christmas magic

[themitchician]

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

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

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

How long do you have?

What do you already know?

 

[themitchician]

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.

 

[Steerpike]

i have about 3 weeks to put it all together.

Cutting it very tight there.

i have alot of closeup effects

Did you explain this to them?

Also, be more specific. What books do you own?

 

[RickEverhart]

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)

 

[Bizzaro]

There is an effect I created Kyle Marlett teaches here - http://www.penguinmagic.com/p/3133

 

[Craig Browning]

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. . .

 

[themitchician]

thanks man you are awesome and so is the trick.

p.s overstuft is great.

 

[Josh Clarke]

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]

 

[Andrew Paterson]

Whatever you feel confident with, anything that truly shows your skill

 

[WilliamMckeehan]

I did not read the thread but what I would do for Christmas magic would be simple things. Like using green and red sponge balls and maybe a candy cane as a wand?

But this would be for restaurant magic.

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

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?

 

[Josh Clarke]

Can it be a signed, borrowed snow globe?

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

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

I wish ...
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.