What to give a boy 7 years old?

The seven-year-old child may already have been brought up enough to behave with restraint, but nevertheless he will most likely look forward to his birthday, sincerely counting on gifts. A good present is able to give him a feeling of complete happiness, and an unsuccessful one, respectively, can disappoint and spoil the whole impression of the holiday. To prevent this from happening, one should wisely approach the choice of a gift for a little birthday man.

A 7-year-old boy is at a crossroads, as it were — at about this age he ceases to be a preschooler and turns into a primary school student. Unlike status, the character does not instantly change, like habits, and yet the changes are obvious - they relate even to hobbies, and therefore can be reflected in birthday presents.

So, in preschool age, the main task of the child was to play and have fun, even if cunning adults laid a certain development program in these classes. The school assumes a completely different level of responsibility, it already makes a greater emphasis on learning, even if this process does not have an interesting game shell.

Of course, you can’t give him a purely practical thing that doesn’t have any entertaining functions on his seven-year-old’s birthday, but it’s not for nothing that children go to school at this age — by that time they usually already have rather developed perseverance, memory, and logic to effectively to learn.

A boy who has grown to go to school is, of course, a relatively well-formed personality, he has his own preferences and wishes, which he is able to express unambiguously. By the age of 7, many children are already thinking about what they would like to receive as a gift, because it is possible that the child does not even have to think specially - he may find a prepared answer. You can, of course, act trickier to maintain the intrigue - then you just need to observe the boy and his hobbies, without asking a question about the gift directly.

Children are known for their inability to hide their emotions, therefore it is doubly important to give such a gift that the birthday boy will like. At 7 years old, the boy still does not know how to control his emotions completely - he may not express his resentment clearly if the donor is not very familiar to him, but he expects maximum attention to his wishes from close people.

At the age of 7, relatives seek to give developing gifts to their beloved son, brother, godson and grandson, without really thinking about the fact that the baby is still in the process of comprehensive development, because almost everything can bring some benefit to the birthday person.

Naturally, the main developing gift in all ages is a book. The first grader is already able to read, but still more interested in vivid pictures, because the design of the book should be appropriate. At the same time, the boy’s curiosity at this age is very high, he is proud that he can receive information on an equal basis with adults, so you can once again boost his interest in knowledge by buying not so much art books as encyclopedias.

In addition to the mentioned technique, the range of typical boyish interests may include biology (both modern animals and dinosaurs), history (pirates, knights), geography (distant lands and their customs, space), as well as supernatural (vampires, ghosts, zombies) .

Board games, if the rules are already clear to the child, also bring great benefits. In addition to raising the mood, each game stimulates a certain skill, at least by training logic or dexterity, fine motor skills of hands or speed of reaction. Even the same “walkers” with cubes that a child could have mastered two or three years ago, help improve the count in the mind and develop the baby's communication skills, as they require constant interaction with other players.

No matter how primitive the game may seem, it is able to teach the owner to lose at least adequately, but if you need to sit on it for a long time, it develops perseverance and the ability to concentrate. The most complex models are gradually taught to work out a strategy and achieve their goals. In some places, of course, even computer games have a similar educational effect, but there is much less room for communication in them, and board games are much more useful in terms of preserving vision and correct posture.

The designer, according to many modern experts, can theoretically be useful even for mature adults - let alone seven-year-old boys who are also interested in such gifts. Small details allow you to work out fine motor skills of the hands, while engineering thinking also develops, because the child will first have to mentally see how a completely new whole is obtained from the individual parts.

In this sense, those constructors that allow the assembly of completely new crafts that are not based on the attached instructions are most useful. At the same time, the modern assortment of sets allows you to choose a set in full accordance with the interests of the birthday person, let him build whatever he wants, be it a car, a knight’s castle, a modern warship, or the whole city. Again, perseverance (and beyond it - the ability to long-term training) will only benefit from this.

Often, boyish delight can also cause gifts that are directly related to science. The same globe due to its brightness can attract a baby, and if in general he is interested in geography and travel, and among his things there are already favorite encyclopedias of the corresponding subject, a copy of the globe will not stand idle in vain.

