Illusions are often called just "plain old magic," since they are tricks. But, since is made up of a variety of "stuff," all of which is designed to look one way when it's actually another way, then illusions is a much better term! The important thing is, they are an effective way to capture a kid's attention, as they no doubt try to figure out how you did what you did, and that allows you the children's worker/minister another way to reinforce your topic of the day!
There are actually 2 different kinds of illusions, and both are useful to you. They are:
Illusions can be found in a whole buch of different places. They can be found in various books at a wide variety of stores. Wherever "magic" books are found. This type of books can even be found at public libraries! If you want to find books that have instructions for easy illusions, then get hold of books for those who are studying/upgrading clowning skills. They are "stok and trade" for clowns. So almost all books like these have illusions in them. Another place that has a great deal of illusions available are websites on the Internet. Just go to your favortite search engine, and put in magic. Then get ready to look! In order to view just a few of these websites, then click on magic-1 and magic-2.
"Groaners" are almost like illusions. They're the "first cousins of illusions." They're when the impression you leave is that you're going to do one thing, but in reality, the truth is that what you said is something else entirely. An example that I've used is that I was teaching 1 day on the reliability of God's Word. So to illustrate it's utter reliability next to something completely unreliable, (me in this instance) I took out a pad and a pencil. I told the kids that I was going to do an illusion, and would make the pencil write "blue." Then I wrote the word "blue" on the pad. Then I did the same thing with "red." Then after a prolonged buildup, designed to hieighten the kid's expectation, (what you're doing is increasing their attention...I.E. their capacity to learn) Then I showed them my work. After their groans, I remarked that while I had played a trick on them, God's word doessn't play tricks, and it was completely trustworthy!
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