christmas magic

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i have been asked to put on a magic routine for the end of school christmas celebration.
i need a little bit of help figuring out what my routine should be about so if you can please post some christmas magic tricks down below.




THANX:D
 

WitchDocIsIn

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What do you already do which could be altered to be holiday themed?

How long do you have?

What do you already know?
 
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hey christopher,

i have about 3 weeks to put it all together.

i have alot of closeup effects and know some very good card handling.
 

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Christopher and Steer are both correct. #1 you are cutting it way close to be performing something you haven't even put together yet
#2 Think of effects that you can do already comfortably and "adapt" them to Christmas

Example: Hippity Hop Rabbits, Take this idea and make a Hippity Hop Santa or Hippity Hop Candy Canes (easier to cut out of thin wood)
Any silk effects with a change bag or modify a brightly colored gift wrap bag: Use Red, Green and White silks
Sponge balls could be Rudolph's red nose (make up some patter)
 
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Christopher and Steer are both correct. #1 you are cutting it way close to be performing something you haven't even put together yet
#2 Think of effects that you can do already comfortably and "adapt" them to Christmas

Example: Hippity Hop Rabbits, Take this idea and make a Hippity Hop Santa or Hippity Hop Candy Canes (easier to cut out of thin wood)
Any silk effects with a change bag or modify a brightly colored gift wrap bag: Use Red, Green and White silks
Sponge balls could be Rudolph's red nose (make up some patter)

My mentor did a routine known as the Dancing Christmas Trees which was a holiday spin to the Hippity Hop Rabbits, the closer was Santa & Frosty. I don't know who has it now it went to auction years ago.

These are some cute ideas. . . I've done billiard balls as Tree Ornaments and played with Chinese Sticks done up as Candy Canes/Peppermint Sticks.

Depending on your budget, you could order in a Chinese Snow Storm kit, always good for this time of year and if you can drum up a couple of souls to help, you can build a Triangle Illusion (see the Mark Wilson book) that looks like 3 big Christmas Cards (get help from the art department of your school) and produce Santa as the finale' to your show.

Thing is, this routine requires quite a bit of rehearsal. It's not impossible to be ready with only a few hours of practice, but you're pushing it, in that you have to double check your angles, etc.

OH! A Square-Circle Production set from which you can produce a ton of garland and toys. . .
 
Here is an effect I created for a previous Christmas Saturday Night Contest (I won). I will also be performing this at my local IBM meeting this month. If you have any questions or want details, please PM me.

[video=youtube;333O3U3D5UM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=333O3U3D5UM[/video]
 

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Here is an effect I created for a previous Christmas Saturday Night Contest (I won). I will also be performing this at my local IBM meeting this month. If you have any questions or want details, please PM me.

[video=youtube;333O3U3D5UM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=333O3U3D5UM[/video]

Can it be a signed, borrowed snow globe?
 

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What I usually do is plant it at a store near the other snow globes and "randomly" choose it when I begin the trick.

I was kidding but that's a great idea. I dig it. Think it has real mind blowing potential - particularly for being so simple. This is the kind of thing that I would do for a special event that was geared for one person (birthdays, quincinera, etc) and leave it with them. I have a thing where when I perform at a birthday or the like I tell the person I am going to create an impossible object for them, on the spot. Then there's a variety of things I do depending on the situation, but it always ends with giving them something that shouldn't be able to exist.
 
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