Play for 8 year old

[Lhod33]

Has anyone got any play suggestions for an 8 year old boy who refuses to pay with figures/lego/gravitrax/anything building/hates crafts. He is an active kid outdoors but indoors all he wants to do is go on tech, which is fine but he does need to play sometimes but we cannot find anything he’ll do on his own. All I’ve found that he likes is his remote control car or those discovery fossil digging things but he does them in ten minutes!

The tech is so super tempting, it can be all that they think about.

Has he tried cooking? I got the Usborne Cookbook for boys at around this age and worked through what he wanted to cook with him.

Does he read too?

You could get him involved in coding so at least he is being creative and making things instead of passively consuming. Look up Scratch, which is designed for kids that age