I don't want to get him something he might play with for 10 minutes and forget. I want something good
Nerf gun?
iPad mini
LEGO. That is all.
Books, clothes, Disney dvd, nemo or wallE for eg. Floor jigsaw, colouring stuff or paints or some such.
Lego will gather dust once he discovers minecraft
hot wheels kit/bits, dress up gear for him and a friend/friends. 16inch wheel bike? Cheap 2 man tent?
Bike
Scooter
Garden playhouse
Climbing frame
Trampoline
Swing
Imaginext Batcave and other bits
Octonauts playset and other gups etc
Books
Scribble and Write
Whiteboard/chalkboard easel combo
Play table with compartment for stashing stuff away, eg arty crafty stuff
Lego
Seriously? No one has mentioned nerf guns yet?
star wars lego... or octonaughts stuff, voice of experience here. minivader is 6 this year and for the last 2 years it has been the above... HTH
edit : nerf guns 5 and above... thy need the strength to be able to cock the gun, unless battery powered
iPhone?
iPad?
Xbox?
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Piano
Decks
Harrier Jump-Jet
Would a dwarf hooker be a bit much????
Wrong
Supersoaker, never too young or old for one of them. 😀
Junior board games, Cranium make some good ones, Tummy Ache and Magic Tooth Fairy spring to mind, Candyland too. More important, make the time to sit down and play them together.
yunki Jr is all about Plants vs Zombies action figures, Angry Birds and Bad Piggies
This is our most wanted by boys in our shop.
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Seriously? No one has mentioned nerf guns yet?
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Yes. The first reply.
We got our 5 yr olds a climbing frame last week - barely been off it since.
Lego.
Our house remains a mine craft free zone in fact I am not really sure what it is but I think it involves a computer or abacus or something.
Second the super soaker.
Space hopper.
Lego, my two played with it endlessly.
Don't get stuff that's too complicated, the age guidance on the box is pretty good.
Just make sure he plays with it on a blanket.
Stepping on Lego pieces barefoot is excruciatingly painful.
Something for outside
I need someone to buy plop trumps for now
Doesn't matter what you buy him, my lad is nearing 6 now, most of his games are made from cardboard boxes by himself. Anything we've bought is mostly secondary to the games.
As above, Lego is good. Although I've spent a small fortune on it in the last few years.
Do you know the LEgo Batman car is £1000
lots of the Lego Batman figures are £40+ ! for a bloody lego figure !
Leffeboy what's this "someone to buy plop trumps for"?
Someone to buy YOU plop trumps surely?
Lego will gather dust once he discovers minecraft
Not a chance, speaking as the father of a soon to be 6 year old lad, Lego is deff the way the to go.
You can't drive a minecraft mining dumper truck round the garden once you've built it!
Someone to buy YOU plop trumps surely?
Excellent point. I wonder if we can persuade CRC to stock it so I can sneak it in with an order...
A huge empty cardboard box! Ours even sleep in it whenever we get one.
SKATEBOARD
Bike?
Nah, scratch that idea, LEGO all the way.
May have to buy plop trumps though (It's the wife's birthday soon 😀 )
Stepping on Lego pieces barefoot is excruciatingly painful.
I find it's better to put slippers on before stepping on Lego bricks. Hurts much less. Amazingly, this works for plugs too.
HTH.
A huge empty cardboard box! Ours even sleep in it whenever we get one.
Add marbles, DIY marble run kit.
We recently bought Plop Trumps for a nephew. He loved it almost as much as we loved the look of disgust on his mother's face 8)
A few big cardboard boxes and some colouring pens.
sleeping bag for camping trips.
it was all about transformers when my lad turned 4....so we bought him optimus prime and bumblebee. that was shortly followed by the rest of the autobots from the movie and then all the decepticon characters.
we also bought him a massive lego set which he still hasnt played with.
The thing I dislike about modern Lego is that the sets are based around building the thing that is pictured on the box.
So what then? You've built it, do you dismantle it and build it again? Do you put it on a shelf and look at it? Do you play with it?
When I was a kid we dreamt up things to build, we used our imagination, not follow a set of Ikea-esque instructions.
The thing I dislike about modern Lego is that the sets are based around building the thing that is pictured on the box.So what then? You've built it, do you dismantle it and build it again? Do you put it on a shelf and look at it? Do you play with it?
When I was a kid we dreamt up things to build, we used our imagination, not follow a set of Ikea-esque instructions.
A lot of the (bigger) kits have at least two ways you can build them, and once built and played with all my kids lego goes into the big box, and there's nothing to stop them building something else with it.
(And the old kits also had Ikea-esque instructions, I can clearly remember following them over 30 years ago...)
OP: A play tent would be good for a 4 year old.
and there's nothing to stop them building something else with it.
I guess not, but so many parts have a very specific use - back in the day the bricks were much more generic.
Biggest current crazes with my lot are:
1. Loom bands
2. Pananini World Cup (cunningly directed by Dad as stickers are 50p whilst Match Attax are a pound. And rubbish).
3. Minecraft. The 4 year old acts as consulting architect to the 8 year old (un)civil engineer.
EDIT: You are never wrong with Lego, I'd go with that. Anything from the Lego movie would be err... AWESOME
Got my niece some little "skate ramps", to bop over on her balance bike. I think she's about 4 or so, she's walking but doesn't drive, anwyway.
Stay clear of electronic gizmos, get him something he can DO and use his IMAGINATION with rather than be dependent on and limited by the parameters set by a programmer.
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The thing I dislike about modern Lego is that the sets are based around building the thing that is pictured on the box.
As opposed to what?
Speaking as someone who built this...
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... last month I can assure you that they always did. The set contains instructions for a main and a secondary model. Imagination not included.
