The Patriotic Paper Balls

A very pretty experiment that is easy to perform. It gives you one or two moves in sleight of hand.

Three bowls are shown empty and placed in a row about six inches apart on the table. In front of each bowl Magician places three tissue paper balls - red balls in front of one bowl, white balls in front of second bowl, and blue balls in front of third bowl.

He drops the three red balls one by one into the first bowl; then the white balls in the same manner into the middle bowl; and finally the blue balls into the third bowl. Magician calls attention to the patriotic nature of the colors - this being the reason that the balls cannot be kept apart. He turns the bowls over and instead of three balls of the same color in each bowl, we see red, white, and blue balls in each bowl.