What would you gift a child that they would love but their parent would hate? 10-14 years

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Some bright spark bought my 6 year old boy a recorder at Christmas - I'd like to think it was innocent. I'm now plotting my revenge. So go on, what would you buy that a child would love but the adult would flip a lid? It can't be overtly a problem. Child aged between 10 and 14.

Mumsnet, do your worst.

Actually you can get a mini canon for under £30 that would be brilliant.

cajon even

glitter

Glitter gun 😏

i’ll take a punt… you don’t have children

Glitter

Anything glitter! Crayola do a glitter art set, so creative.

No messing about with you!

Available on Amazon for a couple of quid.

Tennis ball and racket - thud, thud, thud, thud against the back wall....hours upon hours.

Came on here to say a glitter bomb. I see a few have mentioned glitter, but a glitter bomb is what you really want.

Oh, and a few of these.

We've had dc bought the following by my now ex in laws (MIL, FIL, BIL, SILs) over the years:

Drum kit
Keyboard
Karaoke machine
Wii plus games
Trampoline
Basket ball Hoop
Work bench
Go-Kart
Sand pit
Quad
Motorbike
Hamster
Puppy
Sea monkeys
Play dough plus all the accessories
Lego fire station, police station etc

Reading these replies...... I think they hated me!! 🤣 in all fairness they were the only kids in the family, and they spoilt them massively!

All the glitter!!

You've reminded me that I didn't find out my husband couldn't stand recorders, until I'd already bought DD her first one (age 5). Admittedly she already had a violin before that ...

Having said that, she went on to play to a high standard in two excellent school recorder groups, and DH now understands that recorders can be lovely if only they are played properly.

Oh and both my children were indoctrinated that violin does not have to sound horrible for years, not just from learning themselves but then I took up teaching it ... The 6 and under class in our local music festival in a few weeks is going to be great fun!

DH is lamenting the aftershave we got teenage DS for Christmas as he wears so much of it 😁

Not only glitter but sequins, or a fabric sewn with sequins for the kid to make Barbie clothes etc - once the fabric is cut it will shed sequins everywhere, & they'll be finding them forever.

A swanee/slide whistle.

Any toy that's fitted with noise-making tech. We once got inveigled by a child into working out why their doggie wasn't working. DH fixed it & it produced all its sounds again. Parents returned to the room & it became obvious that they'd deliberately disabled it.😂

Bath pens/crayons
Nail art kit with all the chemicals
A giant bucket of unfilled water balloons
Cheap perfume
A popcorn maker
Cake pop maker
Graffiti artist book and can of paint

A stylpphone (the pocket synthesisers). Perfect for the ages you're buying for and fucking nerve shatteringly annoying. They're not that expensive on eBay either.

Glitter bath bombs.

There's always one

A craft set with glitter. Lots of glitter

Tie dye kit

A large pack of Gelli baff...great fun whilst you're playing but the stuff does not go!!

A cat piano (really it's a keyboard each key meows a different note) my 13 year old, her 14 year old friends are all really keen on getting one although I would have thought it was for much younger age. Unsurprisingly none arrived at Christmas

A ukulele would be the teen equivalent of a cheap musical instrument gift.

Or be very generous with a large Lego set of Hogwarts etc that they would need to find a place for.