What are your best mind blowers for kids under 5?

[scout95]

@mbinks89 I just showed my kid how to whistle with a blade of grass and she thought I was a wizard.

 

[komal]

@mbinks89 Making a needle float.

Doing the whistle thing from the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly with your hands. (I think that’s the right spaghetti western)

 

[animatrio]

@mbinks89 Farting to close the door

 

[retrofuturist]

@mbinks89 Bending and unbending a spoon.

 

[retrofuturist]

@mbinks89 If you’re ever out to dinner with dinner rolls, you can make it dance under a napkin. Throw a napkin over the top (after sneaking a fork at a corner to stab the roll with). Then lift the napkin with the roll pushing in the center.

 

[betterincali77]

@mbinks89 Not a trick, but tell them the universe is infinite, that it never stops

 

[mbinks89]

@betterincali77 Dude, that captivates me.

 

[betterincali77]

@mbinks89 Me too, and I still remember trying to get my head around it when I first heard about it

 

[christianjune]

@mbinks89 Cornstarch and water and baking soda and vinegar are my go to science experiments

 

[nicholas55]

@mbinks89 I do this really dumb card shuffle trick where I keep the top and bottom cards in place and shuffle everything in between. It's so obvious, but it blows their minds.

 

[mkrj1993]

@mbinks89 Ok, so they really got a kick out of the time that I put my hands behind my head, locked the thumb and index finger of each hand in a type of chain, and then showed them that my hands were now connected and I couldn't break the chain. Even when they reasoned how I connected the chain, they were so confused by why, even with their help pulling, the chain could not be broken.

 

[mkrj1993]

@mbinks89 Oh, also, I get on lightningmaps.org during a storm and tell them right before thunder arrives.

 

[brownman]

@mbinks89 “I can poke my head through a hole this big” — then stick finger through the hole formed by thumb and index finger and poke head

 

[jimfish]

@mbinks89 Learn a little card magic. Specifically learn how to force a card.

Set up:
Write down a random card before you start on a piece of paper. Put it in an envelope. (Maybe write premonition on it to teach them a new word) Then find that card and place it wherever you need to in the deck for the specific force you just learned.

Trick:
Explain that you can see into the future, and you wrote down what card they are about to pick. Then force the card. Place it back in the deck when they’ve memorized it. And do some showboating. Make a little story up. Do some funny dad shit. Then reveal the premonition.

This also works on adults to be honest.

 

[marialuvskids]

@mbinks89 Using your magic to turn the light green

 

[cbaza]

@mbinks89 Tell them birds are dinosaurs

 

[superherobandit]

@mbinks89 LSD.

 

[mbinks89]

@superherobandit They’re more shroom kids but I like where your heads at.

 

[thedeterminator]

@mbinks89 We got dry ice from an Omaha steaks order. Dry ice + water = fog machine. Spent a whole afternoon with that. Gotta make sure they don’t touch the actual ice part though

 

[mbinks89]

@thedeterminator I go pretty hard for Halloween, they knew dry ice and fog machines before they were two haha