How to do the clip trick - Magnets tricks

The trick of the magnetic clip will amaze everyone, since the clip will hang in the air for as long as you want to let it float. It is a trick that seems pure magic, but really the clip is held in the air by a magnet that is inside a normal matchbox. Look at the following article to see how to do a trick with a clip.

• Small horseshoe or bar magnet
• A small box of matches or similar
• A relatively long sewing thread
• A metalic clip
• Scotch tape
• Scissors

one

Put the magnet in a matchbox like the one you can see in the drawing or a similar box, then hold this small box against the edge of a shelf or table and attach it with duct tape.

two

Next, stick one end of a fairly long sewing thread with duct tape to a bottom shelf if we have hooked the box on a shelf or in a chair if we have hooked the matchbox on a table. Pass the thread through a clip and bring it up until the matchbox. Leave the clip hooked by the effect of the magnet to the box.

3

Strip very smoothly of the part of the thread that is not stuck until the clip is floating in the air by the effect of the magnet and then stick the thread with the adhesive tape to the shelf or chair below.

4

The trick is already finished, but if someone thinks that the clip is attached to the box by some thread, you just have to pass a piece of cardboard or paper between the clip and the box to show that there is no physical element between an object and the other. And with this trick of the clip you will have surprised all your friends.

• The more powerful the magnet, the more distance from the box you can float the clip in the air
• Treat the magnet you have well, because if it receives blows or falls to the ground it can lose part of its magnetism.