What does your 8/9 year old son play with?

[DangerousMouse]

All DS wants to do is kick a ball around, he has no interest at all in Lego, he was into WWE figures but that's now passed, he loves crafting but only the really messy kind of crafts.
I'm looking for something he can play with that needs less input from me, like lego, cars, figures, trains, army men.. he's not into any of that either!

He gets plenty of time to kick a ball around but he only ever wants to do so in the house, so really need some toy ideas to get him interested in!

My nearly 9 year old spends most of his time reading, diary of a wimpy kid and history or science books. Some Lego, some banging on his keyboard. And annoying his baby brother.

Lego, robots, dinosaurs
iPad and PS4
Loves football and water guns outside too

My DS was into types of spy kit at that age. He loved adapting it so that he could spy on us!

Ooh robots and spy kits, that's an idea. Unfortunately he hasn't found pleasure in reading yet

Lego especially the new spinjitzu stuff. Watching space documentaries. Crosswords, slime and his bike

Oh yes, spy stuff and those secret spy books with invisible pens

Lego, transformers, loom bands, guitar, reading, Minecraft...

Nerf guns, laser guns, walkie talkies, elgoo, trampoline, bike, role play, magnets, magic, board games, books, minecraft.

Tried to take up knitting and sewing but doesn't have the fine motor skills required so got fed up with it. Because of those difficulties, hates any kind of drawing and writing.

Loves Lego, especially the kind with motors and gears.

Loves reading.

Occasionally still plays with trains.

Likes those micro boats that switch on as soon as they hit the water.

Oh yea and anything to do with Minecraft.

Lego mainly - making mini animations. Minecraft, sketching, bike, reading, writing his own books.

Lego, brio, marble run, jigsaw puzzles, making a mess, whatever his little sister tells him to play (often cooking or being a vet for her ponies ) Slime and painting when I can bear the mess!

I like some of these ideas, i think spy kit and walkie talkies would go down well.

Dinosaurs
Building jurassic parks for dinosaurs
Knights and wild animal figurines

But hates reading and anything crafty.

Would happily spend all his time watching youtube of video games.

Other than that its all physical. Cycling, swimming, judo, football. And running about the flat

My boy is football mad so is always out kicking a ball. Surely walkie talkies will require input from OP unless the kid has a brother or.sister to play with?
Mine likes drawing - look up "art for kids hub" on YouTube. It's a father and son drawing programme where they do step by step drawings of cool things. Easy to get a good result.

Football cards enterterain both my children but they are a pain in the arse as they always want a packet and you find them everywhere in your house.

Lego
YouTube - propel playing video games and Bear Grylls type stuff
Drawing
Reading

But mostly Lego

People not propel!

Can't get mine off wanting to play on tech all the time. It's restricted to an hour a day but once homework is done and tea has been eaten there is not much time to get into anything else.
But he spends a lot of time reading and doing Lego when he should be asleep between 8-9pm.

I've just bought DS a swing ball forr the garden and he loves it.

Trampoline

Minecraft (limited to an hour)
Winding his sister uo

YouTube vids
Fifa
Anything dinosaurs - books, films etc
Playing with friends - usually football
Stamp collecting
Parkour

lego
arts & crafts
minecraft
reading

However, he is unusual in his dislike of ball sports and prefers creative hobbies.

Gravitrax, coding toys and a rubix cube

Minecraft
Racing
Cars
Lego
Reading

With his brother they often:
Build train tracks
Hot wheels car races
Hexbugs
Play on the tablets

Outside there is a much loved go-kart and trike, scooters and bike and an old shed which is be omibg their secret den.

When inside mainly:
Match Attax cards
Lego
Reading
Playing various imaginative games with his younger sister
PS4/Kindle (both time limited)

Occasionally
Hama beads
Marble run
Baking
Board games/card games
Domino rally

He is loving watching the cricket at the moment though!

My football mad DD is 9 apart from destroying my garden she will:
Rearrange match attax
read Match magazine
Play playmobil football set
Make a stop motion videos using playmobil
Paint/Do large dot to dot (1000)
do some jigsaw
loves swimming/cycling/swingball/
I've recently taught her to play games involving bouncing a tennis ball on side of house and learning trick with her football

oh baking is a great one. all 4 of mine loved baking aged 9.