Help! Xmas gifts

[Jabbott1]

So I’m really struggling to find something suitable for an 8/9 year old boy for Christmas.
His parents don’t want any more plastic junk - trying to be as Green as possible for the climate - don’t want any more games for Switch/PS4. Have asked for activities or experiences, which is fine, apart from the fact I have a budget of about £30 and most require an adult or friends which I can’t afford to pay for.
Ideas please

Whereabouts in the UK is he? That might help find a suitable activity.

A family cinema voucher is probably less than £30 and would go down well in lots of families

What's he into? You can get paintballing offers ridiculously cheap this time of year. Like £10 for 4 including 100 paintballs type cheap.

or if live near ski slope they do tubing / donnutting for about £10 pp

You can get a voucher for a 30-minute Virtual Reality gaming session for £20 - immotionvr.com/offers/ - they're in several locations around the UK and there are other companies as well doing similar. Have a look on Groupon.

Go back and tell them. You can pay for an activity, but they'd have to pay for the adult. Or you can give a science kit kind of toy. Build your own solar car, or something else teaching about environment.

Get him a family board game?

Have a look on the National Trust website if he likes nature type stuff. I've just bought a 'Den Building kit' for £40 that I know my 9 year old nephew will absolutely love

My seven year old would love archery or similar if there’s a place nearby for a starter lesson or two?
Or what about a climbing wall place? Or look for “clip n climb” sessions as they’re okay to be unsupervised.
Or if he likes music you could pay for a Spotify thing or you could pay for Xbox love or gold for a few months on your budget plus a packet of sweets to wrap.

Cinema gift card.
Trampolining gift card.
Clothes (my 9yr old boy is now quite brand conscious)
Football

I have a 9 year old ds.
Theatre tokens?
Book tokens?
If they prefer no plastic maybe suggest board games (monopoly, top trumps games, carcassone, labyrinth)
There's a brilliant 'blank comic book' you can buy if he's arty to draw his own cartoons
Book? Beans annual? Guinness book of records or cool information books? (The DK encyclopaedias are great)
Wreck it journal (look online)
Pens/crayons/a good quality A3 art book

Hope that helps

Isadora2007 gone with your suggestion of archery something I hadn’t even considered. Thanks.
Thank you to everyone else who came up with ideas.
Just gotta love Mumsnet

my DS did this a few year ago, we had to drive to the location him but we didn't have to do it with him.

www.intotheblue.co.uk/experiences/drift-lap-rides/

Escape room voucher?

Our local climbing centre does 1-hour one-off sessions for kids, no parents needed to join in!