield, David Blaine, and Chris Angel. Perhaps your young child aspires to be like one of those magicians, but they will need to start with the basics and work up from there. The My First Magic Set ($10) is a popular beginner magic trick kit with 10 easy to learn magic tricks designed for young kids to master. The entry level magic tricks include things like the mystery tube, rabbit and rings, magnetized wand, and tricky string. The magic set has been selling in stores for years and reviews posted to Amazon show that it still holds "fun for the entire family" says one owner. It's meant for age 5 to 8 but parents may need to help with the reading portion of how the trick is supposed to be done. Some of the more expensive magic trick sets come with a performance table, cape, suit case, and DVD explaining the tricks. We all know that a good magician should never reveal their tricks, but new DVD's are popping up all over the Internet with "how to" videos of what the professional magicians are doing with slight of hand. I say instead of ruining your kids dream of doing magic, stay away from the DVD's and videos until they are older and need a little fine tuning. Half the fun with magic tricks is watching kids try them and having them not get it exactly right. They practically fool themselves when attempting the harder tricks. Kidsmagicset.com is a website loaded with various levels of magic sets designed for kids and some have more tricks and props than others. You'll find magic hats, rabbits, balls, coins and illusions. They carry DVD's focused on card tricks, tricks with objects, money tricks, and tricks with cups or balls. The magic trick DVD's cost about $10/each. Another favorite website of ours is Hobbytron.com/Magictricks.html which has a huge array of cheap magic tricks you can buy that will let you impress any audience that watches you perform. They sell individual tricks like Juggling Balls, Invisible Quarters, and UFO Whirling Card if you'd rather purchase them along and not in a set.

Easy Magic Tricks:

Want to learn some easy magic tricks without having to buy a set in the stores? Check out the About.com section on "magic and illusion" by guide Wayne Kawamoto. He offers up 2 dozens magic tricks that are easy to learn since Wayne gives you step by step instructions along with a photo gallery demonstrating the key aspects of each trick. A few titles include the levitating ring, the vanishing toothpick, the spoon bend, dealing a royal flush, the bill roll, and the magnetic pencil. All the tricks are simple enough to master within an afternoon and you could be up and running with your own magic show in no time. Check it out online HERE.

Card Tricks:

Learning card tricks I always felt was one of the easiest things to do in magic. It's all slight of hand but mostly pretty simple once you practice a few times. The website Cardtricksite.com is packed with excellent tricks that take a few minutes to learn. They have step by step directions on how to do the card tricks and at least 1 video showing on the site via YouTube. Howdototricks.com is another site decidated to teaching your the nuances of magic tricks, most with written instructions on card tricks like elevating card, three jacks trick, torn and restored card, and more. I prefer videos to watch, but the site is well done.

Coin Tricks:

Kids love coin tricks since it relates to money and they find it amazing to take adults coins and make them disappear. Goodtricks.com has some decent coin and money magic tricks that should keep you busy for a while trying to get them down. Tricks include the coin slammer, cut & restore note, melting coin trick, coin bite magic, and hole in my pocket. Youtube.com offers up some great videos on coin tricks that are worth watching. Just do a search on Google for "coin tricks" and see the videos that show up in the search results. You can buy books on this stuff, but the Internet has really done away with having to do that. Just watch a video of the trick for free and learn it on your own.

Magic Tricks Revealed:

Learning the tips and secrets of any magic trick is definitely the cool part of magic. Most magicians won't reveal their secrets in public, but the Internet has made it possible to find out how to do almost any trick just by searching for it on Google. Now that video is more prevalent online, you can actually watch how magicians trick audiences worldwide into believing what is not real is "real". I have even seen shows done by David Copperfield where they show how the women being sawed in half works. Most are just sleight of hand and your mind tricking you into thinking you saw (or didn't see) something that happened. You could buy books or DVD's which cost $10, $20, even $30 or more but we say why? Just get online to watch the tricks being performed slowly and right in front of you. The magicians will teach you just what to do so that the trick goes off as planned.

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