The Art of Teaching Magic Camps and After School Programs

This is the business, not the hobby.

Carroll Baker has taught after school magic programs for around fifteen years and enrichment days and summer camps for about ten. It earns him an extra twenty thousand a year, and it feeds the rest of the business, because every child in a class has a parent and a birthday.

It started by accident. A parent at one of his birthday shows asked him to teach a few tricks to her son and his friends. Another parent in the room ran her school's aftercare program. That became one hour a week for six weeks, and the first sessions were barely profitable. The book is what he learned turning that into a real income stream.

It answers the questions that actually stop people, and most of them are not about magic. Who at a school do you even call. What do you charge. Do you need an LLC. What about the background check, the fingerprinting, the W-9, the insurance. There is a sample letter you can send and a sample full day camp laid out hour by hour.

And there is a chapter on what NOT to teach, which may be the most useful in the book. Thumb tips, invisible thread, cut and restored rope, double lifts. Most of his students are kindergarten through fifth grade with hands too small to hold a deck properly, and a thumb tip will not even fit them.

Contents

About the Author. What this course is about. After school vs. Enrichment Days vs. Summer Camps. Who do you contact. Sample Letter. How to start with a small budget. How to set up your business. Sole proprietor vs LLC. Legal Protection and Credit. Legal requirements. Background and fingerprint checks. W-9 Forms. Insurance Info. How much to charge. Sample full day camp. When to schedule. What NOT to teach. Do-it-yourself effects (pages 25 to 43). Where to buy, with wholesale accounts at Custommagickits.com, Fun Inc. and D. Robbins. Tricks to buy. Supplies Needed. Getting paid to prospect. Handouts. Ultimate goal. Your Bonus Tool Kit. Gift certificate.

The eleven do-it-yourself effects, all teachable from a handout

Every one uses items from a party store or a dollar store: rope, rubber bands, a box of crayons.

1. Magician's Choice
2. The Knotted Ropes
3. The Jumping Band
4. Cups and Balls
5. Wand thru Hanky
6. Lucky Guess
7. The 1089 Trick
8. The Dice Trick
9. The Gray Elephant in Denmark
10. Tell Anybody's Age (the age cards)
11. Two Card Monte

Every effect doubles as the class handout, ready to print, and the Bonus Tool Kit page at the back shows where every printable page is.

Included with purchase: one free thirty minute call with Carroll, with a gift certificate in the back of the book. Additional time billed at $100 per hour.

62 pages, delivered as a digital PDF file.