Interactive books and kits provide hands-on fun and learning for kids. The Little Box of Magic Tricks: Over 80 Tricks to Amaze Your Friends! by Janet Sacks includes eight mini-books plus assorted ...

The sturdy trunk-like Little Box of Wizard Tricks: Over 80 Tricks to Amaze Your Friends by Janet Sacks stores eight mini hardcover books and supplies-a deck of cards, magic number disks, three small ...

What magic there is in the imagination--and how much more imagination is sparked when an unopened "box of magic" is pulled from the recesses of a closet and opened for the first time in more four ...

Magic tricks have a timeless appeal, especially when it comes to entertaining children. Simple illusions can captivate young minds and spark their curiosity about how the world works. Here are eight ...

To help pay for his undergraduate education, Elias Garcia-Pelegrin had an unusual summer job: cruise ship magician. “I was that guy who comes out at dinnertime and does random magic for you,” he says.

Pulling a rabbit from a top hat. Teleporting from one cage to another. Finding a coin behind a five-year-old’s ear. Magic has long inspired a sense of awe and wonder, but one portion of the population ...

A good party trick needs to be fast, clear, and impossible. This one checks all three boxes. There’s no awkward buildup and ...

Most magic tricks require a fairly sophisticated understanding of how humans perceive the world. To fall for a trick, people have to see things they perceive as important and ignore things that are ...

University of Cambridge provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. Magic tricks can teach us about how the brain works. Magic capitalises on very specific blind spots in people’s attention ...