Website: ANGELFIRE.COM

Kids, enough of the regular fun-focused websites. It is time to impress your mom and dad, and fascinate friends at school with simple magic tricks. If so, here's your support: a website that has simple magic tricks with objects that are mainly available in and around your house. Log on to http://www.angelfire.com/pe/SimpleMagik/ Those who have longed to be able to do what a magician does — and how — this website is all dedicated to you. The magic tricks given on the website do not need any practice as they are very simple, yet tricky enough to amaze anyone! When you log on to the website, it gives a brief introduction of what it is about and how you can learn the given tricks. Whichever trick you choose, you are given three sections which explain how the trick works. The first is 'What they see': it informs you about how your trick will look to your spectators. For instance, if you choose 'Magic message', your audience will see a blank paper on which you mumble something (which will appear on the piece of paper inside the envelop), and put it in the empty envelop and then wave it in the air like magicians do. Then you open it and, mysteriously enough, the words that you mumbled before will be written on the blank paper. Next section is 'What you need' in which you are required to gather the stuff needed to perform the particular trick. The third section deals with 'What you do' and gives you the step-by-step instructions to play the trick; thus helping you perform the trick correctly with all the things in hand. The website is a good source of learning simple magic tricks but some children will feel that not much is offered to them as there are just a few tricks that can be mastered soon. The website can also do with some more colours and pictures, which, if added, will give a brighter and attractive look to it. Nonetheless, kids, master these tricks and become a young magician in no time! — Aamir Raz Soomro