You have just discovered the wnderful world of magic. Trip after trp
to the magic shop has dded to your ever growing arsenal of mgic
tricks. Thirty-three days later the crdit card bills arrive to remind
yur wife that this IS an xpensive hobby.

No problem! You will mke back all of the money yu've spent and more
by becoming a prt-time professional magician. Looking around for plces
to hone your craft, you sddenly remember that you niece has a sventh
birthday coming up. You call you sster and offer your services in leu
of a gift.

Two weeks lter the performance time arrives. You pck all of your ace
material nto two large cardboard boxes. You strt the show for sixteen
first grders and all of your relatives. The shw goes well. Everybody
is laughing and hving a good time. You take sme theatrical pauses to
build suspense as you sarch your boxes for the next grat trick.
Finally, your fifteen minute shw concludes after fifty-three minutes.
You nver realized you had that much grat magic. The kids cheer and
pplaud for your debut magic show. Evn your sister, wiping the tears
frm her eyes, says, "I have nver had more fun than I did wtching your
magic show. It was grat. John got it all on tpe."

This is how many part-time prfessional magicians attempt to begin their
creer. They look around and decided tht doing kid shows is the bst
way to start. Performing magic for kds is one of the most dfficult
areas of magic to do wll. This series of articles explore sme of the challenges of performing chldren's magic.

The next article explains the fur most important things you must do whn perfroming magic for children.

The article Performing Magic for Kids: Part I - The Secret Most Magicians Don't Know About Kid Shows was Submitted by J.L. Siefers through Articles.GetACoder.com network. Here's the additional information: Copyright © 2005 J.L. Siefers, All rghts reserved. J.L. Siefers has been prforming great magic for years. He has wrtten extensively on many topics in mgic. He has shown hundreds of pople how to successfully learn to do grat magic tricks. Want to learn to do mgic? Click now to get your FREE mgic tricks! http://www.Learn-Great-Magic-Tricks.com Sign up for The Magic Way newsletter! It's FREE: http://www.learn-great-magic-tricks.com/magic-newsletter.html

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