Magic Club Leadership Resources

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• Meeting Activity: The Bonnie and Clyde Melodrama

  By Dave Arch on June 22, 2024

  

  Here’s not only a fun way to open a magic meeting with all of the energy inherent to a melodrama but also a make-it-take-it project where members can make, practice, and present the trick – taking it home with them… Read More ›

• Meeting Activity: Index Card Guessing

  By Dave Arch on June 21, 2024

  

  Much like a previous post, each individual prints on an index card a fact about themselves that they believe would surprise others in the room. From time to time throughout the magic club meeting, the MC reads a card as… Read More ›

• Meeting Activity: Destination Selector Meeting Opener

  By Dave Arch on June 19, 2024

  

  Click HERE to download the above template. After giving each person a copy of The Destination Selector along with a pen, here’s how we’ve used it as a club meeting opener. “We understand there are many places you could be… Read More ›

• Meeting Activity: Listening Assignments

  By Dave Arch on June 17, 2024

  

  In order to promote active involvement when we host lectures, we will not only send the lecturer questions that members hope the lecturer will address, but also we will ask the lecturer for three or four key points that they… Read More ›

• Meeting Activity: Placemat 2

  By Dave Arch on June 15, 2024

  

  Put one of these out at each place on your meeting tables along with a pile of the 21 smaller size coins needed for each person, and you’ll have an energizing activity in which your members might at least initially… Read More ›

• Meeting Activity: Four Facts

  By Dave Arch on June 14, 2024

  

  This classic team building activity has stood the test of time. However, here’s how we use it most often with our project teams – helping them get to know each other better. Each person is given a blank index card… Read More ›

• Marketing: Cardboard Illusion Show Camp

  By Dave Arch on June 13, 2024

  

  Maybe there’ll come a time when your club has the opportunity to host a summer stage illusion magic camp. The one in the above picture happened to be for middle school students (7th and 8th). Every afternoon for a week… Read More ›

• Governance: The PARETO Principle For Time Management White Paper

  By Dave Arch on June 12, 2024

  

  Here’s a short article focused on how to use what’s commonly referred to as “The 80/20 Rule” to create greater time efficiency in your own life as well as the lives of your club members. You may Google “The Pareto… Read More ›

• Meeting Activity: Human Bingo

  By Dave Arch on June 12, 2024

  

  The rules are simple. After downloading the Bingo sheets HERE, printing, cutting them into two, and distributing one (along with a pen or pencil) to each member at your meeting each person stands up and attempts to be the first… Read More ›

• Meeting Activity: Effectiveness Grid

  By Dave Arch on June 10, 2024

  

  Here’s a tool based on the axiom that “people don’t argue with their own data.” Whereas they might argue with your data, they won’t argue with their own. Consequently the Effectiveness Grid is basically an empty sheet of paper with… Read More ›

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