Pass your Body through a Playing Card

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1. How to pass your body through a playing card?

Throw a challenge to your friends by asking them to climb through a playing card. When they express their inability, you take the lead and give a demonstration. Take any playing card or cut some other card to the size of the playing card. Fold it in half lengthwise. Cut a slit along the crease leaving the edges. Now cut slits at right angles to the main crease from the fold to the edge, and also from the edge to the fold. Full the ends apart and you will get a huge thin ring. If you find it difficult ask your parents to help you. Come on, climb through the ring and give a surprise to everyone.

2. How to break a thread in a sealed bottle?

Take an empty milk bottle. Take a thin thread and tie a weight to one end. Drop the weight and the thread into the bottle and fix the other end of the thread with a cork, The weight shold be in a suspended state inside the bottle. Now tell your friends to sever the thread without breaking the seal or shaking the bottle.

Though the answer is very simple, not many people will be able to guess. Take the bottle out into the sunlight and place it on a stool. Now gather sun's rays with the help of a magnifying glass and focous it on the thread. Hold it in position until the thread snaps.