Birthday present ideas for a 7 year old who has everything

[angerona]

Какой же у нас все-таки замечательный Пухтышкин. Спрашиваю у него, что он хочет себе на день рождения. Он отвечает "так я же уже выбрал!" -- это он выбрал набор Snap Rover

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[alinaf]

Etot konstruktor otlichno vyglyadit! Nado mne budet zapomnit' ego na kogda-nibud'. :) A Goshe podari experience - bilety kuda-nibud', poxod, v muzej, na lodke, chto-to, chto on lyubit. Voz'mi day off, ego zaberi iz shkoly, provedite den' vdvoem ili vtroem s I., delaya to, chto on lyubit, kushaya morozhenoe, whatever. Dumayu, zapomnit nadolgo, luchshe, chem ocherednaya igrushka.

[angerona]

his birthday is on Sunday, so the "experience" is a good idea, but we typically do things on Sunday that are experience-like (e.g. this past Sunday we went to a corn maze), so it won't necessarily feel all that different for him, and htere isn't anything he's TOO excited about. Not to mention that November options are quite limited here :).

[alinaf]

Yeah, I guess save the "experience" idea for next year or after, when his b-day is on a weekday, so he'll appreciate doing something with you instead of going to school. How about a subscription to a magazine or book club for his interest? A watch or other "grown-up" thing? Some kind of super-sneakers that jump or wheel or light up or whatever? A nice journal with a lock so he can start a diary? I'm having a hard time because I don't have many 7 year old boys around.

[angerona]

reading is still hard for him, so a magazine or a book club won't be really much of a treasure, I'm afraid. And he gets plenty books from school and the library.

He has a watch, has had it for years :).

Anything clothes-related is unlikely to be a present for him.

He has a journal, it's getting him to write in it that's a challenge.

[alinaf]

Some magazines have very little actual reading. Sasha now gets a magazine of, essentially, printed games and puzzles (find a an object in a picture, maze, connect the dots, stickers). Just saying. :) What about a parent-child class, such as cooking? It will be different from all his other classes because it will be with you?

[angerona]

I'm fairly certain he won't be that interested in magazines. Although who knows. If it doesn't have text, it's targeted at little kids, and he won't like that. And if it's targeted at his age, it's likely to have more text than he can handle.

We don't have time for any more classes, although that's not a bad idea. We used to have music classes together, so a parent-child class isn't a huge novelty.

[alinaf]

Ok, one more idea and then I give up - how about a scavenger hunt with clues, treasures, etc. planned and run by you? It can be as involved as you want and he can handle. My cousins did this for me for my 6th birthday and I still remember it, believe it or not, even remember some clues!