Reply to: toys and games for 7 + boys

[Spartacus]

I remember that as a board game, which I found infinitely dull as a kid. If it's now a computer game it could be quite entertaining..

There was an Amiga version back in the early 90s. It has been ported to the PC though, so download and play on...

http://sites.google.com/site/colditzescape/

[cojak]

Escape from Colditz.

Teaches you to plan ahead and manage resources with limited supply. Ideal skills for a future career in IT. Plus you occasionally get to shoot people.

I remember that as a board game, which I found infinitely dull as a kid. If it's now a computer game it could be quite entertaining..

[Spartacus]

Escape from Colditz.

Teaches you to plan ahead and manage resources with limited supply. Ideal skills for a future career in IT. Plus you occasionally get to shoot people.

[Churchill]

Depending on how much you want to spend you could buy a radio controlled kit - either an aircraft or a car and build the thing together - teaches a number of skills along with patience.

It'll give you chance to do something together.

[BA to the Stars]

Dont let him play 'Rabies' or 'booby trap'

dont let him find the thread 'weird things i did as a kid'

Only as a kid

[EternalOptimist]

Dont let him play 'Rabies' or 'booby trap'

dont let him find the thread 'weird things i did as a kid'

[threaded]

You can't get proper chemistry sets any more.

It's Elf & Safetea, see.

Meccano set.

Or those chinese ripoffs you see in The Works.

That's why I'd suggest getting an old one.

When I'd worked my way through all the experiments I got a book, can't remember it's name now, something like 'trade chemical processes'. It was great, how to tan leather, how to make dyes, and then there was a section on explosives, whereupon it was confiscated. It really helped me in my future career.

[threaded]

Chemistry set.

I really enjoyed my Chemistry set when I was a kid, kept me occupied for ages.

But new ones are so tame in comparison.

Maybe find a really old one on e-bay, and renew-replace the chemicals.

[OwlHoot]

any ideas?

NB:First post from 7 years old boy in CUK.. may be the youngest poster here using my id ... edited this after he submitted the thread.

Bow and arrow kit, if you have a garden and the "elf 'n sayfty" nazis haven't banned them by now.

Good fun, good exercise, and encourages a healthy dose of competitiveness and male agression

(and God knows, they'll probably need both in years to come)

[AtW]

My bad, I do apologise I should not have mentioned AK-47, doing so is inexcusable

MP5 PDW on the other hand!

[Cliphead]

I've got a 7-year-old and a 9-year-old (amongst others) and they've both spent the last five or six weeks almost endlessly playing with Lego. We have got a lot of Lego, mind you, seeing as they've had a Lego set of one kind or other given to them pretty much every birthday and Christmas going back years (they have older brothers too).

So, yeah, I would say Lego is the most consistently entertaining kids' toy ever.

Have to agree with that

[dang65]

I've got a 7-year-old and a 9-year-old (amongst others) and they've both spent the last five or six weeks almost endlessly playing with Lego. We have got a lot of Lego, mind you, seeing as they've had a Lego set of one kind or other given to them pretty much every birthday and Christmas going back years (they have older brothers too).

So, yeah, I would say Lego is the most consistently entertaining kids' toy ever.

[BoltonLad]

He knows what an AK-47 is

I had a play with one of those things in the US a few years ago but that's another story...

No... He had never heard of it. So he showed a strange look.

Before he asked for the website details from you...he looked in Amazon and Argos.

[NickFitz]

GOOD NIGHT

[Cliphead]

Thanks for all the responses. He really enjoyed replying all the msgs on his own.

It made him to feel proud of himself.

He showed a very strange response on his face when he saw AK-47

He knows what an AK-47 is

I had a play with one of those things in the US a few years ago but that's another story...