Hi all,
Would love ideas for 8 year old DS.
Over the last few weeks I've started buying for 6 yo DD and doing really well (some great ideas here), but DS is getting hard to buy for.
He'd love a Nintendo switch but DH is adamantly not giving into this. I think it's a shame as DS self regulates with TV/screens pretty well and personally I'd rather he actually played a game like mariokart than watched others playing Minecraft on YouTube.... but I think that's another thread!
DS isn't really into toys beyond his model plane collection. So that's one option. But we have his birthday and Christmas in the same month so I'm on the hunt for extra ideas, even stocking fillers are hard.
When he was 5, then 6, we bought experience gifts as he's SO much more excited about a trip than toys. But sadly his Eurostar day trip was cancelled due to strikes, and then a trip to Rome was off because of covid, so I'm reluctant to 'gift' anything like this at the moment.
PS - the Rome treat above was badged as a gift for DS but actually a foreign trip we'd have taken anyway, but location was chosen for him. I don't buy my DC's foreign holidays as presents!!!
For context, things that have been played with once after opening but then flopped:
Gravitrax
Hexbugs
Most Lego sets
So he's a tricky one, but any ideas much appreciated!
TIA