Want to learn magic? Looking for a magic workshop?

Mr Bottle’s Magic School is now opened!

We are having our magic lessons in 2023.

Find out more about our workshops during the school holidays here.

We are also focusing more on schools and private lessons for organisations. Whatsapp us to find out how to customise the programme to suit topics like social skills, building resilience and teaching other values.

You can buy our magic tricks and learn them at home:

Why Learn Magic?

Did you know that Nobel Prize winners are 22 times more likely to perform as actors, dancers or magicians? (Source: Adam Grant, New York Times, 30 Jan 2016)

Magic is probably the only art form which is multi-disciplinary; involving sciences, mathematics, psychology, theatre and many more! Our hands-on workshops are fun sessions during which the children will be learning not only magic, they will also take home other skills like confidence, creative thinking and presentation through a series of kinesthetic activities.

Developed by a psychologist, the lessons are customised based on the children’s age group and learning ability. Craft and games are incorporated into the lessons to make it more interactive and fun! The children are also encouraged to put up a short performance at the end of the workshop to showcase what they have learnt.

Kien (more commonly known as Mr Bottle) also makes use of his experience in working with kids as well as his children, to come up with a system to teach magic to very young children weaving in life values like generosity, respect and perseverance.

We are starting our regular magic workshop as well as holiday magic classes for magic after many requests from parents and friends! Email us, fill-up the form below or check out the schedule of our latest classes in news.

Who should learn Magic?

Anyone can learn magic! However, Mr Bottle’s Magic Academy wants to focus on kids because we know the impact of magic if it is learned correctly!

Every magic lesson is customised and developed from scratch!

Mr Bottle has taught magic:

for language schools to inspire children to use the language in a fun way
at schools for youths at risk who see a change of behaviours in a short period of 4-5 weeks
at the Istana where children learned and performed magic for President Halimah Yacob
to children as part of Act 3 International festival
at primary schools for their resilience and social skills programme
to magicians at the Vietnam Magic Convention 2019 in Ho Chi Minh
at PayPal’s Bring Your Kids to Work 2019
at Facebook’s Family Hack 2019
local schools and International Schools (Mr Bottle is a certified trainer for MOE)
in online lessons for children and adults

Mr Bottle’s Magic Academy was featured on Channel News Asia after teaching children from Singapore Children’s Society some magic. They performed for our Singapore President Halimah Yacob at the Istana. The Volunteers, President Halimah Yacob and children had a fun time understanding the values behind the magic.

Benefits of learning magic

#awareness (how to stage the trick) to verbal reasoning (what to ask the audience) – that’s tons of brain muscles at work! Maximising these linguistic and cognitive abilities can support learning and enhance school performance and achievement.
#boost confidence – Performing on stage can be an incredibly daunting experience at first. With time and effort, young children can be guided to perform in the presence of their friends and family, and eventually in front of an unfamiliar audience. With each step, your child builds a sense of triumph and achievement, gains self-confidence and internalise a belief that “I can do it!”. According to experts, positive self-esteem and self-confidence are the key ingredients to success in life.
#Self-discipline – With magic, your little ones learn that time and consistent efforts are necessary for them to improve their craft and be able to apply that to other aspects of life. There just aren’t any shortcuts in life! Not to mention that your child is learning to focus and rule out environmental distractions. Mental concentration is the key to mastering a new skill.
#Up social skills – When rehearsing and performing magic tricks, your child learns to interact with their peers and family. Approaching someone, asking spontaneous questions, thinking on the feet are just part and parcel of being a good performer. There are endless conversational skills to be gained along the way!
#Empathy – To pull off a performance, young children need to think through the eyes of the audience. They learn to understand how others think and feel. These heightened senses will enhance their social relationships.

About Magic Academy’s Curriculum Developer

The first and only magician specializing in children’s magic in Asia to be featured on the cover of an international magic magazine, Mr Bottle’s original works and concepts have been showcased around the world like USA, Taiwan, Korea and China. He is the first magician from Asia to helm a column on M-U-M, the publication of the Society of American Magicians.

Mr Bottle has lectured for magicians in Kuala Lumpur, Ho Chi Minh as well as Singapore. He is also an MOE registered trainer and People Association’s Certified trainer.

Our trainers are specially selected to ensure that they can speak good English to the children. The participants are also encouraged to put up a short performance at the end of the workshop to showcase what they have learnt.

Mr Bottle’s students are not only children but also celebrities include the following:

Mr Bottle has taught Adrian Pang how to perform magic for the media launch of the movie Dance Dance Dragon. His magic student Capital 958 DJ Zeng Sheng Lian (曾生莲) performed magic on Genting Dreamcruise after learning from Mr Bottle. Her team won the competition! Kate Pang (庞蕾馨) learned magic from Mr Bottle for her role in a drama series. Mr Bottle was the magic consultant and the hands of the actors of various drama series.

He was recently acted as a magic influencer “Key Lee” shown in the drama series, Guardian Angel on Channel 8.

Magic Course Outline:

Each year has 4 semesters and each semester consists of 8+2 magic lessons. There will be a showcase at the end of each semester as well as a bigger one at the end of the year which they have to pass in order to go on to Year 2.

Year 1:

The focus will be on the fundamentals of magic. Mr Bottle knows that this is much more important than quickly learning secrets because, without a proper basic understanding of these principles, they may grow up with the wrong understanding of the art. You cannot just learn magic from YouTube, magic is not just about secrets! Children will learn:

core values of magic (and life) (eg. empathy, adaptation, appreciation)
the magic effects which we achieve using magic (eg. transformation, disappearance, etc.)
underlying principles of magic (eg. camouflage,
teach them to be inventive and creative (that is why they learn how to make their own props)

Year 2:

Building on fundamentals. Lessons will be more creative and coming from within themselves. By now, children may have found an arena of magic that they prefer. Using their own preference of style which suits them, they are to come up with their own presentation based on what they learn. They will also learn simple manipulation.

Year 3:

Children will be challenged to come up with their own magic based on a principle which they learn. They are to work together to help each other in their acts and improve on them.

Year 4:

Coming soon.

Real life magic performances as a graduation criteria for our magic workshop.

Kids will need to perform for their parents and come up with a magic show each term.As part of our final graduation, our magic participants will need put up a real life magic show. Last year, we performed for charity, Make-A-Wish Foundation Singapore, to make it a meaningful moment for our students and parents.

How Did Mr Bottle’s Magic Academy Started?

Mr Bottle experienced how magic has helped him and wanted to use the same methods to help his children. He taught his 1-year-old daughter to do the magic. At that age, his toddler was still unable to walk but could carry out a magic trick with completion. Not only that, what really surprised Mr Bottle was to see her resetting the props by herself after seeing how his father did it! After 5 years of development, and persuasion by his wife, he decided to share his methodology with the world.