What are you buying for your 6 year old boys?

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I'm a bit stuck on idea for what to ask relatives to get our 6 year old. He loves Lego and drawing, and we are getting him a couple of Lego sets, but beyond that, I'm a bit stuck. We have an older son, so we have loads of generic Lego, Snap Circuits etc, and his brother is getting Gravitrax. He also has a bike and scooter. We also have too much Playmobil!

TIA

I always ask for books- to read to him or for him to read. It often results in some good ones I’ve never heard of.

A voucher for your local cinema, or something like a simple felt sewing kit, or rock painting kit? People don't get craft stuff for boys so much, and they often really enjoy it?

That's so true PhiOmicron. Will definitely ask for some crafting bits - he loves it!

Good call MinnieMountain. We always buy lots of books, but family don't, so maybe a prompt will lead to some good ones. Thanks.

Things we have bought:
Junior scrabble
Uno
Sushi scramble game
Mini Treasure chest with precious stones in.
Books super potato, there’s a ghost in this house by Oliver Jeffers.
Super hero costume
Science kit.

Nintendo switch
Metal detector
Go kart
Scooter
Bruder farm toys

These are all favourites of my kids.

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Skateboard. Dd had been desperate for one for some time now

My 6 year old loves drawing and has asked for a Magicolour and Supergraph. Both drawing gizmos :)

I have a six year old nephew and I've got him walkie talkies.

Micro machines

My 6 yr old loves his vtech smart watch

Top trumps
Remote control cars
Mini drone
Screwball scramble

If its from relatives I would ask for clothes or football stuff / boots as if he has older brothers then you tonnes I'm sure.

My six year old wants Build a bear and accessories. Slime. Art stuff. Hot wheels.
Anything pokemon (I got him the pokemon encyclopedia)

We have been up since 3.45

(Took DC to the Fireworks last night and DS2 fell asleep really early in the pushchair).

Hoping he'll have a long nap while DS1 is at school so I can too.

Sorry, I was replying to a completely different thread

Oh Camomila my heart goes out to you!

About gifts we’ve got our 6yo:
A fuzzy hooded blanket
Lego
Books
A cuddly
Mapominoes (he loves games like this)
A Star Wars jumper

Ds was 6 last christmas and got

Magnatiles
A fleece blanket with plaents and rockets on
Batb bombs
Books
A beanbag chair
An umbrella (his favourite!)
Hulk fists
Some matchbox cars

A couple of Lego sets, well if Zavvi ever dispatch them that is!
Monster Jam and Hot Wheels sets
Squeaky the balloon dinosaur. I did not want to buy this but it’s been requested for months and I couldn’t face the potential disappointment
Kinetic Sand

What about Hama beads? Both my boys love these. Agree craft stuff often gets overlooked for boys but mine love it.

DS is 6 next week and getting a subscription to the Okido magazine. Also some lego and board games.

For Christmas we are getting some super things (vehicles), a fleecy onesie for wearing to swimming lessons , more Lego and a watch with games etc.

What about a children's how to draw book?

Other things arty 6-7 year old I know have liked

Usbourne paper aeroplanes book - each page rips out to make a different kid of paper aeroplane following the folds

Sticker by numbers book

Fimo modelling clay - or could start with plasticine kit

My son loves all the Treasure X stuff especially the King's gold treasure tomb although I think that particular one is rare and expensive now. It's a sort of game/adventure where you follow various steps to reveal the gold, and then once complete you can re-enact it over and over again. This year we are getting him the treasure X Monster Gold mega monster lab from Argos. He also absolutely loves Marvel masher figures but again, they are all more expensive now than they used to be unfortunately. We used to buy lots of them second hand from eBay for about £10 each, they all mix and match together.

Ooh also Skylanders - he might like those figures. eBay is a great place for them too. We don't have the actual computer game just the figures and a book about them and my son loves them.

I recently bought my 6 year old a national geographic rocks and fossils kit for his birthday which went down a treat. It has actual fossils and meteorite in it too. There are also kits with a tumbler or geode cracking. We bought a packet of orbeez (?) but non-branded ones and he really enjoyed messing with those for a while. He'd seen them on youtube (unfortunately introduced to it by his teenage brother and addicted to youtubers and gamers already And some scratch art paper with stencils. We all love playing games so we bought him sleeping queens card game. Very easy and simple for a 6 year old.

For Christmas I'm going to buy him a bath bomb making kit, i-spy nature type books and books to read alone, as well as other things you've said your child already owns.

Oh, another thing he enjoys playing with is a den making kit. It's just rigid plastic tubes with balls which are covered in holes at various angles so you can build quite strong 3D structures. He doesn't bother making dens with them most of the time, just creates whatever he fancies.

My 6 year old loves an explorer kit he got for his birthday.