Rubber Band Tricks

Rubber bands are very basic and easy props which can be used in any magic show. Taking advantage of its elasticity, magicians or anyone who's proficient in hand tricks can do many rubber band tricks as well. Rubber bands are also very thin and can easily be turned and twisted in a few seconds to fool the human eye, provided it is done with skill. In every magic show, the magician does at least one trick which involves a rubber band in it. Kids love to watch these tricks as they actually believe in magic but grown ups can use them to learn an additional use of the rubber band. Given below are some of the very famous and often used rubber band tricks which you too can learn in a few short steps to impress your kids.

Rubber Band Tricks Revealed

There are many well-known rubber band tricks which are very commonly used by people, some of them are revealed below with a detailed description. Take a look at how to do the rubber band tricks all by yourself.

The Jumping Rubber Band
This is the most famous and well-known rubber band trick which you can learn and teach your kids. So go ahead and learn it in these few easy steps.

1. To start with this trick, you will need one rubber band of any color.
2. Hold your hands in the natural position and wrap one rubber band around your little and ring finger, so to let it rest at the base of your fingers. Your hand's back should be facing the audience.
3. Now, with the other hand, stretch the rubber band and insert the tips of your little, ring finger, your middle finger and first finger into the loop.
4. Keep them in the loop against the palm of your hand in such a position that the band is held with all the four fingers but in two different ways. The ring and little fingers hold it to their tips and the middle and first hold it by inserting themselves in the loop.
5. Once you've made this arrangement, you should be able to simply open or straighten all your fingers and automatically make the rubber band jump into your middle and first fingers. Try this trick out as many times as you can till you can do it easily.

The Advanced Jumping Rubber Band
This trick is a little confusing but can be learned with practice. You need to be very fast and confident while doing these tricks as they can be caught easily.

1. For this trick you will need two rubber bands of different colors.
2. Like the first step of the jumping rubber band trick, hold your hands in the natural position with its back facing the audience.
3. Now insert the first rubber band in the little and ring finger so to place it in the base of the two fingers.
4. With the second rubber band, make a loop around the top of your little finger and twist it back and forth so as to loop it around the tips of your fingers.
5. Keep making the loops in the same manner for all the four fingers till you've encased all of them. Make sure you've done it correctly by following the above step.
6. At the end of it, you should have the second rubber band looped around the tips of all your four fingers and the first rubber band in the same position as it was at the base of your ring and little finger.
7. Put your thumb in the loop and close your wrist to put the first rubber band in the middle and first finger. This is how you can switch the first rubber band from the first position to the second even when the second rubber band is entangled in the first four fingers.

These can be great rubber band tricks for kids and as they find magic very fascinating, you can show them how easy it is! I hope you learned something new with these rubber band tricks and you can also come up with some of your own.