Whether you’re a magician hoping to expand your repertoire or a parent performing at your child’s birthday party, children’s entertaining is one area of magic that’s rewarding and enjoyable.
Kid’s magic is nearer to stage magic with visual illusions to keep your audience attentive and is very different from close-up magic or sleight of hand.
Funny jokes, audience participation, and visual props like tricks and wands are useful to keep the children on their toes because relatively, children have a small attention span. Entertaining and exciting for the children are what the magic illusions should be.
The tricks you chose should be suitable for their age and sex. A patter about football wouldn’t go down too well at an all-girls birthday party!
Before performing a show, try to see how the presenters act in a little children’s television show. They appear to be enjoying themselves by smiling and laughing and this is important in order to be successful. Try to also remember some of the characters names you can (temporarily) rename your pet rabbit to a ‘Teletubby’, for example.
To be (almost) as successful as famous magicians, you need to enjoy performing magic, the kids will know you are enjoying it, and your positive feelings will help to make them enjoy your magic show - there’s nothing worse than watching magic performed by a bored magician!
Improve your chances of repeat performances by rewarding the children with merchandise. You could give them a balloon model that’s skillfully crafted, but you’ll be forgotten once it pops. The parents will have a way of calling you if you can afford some promotional material with your contact details to give to the children along with the balloon.
To sum up, try to create a fast-paced, varied and exciting magic show to keep the children entertained. Your main source of income will be word of mouth so reward participation with merchandise.
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