Petals:
Another easy watering routine that you can do involves slush powder. (Combine slush powder -- available at any magic shop--with water, and it solidifies)
Have three matching plastic cups, the kind that you cannot see through. Unbeknownst to the audience one of cups has been planted with slush powder in the bottom. You proceed to pour water into the cup with the slush powder. Then mix up the cups and ask for a victim/volunteer. Be sure that your audience and volunteer cannot see the contents of the cups.
Announce to the volunteer that he/she gets to pick one of the cups and you will dump it over your head. Mix up the cups again. The volunteer then gets to select the cup you get to dump over his head. One cup remains, and since neither you nor the volunteer has gotten wet, everybody assumes that the water is in the last cup.
Now you prepare to pour the final cup over your head. At this point, I whip out one of those hats with the umbrella on the top. After much agonizing, I pour the final cup over my head, but, alas, nothing comes out! The audience is amazed, and I take a bow.
Easy and always a hit.
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