Greetings...

I've worked up a routine involving rainbow mouth coils, with a story about Noah's ark, the flood, and the rainbow. I know some of you refuse to use mouth coils because of either gross factor (spit on them!) or you don't want to show kids stuff going into the mouth that isn't food, but I've had great reaction from kids with the rainbow streamers... audiences including from 2.5 years old to 6 years old...

I've also thought about getting one of Peter Loughrans's Rainmaker gadgets to play around with... perhaps walking out amongst the audience while telling the story, and then it starts to rain, and then I could produce the rainbow...or would that freak people out too much?

What do you think?

JN

I use a mouth coil in my mouth, and don't have any issues with parents or kids. I do a"sepcial announcment" at some point in my show mentioning that I use no supernatural powersd, and that I am a professional and there are some things they shouldn't try at home,like putting things in your mouth etc. I do it lightheartedly, but they get the message.

As far as the rainmaker, I did some research on it, and it appears to have some significant limitations as far as indoor use, so you will want to consider that before purchasing it

I've started to produce coils from my hands. Get the same reaction and no yuck factor.

This is what I would do, and this is based on a routine I do for kids. Do the rain thingy then have a kid (or you) color a rainbow on a napkin. You tear the napkin open and produce the coil from the tear as if pulling it from the drawn rainbow.
Steve V

Rick & Steve--

Excellent suggestions! Have a child draw a rainbow (or have a pre-drawn rainbow), then "share" the rainbow...

JN

How about no mouth coils at all?
Avoids the question of mouth or hands.
Silk is more elegant and lasts longer.

The Noah story is fantastic,
but why not produce a long, long rainbow silk streamer?

Either by poking a hole in the rainbow drawing
and pulling it through the paper
(ala silks from newspaper)
or carefully decorating a production box
to resemble the ark or the clouds?

My two-cents,
Walt

Of course you could use a Rainbow silk, in this case he asked about a mouth coil. Pulling 25 feet of coil is impressive though.
Steve V

Pulling out an 8" by 25 foot rainbow silk streamer is pretty impressive too,
and more elegant appearing, I was just offering an alternative,
a more expensive one yes, but one worth the effect it could have.
Thanks, Walt

Lil tougher to palm effectively though.
Steve V

I developped my mouth coil routine based on the Jeff McBride Commando Show DVD (Magic on Stage 1, I think) and as the coil comes out, you get spectators to support the coil at different places.

The first time I did it, I didn't get any comments from parents about wadding up tissue paper in my mouth, instead I got a huge YUCK! from the first kid I tried to hand it to.

A few months later, I saw some teaser footage from Abracadazzle and noticed that Jeff gave his cane to the volunteer and hooked the coil onto that and what looked like a mic stand. From what I saw the volunteer never had to touch the 'yucky' mouth coil. I thought that was very clever.

Now I let the first volunteer hold onto the coil on the end of a wand, and as I pull out more coil, I can usually spot a kid who I can see is eager to touch the streamer and give it to him to hold.

Just a thought,
James

I use a rainbow streamer with a small house(looks like a church).
Open it up to show nothing inside...then pull the streamer..

Didn't think of the Flood tie in. Sometimes the simple things escape me.

Thanks for sharing....

Harris