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Easy Magic Tricks: The Spoon Bend - Version 1

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Easy Magic Tricks for Kids, Spoon Bend - Introduction
Easy Magic Tricks: The Spoon Bend - Version 1

Here's an easy magic trick that every smart aleck needs to know. You grab any spoon, press down on it with your hands and appear to bend the spoon. As your stunned spectators register what you just did (the gall of you!), you lift up the spoon and show that it is unbent, just as you found it.

While it looks as if you bent the spoon with your bare hands, you actually haven’t harmed the spoon in any way.

This the first of two methods that we will teach you. To learn a second, more convincing method, please click here.

Materials: A spoon

Secret: It's all in how you hold the spoon, which we'll explain.

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