Magic for 8-year-old's talent show. Help!

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A little late to the party but…

If you want to inject some humor into the show, I understand when Steve Martin during the heyday of his stand up routine when he was doing packed stadiums, that one of his “magic” tricks was to change the date on a dime.

Though I never saw it I can imagine it went something like:

Takes dime out of pocket, patter with “I will now astound and amaze you by changing the date on this dime.”

Flash dime to audience: “You can clearly see that the year on this coin is 1998.” Rub dime for a second, flash to audience “and now the year has been changed to 1997!”

“Thank you, thank you” quickly puts dime back in pocket.

Probably over the heads of an 8-year old audience but worth a mention at least.

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Update!

First thanks again for all the help. The show reportedly went great. Firstly of note however is that the stakes were much much lower than the munchkin told me (note to self - 8 year olds are not relialbe reporters). It wasn’t a big talent show for the whole school but instead just her class.

Still, the teacher told me that the newspaper trick shocked and amazed. That and the ice one was all there was time for, but the munchkin came home just delighted with herself.

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Thanks for the update.