One handed magic:
E-Z Hat Loader Show a tall hat or child's bucket empty. Then show a red can that is overflowing with something like candy or cigarettes. Dump the can into the bucket or hat. Then proceed to pull out silks, ribbons, paper coils, a glass of milk, and an egg! Truly a one handed possibility!

Black to multi-color silk. Check out www.lockfamilymagic.com It also comes in flags of many nations. It is about 10 inches wide by 40 inches long. (Ron, please translate into metric, the sensible unit of measuring.)

Scarf juggling. Work together with your puppet to juggle scarves. You could start with it grabbing one out of your hand all the time, so you grab a second. He throws his up and grabs yours so you grab the floating one. Eventually, you pick up a third. Should look good to comical music.

Chemical tricks: TSP (tri-sodium phosphate) is a cleanser found in the paint department of your local hardware. Wal-mart actually has it in a blue liquid form. Show a filthy white handkerchief with iodine spots (or spell a word with the iodine). Place it in regular water and it just gets dirtier. Place it in the cleanser and it comes clean. Gospel application is easy, or you could talk about how you affect others and others affect you in positive and negative ways. Tip: Use hot water. If you use the blue TSP then try to match the regular water with food coloring. Also, spray starching your hank before time (let it dry) will aid the cleaning process.

UNDERHANDED PUPPETRY: Did you know that the Axtell book, in either size, can be worked very easily underhanded? This puts it more at a child's level if you are working with a smaller audience and is pretty comfy.

Now take it slowly. You seem right frivolous describing how you throw this up and the vent figure throws this up
( starting to sound like a shift at the vomitorium).
Floyd has one arm rod but I don't think it's up to juggling.
Please,Tony, slowly describe a routine in which one of your thousands of figures and you do magic.
Secondly who is the magician..the ex-instructor or the vent figure?
I shall smoke you out!
Denada

Ah, that is why visual learning is best. You are going to force me to actually edit what I write. (or actually read it for that matter.) Let's see:

First off: An axtell bird that is NOT on the bird arm illusion is going to be the best puppet for assisting in most magic tricks. They are the closest to actually having a hand and it doesn't look weird when they lift a dove pan lid with their mouth. That just doesn't look right with the Old Storyteller. So picture an axtell bird (not the Ostrich) as the assistant and the ventriloquist as the magician.

1. E-Z Hat Loader is a trick with a metal can that appears to be filled with anything you can normally put into a metal can. The receptacle (bag, hat, or bucket) needs to be casually shown as empty, which can easily be done with the ventriloquist's free hand. Dump the can into the bucket or hat. It has a secret load that also gets dumped secretly be secreting something from the bottom end, which the audience assumes is sealed, but is secretly open and in your one handed control. Then proceed to pull out silks, ribbons, paper coils, a glass of milk, and an egg! Truly a one handed possibility! The puppet can either watch or can be the one to help pull things out.

Black to multi-color silk. Check out www.lockfamilymagic.com It also comes in flags of many nations. It is about 10 inches wide by 40 inches long. This takes a flip of the wrist but would look great for the bird to do. It can go back to the original black as well if you want to be looking away while the bird changes it. This would not be easy, however, as you do have to switch ends in the birds mouth.

2. Scarf juggling. Work together with your puppet to juggle scarves. Let's say that you show the bird an old scarf you found for your lovely wife. The puppet gets mixed up and talks about the lovely scarf you got for your old wife. "My wife is lovely. The scarf is old. But, now that I look at it, I think it's lovely." (And your wife is old.) NO! My wife and I are the same age! (Wow! She's older than I thought.) "If you take a close look at this scarf..." (Bird grabs it.) "Never mind. You can play with that one. I have another one right here."
You could start with it grabbing one out of your hand all the time, so you grab a second. The bird throws his in the air in order to grab yours so you grab the floating one. Eventually, you pick up a third. If you don't juggle this would be tough, but if you do it's worth a try.

3. Chemical tricks: This trick causes dark spots on a white handkerchief to vanish. TSP (tri-sodium phosphate) is a cleanser found in the paint department of your local hardware. Wal-mart actually has it in a blue liquid form. Show a filthy white handkerchief with iodine spots (or spell a word with the iodine). Place it in regular water and it just gets dirtier. Place it in the cleanser and it comes clean. Gospel application is easy, or you could talk about how you affect others and others affect you in positive and negative ways. Tip: Use hot water. If you use the blue TSP then try to match the regular water with food coloring. Also, spray starching your hank before time (let it dry) will aid the cleaning process.

UNDERHANDED PUPPETRY: Did you know that the Axtell book, in either size, can be worked very easily underhanded? This puts it more at a child's level if you are working with a smaller audience and is pretty comfy.

Now, as for your question as to which ones I do with the puppet: NONE! I can't let the puppet have all the fun, so I do the magic myself, usually with a volunteer. I did do a mind reading routine once that was great fun. I would cover the puppets eyes while someone held up a card or a certain number of fingers, or an object. The puppet had to try to guess what it was. Of course, I could see it myself. It was amazing how impressed the kids were. The adults found it to be funny.

A change bag can be handled with one hand and a volunteer-- used with mismatched flag blendo or any number of effects... egg bag, etc. The figure can pull items out of the bag or simply stare into it, depending on type of figure.

A volunteer..gotcha... although I think you'd have to be a little careful letting someone poke around in one's change bag.
At this point I'm thinking of doing simple magic..then vent.
I like rope tricks and this is a little too complicated for one hand and I don't want a volunteer too close. Thanks.