My name is Ben Nemzer and I'm a magician.
One of my specialties is close up magic which
is magic with ordinary objects, decks of cards,
ropes, rubber bands and I do that all over
New York City.
I'm going to teach you some of the basics
of magic that you guys can start performing
right away.
How to do the color changing sugar packet
trick: I'm going to show you how to take a
sugar packet and change the color.
So we'll use one of these yellow ones and
put it one hand and (puffs into closed hand)
and now its pink (removes pink packet from
hand).
Here's the secret.
You use two different sugar packets.
Now this trick was recently published in Magic
for Dummies, which is a great book, and it
teaches you how to do it there but I'm going
to show you right now.
What you do is you crumple up a sugar packet
and you hold it in your fist or in your fingers
right here or in the palm of your hand, whichever
is easier.
And then you take another sugar packet and
if you're holding like this nobody should
be able to tell you're also hiding something
else in there.
You crumple it up nice and tight and you drop
it on the table.
Now when you go to pick it up, you push it
into your lap and switch it for the other
one.
Now you're actually starting with two but
you can't see one of them.
Then you drop the other one off the table
and they don't realize that this is the different
one.
You place it in the other hand, do a magic
move, and now it's a different color.
And that's how you change a sugar packet into
a different color.
