# Pearl

> A ten cent giveaway that makes tips all night.

Web page: [https://learnkidshowmagic.com/pearl/](https://learnkidshowmagic.com/pearl/)

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*Add-on*

Add it to any trick, ships by USPS

**Price: $10.** [Buy Now on Payhip](https://payhip.com/b/jHGQ5)

You will finish your purchase on Payhip, the secure checkout this store uses.

**Shipping is $7 flat, however much you order, and it applies only to physical items.** Pearl and The Squeaker are add-ons, so put them in with a trick.

Everything goes out by USPS, usually within a day or two of your order. Videos and books are downloads, so they never carry a shipping charge.

**A ten cent giveaway that makes tips all night.**

## What it is

A little pearl poodle, twisted out of a strand of beads the way you would twist a balloon animal. Three twists and it stands up on its own.

**I have been handing these out at tables for twenty five years and they are still the thing people keep.** Children take them home. Parents put them on a shelf. And more than once I have watched a table decide what to tip me while one of them was sitting on the tablecloth.

It came from Bob Knigge, a close-up man and a friend of mine, who wrote it up in a pamphlet and then in his lecture notes around 1996. It has been copied plenty of times since without his name on it, so his name is on mine.

## Why it earns its place in your pocket

**It costs about a dime.** Beads come by the yard at any fabric shop or on Amazon, and a roll makes around sixty of them.

**You make it in front of them.** That is the whole thing. It is not a trick you finish and put away, it is three twists while you are talking, and at the end there is a little dog on the table that was not there before.

**And it gives you somewhere to go.** I tell them she does three tricks. Tell her to stay, and she does not move. She sits. She plays dead. If there is more than one child at the table I put spots on them with a Sharpie so nobody argues about whose is whose, and the mothers love that more than the magic.

## What you get

**A finished sample poodle so you can see exactly what you are making**, and about five feet of beads, which is roughly eight more.

Plus the full instructions, the lines I use while I am twisting, and where to buy the beads by the roll once you run out. **And you will run out. That is rather the point.**

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