Paper tree. Effective trick and its solution

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Paper tree. Focus secret

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This trick can be shown in a circle of friends. It is especially appropriate at the New Year's Eve, where the tree is a natural decoration of the room. And if this evening you pick up a sheet of green paper, offering to teach others how to make a Christmas tree in an instant, the focus will arouse general interest.

Taking scissors, the magician cuts a sheet of paper lengthwise into three strips. Then he twists one strip across the tube, wraps the second and third on it. Squeezing this short thick tube, he cuts it, but not completely, but so that two tubes are connected to each other. Now he cuts the edges of both tubes in several places so that each of them turns out to be bordered by a shaggy paper "cap" consisting of narrow paper strips. Then, grabbing with two fingers the middles of both tubes at their junction, he carefully pulls up the inner turns of paper from the tubes. And before the eyes of the audience, these paper tubes will turn into a slender green Christmas tree.

Focus secret:

Props - a sheet of green paper such as thin paper and scissors. Wrapping paper and newsprint are not recommended.

A sheet of paper is cut lengthwise into three equal strips 14-15 cm wide. Then they are folded alternately into one tube and not completely cut in the middle, leaving a connecting "bridge" of 1 cm (Fig. 6, A). The cut tube is folded in half along the connecting bridge, bending it in the opposite direction so that something like binoculars is obtained (Fig. 6, B).

Focus paper tree
Fig. 6

Now the edges of both tubes are cut along the walls by about half their length with stripes 5-7 mm wide. Only the bridge remains intact. Having cut the edges of the tubes, you need to press them with the palm of your hand from above so that they lie like petals bordering a flower.

Now you should take the edge of the first inner bridge with two fingers of your free hand and calmly, gently pull it up along with the inner first paper layer of the tubes (Fig. 6, B). When the first layer is pulled out to the end of the notch line, the second, third, etc. will follow it. When pulling out each subsequent layer, you need to make sure that it does not completely come out of the tube, otherwise the tree will break. Focus, despite its apparent simplicity, requires prior training.

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