7Th Birthday Present Ideas

I see kids of all ages ask for donations for animal shelters or rescues in lieu of gifts and the birthday boy/girl can deliver it after. 🐶🐶

He doesn't want to play with anything?! Crazy! My daughter is almost 8 and she absolutely has loved playing with her razor scooter and rollerblades. If he doesn't have a razor scooter yet this is a great gift. My kids love it when I take them to the skate park...they both like using razor scooters there. She also LOVES making slime. She is obsessed. She also loves her fort and trampoline...if you have a yard, a trampoline is super fun. Both my kids use it all the time. She wishes we had a basketball hoop. If I were to get one it would be one that you can lower for younger kids. For games - her favorite games are both games that are her older brothers (age 13). She LOVES Monopoly and Settlers of Catan. She is really excited when we play either of these. She also loves building with Magnatiles. We have an off brand that was cheaper...it's a large set her grandma gave her. Her 7 and 8 year old friends who come over also love to build with them. I can come up with other ideas if you want any more...just pm me! :)

At 7, Scrabble and Dominoes are great gifts.
The scrabble letter tiles especially help with spelling even if he's not using them to play the game.

Most of us have more stuff than we need, which is why I love giving things like tickets, memberships, special trips, etc.
Take him to a concert or show. Get him (well, get the family) a museum or zoo membership, those place have fun family programs and activities year round. Take him some weekend for an overnight to an amusement park or camping or skiing or hiking (whatever he's into.)
Or just go out to dinner and bowling or skating or whatever as a family. If he really doesn't want presents then be grateful and don't stress over it.
Also DONATE those unopened gifts and clear up some space in your home!!!

Board game he can play with mommy and/or daddy
Cash - take him to the bank and let him open his own savings account and then routinely give cash for xmas and b-days and let him watch his balance grow!

Sounds like the toy choices weren't the best? Some kids are just tough to figure out. Would arts & crafts supplies or a bug catching set (magnifying glass, container, book of common insects) be more appealing? What about things like picture frames to decorate that can then become holiday or birthday gifts for Grandpa or Aunt Susie?

I agree with museum trips, if you can manage that with your little one. We kept a membership to a local science/environmental museum, which was much cheaper than multiple trips. And if our son got fussy or bored, we didn't feel we had to stay to justify the admission charge. Most places let you go once and then convert your admission fee to a membership if you join on the way out, so it's a good way to try a museum and see if it's a good fit. Most have a gift shop with unique toys too. We found that our membership was good at other area museums as well, so check out reciprocity arrangements.

Concerts, plays, puppet shows, and other experiences are fun too. There are a lot of fall festivals with games. There are food truck extravaganzas (and sometimes kids try new foods there even if they fight you at the dinner table). How about a movie date with lunch out?

I think it's kind of neat that he isn't a "gimme gimme" kind of kid. Does he like to help others? How about a shopping trip to the supermarket or the children's resale shop, and then he donates that to a local organization? Or pet supplies for the local shelter? It's best if he can actually visit the food pantry or the shelter rather than just put things in a collection bin at the grocery store - it's more meaningful. Our local humane society is always posting pictures of kids who didn't want bday gifts and who asked people to bring dog food or cat toys instead. Get a list of the most needed things first. And if you're going to the food pantry, find out the hours - some don't like you to come when clients are there, partly because it's too busy and partly because they like to protect confidentiality. If you can go the day before it opens, you can take fresh things like oranges and apples that they often don't receive in regular food drives run by organizations (Scouts, letter carriers) that collection non-perishables only.

Good luck!

Does he like to read? We got my 7 year old a kindle reader for his birthday. We got an older version very inexpensively on the FB Marketplace so it's not a big deal if it gets broken (has a case and he tries to be careful, but let's be realistic, he's 7).

He loves to read, and it's easy to always keep library books from his favorite authors on it because I can upload them directly from the library website.

