Have a Magical Party!
 A
magician adds sparkle to any occasion. More and more
people are requesting magic at corporate social events,
training courses, trade shows, wedding receptions –
as well as, of course, at private parties celebrating
birthdays, anniversaries, achievements or simply the
joy of life.
If you are planning to
give a party, I would certainly recommend booking
a magician for it. Magic breaks any ice, brings
people together and helps them to forget their worries
and live for the moment.
Here are a few ideas for party themes
you might enjoy and which magic will complement particularly
well. You can buy cool and interesting decorations and
accessories from PartyBox to
help you create the right atmosphere.
Party
themes
Magic
If you and your friends
are interested in magic, you could host a magic party.
You could each learn one or two simple tricks and show
them to one another. You could take this quite seriously
and construct a little performance area, with curtains
around it and seats for the audience, or you could pitch
it more as just a bit of fun, allowing practical jokes
and bar bets to pass as magic.
You can decorate your
house with optical illusions, signs of the zodiac, gambling
casino confetti, giant playing cards, glow-in-the-dark
stars…
If you invite
a professional magician to entertain you as well, he/she
will almost certainly be happy to teach you a few simple
tricks to expand your repertoire.
Hallowe’en / Witches
and Wizards
At Hallowe’en, or
at any time you feel inspired to, you could have a spooky
party. You can really go to town with the decoration:
spiders’ webs; bats; ghosts; pumpkins; broomsticks;
eyeballs, fangs and skeletons that glow in the dark.
There are great costumes to wear: old-fashioned witch,
glamorous witch, traditional wizard, vampire, ghost,
devil… Think horror, think Harry Potter, think
Addams Family.
You can make evil-looking,
evil-feeling food and disguise the drink as blood. The
scope is practically endless; you can really ham it
up.
In these circumstances,
magic blends in perfectly. You might even wish to ask
the magician to do a short spot of cabaret
magic, which you all sit and watch, as well as close-up
magic. Mentalism
is also well suited to spooky occasions.
James Bond
If you want something sophisticated that will give your
guests the opportunity to dress up glamorously, a James
Bond theme could be the answer. As well as drinking
martini (shaken, not stirred), you could:
- do target-practice with rubber band
guns or peashooters
- have a James Bond quiz to test your
knowledge of the books and films
- sing along to the theme songs, karaoke-style
- spend part of the evening solving a
murder mystery (from a box)
- have a ‘fun’ casino.
Casino / Gambling
With or without the James
Bond aspect, gambling with fake money is a great way
to enjoy the thrill of a flutter without any risk whatsoever.
You can hire a ‘fun’ casino or you can arrange
your own games. There is roulette, pontoon/blackjack,
poker, craps, wheel of fortune… loads of different
challenges for the punters…
… and
an ideal setting for magic.
Card tricks are a well known staple of magic –
and many have a gambling theme. Popular props for magicians
also include coins, banknotes, poker chips, lottery
tickets and dice. Then there’s always the old
Three Card Monte and the Three Shell Game…
For children, you could have a Harry
Potter party or a Fairy
party. Both involve magic and are very popular choices.
Is it your 21st birthday,
30th birthday, 40th
birthday, 50th birthday, 60th birthday? Is it your
wedding
anniversary? Have you got a new home or a new job?
Whatever your party is celebrating, magic will enhance
it!
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