We at Parties for Peanuts are proud to offer several wonderful Magicians to delight and entertain children of all ages. They are age appropriate for little ones up to adults, and are also available to do balloon sculpture and face painting/tattoos.
Magicians
We at Parties for Peanuts are proud to offer several wonderful Magicians to delight and entertain children of all ages. They are age appropriate for little ones up to adults, and are also available to do balloon sculpture and face painting/tattoos.
Don’t forget the entertainment! Coordinate with skilled party planners in NJ to make memories that last! Themed parties with princesses, action heroes or favorite characters, plus hot dog carts, pretzel warmers, and cotton candy machines!
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Magic is one of the oldest and most powerful forms of entertainment in the world and there is a very specific reason it has never gone out of style: it creates a feeling that no other performance art can replicate.
A child witnesses a penny vanish from the open hand of a magician. They glance at both hands. They look behind the magician’s ear. They don’t know what to do. And in that space between what they see and what they know can be possible something spectacular happens. Pure wide eyed awe.
That moment – the gasp, the laughing, the desperate need to tell the person sitting next to you what you just saw – is exactly what a professional magician from Parties for Peanuts provides at every NJ birthday party, school event and celebration.
Parties for Peanuts is excited to have a number of amazing magicians on staff to thrill and surprise guests of all ages, from first-timers at their first birthday party to adults at milestone events. And every magician in the roster has more than magic: they come available to do balloon sculpture and face painting and tattoos so each booking is a comprehensive entertainment package that covers every youngster at the party.
In this guide, you’ll learn everything you need to know about what a Parties for Peanuts magician show includes, how magic shows work for all ages, why magic is one of the best forms of party entertainment for mixed crowds, how to pair the magic show with other entertainment, and how to book before your date is taken.
Parties for Peanuts offers several professional magicians for NJ parties and events who deliver age-appropriate magic shows for audiences ranging from young children through adults. Every magician in the lineup is also available to perform balloon sculpture and face painting and tattoos, creating a complete entertainment package in a single booking. All magicians are fully insured and experienced performers. Call (973) 478-8999 to check availability and book your date.
A party magic show is a live performance by a professional magician that is custom designed for the size and age group of the party audience. There’s no stage illusion format like a Las Vegas show or a theater performance — it’s an intimate, interactive, genuinely surprising experience performed up close for a group of guests who are fully engaged from the first trick to the last.
Party magicians mix traditional sleight of hand, audience participation, comedy, and well-selected illusions to create a 30 to 60 minute show that seems personal, spontaneous, and really amazing — even when a good part of the audience has seen magic performed before.
The best party magic shows have one thing in common: they make everyone in the audience feel like they are part of the act. Help from the kids is welcome. Have adults hold up cards or see if a coin has indeed disappeared. The birthday child is always depicted at a crucial period. Nobody in the audience just watches. Everybody is part of the experience of not being able to explain what they are seeing.
Every reservation is based on a live magic show that is customized for the party’s age group and number of guests. The Parties for Peanuts magicians perform age-appropriate content – meaning the illusions, the humor, the timing and the type of audience interaction all change depending on whether the audience is largely 5-year-olds, a mixed gathering of kids and adults or a predominantly adult crowd.
For younger children, the magic is typically visible, vivid and instantly verifiable — a ball that disappears and reappears, a rope that binds itself, a balloon that never pops. The material is more complex card work, mentalism touches and comedy that hits with an older audience for older children and adults.
The show is inherently fluid A party magician performing for a group of 15 kids at a home birthday party shapes the experience differently than one performing for a school gymnasium of 80 students — and that flexibility is just what experienced party magicians bring to each booking.
Every magician at Parties for Peanuts can also do balloons sculpture – the skill of twisting and bending balloons into animals, characters, swords, flowers, headgear and more.
Balloon sculpture works well as a post-show activity. When the magic act is over and the clapping dies down, the magician proceeds to a balloon sculpture station where each child gets a personalized balloon creation to take home.
