What to give a child for 10 years?

A decade is the first truly great anniversary in a person’s life. At ten years old, we are still dealing with a child who has grown up enough to understand the full significance of the event. In addition, it is already a bright personality with its own preferences and dreams, and its own decade for such a man often becomes a way to achieve at least some material points from the list of goals.

In any case, no matter how the ten-year-old man treats the gifts, the main goal must be achieved - to make the hero of the occasion remember him for life. This can and should be achieved with the help of presents, and it is possible to accomplish the task in this way even if the child has not asked for anything material. To show how to achieve this, consider what sensible and interesting things can be presented for the first anniversary in life.

Children, especially boys, at that age are already interested in technology. True, not any, but mainly the one that belongs to the gadgets, because these reasonable devices usually combine the capabilities of communications, multimedia player, portal for Internet access and a gaming platform. For example, the simplest gadget - the player - was a dream of any teenager some decade ago, but today he is already slightly receding into the background, because he is exclusively a player, and it is good if he supports video.

But the recent fashionable invention called smart watches is not just a watch, although they also show time. This small device, worn on the hand, is synchronized with the smartphone, and often has its own SIM card, allowing you to make calls and go online.

However, the most popular gift option among the gadgets was and remains the phone. Of course, a modern ten-year-old schoolboy is hardly likely to be delighted if you present him with an ordinary push-button "dialer", and even on such a round date. It is quite another thing if this is a new model of smartphone with a touch screen, the main task of which is not even to call, but to support powerful new games and have a stable high-speed access to the worldwide network.

An even higher status gift will be a tablet, giving all the same features, but on the screen of a larger diagonal. Not only for fun, but also for use in the field of study, a computer or laptop is useful, however, the latter will have to perform the role of a stationary computer - it is hardly worthwhile to let the child go alone with such an expensive and noticeable technique.

It is never too late to develop, and although 10-year-old children are often certain that they are practically adults, they also have room to grow. The most common educational gift for the past several thousand years is the ordinary book. Naturally, not any - choose something that really would give some new information, and at the same time it was also interesting for the child. Most often they choose bright illustrated encyclopedias on topics that are popular among children - usually these are animal world, geography and travel, science and technology, certain historical topics such as wars, pirates, and so on.

However, in fact, ordinary fiction can also be of benefit - not for nothing that it is studied in schools, and something even relates to the eternal classics. In particular, an interesting detective can teach to think outside the box, and the masterpieces of world classics will contribute to the development of the ability to behave in society, to be human and just to behave correctly in various life situations.

Practical use is also capable of games like quizzes of both general education and those devoted to a specific topic - even if you do not know the correct answer, you will become aware of it during the game, and the horizons will expand. Various games, the meaning of which is to explain a hidden word, without naming it, develop associative thinking and fantasy, and even artistry, and also contribute to improving the atmosphere in a team. Finally, economic strategies teach you how to do business, your own money and financial planning.

Above, we considered mostly universal gifts that would suit everyone or almost everyone, however, if you know about the individual preferences of the hero of the occasion, then the focus is best on them. How many children on the planet, so many varieties of their hobbies, but here are just a few examples that most children may not cause delight, but they will make a true little connoisseur happy:

• Sporting goods. Perhaps, a bicycle is a product from the “for all” category, but there are less common gifts like badminton, volleyball or skates. Some children will play a couple of times, and they will abandon it, but for some, this gift can turn the whole life around.

• Musical instruments. Usually, children show interest in such things before, or parents also take the initiative and send a child to music school without his desire. However, if the birthday boy suddenly became interested, an inexpensive guitar or synthesizer would be very appropriate..

• For girls - typically girlish things: diary, accessories, handbag, cosmetics or perfumes. Since childhood, girls dream of becoming queens, and in ten years in front of us is almost an adult girl, so she will be sincerely glad for an “adult” gift.

• For boys - gifts with a male character. If the sport is interesting to the kid, but he only watches it on TV, maybe it's time to get to the game live? The boy probably loves to do something with his own hands, so that the set of the young master will fit.

Children tend to make friends, not limited to people - animals are also very close to them, at least in words. It should be noted that a pet is not just a friend, such a gift also teaches responsibility, because you need to keep an eye on it, feed and water it regularly, and even walk it. However, when buying a lively gift, be prepared for the fact that the main care for it will fall on the shoulders of the parents, not the main owner.

The main friend of a person to a child or teenager will become an even more loyal friend than an adult. Most of the boys would be frankly happy after receiving such a gift, and the girls would probably not have refused.The boys might want to fight for themselves, but they should be avoided - they are too capricious and are unlikely to appreciate trying to play with them.

If you grew up in the era of the developed Internet, then you probably know that the dream of every girl is a beautiful kitten. Boys are presented with cats much less often, but the girl will surely gasp when she sees this little miracle in your arms and realizes that it now belongs to her. If you suspect that the child does not need a friend as much as entertainment, and he still will not pay much attention to the little animals, give preference to one of those options that do not require special care. These include parrots, fish or small hand-held rodents.

Sometimes it happens that the birthday boy already has everything that a baby shower can wish for. However, this certainly applies only to standard gifts that come to mind, so you should pay attention to those things that are relatively rare, but are very popular among children and teenagers. Here are some examples worth seeing:

• Gum for hands. This is a modern, highly advanced clay, which does not get dirty and is able to take any form, varying from thick liquid to strength at the level of glass. This is an excellent warm-up for hands, and at the same time a chic material for jokes - for example, for the manufacture of "thawing" objects.

• Homemade chocolate fountain. This is the rare case when a beautifully designed kitchenware can be a good gift for children. Put the chocolate in it, and he drowns it and produces in the form of a small fountain. Besides the fact that it is simply beautiful, you can also experiment, dipping various delicacies into it and creating your own dessert recipes.
• Entertaining experiences. Seen how the school is trying to interest children in physics or chemistry? To do this, they show simple experiments that allow you to visually see certain natural processes that, with their simplicity and everyday life, you will not see in the middle of the street. 99% of children will never be able to find what they see practical application, but it looks beautiful! Special kits allow babies to conduct simple but visually spectacular experiences on their own, and most importantly, all this is completely safe and accessible to understand ten years of age.

It is not easy to find such a child who in his ten years would not like sweets. As for his own birthday, and even an anniversary, then this is exactly the time and place where there should be a lot of sweets. However, our task is not just to fill up the child with ordinary store chocolates, but to make sure that he remembers this day forever, so banality is better to leave for later, after all, sweets can be a no less bright gift than all of the above.

The easiest way out is to create an unusual birthday cake. Nowadays, there is not a birthday without a cake, and especially children's jubilee, so why not make a cake a highlight of the program? Now many confectioneries offer the service of baking a cake in the form of an object - try to use this opportunity to give the hero of the occasion what he loves, only in sweet design. Regardless of gender, children will appreciate a cake baked as their favorite character from a movie or cartoon. For boys who adore sports, a great gift will be a cake in the form of a soccer ball or the whole field, as well as in the form of a racing car. The girls will appreciate some sweet idea in the form of a palace worthy of a real princess.

The video below will give you lots of ideas on what to give a girl for 10 years.