Boys between the ages of 8 and 12 can be difficult to buy for. They seem to have some serious opinions about what’s cool… and what’s not! Luckily for you, as the leading authority on awesome toys, we have put together a selection of the most mind-blowing gifts for tween boys.
Our list is packed with awesome gadgets and gizmos that will make you the coolest family member on the block. From brilliant build kits to handheld video games and a nifty indoor drone, get ready to discover some truly awesome gifts!
Top Presents for Tween Boys:
- Hydraulic Cyborg Hand
- Sonic Booma Boomerang – Returns Every Time
- Perpetual Marble Run
- Fun Tape Measure – Filled with Silly Facts
- Upside Down Challenge
- Interactive Glow T-Shirt
- Force Drone – Control with your Hand!
- Mega Spin Gravity – Yo-Yo the Easy Way!
- Flip Clock
- Fifty Greatest Card Tricks
- Tetris – Handheld Game with Original Sounds
- Zzzopa Spinning Football
1 Hydraulic Cyborg Hand – Build Kit , £36.99 £36.99
Build a cool & functional 40cm cyborg hand
Explore engineering with this innovative 40cm robot hand that uses hydraulic power to simulate the movements of the human hand. The 40-page full-colour manual shows you how to assemble the 203 pieces, allowing you to learn how hydraulic power works, with piston tubes filled with water. Worn over your hand, the lightweight, 4-fingered Cyborg Hand is easily manipulated to grip objects, fitting both right-handed and left-handed users. Have fun challenging yourself to pick up and use a variety of items like bottles, pencils and small items or even shake hands with your friends! An advanced build perfect for any budding engineer – hands-on!
2 Sonic Booma Boomerang – Returns Every Time! , £14.99 £14.99
Awesome boomerang with whistling wings & 20m flight range
With an impressive flight range of 15-20 meters, this cool boomerang mesmerizes passers-by as it whizzes through the air. The high-tech tri-blade design offers a stable and accurate return flight – every single time! It even has whistling wings so you can listen to it as it soars. Using the throwing instructions on the back of the pack to guide you, you’ll be a Booma master in no time! Endless fun, again and again!
3 Perpetual Marble Run , £29.99 £29.99
Gift of the Year 2019
Most tweens love a challenge, and this toy delivers! Follow the instructions to assemble the laser-cut sheets, add the electric motor, and 1-2 hours later, the run will be ready! Best of all, this cool contraption uses perpetual motion. The marbles ride the lift to the top, roll down the spiral, and bounce along the zig-zag track before starting all over again. Mesmerising, satisfying, and remarkably fun!
4 Fun Tape Measure – Filled with Silly Facts , £7.99 £7.99
Shows the size of the largest diamond to how high a pig can jump!
This entertaining double-sided tape measure includes both centimetres and inches, as well as sixty incredible scientific facts. Find out how big your things are compared to everything else – have you ever wondered whether the Mona Lisa would fit on your wall, how big an Oscar is or how high a pig can jump? Did you know that a snail can travel 39 inches in one hour? With a handy auto-locking mechanism, this is a fascinating gift for inquisitive minds – made to measure fun!
5 The Upside Down Challenge – Very Funny! , £24.99 £24.99
Hilarious challenges wearing goggles that turn everything upside down!
You’ll be amazed how difficult even the simplest tasks become when you put on these special goggles, with an adjustable strap. With your vision flipped upside down, compete to do the 100 ‘easy’ drawing and activity challenges, like putting a top on a pen, giving a high five or even just writing your name! And when you try ‘simply’ pouring water from one bottle into another, things are going to get very messy and very funny! Sure to get you and your friends laughing out loud, absolutely brilliant!
6 Interactive Glow T-shirt , £16.95 £16.95
Dress Smart!
Tween boys will have endless fun with this glow-in-the-dark, 100% cotton T-shirt. Just use the UV keyring to draw or write on the canvas panel on the front of the shirt. But be quick — each design only lasts five minutes before fading away. Time for the next one! A brilliant gift for artists, designers, night owls and boys who like to stand out from the crowd!
7 Force Drone – Control with your Hand! , £34.99 £34.99
Performs stunts by just waving your hand!
For indoor use and simple to control, this brilliant 11cm drone features cool infrared technology. The smart sensors detect the surroundings and react to your movements, flying itself. Control with your hands and watch in wonder as it automatically avoids obstacles and performs flips and stunts!
8 Lights From Everywhere , £16.99 £16.99
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Impressive and illuminating
Many tween boys love magic, and this special light will make a great addition to any budding magician’s collection! Create and control the light between your fingertips, making it do baffling tricks, appearing or disappearing it at will. Make a mysterious red light appear and then jump from hand to hand. Make it go in one ear and out the other, or even from your mouth! This amazing illusion is perfect for those who don’t want to learn sleight of hand tricks. Astounding!
9 Flip Clock – Four Cool Functions , £12.99 £12.99
With alarm, timer, calendar & more – smart!
Perfect for lazybones and sleepy-heads, this brilliant digital alarm clock is so simple to use. Just flip it one of four ways to access all of its functions – an alarm clock, a calendar, a thermometer and a timer too. The easy-set alarm has a cool digital beeping sound as well as an adjustable 24/48 hour display. With a fun multicolour backlight, this 7cm alarm clock is an excellent addition to any bedside table. Fun meets functionality – it’s about time!
10 Fifty Greatest Card Tricks , £12.99 £12.99
Light-up yo-yo automatically returns to your hand
This awesome yo-yo uses a special auto-return technology – simply throw it down and when it reaches the end of its string it will bounce right back to your hand! Look really cool with your smooth yo-yo skills, enhanced by the colour changing LED lights as it spins.
11 Tetris – Handheld Game with Original Sounds , £19.99 £19.99
Portable 9cm version of the famous arcade game
Measuring 9cm x 7cm, this pocket-sized version of the classic arcade game has the original sounds and game play, with LCD screen and 3-directional controls. Layer the falling blocks of different shapes to fill the lines and clear them. Tetris has two levels, Marathon and Sprint, complete 15 levels in Marathon or clear 25 lines as quickly as possible in the Sprint challenge – iconic gaming fun!
12 Zzzopa Spinning Football – Bounce it, Spin It, Fidget! , £9.99 £9.99
Bounce it, Spin It, Fidget!
Each Zzzopa contains a high-quality bearing that sits on an axle within the centre of the 5cm ball. This means you can smoothly spin this fun footie-themed version using your fingertips with speed, a spherical fidget spinner that’s perfect for restless hands! The outer poly-active surface allows for incredible crisp bounces, combine with different spins to bamboozle your friends with crazy tricks, spinning jumps and ricochets. The ultimate ball game of spin, bounce and throw – Kick Off with this new fidgety craze!
Wicked Uncle have scoured the world to find a really useful selection of fun, unusual and different presents for children. We test every potential present before it goes on our website – we build the robot kits, paint the fairies, doodle with the pens, play the games and yes, we even wear the t-shirt!
We also have a brilliant gift wrap service, with lots of cool designs available. Simply select this option at checkout and one of our expert Elves will wrap your order with care. It will look as good as if you’d done it yourself – or better!
Looking for more cool gifts for tween boys? Check out the full range on our website!
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