A telescope can even be appreciated by a person of any age and gender, but if the boy is fond of space, the opportunity to better study the stars will be an amazing gift for him.

The more popular binoculars are often referred to the same category, and although a child is unlikely to use it for scientific purposes, such a device can stimulate his interest in technology.

In principle, above, we also considered popular gift options that can be given for a birthday to a 7-year-old boy, but there they were oriented towards generally recognized usefulness. In this section, we consider the best interesting solutions, in addition to the above.

Toys cannot be called an unusual gift for a seven-year-old child, but the need for them is still very great.

• Creativity and related gifts - An inexpensive but often sought-after option. Be guided by the interests of the child - it can be just an album for stickers about the same pirates, or maybe a set for burning on a tree. If the boy shows a serious passion for art, it's time to start playing along with him more seriously - at that age, both a guitar and a full-fledged easel will be an appropriate gift.
• Sports Presentation also eternally relevant, because seven-year-old children are usually distinguished by tremendous activity. The most obvious decisions are either personal transport (bike, scooter, roller skates, skate), or a variety of balls (primarily football). In recent years, the installation of the Swedish wall or horizontal bars, sometimes even with swings right in the apartment, has become increasingly popular, which can also please a little boy.
• At 7 years old, the child usually already understands the meaning money, and often parents, not being able to immediately buy the desired toy for the baby and wanting to teach him responsibility, stimulate fundraising for themselves. Having presented money, you will not miss the gift - the birthday man will choose it himself according to his own taste.
• Sometimes material things are not necessary at all - emotions and the real atmosphere of the holiday will be more valuable. Most boys will sincerely rejoice going to the circus, and if suddenly the child for some reason still has not been to the zoo, this option will also be very helpful. Depending on the hobbies of the birthday person, various master classes or planetarium.
• Pets are a popular wish of seven-year-old boys, but such a gift must be agreed with the parents. Such a present perfectly develops a sense of responsibility, but a baby can quickly get bored with a baby, and this is not a toy that you can simply throw.

There are certain types of gifts that adults seem like a good option, but a boy of seven years will not be appreciated under any circumstances. Such decisions should be avoided, since they will not provoke anything but disappointment, which means that the donor will also feel awkward. So, consider what you can’t give.

• Any items are not of age or gender. Choose gifts so that the child can now use them, and even with a margin of at least six months or a year. He will not appreciate too children's products as boring, and too complex games, for example, will not be understood by him, and will also gather dust. Think about what you are buying: if a gift is associated with girls, a young man may be offended to the core.

• Clothing, shoes, bedding. Ten years later, the birthday man will look at such things with a completely different look and will consider them a good present, but now they are not important for him. Parents will buy all this, regardless of whether the baby has a birthday or not, and therefore such a gift is not associated with the holiday. The only option is if the item is printed with your favorite child theme, so the gift looks very cool in the boy’s understanding. However, even then you should not single out such a solution as the main gift - it will work as a good addition to something that really stands in the eyes of the child.

• Hygiene products. In principle, you can say the same about them as about the previous paragraph, with the difference that even pragmatic adults are often not happy with such a gift - it is too banal and cheap. It is rather a sign of attention, and even that is minimal, and the birthday person wants an atmosphere of miracle on his holiday.

• Confectionery. Again, this is a good bonus to other gifts, but nothing more. Even if the baby has a sweet tooth, he will not be particularly surprised at the cake on his own birthday, unless you extremely restrict his menu. You can order the same cake so that it looks like some kind of favorite item for the boy, and the birthday person will like it, but you can imagine his disappointment at the moment when you say that this was the main gift.

• School Supplies. This choice is almost always unsuccessful - many children do not like school, and will not appreciate that the holiday budget is spent on necessary, not special things. Theoretically, however, the same trick can work here as in the case of clothes - sort out the boy’s hobbies and pick up a backpack that he likes and will help to gain authority among classmates.

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