Present for a 12 year old boy

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Hi all

I need to get a present for a friend’s 12 year old son. Is there anything you’d recommend? I was thinking books but anything really.

Did you find anything in the end I’m looking for the same thing!

If you have a gaming store that sells vouchers they seem to be pretty popular with kids my son's age. They can put it towards games, gaming merchandise or things like extra controllers/headphones. If that's his thing.

Hunger games or maze runner books
iTunes/Xbox/google play voucher
LED light strips for bedroom

I've a 14 year old stepson who is Xbox mad. Usually he gets vouchers from Game from most relatives.

In summer we were lucky enough to go on our holiday to a cottage in Wales.. DSS brought along his Xbox to entertain in the evenings. The cottage was equipped with jigsaws and board games and to our amazement the Xbox was only used to watch Netflix occasionally, he did 2 jigsaws during the week we were there!

With that in mind, I've bought him a Solar System 1000 jigsaw puzzle and a roll mat to store it. I never thought of buying something so "old fashioned" but he surprised us.

He's also really into solving physical puzzles - anything that needs taking apart and putting back together again.

When his dad asked him what he wanted for christmas his reply was "steel toe-capped boots" apparently he wants to see if they really will protect his toes if he drops a rock on them 🤔😂

Hi all

I ended up buying two books: Lionboy and the first book in the Cherub series.