Gift ideas for a 14-year-old boy housebound after a serious injury

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What can I buy as a nice gift for a 14 year old boy who is now housebound and immobile for the rest of the summer due to a severe injury?
He's a good friend of my DS, and I feel so sorry for him. DS and him are frequently out and about biking and climbing trees together; he's now confined to his sofa till October.
Would like to get a nice gift to give to DS to to give to him, but have no clue what to get.
Does anyone have ideas?
I know this isn't AIBU but this gets the most traffic.

Does he like building/making stuff? ROKR do loads of wooden makes. I’ve done a few myself, they have loads of different prices and styles. Can get them on amazon.

Bake him some chocolate chip cookies.
If you know him pretty well, how about something he can learn? Online course in something relevant to his interests. Could your son suggest anything? Something too cool for school.

VR headset

Ask your son?

My DS fractured his L4 last summer (bikes) and although he had electronics it was the company that made all the difference.

Or Raspberry Pie circuit building set

Thanks everyone.
Some brilliant ideas that I'm now looking in to.
Yes my DS is going round to hang out with him, despite being a lover of the outdoors especially over summer, DS is spending entire afternoons/evenings round at his friends house keeping him company, they're gaming, chatting, watching movies, playing games. DS is still going out with his other friends, and we've been abroad on holiday, so he can't be round there too regularly, but he's making sure he makes time to visit most weeks.
DS asked me to buy something for him to take round for a gift next time he visits. DS was stuck for ideas though.
Anyway I appreciate all the ideas, think I'll go with buying something he can build as his DM isn't keen on screen use. I like the indoor smores too. And I'll get DS to bake some cookies with me. Then he can take it all round next time.
Thanks for the ideas!🤗

As others have said Lego is good as it gives him something to tinker with.

If he's arty then paint by numbers are very cheap, much better than before, and will occupy for hours. (Get a lined dust sheet to protect the sofa and floor!)

Organise a 'couch party'.

Get a few friends together, pay for a film rental if there isn't anything on his parents TV.

Supply popcorn and hot dogs - DS should be able to cook them. Add a cake and do 'party bags' with silly things in stickers, sweets, mini pencil sets- the kind of things you would give a six year old.

You could even add in pass the parcel.

Another idea, I have a Polaroid type instant camera which has gone down well with teens (at family gatherings it disappears and reappears with a pile of photos) but they are not cheap.

My son had a digital drawing pad that plugs into his phone for his birthday, he likes to make his own animations - screen use but very different to YouTube/computer games.

how about Lego if his injuries would allow him to assemble it.

A card game like Fluxx (zombie Fluxx is a big favourite with my similar aged son) and company to play it.
Hope he's better soon.

A friend's kid was given a huge balloon modelling kit in the same circumstances - he totally mastered it while stuck in bed for 2 months (leg was.in traction) and loved it.

Very specific… 😆

How geeky is the child? One of mine likes making chainmail key rings. We got him a book and a little starter pack of jump rings off Amazon and he enjoys doing it.

Do you have a link for this please?

Amazon voucher and haribo he can get what he wants needs from Amazon. Rubik’s cube food idea for someone incapacitated

Comics Lego or a chess set (everyone assumes at that age they only want gaming stuff but even all of my addicts will gravitate towards a gaming/ simpsons/ beano magazine if left with it!!!)

Steam gift card, good headphones, streaming subscription for a couple of months as suggested above

Pack of cards plus book of card games rules if he doesn't know many yet.

I'd ask your son what he would appreciate if he was in similar circumstances