How to "Magically" Bend a Spoon

Watch your audience gape in amazement as you hold a spoon with two fingers and it bends, droops, and drops in two pieces.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Lightweight spoon

1. Before performing this trick, you have to secretly prepare a spoon. To do so, bend the spoon at its weakest point, just below the bowl. Bend the spoon back and forth until it is just about to break. Plant the spoon where you can casually pick it up to begin the trick.

2. Pick up the spoon and show your audience that it is in tact. Then hold the spoon at the point where it is about to break. Squeeze the break. If you've weakened the spoon enough, squeezing will cause the spoon to break. Hold the halves together.

3. As you gently release the pressure of your fingers, the halves of the spoon will droop as you pretend to bend the spoon with you mental powers. Eventually let the halves drop.

Tips & Warnings

• Use thin, cheap spoons. The kind you find at a "greasy spoon" restaurant.
• Buy a dozen or so thin spoons and practice bending them to the near breaking point.
• Plant the prepared spoon in a silverware drawer or at your place at the dinner table.
• Announce that you can bend spoons with your mental powers and wait until someone challenges you to do so.
• If you see someone perform this or any other magic trick, play along. It's common courtesy to never reveal another magician's methods.
• However, if you see someone perform this trick in order to deceive people into believing in or paying for psychic services, call them out!