Kari's American Project: Magic by Mail

For American families who received a letter from me. And for anyone checking whether it's real.

I'm Kari, a professional children's magician from Helsinki, Finland. I've performed for twenty years, the last fifteen of them full-time: hundreds of shows a year in Finnish daycares and family events, in front of thousands of children. This site is my Finnish performance business. You're welcome to look around, even if the language is a bit of an adventure.

In 2026, I started something new: a magic experience designed for American homes, where the parent becomes my secret accomplice and the child sees something they will never be able to explain. I sell it the old-fashioned way, by printed letter, mailed to a small number of families at a time. Not on Amazon, not in stores, not through ads. If you received my letter, everything you need is printed in it.

And it didn't come from nowhere. The 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. Finnish daycare teachers wrote about the mysterious ball that appeared as if by magic, about children demanding to know how on earth it got there, about one boy who laughed so hard he cried for the first time in his life. Their original recommendations are collected on this page, in Finnish, and translation tools handle it well: Recommendations from Finnish daycares (in Finnish). That daycare version is now retired. The home experience in your letter is its successor, rebuilt for one couch, one family, and one parent as the accomplice.

Before launch, the home version was tested by real families outside Finland, in English, in their own living rooms. In the first reports, the children tried to throw the ball back into the television to return it. That's when I knew it was ready.

Why a recorded show, and not a live one

People 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, 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. 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.

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, 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, from magiciankari.com, 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.

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.

The second night: The Secret Variation, and why there's a date in the letter

After the show, almost every child asks the same question: "Can we do it again?" And honestly, that question is where most magic dies. The second time, a child doesn't watch the screen. They watch their parents, to catch the trick. I built the Secret Variation so that this is exactly where mine gets stronger. To the child, it looks like watching the same show again, except it changes at the moments they least expect. They come looking for the magic they remember, and they get surprised by magic they have never seen. It protects the secret exactly when it's most vulnerable.

Here is what that looks like from the couch. Your child sits down to a video they already know, maybe by heart. And then it does something it didn't do last time. That alone is magic to a child: the familiar thing changed. Partway through, the magic seems to fail. I stop, on screen, and look lost. A grown-up in the room doubts me out loud. And that is the moment your child's evening turns from watching into playing: they end up on my side, against the doubting grown-up, and together we win. The impossible happens one more time, in the last place anyone expected, and it's the grown-up who has to admit defeat.

The first show gives a child wonder. This one gives them a victory: a magician as their teammate, in front of the adults. And it lands harder than the first for one reason: the child sat down certain they knew what was coming. Being surprised is magic. Being surprised when you were certain is something a child never forgets.

And because it's built to fit the room, I seem to hear what's said in it, and I answer. To a four-year-old, that isn't a video anymore. That's Kari, visiting.

It is a real second production: the show your child remembers, rebuilt with newly filmed moments and a completely different ending. The familiarity is part of the trick. On its own, it sells for $59. Each mailing has a printed order-by date: families who order the Extended Experience by that date get the Variation included free. After the date, it isn't free anymore. That's the whole rule, and it's real. The date is printed in the letter itself and shown on the order page, it doesn't reset, and it doesn't move. And to be clear: ordering doesn't close on that date. You can order after it, and the experience itself is exactly the same. You just won't get the Variation included free anymore. The date exists for a practical reason: I'm one person with a real shelf of inventory in a Michigan warehouse, and each mailing's bonus window keeps my order volumes predictable, so that every family's package is ready to ship. It's simply how a one-man company runs one mailing at a time.

Why two families' letters can differ

You may find an outdated price in an old cached version of my American site. That version was a test and was never offered for sale. The letter you hold is the current offer: the price and the date printed in it are the ones that apply to you. I mail in small batches, and I test as I go: different letters, even within the same mailing, can carry different prices or bonuses while I search for the right offer. That's how honest direct mail has always been built. So if two families compare letters, or someone online mentions a price different from yours, that's why. The versions are assigned completely at random, never based on who you are or where you live. That isn't just fairness, it's how honest testing has to work: the results only mean something if chance alone decides who sees what. Nothing moves after printing. What your letter offers is exactly what you get, for as long as your printed date says.

Three honest answers

Why isn't this sold online? Because I'm one person. I designed the experience, filmed every video, and answer every parent's question myself. I can do that properly for a limited number of families at a time, so I release it in small batches, by letter.

What should I expect if I ordered? Your private access opens the moment you order, with the preparation video and the show. A package from Michigan follows within about a week. On the night, a short preparation that takes you less than a minute, and one moment your child will talk about for days.

How does the guarantee work in practice? You email me. I refund every dollar. That's the whole process. My email answers come from Finland, so depending on the time difference, allow up to 8 hours.

My American site: magiciankari.com
Questions? kari@magiciankari.com

Kari

Kari from Finland LLC · Sheridan, Wyoming, USA · Performances: Magician Kari, Helsinki, Finland