That's Magic!

Could It Be Magic!

We booked a children’s entertainer -  magician, clown, game organiser and rabbit owner for the eldest fifth birthday party in the scout hut.

He’s taken to doing tricks, repetitive simple tricks – I have to put a limit on them or it would send me crazy! He was half way through one of these ‘tricks’ it involved having a coin in his hand, him saying ABRACADABRA and then throwing the coin on the floor while I pretend not to see - then in mock amazement and much showmanship he opens both hands and says in a spooky voice...

’It’s disappeared!!!!’

Before picking it up and saying, ‘Magic!.’

 So we were on to around the fifteenth time he had done this when the coin rolled under the chair so at the point he was supposed to pick it up discretely (or as discretely as a four year old can!) he did a funny old double take, then another and looked at me with his giant beautiful eyes and whispered, ‘I think I really did disappear it!’

I was struck by his wonderful innocence and belief that anything can happen! I then discretely (or as discretely a 40 year old woman squatting on a child’s bedroom floor can!) picked up the coin waved it whispering, ‘Abracadabra........’

He looked at me like I was Willy Wonka, Winnie the Witch and Spiderman all rolled into one!

I loved being magic!

My partner then came upstairs doing the old chopped off thumb trick, which made the four year old so worried we had to show him the trick immediately and then taking off his nose and putting it back before he could get to a mirror!