Do you believe in magic?

Jameson performed almost an hour of balancing, juggling and magic tricks with helpers like Emily Coleman from the audience of young children and their families Jan. 20, courtesy of the North Shore Family Network and the Community Partnership for Children of Melrose, Stoneham and Wakefield.

Fidgeting and squirming and calls of “Mommy” in the audience stopped when Jameson began to perform.

He handed Coleman a red ball. “Don’t let go,” he said. “We are going to try to make the ball disappear from Emily’s hand,” he told the audience, and reappear in his hand. That didn’t happen. Instead, the ball in Jameson’s hand disappeared — and Coleman ended up holding two spheres. Then, at Jameson’s instruction, she blew on them. They grew bigger and bigger.

Jameson made knots in scarves rise and fall, seemingly solid rings interlock and separate, pulled an umbrella from a cylinder, made water disappear and reappear and balanced blocks in a series of formations, including a “V” pattern that wowed the audience.

After the show, a gaggle of children went up to the stage to talk to Jameson. “What was your favorite part of the show?” he asked them.

“All the parts,” several children replied. The rings, said Ava Sorrentino, 4, of Saugus, who attended the show with her friend, Victoria Crespo, also of Saugus.

“I though he was wonderful, the way he involved children,” said Bernadette Ganino of Saugus, who came with her 3 1/2-year-old twins, Katie and Jessica. Ganino reserves space at the network for a twins’ playgroup. Katie and Jessica talked to Jameson after the show.

Donna Lawson of Stoneham came to the show with her son, Jeffrey, 3, and daughter, Annika, 5 months. She said she and the kids had seen another performance at the theater and she thought Jeffrey would get a kick from the magic show. She said he enjoyed the show and that it mostly kept his attention.

Jameson wanted to perform after he saw a magician at his local library, he said, when he was about 4. He didn’t start with magic though; he said he started juggling. He learned magic in high school, he said, from some friends. He’s been presenting this show for 11 years, he said. He also offers a program, “Contact: The Magic of Communication,” for elementary and middle school students.

The NSFN supports children from 2 years, 9 months and up and their families, Program Manager Kathy Harlow explained after the show. She said programs range from workshops to family-fun events like the magic show. The network is a program of Hallmark Health.

Theater management was gracious to allow the family network and community partnership groups to use the site for their event, Harlow said. A lot of times, people don’t want to deal with children, she said.

During the show, some children and parents headed for the lobby for an “energy release.” As Jameson began each new segment, accompanied by sound — either music or the voice telling him how to make a balloon flower — the audience quieted down and focused on him.

Besides sharing his skills as a juggler, balloon-shaper, magician and entertainer on stage, Jameson plays another role off stage: Teacher. According to his Web site, www.scottjameson.com, he offers workshops tailored to students at different levels in those subjects so people can learn new skills and build on existing skills, including physical coordination, problem-solving and creative thinking.