Picking the right card tricks for kids can be tough.

If you are a parent that doesn’t perform magic, looking through amagic shop website can be very confusing. It’s hard to know where to start when you are looking for card tricks for kids.

Rob writes:  

‘I want to start my son off learning card magic. Do you have any suggestions of good places to start? ‘

Essentially card tricks for kids need to be visually engaging, simple to follow, yet fun and interesting to learn. The child learning needs to find the card tricks exciting. Not only the magic, but also how the magic trick actually works. They need to find the learning experience exciting and be excited to show it to others, yet the trick be easy enough to learn, so they are confident to show it to others.

Let’s look at some of the most popular card tricks for kids and create an ideal suggested shopping list:

Svengali deck.
The Svengali deck is a very cleverly constructed deck of playing cards that will enable you to perform miracles within minutes, all ideal card tricks for kids.
Not only is it easy to use, but it has many applications and routines that can be used as full combinations of magic tricks or separately.

Here’s an example. The spectator selects a playing card and replaces it into the deck. You clearly show all the playing cards different. With just a magical gesture, you now show the entire deck to have changed into the selected card!

Rising card
The Rising Cards is one of the most popular card trick for kids. Seeing their card slowly rise magically from the isolated deck of playing cards amazes them, and not only that it is very simple to do thanks to the clever way the deck is designed. Card Tricks for Kids that involve leviation, are very popular at the moment due to Dynamo Magician Impossible on TV.

Kids Kards
Kids Kard’s is a deck of playing cards that have been printed to look like drawings of playing cards made by kids. However, as the magician, the kid can magically turn the cards into a standard deck of playing cards, first the backs, then the faces. They can then have the kid select any playing card and instantly name it. To finish they magically turn the cards back into the drawn kid’s cards. Easy to do, and great fun for kids to perform and learn.

Wonder Worm
If you are looking for one of the more quirky, yet amazing card tricks for kids Wonder Worm is a great pick. They can use any deck of playing cards anytime so as long as they have the Wonder worm with them they have a great piece of comedy card magic.

A card is selected, and the returned, and the cards are spread out on the table face down. Then the Wonder Worm is introduced. The magician winds him up and off he goes, running over the cards until he eventually stops on one card. Low and behold the Wonder Worm has stopped on the freely selected playing card!

Mental Photography Deck.
The Mental Photography deck is great visual card magic trick. It;s in our list of card tricks for kids for very good reason. They show a deck of completely blank playing cards, front and back. Then magically they print a playing cards back, and then its front. Then they print the entire deck fronts and backs! To finish they give the deck one complete cut and now all the cards are completely blank fronts and backs again!
All the above suggestions are visual strong card tricks for kids to perform. Not only are the methods clever, they are easy to understand, engaging, and fun to learn.

The secret to motivating a kid to learn card tricks is making the process fun, engaging and interesting to the child. All the suggestions fit this requirement and will ensure your kids will enjoy their first venture into card magic.