What would a nine year old boy want?

[JessePinkman]

We've got a funny family situation that I want to get a present for a nine year old boy that I don't really know. Say the price is up to £20.

Thank you for any ideas.

Cheap mp3 player?

find out what he likes. River Island voucher would be good, cool for boys at the moment.

Flat peak caps with extendable snaps at the back, can't remember what they're called

cd/dvdor itunes voucher

Doctor who stuff

It is a funny family situation lia66

I can't really find out what he likes, I just want to do something nice for him.

Ohh Doctor Who stuff sounds good.

Do you know what football or other team he supports? Anything from their online supporters shop will be a winner. Scarf, water bottle, boot bag.

lego lego and more lego if he's anything like DS

My nearly 9 year old son would love anything Star Wars, any Lego. Lego games are also very popular with him.

Lego is a nice safe bet.

If I was you I'd avoid clothes like the plague. He won't appreciate them and his parents might now have the same style.

I'd go for a nerf gun. They are great fun and its ok if you have more than one (for big battles) Out of my Dcs only one liked lego.

Yes to lego or nerf gun, definitely no to clothes!

I think most 9 year olds have nerf guns already (though there are a zillion different versions).

My top suggestions for 9 year old boys (and I have one!) are over door basketball hoop or magnetic darts board. You can get either delivered from Hamleys and you'll have change form £20. Both are fab and still toys which is nice for a 9 year old I think.

My ds would love any lego too. The 3 in 1 sets are good play value and he'd love any lego star wars.

I will have to google nerf guns, they sound like fun.
Thank you all for your ideas, very helpful.

Lol my nine year old would cry his eyes out if he got clothes vouchers for christmas

Lego.

Nerf do a water gun version which is good.

My 9 yo would also hate Lego, Star Wars or Dr Who stuff.

He'd want itunes vouchers or a football. I can't bear Nerf guns and have to hide most of them as he's nearly had DD's eye out a few times.

Guinness Book of Records is usually a hit.

My 9 year old DSS would love Moshi Monsters, Lego, Nerf andiTunes vouchers. They know the value of money at this age, so he'd also be over the moon with a £20 note! He is also still into toys like HotWheels, those green plastics army figures & sets and Playmobil, but I would proceed with caution there.

Other presents that have been well received include a Lego board game called Minatour and a spy kit in a black briefcase that had a code breaker manual, invisible ink etc. I will try and find a link to it...

Spymaster briefcase

...meant to add that's it seems to be out of stock, but you may have luck finding it elsewhere.

It's funny, my DNeph just turned 9 and asked for clothes- he's more into fashion than I am! So he would love clothes vouchers. But my DNeph (8) on the other side would hate clothes, preferring technical Lego or air fix models. So quite a tricky call. I'd be tempted to go for something like Lego but put a gift receipt with it if possible, in case he's already got that set or really isn't into Lego.

My ds dances and clothes are very important hence the suggestion. If you don't know him too well, I'd go with the Nerf suggestion. My ds would not be impressed with lego, or playmobil. He would be chuffed with a science kit though, (check what you need to actually make the experiments though as we couldn't make half of one we got due to the fact that you can't buy borax off the shelf as it's used to make bombs apparently

Just add twenty grams of uranium!
I like the ideas of the science kit and the nerf gun.
Thank you.

Guinness Book of Records would be a hit for my 9 year old ds.

Bop it
And I second lego, science kit, record book