Kari From Finland

What I make (and what it isn't)

The American experience grew out of an interactive video show I performed for Finnish daycares, where real objects crossed from the screen into the room, in front of whole groups of children. That version is now retired. The home experience is its successor. The full story, and the daycare teachers' own words about the original, are linked in the verification section below.

People sometimes ask if this is a magic kit. It isn't. A magic kit teaches a child how tricks are done. My experience does the opposite: the child experiences the impossible without ever learning a secret. During a video show, a real object crosses from the screen into the room, and the child picks it up from their own living room floor. And in the fuller version, there is a second act: at the end of the evening, the child finds something impossible in a place nobody has touched all night. Their own pocket. The first moment happens in front of the child. The second one, they discover themselves. The parent is my silent accomplice through it all, with a small hidden role. It is not an app, not a video call, not a toy, and not a lesson. As far as I know, nothing else like it exists, in any price class. In family tests before launch, children tried to throw the ball back into the television, to give it back. That is what I make.

And if you want a fair comparison, it isn't a toy. It's a performer. Families in Finland have paid me for years to perform magic for their children, and my in-person performance prices are public, in euros, on my Finnish sites. This experience is how that performance crosses the ocean: the show is mine, the living room is yours, and the secret hands are the parent's.

Why a recorded show, and not a live one

People also ask why I don't simply perform this live, in the room or over a video call. I've spent my life doing live shows, so I say this with respect: in a live show, I am the magician and the parent is a spectator. In this experience it's the other way around. The show is filmed so that one small, secret job belongs to the parent, timed to the second and rehearsed once with a short preparation video. When the moment comes, the magician on the screen couldn't possibly have done it, and the only person who could have is the one the child would never suspect. That's not something I could give you live, on a screen or in your room.

There's a practical side too. A live show needs an appointment. You book a slot, the whole family has to be ready at that exact minute, and if the day goes sideways, as days with small children do, the moment is gone. And every parent knows what the minutes before a fixed time look like: hurrying children who don't want to be hurried, and everyone arriving at the screen a little frazzled. Magic needs a relaxed child. Twenty years of shows have taught me that much. This experience waits for you. Watch it the evening that suits your family, or the next one. Nothing is booked, nobody is waiting on the other end, and if bedtime runs late, the magic simply runs late with it. The parent prepares their small secret role at their own pace, not on a countdown. For a busy family, that is not a small thing.

What this is not

• This is not a magician you book. I don't come to your house. There is no date to agree on, no half hour to fit between dinner and bedtime, and no stranger who meets your child. You can check who I am, back through twenty years of shows, and I still never step inside your door.
• This is not a virtual show. In a stream, a performer does the magic and your child watches a stranger through a camera, at a fixed time. The camera points the other way too: the performer sees your living room, your child, and whoever walks past, and whatever a camera sees can be recorded at the other end. Here I don't perform at your child, I'm not looking into your home, and nothing looks back. The screen only plays.
• This is not a magic kit. Nothing in the package asks you to learn a trick and perform it while your child watches your hands. Your child watches me on the screen. Your part is one small secret job, rehearsed once and timed to the second, so it cannot fail and they never see it.
• This is not something you can find. The order page isn't linked from this site or from anywhere else online, it isn't on Amazon, and no other performer has it. The only way to it is the letter I sent you. The printed date in that letter changes what's included, not whether you can order.

What it is: a show I filmed in Finland, after twenty years of performing, built so that the impossible happens in your living room, on the evening you choose, and so that the only person who could have made it happen is the one your child would never suspect: you.