To the kids they love magic. I think nobody will deny me this. Try to give a little reality to a child and you will see that he is soon bored and his mind is dispersed. Try to give it some freshness and play, propose to play to be who it is not, and his face will light up to follow you where necessary.
A possible proposal to entertain and surprise them is precisely magic. There are many tricks that you can love and that will leave you speechless and thoughtful for a long time. I am not very expert in the subject, but I do have a trick that is my specialty and that never fails: the coin that enters my body through the skin.
What does it consist of
Well, the title says it all. The trick consists of make children believe that we are going to put a coin in the body through the skin, and then take it out again. If it seems a bit macabre you can simply explain that you are going to make it disappear, then, instead of recovering it from inside our body it can be removed from behind the ear of a child, which in the movies is always fabulous.
How to do it
Well, very simple. Take any currency, put one of a euro, and show it to children. You tell them that you are going to do magic, and that you are going to get something that nobody has done before: make a coin pierce the skin (If the child is a little small, assess the risk of doing so, lest he give it for wanting to put the coin inside too and instead of doing it for the skin he decides to do it by mouth).
Then you take the coin with your right hand and bend your left arm, which will be the "container". For the trick to go well, the left hand must touch the left shoulder, or the neck, because there the hand (left) will be hidden from the eyes of the children.
Then we take the coin to our bare left forearm and try, with a massage (which will hide the coin for a few moments), get it to pierce the skin. How is a trick of complicated magic we will not succeed at the first. The issue is that the coin is a bit cold to enter the body, so we will heat it with both hands, rubbing the coin to take heat.
We try again, leaving the coin again on the right and folding the left arm. Another failure, the coin is still cold, so you must reheat it. If you have a lot of audience and you want the trick to last a little longer, you can involve those who have the most open mouth (for example), so that with their hands they help heat the coin. Who knows, maybe they can give you the necessary properties to make the magic happen.
You give one last meneite to the coin and at that time, instead of leaving the coin on the right, we stay in the left hand, that is going to go to the neck, but making believe that it continues in the right. We put the (not) coin in the arm again, we do a massage, we invite a child to blow (it seems that blowing works wonders too) and then we do what really good magicians do: in slow motion we open the right hand and separate it from the arm, to show that the coin is no longer in the hand, because it has pierced the skin.
What to do with the currency is already a matter of being more or less expert, if you manage well with the subject you can try to leave it on the neck, between the shirt and the neck, for example, but sure that it will not go away for inside, because if I'm not sure we don't recover it (we can also have a second euro coin in the left pocket, just in case the flies). So you can talk a little with the empty-handed children before pulling it out of the arm.
If instead you still do not have the very dominated currency, the ideal is maintain the position we are in and try to recover the currency. The method is the same, but conversely ... by heating the right hand to take out the coin. In one of the warming processes, the coin reaches the right and when massaging the arm, it reappears.
If it does not pierce the skin, but disappears
If we do not want to explain that we are going to get into the body and prefer to make it disappear, we just have to do it all the same way, but explaining that we warm it up so that it disappears. Once it disappears we can do the same to make it reappear, or make that comes out from behind a child's ear. It is as simple as saying "it seems to me that it is behind the ear of a child", to approach the one you want, and with the left hand, which is where the coin is, to pass behind its right ear (you have to make it quick for don't see it) and get it out of sight of everyone.
Now comes when I play the violin which Juan Tamariz and I invite you to explain to us what is the magic trick you do to surprise children. So we will all have some other option for the next meeting with them ... which is not a plan to walk putting coins around our arm every time they see us.