Plus, it solves 2 problems for me. One is that it's hard to find time to get to the library on a regular basis to pick out books - so we were always running out of things to read and had fines for overdue books. And if there is a favorite that he wants to keep and re-read, I can buy the kindle version on Amazon and it doesn't take up the non-existent bookcase space in my house (we have multiple bookcases that are all overflowing).

To be clear, it's JUST a kindle reader. This is totally different from the Kindle Fire. The reader doesn't have a web browser or games of any kind. It is only for reading books.

I also have a 7 year old nephew. I have gifted him OCEAN RAIDERS, this is an awesome addition adventure board game. Wonderful way to teach your son addition with sea animals. Not only is it educative, but it also extremely fun to play. My nephew never gets bored. You can gift this - https://logicroots.com/math-games/ocean-raiders/

I usually get art supplies and crafts for kids birthdays. What if you took him to the zoo or somewhere else fun? Do an experience with him.

My son has tons of toys. For Christmas this year i want to take my son to a hotel somewhere in Florida for a night or 2. He'll get toys from relatives so we will go somewhere fun.

we give clothing and books when he doesn't specify a toy and we cant think of anything else to get our son. he usually asks for video games but we don't want him playing those all hours of the day so we try not to get them for him. for his 7th birthday we got him a bike, books and clothing.

If there is nothing specific he wants is there a zoo, amusement park or museum that you can get passes to that he really likes.

Give him an experience. Year membership to a children's museum, zoo, etc. Tickets to an event. We have done tickets to Wild Kratts Live and Lion King the Musical. Go on a weekend getaway and let him decide what all you will do.

My son is a lot like that. He does love board/card games. One of the things he loves to get is gift cards. Last Christmas we gave him several small denomination gift cards to Barnes & Noble, Target, his favorite local ice cream shop, the locally owned toy store, etc. He loves picking out his own things and often surprises me with what he chooses.

Cash. I'm serious. Especially in light of unopened gifts. Cash will be the most useful and valued thing in this scenario. Look on Pinterest for making it an interesting/fancy presentation.

I would do experience gifts then ... like take him to see or do something he enjoys. Would that work? Like a special show, or whatever else sparks his interest.

My brother and his wife don't do material things (or TV, etc.) so they would give their kids an annual pass to something (once it was the zoo, once it was to a science museum type place) and they said Here you go, we will take you whenever you like basically. That worked for them. As they got older, it turned into things like ski passes and gear.

Personally - I like the idea of games (we get a new game for our kids every Christmas), new equipment (soccer balls, etc.), and even a new movie/book - that we watch/read with them.

One of my kids was into Lego like crazy. That was an easy gift for many years. Does your son do anything like that? We would just get one of those huge kits and we'd work on it with them.

My 7 year old loves remote control cars, drone type things, board games, outdoor stuff like skateboards, scooters, bikes.

It doesn't sound like he plays with toys much so get him something that is interactive. Board games are good because the whole family can play and he's learning sportsmanship, taking turns, patience, etc.

My kids love Trouble, Disney Eye Found It (we all kinda love this one), Uno, Sorry/Sorry Sliders, and Monopoly Junior (my kids are definitely ready for regular Monopoly but I love the Jr because it's so much easier! hah).

Also we love books. Fun books are Dr. Proctor's Fart Powder, Captain Underpants, DK books, my son loves the Guiness Book of World Record books too.

Time, do things together, go to the zoo, a museum, to a water park hotel for a long weekend, hikes, etc...

I'm just chiming in about "unopened presents". At his age he is definitely at a stage where he should be learning about showing gratitude, maybe even writing Thank You notes. I'm not sure what the "back story" is about those unopened presents, but I certainly hope they are not from grandma or anyone who might reasonably be expecting to hear that he appreciated the gift! As a general matter, I really cannot imagine a good reason for allowing a child to refuse to open a present. Seems like a fairly extreme display of lack of gratitude.