This take-home aspect is one of the most useful and cherished aspects of booking a magician. Every youngster walks away with something they requested — a balloon puppy, a balloon sword, a balloon flower — that extends the memory of the performance much beyond the celebration itself.
Popular balloon sculpture requests for NJ birthday parties include: dog, cat, sword and saber, princess crown, princess tiara, flower, butterfly, superhero accessory and more. Most experienced balloon artists can create anything that is reasonable.
Parties for Peanuts magicians also provide face painting and temporary tattoos, two of the most universally appreciated party activities for kids aged 3 and up, in addition to magic and balloons.
Face painting turns every child’s face into their favourite character, animal, superhero, princess or fantasy design. The designs last for the whole party and often until bath-time that evening – extending the pleasure of the occasion into the house.
Temporary tattoos are a faster, mess-free alternative to face painting. Tattoos are great for older kids who want something on their arm or hand rather than their face, for kids who are apprehensive having brushes near their face, or for events when you need to manage time per child efficiently.
The celebration also includes balloon sculpture and face painting, so every child has a personal moment with the performer and not just the lucky few who are called up during the act, in addition to the magic show.
This is the one age group that is most emotionally responsive to magic audiences. They believe with a faith that older viewers can’t. For this age group the magician has an emphasis on visual, bright and immediately comprehensible effects – disappearing objects, appearing animals, color-changing silks.
Participation is soft and comforting. Children are welcome to come up at their comfort level, never pressured. The humor is straightforward and physical, the pacing is a little faster to accommodate shorter attention spans. After the show, balloon animals are a big success with this age range.
This is the golden age for audiences of magic. Kids 6 to 9 are old enough to recognize that magic isn’t real, which means they approach every trick with active, engaged suspicion. They watch the magician’s hands. They do the second guess. They talk to their neighbors about various explanations.
“They’re the most fun audiences to play because they’re involved. The magician can play with their mistrust, misdirect their attention in ways that they only realize afterwards, and include them in effects where their own strong predictions are entirely wrong.
This group responds very well to card magic, rope tricks and hints of mentalism work.
Older children and pre-teens are a tougher crowd to entertain. The magician will need to have better content and finer performance skills to maintain their attention. Magicians working for peanuts in this age group have parties that have more technically amazing sleight of hand, better misdirection, and humor that does not insult the intelligence of the audience.
Magic presentations for this age range, at their best, produce a true sense of astonishment – moments when even a cynical 12-year-old can’t find the answer, and has to admit that they simply can’t figure it out.
Adult magic audiences have higher expectations, they have seen more, they are tougher to surprise, and they observe with more of an analytical eye. The Parties for Peanuts magicians who perform adult and mixed age events bring more powerful close-up magic, mentalism and performance polish to that higher bar.
For mixed family events — birthday parties with grandparents, parents, and young children — the magician designs the show to create moments that land for every age at the same time, which is a real performance skill that separates an experienced party magician from an amateur.
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Peanuts magicians do live, interactive magic performances for parties and are customized for the age group of the audience. They also do balloon sculpture, face painting and temporary tattoos – three sorts of entertainment in one booking.
Yes. Peanuts magicians conduct age-appropriate shows for audiences ranging from young children to adults. The content, the comedy, the pacing, the method of interacting with an audience – it all changes according on the age group.
Yes. Every Parties for Peanuts magician is happy to offer balloon sculpture and face painting and tattoos in addition to the magic show providing a complete, multi-activity entertainment package in one booking.
The actual show for most party magic acts is between 30 to 45 minutes in length. After the show there is balloon sculpture and face painting for all guests to enjoy. The overall entertainment window is usually 60 to 90 minutes depending on party size.
Parties for Peanuts magicians are generally most successful with children between the ages of 4 and 10, but they also work well for audiences from young toddlers to adults at milestone celebrations.
Yes. Peanuts magicians parties are properly insured and have expertise performing in school and day care forms. They can entertain classroom groups, crowds at school carnivals and even birthday parties at daycares.