I need some help with gift ideas for boys please

[ThomBat]

There are 20 boys DD1's class and the invites are starting to come through already.

Can I please have your gift ideas for boys - no more than £10 a present, the cheaper the better as there are 20 boys and 10 girls and a lot of parties coming up!

TIA

how old?!!

age pls?

what age?
I find lego always popular - bionicles, knights etc.

like this

depends on age but cars things are popular at the moment (and will be for a while i guess) wooden trains and track from tesco are quite cheap and a good one for younger boys.

Cod will know

superman
spiderman
batman
dr.who
hulk
lego
bionical
kites
science stuff
football stuff

We bought some cheapy walkie-talkies for one of DD's classmates (age6/7) that went down well.

for 5 yo
dinosaurs
hot wheels tracks

Torches.

Anything from Tesco so that they can take it back and change it. Toys, obviously - I'm not suggesting half a kilo of bacon!

Ditto Woolworths.

My 5 year old can't have too many Hot Wheels cars.

Glittery T shirts and hair accessories for girls.

Bubble making stuff for both sexes.

You're very generous,BTW - I try to keep it to about a fiver.

lol at bacon as a present.
Now if it was a family bag of skips and some haribo starmix I'm sure DS would be very happy. Organic carrots, maybe not so happy!

I guess you mean 5y.o. boys?

I would opt for cars stuff or lego, unless you know the child is really into something specific (e.g. Spiderman).

(My ds1 is the same age as your dd1 BTW ThomBat, and those are the things he and most of his classmates would like).

dr who figures, shoot out trading cards, star wars things, board games.

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When my DS was 5 he loved anything to do with Scooby Doo!

cod I mean specifically Disney Cars (Lightning McQueen and co), do you mean that or cars generally? They are all different aren't they? Mine isn't fussed about dinosaurs.

Both my boys are very much into the Disney cars atm! My sister bought DS1 a cars jigsaw for part of his birthday present & he spends ages doing them. I think they were £5.00 in ELC.

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junior trump cards
any vehicle
power ranger figure
spiderman figure
character backpack or t-shirt

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Told you Cod would know

I know what to buy for toddler girls, she knows what to buy for boys of most ages

if you have a lloyds chemist near you - there are lots of things in for boys for xmas at the moment.

now listen very carefully.

in january it all goes down to practically nothing!!! i swear - its fab.

anyway i just bough 2 spy kits £2.50 each - headphones that can listen in on other peoples conversations ! loads of good stuff in there. last year got remote control car for a fiver
there are walkie talkies for a tenner

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this is true - a pen and a clock wow

or

a pen that does red, green, blue, black - wow

a pen that records stuff - wowwwww

Cod 5yo DS has about 6 leather footballs that he is not allowed to play with in the garden because of how destructive they are. He really doesn't need any more. Although he is currently reduced to playing with a sponge one because he has punctured one of his plastic ones and lost the other one in the undergrowth that is next door's garden, and in my slippers I wasn't prepared to go searching for it.

DS loves hot wheels cars, lego, knights (just saved up for the £10 set of 5 from ELC) and that kind of thing.

TBH I would be tempted to go on the Book People website and buy a pack of 10 Horrid Henry books for £10, split it to one or two books per child and maybe stick a Hot Wheels car in with it and voila you are sorted - two books and a car for less than a fiver.

Boys like torches (well my 5 yr old ds does). Or a radio.