Skateboarding is a hobby that can take years to get good at. Many beginners give up early on in their skateboarding journey because they expect to be able to do the difficult tricks like kickflips or high ollies in their first few weeks.
The good news is, there are many beginner-friendly tricks that can be learned on the first day, the first week and the first few months of skating. These include half flips, hippy jumps, cavemans, strawberry milkshakes and shuvits.
The half flip is a stationary trick that can be learned within an hour. Once comfortable jumping and landing on the board while it is not moving, half flips can be done. The board goes griptape down on the feet while the graphic is facing up, and then skaters jump up and land with the board rightside up and the trick is done. This trick is very simple with a flat ground to work with.
Next, once comfortable riding on the board, usually after a week or two of consistent skating, the hippy jump is a pretty simple trick. This trick involves jumping and landing on the board while riding. There is no fancy technique to this, but committing fully and leaning forward can help balance.
The hippy jump goes hand in hand with the caveman. The caveman involves throwing down and landing on the board before taking off. Like the hippy jump, leaning forward can help balance as well as landing front foot first.
Lastly, the two beginner flip tricks that are somewhat difficult and can take a few months of practice to get are the strawberry milkshake and shuvit. Either can be done stationary or in motion, and involve the board flipping 180 degrees. The strawberry milkshake is one that is difficult to describe, but it is where the board is scooped,which is another word for flipped, 180 degrees, then jumped on. Braille Skateboarding has a good tutorial video on it here.
The shuvit is the hardest beginner trick to learn. It requires both feet to be on the board, and needs a scooping motion with the back foot to rotate the board 180 degrees. After that, just land. This is different from the rest of the tricks because it is all in the technique and weight put on the board. There has to be just enough scoop to fully rotate it, but not too much to where the board flies away. This will take lots of time to perfect.
All in all, tricks do not have to be so scary and only for professionals. Beginners can do them too and there are many things that look cool and are actually very simple to do.