See also What is FunCare4Kids [in Dutch].
In four workshops of half an hour each, 20 children - of whom a relative is suffering from cancer - are abouts to make a Magic Tophat, and learn several Magic Tricks... after they have eaten the Magic Cookie of Self-confidence.
One of the Magic Tricks is the Hanky (read: Magic Handkerchief) that frees itself from being tied to the Rope.
Ingredients:
80 meters of rope
1 pair of scissors
2 roles of black tape
12 meters of red textiles cut to 40 cm x 40 cm
1 pack of rice
1/2 liter of water
1 cooking pan
electric heating
First, the 80 meters of rope had to be taped every one meter along the rope.
Click to enlarge: Rope
Click to enlarge: Tape around the rope
Click to enlarge: Rope cut through tape, thus leaving 80 one meter ropes with fixed endings
Next, the 80 hankies had luckily already been cut to the right size of 40 cm x 40 cm by the Edinburgh Textiles Shop.
Click to enlarge: Red Magic Hankies
NOTE: I have boiled water, cooked the rice at its boiling point and drained the water after 8 minutes. The rice leaves a sticky substance that I have run alongside of the Hankies, to stop the threads from coming off. A trick I learned at the Textiles Shop ;o)
And this is what the knotted Hanky looks like ... just before the Magic Spell that sets it free!
Click to enlarge: Knotted
In addition to the ropes and handkerchiefs, we will make silver thimbles disappear...
80 Silver Vanishing Thimbles
.. and to cast the Magic Spell we'll need our Wands or Giggle Sticks !
But the best fun will be of course making your own Magic Tophat... and eating your Cookie of Self-confidence ;o)
The performance of the Tricks is at the event on Saturday 8th of April in the Aviodome (Lelystad, The Netherlands) as Royal Dutch Airlines (KLM) Management Class 27 is a sponsor. See http://www.funcare4kids.org and http://www.aviodrome.nl
...inside of a real Jumbo 747 airplane....!!!
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