Black and White Pictures in a book get magically colored with random streaks of color.
Then all the colors fill the pictures completely in more artistic form.
Next all the pages become completely blank.
Finally the black and white pictures reappear.
You could present this in any manner you wish. The routine below is very effective for Kid shows.
Start by displaying the book full of black and white pictures. Explain it is a magic Coloring Book, the type where you just paint the black and white pictures with clear water, and all the colors magically appear. Most kids are aware of these.
Say you are going to paint the pictures by magic instead of water. Ask the children to rub their fingers on their colored clothes, and flick the colors at the book. Flip through the book again, to show all the pictures are now magically colored, but rather roughly in random streaks.
Tell the children they have managed to color part of the pictures, and if they try a little harder, they are sure to do a better job.
Then have them rub their fingers and fling the colors again, and show the book is “completely and properly colored”
Tell them you have to show the same trick to another group of children the next day, and as the book is completely colored, you cannot use it for your next show. Ask them to “rub off” some of the colors from the book, with imaginary erasers.
The children pantomime this, and you flip through the book to show it is now completely blank.
Tell them they rubbed too hard, and rubbed out all the pictures with the colors.
Ask them to re-draw the pictures with imaginary pencils, then flip through the book again to show all the black and white pictures as at the start, “ready for your next show”.
You can use additional “bits of business” to embellish the effect. You could use it with other color vanishing or changing props, like the
Vanishing Crayon Box, Magic Palette, Color Changing Silk or Ribbon etc.
The extra change in this model will enable you to get much more mileage from this classic effect, and it works just like any regular Magic coloring book. You do not need to turn this over, or around – just flip through the book to show the various changes on every page.
Mini Size (4.25″ x 5.75″ size), with popular animal pictures.