How To Do A Magic Toothpick Trick
Would you like to do a magic toothpick trick? Then get ready to do a magic toothpick trick wherein you show your audience a pan full of water and 5 toothpicks in the shape of a pentagon. When you take your magic toothpick and dip it into the center of the pentagon the 5 toothpicks will fly apart and break the pentagon. Someone may think that this is just what happens whenever you do this but when they try and find that nothing happens, they see that it really is a magic toothpick trick.
Supplies An Preparation For A Magic Toothpick Trick
If you would like to do a magic toothpick trick, you are going to need some supplies. These supplies include a tinfoil pan, water, 6 flat wooden toothpicks and liquid dish washing soap. In order to prepare for this trick you will need to dip 1 of your toothpicks into liquid dish washing soap and then set it aside. Take your pan, make sure that it is clean and then fill it full of water.
The Magic Toothpick Trick
You are going to want to arrange your 5 SOAPLESS toothpicks in the shape of a pentagon. Let your audience look at the pentagon for a bit. Now take out your toothpick with soap on it. Wave your hand over it, close your eyes and look as though you are putting magic into the toothpick. Say, Alaka penta Abraka Magic. Then dip the soapy end of your toothpick into the center of the pentagon and let the 5 toothpicks fly apart. Your audience may want to try this themselves and you can allow them to do so with no dish soap. If they ask you to do it again, simply tell them that it takes a while for you to recharge your magical force.
How This Magic Toothpick Trick Works
Everything, including water, is made up of molecules. These molecules like to stick together. Toothpicks are able to float on the top of the water’s surface because there is a layer of clingy molecules that are layered there. When you place soap into this water the soap molecules break the water’s surface tension. It spreads out in a ring that continuously widens in ripples. Thus, the water molecules are no longer held together because of the soap. That is the real magic that lays behind magic toothpick trick. It is actually quite simple. Isn’t it?
