HELP!!! Gift Ideas for an 8 year old boy...

Leeds88

Help, I've managed to finish all my christmas shopping except a gift for an 8 year old boy who is extremely awqward to buy for! I need something impressive but I'm limited with money. Does anyone have any idea?

Thanks in advance!

L

dangers

How much? Any ideas on what he is into? Is he a member of your family or family friend?

touch*my*food*feel*myfork

yes bit more info please, my son is 8 and happy to help.

he is mainly into lego, with ben 10 and star wars thrown in - lol

Evie82

Guiness World Records book always goes down well I find with this age group.
Mad science kits too!

pretzelnut

another good book - ripleys believe it or not, full of weird and interesting facts.

Also my son is 7 and loves ricky gervais' flanimals - there a new pop up one out. And it is brilliant. its half price (was £14.99 now £7.49) in whsmith at the minute and well worth every penny.

I was always told growing up that you cant ever go wrong with a book.

If you join the WH smith priviledge club you get £20 worth of money off vouchers for joinint and new vouchers every month.

I just signed up and got:
£5 OFF when you spend £20* on Books
£5 OFF when you spend £15*on Kids’ Books

£5 OFF when you spend £25* in store

excluding Mobile Phones, DVDs,Consoles

& Games

£5 OFF when you spend £15*on Christmas Cards and Wrap and in our Christmas Gift Shop

June25

what about bop it there is a new one out tesco for 12.97

kids love it - excelleny game can be played on your own or with others

Leeds88

It's for my cousin's son, he spends quite a bit of time playing on wrestling video games!
£20 is my absolute limit for how much I'm willing to spend. I'd love to spend more but I'm in a lot of student debt and only recently started my first full time job.

L

dangers

Think I would go with the poster above who suggested the guiness book of records. My son had it last year for Christmas and dips into it regularly. It may be difficult to buy him a wrestling game that he doesn't already have and anyway the games are usually a lot of money. If not the book of records, can you find any wrestling books he may be interested in (as it would appear that this may be his thing).

I know that there are some books that support the games - can you find out from your cousin which games the son has and maybe look to find the book to go with it?

Sorry if my message has been waffley

kjmtidea

My 8 year old loves the guiness world record books, I have bought him bop it for Christmas, he also loves all the chemistry sets that you can get these days. My kids also love wrestling so one of them has the 2010 annual.

Mrs_Ihenetu

OP i can sympathise with you totally. I had to buy or an awkward (and rather spoilt) 8 y/o boy on a limited budget.

I got him a 'gogo crazy bones' tin (a silver tin with lots of gogo figurines inside it) for £9.99 from tescos (can also be brought from argos) and they're basically collectible little cartoon-style figurines. Apparantely it's a big craze in for school kids (i'm told all his classmates collect them) and you can buy additional packets for about £1 a pack so it's something that's easy for kids to collect.

Leeds88

Thank you so much for all your post, you lot are my life savers!!!

L