Storytime

Had a great session last week with one of the children's groups I run at work. This group is for children Prep to Grade 2 but we always get a few younger siblings, and this time we had a few older siblings stay for the duration. The theme was magic. What a blast! I began by pulling a toy  rabbit out of a hat. The kids were not impressed. They could see the puppets in the hat. Okay, I thought, tough crowd! I then did the disappearing coin in the glass trick. That gained a few minutes of 'wow, how did you do that?' Then one smart cookie figured it out and all the magic and glamour was lost. But best was yet to come. A card trick. Now I had practiced for quite a while. And I had them entranced. Each time they picked a card, I magically found that exact card. I repeated this trick over eight times. The kids had a lot of theories on how I did it. I was looking. (turned around, covered my eyes etc) I could see through the cards. (demonstrated this was not ...