Birthday gift for 7 year old boy help. Please. I'm so stuck.

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We have Everything. The house is bouncing with lego, imaginex, scooters, bikes.

Can anyone help me with an idea that doesn't make me cringe? Live rurally so expeeience opportunities are limited.

And their father, my stbxh, does shit gifts, so I want to get something nice so they know how good it feels to get a lovely present.

What about a marble run, or domino rally? My son loved those at that age.

Oh domino's. I forgot about them. I saw this domino dump truck online a while back. I'll go investigate. Any other ideas please?

Personalised dinner set www.borngifted.co.uk/shop/product/personalised-space-china-breakfast-set
Botley coding robot
First chemistry set www.brightminds.co.uk/collections/chemistry-sets/products/thames-and-kosmos-first-chemistry-set
Magazine subscription
Personalised book
Roald Dahl box set
Tracing light box
Instax camera
Telescope www.brightminds.co.uk/products/geosafari-vega-360-telescope?_pos=2&_sid=54d1657e7&_ss=r

Scalextric? It's hard without some idea what he's into. Are you close enough to somewhere you could get tickets to a sporting event or show? Does he have a tablet? Something remote controlled.

This is really helpful.

We don't do tablets. Loong story.

Any magazine recommendations?

Fire for kids- brilliant educational games and kid proof.

Go- Kart/ Flicker/ Rip Razor - all favourites of my 7 year old (older brothers so has them all!).

Hotwheels.

A great board game- my boys love their board games. Flags of the World is excellent as is Don't Say It.

My nephew is getting a magnetic dartboard for his 7th birthday.

Anorak would be a good magazine to subscribe to for him.

We got ds a fish tank for his 7th birthday.

Does he support a football team? We got my just turned 7 year old a lot of football themed stuff!

My 7yr old DS had a subscription to The Phoenix for his birthday, he really enjoys it and looks forward to it arriving each week. It’s £9.99 per month but I think it’s good value because DS reads each issue several times. They do a trial of 4 issues for £1 so you could maybe order that to see if it’s something your DS might like?
Present wise I’ve just bought my nephew a Boomtrix set, it looks great and my DS was disappointed that it wasn’t for him!

My son got a money safe for something like £12from Smyths toys superstore and loves it more than anything else. Oh and an equally inexpensive spy set.
Labrynth board game

I find whiteboards with pens always go down well. As well as a large board, we have two A4 sized ones in our house so when there’s a friend over they can write messages to each other from either side of the room.

Whizz pop bang science type magazine is great

Hexx Bugs

Remote control car

Telescope / Binoculars / Microscope

Ukelele / Guitar

Pogo Stick

Games- recommend Rush Hour & Quadrillion

Camera

Is he into anything? DS is very into Harry Potter, Star Wars and Minecraft so all his presents are to do with that.
If not encourage something- first Harry Potter book to read together?

At that age my DS was very much into Pokemon
Spy gear
Nerf guns
Lego
And was starting to get into Minecraft & Harry Potter

Should have said Nerf gun- I have single handedly contributed masses to their profits as we have so many!

Oh domino's. I forgot about them. I saw this domino dump truck online a while back

We had a train version of that kind of toy. You will regret it. It’s supposed to deposit the dominoes as it goes along but the smallest dent in the floor and the next thing you know they’ve all been knocked over before it’s finished it’s journey. Noisy as fuck too.

My seven year old likes his marble one, Hot Wheels and board games. We’re getting him Headbandz for Xmas as he played it at a friends and liked it.

I also got him a vintage Bop It for Xmas and some Nerfs

He wants an Alexa for his main present

My ds loves a toy called gravitrax. It’s a marble run, but way cooler than the regular ones.

My seven year old loves Gravitrax. TBH I think it's pretty cool too.

www.amazon.co.uk/Ravensburger-GraviTrax-Starter-English-Version/dp/B07B7HNLMG?tag=mumsnetforu03-21

Also meant to say he loves the board game Carcassonne and his grandparents have just started a subscription to the National Geographic Kids magazine.

You say you're rural so I would go for a decent pen knife and/or air gun. Obviously both to be used under supervision until the boy is competent.