Learn Kid Show Magic

Run time: 1 hour 16 minutes

Filmed in front of a real school audience, this video shows you routines for props you may already own that are common for family show audiences. You see a full show, and then you are taken into the studio for an interview with Carroll Baker and Steve "Merlin" Branham.

Geared toward intermediate to advanced performers.

The show: effects and bits of business

• The warm up
• The Torn and Restored Napkin, with a sucker ending
• The Pledge (call and respond)
• The Tootsie Pop trick (dove pan, double wall bag) with a helper
• Break-Away Wand
• Feather Duster Wand
• Multiplying Wands
• The Wedding March gag (two helpers)
• The Square Circle and the Appearing Eggs trick (a Thurston tribute)
• The Pom Pom Pole
• Comedy Cut and Restored Rope, with pop knots and a sliding knot
• Pizza Oven Die Box, with a reappearing finish
• Three Cup Monte (vanishing water) with a vanishing hanky
• No-Tear Torn and Restored Newspaper, with jokes and a running gag
• The Magic Coloring Book, with a mouth coil finish
• Snap Silks
• Mirror Box Ball Production
• Stratosphere
• Ball Vanish and Devil's Hanky
• No-Tear finish

The studio interview

• Warm ups
• Birthday show talk
• Giveaways and gift bags
• Using sound
• What to do if a child says "I know that trick"
• Bits of business
• Sucker effects
• Set list
• Planning a show, and opening effects
• Highs and lows
• How to handle mistakes
• How to handle a wild child in a show, and how to pick helpers
• How to make your own effects

Explanations

• Torn Napkin
• Lollipop bag and cut and restored rope bag construction
• Lollipop
• Cut and restored rope, and pop knots
• Magic Coloring Book finish
• Water Monte