33 Gifts and Toys for 10-Year-Old Boys

Should the boy you have in mind turn spare parts into machines, this K'NEX set gives him a carnival attraction.

The SC-100 makes sense for a boy who keeps asking what goes on inside the TV remote and the toaster.

A pindaloo is a juggling-style skill game with two balls to keep in play, and every catch adds to a count he can try to beat.

Mario runs, jumps and spins across tiny planets in space in both of these games, Super Mario Galaxy and its sequel, bundled together for the Switch.

Nobody pushes off the ground on a Razor RipStik: the board moves on a side-to-side wiggle of his hips, so the first rides are mostly wobble.

Astronaut books give him the moon in pictures; this NASA telescope gives him the real one.

With Makey Makey clipped to foil, fruit or his own cardboard builds, the computer reads each one as a key he can press.

Ravensburger's GraviTrax hands magnetic marble runs to the tinkerer forever curious about why things roll and fall.

If the boy on your list wonders how robots grab things, the Smartivity robotic hand lets him see the mechanics up close.

The card version of CATAN gives a strategy-loving boy a game he can deal out and lead himself.

Twists of the GAN cube carry a jumbled mess back to order while a stopwatch ticks beside a boy chasing his record.

Clue's whodunit becomes an escape room game in Hasbro Gaming's Clue Escape, made for a mystery-loving puzzle fan.

This Monopoly edition hands a boy who knows the classic game a new way to play it.

Foot power is all this Razor A5 LUX runs on, so there is never a battery to charge before he rides to a friend's street or the corner store.

These Amazon Basics pop-up goals give a soccer-mad boy something real to shoot at on the lawn.

Four blasters and four vests come in this laser tag set, enough for two teams of two out in the yard.

During a sleepover, the household ping pong champ can switch off the lamps and keep a match going with these glowing balls.

Paddles and a ball turn a hot afternoon into a rally between an active boy and whichever friend comes over.

Coghlan's compass lets a young scout match the needle against a trail map and pick which fork leads back to camp.

PC gaming is where this SteelSeries Apex 3 fits, so pick it for a computer player, not a console-only one.

One Retevis walkie-talkie stays at base, the other goes out with the scout, and every sighting gets radioed back.

On a family camping trip, a boy who climbs every lookout to see farther can steer this drone above the trees.

Hatchet by Gary Paulsen gives an outdoorsy reader a novel he can finish in a few sittings.

The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan gives an upper-elementary reader a novel to read without help.

Stormbreaker by Anthony Horowitz gives a reader hooked on spy stories a novel to carry everywhere.

The Guinness World Records book hands a fact collector page after page of feats to read out loud.

Car posters on the wall and supercar spotting on the street make this construction kit an easy match.

This floor gaming chair suits a console player who ends up cross-legged on the carpet between levels.