Magnets are magic. Any ideas for using them in a prop?

Here are some I just bought, I keep playing with them but haven't had a solid idea yet.

DealExtreme: $5.96 Super-Strong Rare-Earth RE Magnets (8mm / 100-Pack) Suitable for Extending 18650/CR123A Batteries (http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13518)

If I had magnets like that I would see if I could cover my hand in them and float one. I bet you'll figure out some uses after playing with them a bunch and experimenting.

You can also make an armband or something similar to hold magnetic items from view. I used magnets rather than a pin in my homemade name tag. I also have a magnet holding my "puff" to the top of my cap. (The Puff is a "crushable" golfball looking thing, same thing as my name tag. Bought from Walmart for $1.00 each. :) )

Magnets are magic. Any ideas for using them in a prop?

Here are some I just bought, I keep playing with them but haven't had a solid idea yet.

DealExtreme: $5.96 Super-Strong Rare-Earth RE Magnets (8mm / 100-Pack) Suitable for Extending 18650/CR123A Batteries (http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.13518)
Yes. Magnets are used in many good effects. I bought the trick finger bird just for the magnet. You can palm it nice. If you have a King Tut mummy,Blonde in bathtub or the skeleton one you can make the figures move around in your hand.

P.S. Edmund scientific is a good supplier of stuff like that too.

Edmund scientific is a good supplier of stuff like that too.

Visiting their store in Burlington NJ used to be the high point of my visits to the Garden State. They shut it down a few years ago; pity that it went the way of the jumping quarter.

Just an idea, nothing to do with clowning but great gag. Try putting a magnet in a coffee cup (paper type) and another one under the hood of your car right under the first. It will appear as though you drove away with a cup of coffee on your car hood by mistake, try ignoring people as they tell you about it.

I know a couple of clowns that use them with magican artifical thumb tips and I have used them on a couple of magic card tricks with metal cards and dots.

And of course you can carry on about your magnetic personality.

Wow, somehow after I posted this I never came back to read the replies. Whoops :D

Aside from other non-clowny projects, I used most of the magnets to create magnetic signs that stick to my clown chest. In planning a show, I'd flip up the lid and then randomly slap signs over each other and since the magnets are strong they stick well. I never got to perform the show, but, well, that's life!

Thanks for all the suggestions. I love magnets!

Just an idea, nothing to do with clowning but great gag. Try putting a magnet in a coffee cup (paper type) and another one under the hood of your car right under the first. It will appear as though you drove away with a cup of coffee on your car hood by mistake, try ignoring people as they tell you about it.

I've heard of this one before! Actually, I think somebody sells a gag product that does this. I think I saw it in some oddball catalog.

I'll explain a great easy magic trick.Hot glue one of those magnets inside a thumb tip.

Now try this:
The next time you go out to a restaurant that uses metal silverware, pickup two of the spoons. hold one spoon handle between your thumb (tip)on the back side and four fingers in front of the audience (this helps to hide the thumb tip).
now pick up the other spoon, and rub it briskly against your pant leg, chest, shirt sleeve, or a buddy's arm. place the tip of both spoon handles together, the magnets catch, and the spoon will hang from the handle of the other! Now give it a gentle spin.
This works on most restaurant silverware. Since most of it is cheap steel that has been plated with stainless steel (which is non magnetic). It will not work on solid stainless flatware.

have fun!

Canadian coins will stick to a magnet. A strong magnet can make it (paper clip etc)
move around on the table. Just hold the magnet under the table and practice moving the object around. The Bat is a strong magnet for such purposes. I think it comes with a wrist band for it too. I don't use thread. Cant see it,count on it not to break or have yet to find idiot proof thread products. Magnets are one way to animate things without thread.

lots of tricks with levitating objects or items stuck to your hand. The simplest is using amagnet in a handkercheif to mysteriously levitate a spoon, or remove objects from a spoon under the cloth. I am positive this thread will attract many ideas. Other use as mentioned is great for holding name tags or small signs to costumes.