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Performing tricks with elastic or rubber bands is another popular form of magic. The easiest of rubber band tricks is the Jumping Rubber Band, which uses the simple prop of one rubber band. In this trick the magician places a rubber band over two fingers. He clicks his fingers on the other hand and the audience sees the rubber band magically jump from the first two fingers to the next two!

Perform this trick by placing the rubber band over the first and second fingers of your left hand. Prove to the audience that the band is only around two fingers by stretching it up. Now close your fingers over towards you and secretly stretch the rubber band over all four fingers. This part you will need to practice until you can do it quickly and with a minimum amount of finger movement. You will be able to see the rubber band stretched over four fingers but the audience won’t. When it’s time to open your hands, the band makes the switch easily to just the last two fingers.

Another trick, slightly harder, but still easy enough to perform by the beginner, is the Handkerchief and Coin trick. The secret to making this trick work is the hidden rubber band. What the audience sees is the magician putting a coin into a handkerchief, shaking the handkerchief out and the coin having vanished. What you have done before you carry out this trick is to secretly have a rubber band around your thumb and forefinger of the hand that the handkerchief will be placed over.

Now when you drop the coin into the handkerchief you let the rubber band slide off your fingers so it surrounds the coin and a small part of the handkerchief, but it remains hidden under the handkerchief. Now you slide your rubber band hand up to the corner of the handkerchief and shake it (not too wildly!). No coin falls out as it is held fast by the rubber band in the handkerchief. Magic! The coin has seemingly disappeared.

Rubber bands and colored elastics are used in many performances. If they are to be a large part of your show, you will probably need to purchase demonstration videos and practice to perfect your manual dexterity. Rubber bands designed for magic tricks can be bought at most magic stores. Every day office rubber bands will suffice for a number of tricks.

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