Easy Magic Tricks to Do at Home

I hand-picked some easy magic tricks that you are going to love. They require very little practice and are all guaranteed to amaze.

I grouped together the tricks using the same props so you have a nice routine. Here is a full performance of the tricks:

Easy Magic Tricks – How To

• Read the trick
• Gather your props
• Learn the trick
• Practice it a few times
• Perform the trick

Coin Prediction Magic Trick

You predict which coin your spectator will think of.

SETUP:

You will need a small piece of paper, a small envelope, and a dime.
Write on the envelope – You will pick the NICKEL.
Write on the paper – You will pick the PENNY.

Place the paper and dime inside the envelope, dime at the bottom, paper hidden with the flap open. Put a tiny piece of double stick tape on the flap so it stays down yet still opens easily.

HOW TO DO IT:

Place the envelope on the table, blank side up.

Tell your spectator to imagine they have three coins – a penny, a nickel, and a dime, and to name one out loud.

This trick is a 3-way out. There are 3 possible outcomes:

1. NICKEL – Flip over the envelope.
2. PENNY – Open the flap and pull out the paper.
3. DIME – Open the flap and dump out the dime.

Pro Tips

When you pull out the paper clamp the dime with your other hand so it doesn’t accidentally fall out.

When you dump out the dime squeeze the envelope so the paper doesn’t accidentally fall out.

Do not repeat this trick for the same spectator.

To learn the amazing business card trick in the performance video above, check out: Magic Tricks for Beginners Amazing Enough for Professionals

Coin Behind the Ear Trick

Reach behind someone’s ear and produce a coin.

HOW TO DO IT:

• Start with a coin in finger palm. 
• Look toward your spectator’s ear.
• Reach behind their ear.
• Move the coin to a display position between your thumb and 1st finger.
• Bring out the coin and show it. 

LEARN THE FINGER PALM

ROUTINE:

Look toward your spectator’s ear as if you see something. Reach behind their head, slide the coin to a display position using your thumb. Bring your hand out and display the coin.

Since your spectators have no idea you have a coin concealed in your hand, and they aren’t expecting it, you will fool them.

Pro Tips

• Make sure you have your spectator’s full attention before you produce the coin.
• This is a very simple yet effective trick. Do not underestimate it, especially for kids. Be casual, go slowly, don’t rush.
• Do not touch your spectator’s ear. Just reach near it.
• You can produce any small object, for example a piece of candy. The technique is the same.
• This is the perfect way to bring out a coin for your next trick.

Coin Balancing Trick – Bar Bet

You balance a quarter on the very edge of a bill.

PERFORMANCE:

Hand your spectator a bill and a quarter and tell them if they can balance the quarter on the very edge, they can keep the bill. They don’t know the secret and will not be able to.

THE SECRET:

It is best to use a crisp bill. Fold it in half and rest the quarter on top. Grip the bill and slowly pull it open at the sides.

The quarter will stay balanced, even when the bill is completely straight. You can lift the bill off the table with the quartered balanced. It’s pretty cool!

Pro Tips

This is a “bar bet.” A bar bet is when you challenge your spectator to do something which sounds completely impossible, unless you know the secret.

Bar bets are fun and extremely engaging. It is nice to mix in a bar bet sometimes when performing.

Toothpick Challenge Trick – Bar Bet

Using toothpicks you make a field goal with a football in it. Without changing the look of the field goal, your spectator has to move 2 toothpicks so the football is outside the goal. They cannot do it. You show them how.

SETUP:

Arrange four toothpicks as seen in the picture. Break off a small piece of another toothpick and place it inside.

HOW TO DO IT:

1. Slide the bottom of the goal halfway over.
2. Move the outside toothpick into place.

This trick is perfect to do before the Broken & Restored Toothpick Trick below.

Broken & Restored Toothpick Trick

Your spectator breaks a toothpick and you fully restore it.

SETUP:

SETUP:

You need a cloth napkin, the type that has a seam at the edge. Before your performance secretly push a toothpick into the seam at the corner of the napkin.

PERFORMANCE:

Open the napkin with the hidden toothpick corner toward you. Place a toothpick in the center of the napkin. Fold the corners into the center trapping the toothpick inside.

Keep track of the corner with the hidden toothpick and fold it close to center. Through the napkin lift the hidden toothpick and hand it to your spectator.

Have them break it a few times. When they let go, wave your hand over the napkin. Slowly open it up showing the toothpick is restored.

Lift and shake out the napkin showing there are no broken pieces.

Pro Tips

This is an incredible trick, you will get a great reaction.

This trick is perfect if you are at a restaurant and they have toothpicks. You can do the setup beforehand or in your lap, it only takes a second.

Make sure you keep track of the hidden toothpick when you fold it over. You do not want your spectator to break the wrong one.

To learn another great toothpick trick check out the Static Toothpick Trick

Coin Through Table Trick

You push a coin straight through the table.

HOW TO DO IT:

You have to be seated at a table. Rest your left hand naturally in your lap. Place a coin on the table in front of you.

Act as if you are picking the coin up with your right hand. In a scooping motion drag the coin to the edge of the table and let it fall in your lap.

Rotate your right fingers up, back of your hand toward the audience, as if you are holding the coin.

Turn your hand palm down, back of your fingers toward the audience, and tap the supposed coin on the table. As you do this pick up the coin in your lap with your left hand.

Tap the tips of your right fingers two times on the table as you tap the coin against the table from below. The audio illusion is perfect.

On the 3rd tap open your right hand wide showing the coin is gone. At the same time press the coin flat against the table underneath to get another great audio illusion. Bring the coin out and show it.

Pro Tip

It is a good idea to put a napkin in your lap so the coin doesn’t fall off when you drop it in.

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Jumping Rubber Band Trick

A rubber band jumps across your fingers.

HOW TO DO IT:

With the back of your hand toward the audience place a rubber band around your 1st and 2nd fingers.

Stretch the band open, curl your fingers into the opening, and place the rubber band around your fingers.

Open your fingers and the rubber band will automatically jump onto your 3rd and 4th fingers. It is pretty cool. Repeat the trick, the rubber band jumps back onto your 1st and 2nd fingers.

To make it more impossible, twist another rubber band around the top of your fingers. This seems to lock in the rubber band around your 1st and 2nd fingers.

Do the same as above, the twisted rubber band has no effect.

This is a great trick and super easy to do. Don’t overdo it. Do it 2 times without the twisted band and 1 or 2 times with the twisted band.

You can use any rubber bands. I like using size #14 Alliance Pale Crepe Gold Rubber Bands.

Telekinetic Rubber Band Trick

A rubber band mysteriously moves upward.

HOW TO DO IT:

Break a rubber band. Place another band onto the center of the broken band. Grip the middle of the broken band with your right thumb and 1st finger. Grip the end with your left thumb and 1st finger.

With the back of your hands toward your audience stretch the band between your hands. Lower your right hand. It looks like you are holding the ends, yet there is extra band hidden inside your right hand.

Loosen your right hand grip and slowly let the end of the rubber band move through your right thumb and 1st. The rubber band will eerily move upward.

Go slowly, it looks better. Stop before the end slips out of your right hand.

Conclusion

All of these easy magic tricks use minimal props, ordinary objects, and will fool you big time. Where can you perform these tricks? Everywhere.

I’ve included a couple bar bets. They are fun to do and also give you something you can teach your audience.