S.A.M. Assembly 181 Interim Report

Three magicians from Assembly 181 "paid the rent" by performing a just before Christmas magic show for the church where we meet's tiny tots day care. We've done this Christmas show for quite a number of years and it's always a delightful experience as the children are very responsive while being very well behaved. There were 16 little ones aged 3 to 5, all bright eyed and bushy tailed, decked out in their party clothes! Dennis Thomas, our Professional Child Party guy acted as MC and explained that the kids had to remain seated and quietly raise their hand if they wanted to be picked to help the magician.

It was flowers, flowers, flowers, as Magic Dave opened with a Crystal Casket that suddenly was filled with Spring Flowers. He followed this with the Magicians Dream boxes filled with flowers, that appeared from an "empty" paper bag. He closed off his set with a "Botania" that brought gasps from the children. ERYX was up next and he opened with, you guessed it, more flowers, in this case, sleeve bouquets. Next a Silk cylinder turned 5 hankerchiefs into multi-colored tennis balls. Using a Dove Pan and a Chick Pan, the kids were asked to ponder "Which came first, the chicken or the egg?" The kids shouted out various answers, but we tried The Dove Pan, which produced a very silly looking mother hen. Then we tried the chick pan which delivered an egg dimpled like a golf ball. It was explained that the chicken farm was right next to a golf course and that there must have been some kind of mix up. The egg was cracked open and a large green silk scarf was extracted with a duck on it, so it must have been a duck egg. One bright eyed youngster said that the duck looked like a rabbit to him, and sure enough, the duck turned into a rabbit! To close out, our resident Kid Show worker Dennis Thomas did part of his Winter themed Library Show. Dennis's experience really shows as he was getting reacactions from all the kids and envolved a goodly number of eager "helpers" in the magic. The yellow snowman picked by the helper was found to be the only snowman to be hiding in the "house" picked by the helper. The kids had a great time, as did we. We packed up in time for Santa to do his bit and we retired to the Perkins Resturant for a late breakfast.