Present for 5yo DS- interested to hear what others would buy for this age

[JumpingJellyfish]

Just out of interest what sort of presents are you planning to buy for 5yo boys? Quite a few of the parents of children in my son's school year (he's in primary 2) are giving them Nintendo DSs. My son is blissfully unaware of such things (as yet...) and he doesn't get much access to computers etc. let alone a playstation at home.... So I was planning on lego (which he's just getting into) or similar and not spending too much as we've not a lot of spare at the mo.

Am I being a little mean by not keeping up with his peers in the computer games stakes? I am sure he'd love it given a chance, I just thought he's a little young and didn't plan to spend all that much money...

All ideas/thoughts welcome!

I don't think your mean for not getting him computer games, especially if he's not fussed about them yet. My Dad gave me a ds for my dd (5)a while ago and she never bothers with it, we were gonna get her one for xmas and it would have been a waste of money.

My Daughter is very boyish and we always end up getting her boys toys. She loves star wars and scooby doo and we often get her figures of these and a bigger piece from the series, like a space ship thing as a main present. They dont cost too much and I can honestly say she has played with them every day, even taking some of the figures on holiday. Would figures from your son's favourite show be something that might work for your boy?

Lego is good as other family members can always add to his collection for xmas and bdays in future if he really gets into it.

At 5, DS was into:

Speed Stacks
Lego
Scooter/Bike
Football

DS (now nearly 7) has no DS, iPod,PSP, Wii/whatever. He's asked once or twice, but not enough for me to cave in. Lots of peers have them. But then lots of his peers, according to him, have jam sandwiches for lunch. [hhmm]

DS2 (5) - Sonic Screwdriver, Bakugan, Wedgits (too much bloomin Lego already), books, writing stuff.

He wants a Pokeman t-shirt.

my ds is 6 and his main present is a bike but he is getting a general lego box and a kinex basic box as well which is reduced to £14.99 in argos for 350 pieces.
He says he's not fussy what he gets as long as he gets hundreds of cars - to add to the hundreds he already has!

My son is nearly 7 and no ds here either, or wii, playstation etc.

He's just not really interested as yet, so I've left it, lots of his friends do have these games consoles.

He went to a friends house recently for tea and won't be going to that particular friends again until he's older, he really didn't enjoy it, they got back from school and were expected to sit upstairs playing on the playstation from 4pm until 7pm.

At the moment he enjoys, lego, football, scooter, bike and he wants a skateboard for christmas.

He does play on the laptop sometimes, but is still happy playing on cbeebies website.