20 Best Toys for 10-Year-Old Boys 2024

Kids will enjoy hours of entertainment with the Nintendo Switch. It can be played both at home and on the go, so they can bring them on long road trips and keep boredom in check. Nintendo games are traditionally more kid-friendly than other video games, which makes them more suitable for 10-year olds.

Mario, Pokemon all have games that are playable on the system, all of which are wholesome and wholly appropriate for children. Video games develop hand-eye coordination, hand dexterity, and critical thinking. Some games are even more educational and can develop skills such as vocabulary or even math skills. Video games also have an age rating system on their covers, so you can easily check if a new game is appropriate for your child or not.

Dinosaurs are almost universally loved by little boys, and Chris Pratt’s new Jurassic World movies have rekindled interest in dinosaurs in recent times. Pretend play has proven to have numerous benefits for child development as it promotes creativity and imagination. This mask will prove to be a hit for your little boy, whether it’s around friends, around the house, or as a costume.

The mask comes with moving eyes, adjustable jaws, and roaring sound effects that make the velociraptor come alive. It comes with an adjustable chin strap for a comfortable fit and has visibility through the dinosaur nostrils. It requires batteries, which already come included with the purchase.

If your little boy is interested in outdoor extreme sports, this caster board from Razor is a perfect gift to get him started. The board combines snowboarding and skateboarding in one package, and your little boy will love showing off to his friends. Riding this board is a good exercise for 10-year olds and improves coordination and balance as well.

The Razor RipStick comes with a slip-resistant concave deck for good grip and foot control, a unique rubber padded torsion bar that enables acceleration without the need to kick-off, and is made with high-grade urethane wheels for a bump-free ride. This model is specifically designed for kids 8 years and older and can hold up to 220 pounds. It comes in red, blue, pink, or white colors and comes fully assembled. Don’t forget a kid-sized helmet to go with it for your child’s safety.

This Anki Overdrive starter kit includes everything your child might need to set up a complete racetrack where robotic cars can battle and race while being controlled through a mobile phone. The set comes with track pieces that can be customized according to your child’s design, along with riser pieces to create multilevel, elevated tracks. Two robotic supercars are included (you can purchase additional ones separately).

The cars do more than just race, as they have special abilities that can be activated through the mobile phone app control and the experience plays like playing a real-life video game. Your little boy can even play by himself as there is an option to play against AI when no other players are present.

One of the best ways to develop a child’s creativity is through art, and this set from Art 101 is one of the best tools to help your little boy create his first masterpieces.

The set comes with crayons, markers, watercolor, pencils, and acrylic paints of all colors, as well as brushes of different sizes. All of this comes with an easy-to-carry yet elegant wooden case, which opens up with two drawers to hold all the mediums together. All of the materials are of premium quality and not cheap variants.

The set boasts of 215 pieces, but be aware that the colors are repeated for volume and not variety, so don’t expect 50 colors, but rather, around a dozen colors in each medium. Part of the fun of art is mixing colors to make new ones though, so this should not be a big problem.

Remote Control Cars are classic toys that teach kids dexterity, spatial awareness, and are just plain fun. This set from Air Hogs kicks it up a notch by letting kids control the car with a laser light beam and allows the car to climb up walls and even ceilings thanks to its patented wall climber technology.

The toy is safety tested and made with lightweight, durable materials. The car itself is rechargeable with an included USB cable, but the remote requires 3 AAA batteries to operate, which are not included in the package.

Nerf guns are a staple in 10-year old boys’ toy chests, and this latest model, which is an Amazon exclusive, boasts the fastest firing rate of all their offerings, firing 5 darts per second and carrying 25 darts in its drum barrel.

The darts can be shot at a distance of up to 90 feet. Your little boy is sure to win any Nerf wars he takes part in with the Hyper Fire Blaster. You can also buy bullets separately for more rapid firing. Make sure to buy the official bullets as third party ones can get stuck in the barrel.

Toy guns help develop hand-eye coordination and social skills through playtime with others. The only downside is that it requires 4 D batteries (not included) which are placed in the front of the gun, making it a bit heavy on the front.

Play-Doh has been around for generations. It’s the most trusted brand in kids’ clay (though they use the term “modeling compound”), and they sell 100 million cans each year.

Sculpting with clay is one of the best activities for kids of any age to develop their creativity. They will get busy thinking and deciding on the almost endless possibilities of objects to create. It will also develop their motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and finger dexterity as they manipulate the play-doh with their hands. It’s also irresistible to adults, and parents will almost certainly sit down and join their sons as they play.

This pack comes in ten commonly used colors. Play-Doh is made from non-toxic, non-irritating material, but the manufacturers warn that it contains wheat, so keep that in mind in case your little boy is allergic.

Lego is one of the most well-known names in the toy industry for a reason. They are literally one of the best building blocks for developing a child’s creativity. This 484 piece set has everything a little boy will need to start building Lego objects big and small. There are also ideas included in the set to help them build examples such as a tiger to start with. The set comes with a variety of regular Lego bricks, windows, and tires to create a variety of objects. It also comes with a great carrying container that looks like a giant Lego brick.

If your little boy already has a set of Lego bricks, this is still a great buy as you can never have too many Lego bricks and they will work with each other.

Learning an instrument is a great development activity for 10-year old boys. It helps develop hand coordination, gives them a new skill, and can help them develop social skills since music is an easily shared activity with others.

This particular ukulele is lightweight, easy to tune, and is specifically made to fit a kid’s hands, and is an excellent first instrument to learn. It’s an easy to learn instrument that is pleasant to listen to even while they’re learning, and it’s even a great item to bring to family picnics or beach trips.

One of the best STEM toys on the market is this invention kit called Makey Makey. It contains a set of wires, clamps, sensors, and circuits that can make anything your little boy thinks of a possibility. Boys can use anything from clay, bananas, pencils, water, or even the stairs in the house as a keyboard, as a game controller, or as musical instruments as they control anything from a video game, virtual instruments, or lights.

The toy was designed at MIT and is an excellent development tool for little boys to learn inventive design, programming logic, and basic circuitry. Your little inventor can think up endless possibilities with this kit, only limited by the objects around him. The makers also have a website with thousands of ready-made experiment ideas ready to be followed or modified as the child sees fit.

Transformers have been some of kids’ favorite action figures for several decades, and the Michael Bay movies have brought them back to the forefront. This impressive 11-inch replica of Optimus Prime will be a playtime favorite. Its coolness factor is multiplied by his familiarity due to his presence in movies and TV, as well as the undeniable enjoyment of transforming a toy truck into a warrior robot.

The toy is easy to transform, with only 6 steps to fully transform from toy truck mode to robot mode and vice versa, which will make it suitable for 10-year olds. The toy truck mode is a fully functioning toy truck and will roll out with its wheels.

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Most 10-year old boys will start to become interested in sports at this age, and while sports are always better when played with others, sometimes you just have to stay indoors. This basketball hoop, made by well-known basketball brand Spalding, fits perfectly in a little boy’s bedroom and will enable your little one to live his hoop dreams in the comfort of his own bedroom.

The hoop is easily mountable on doors for easy installation. The board size is 18 by 10.5 inches while the steel rim is 9 inches in diameter. It also includes a 5-inch rubber ball.

Shooting hoops develops hand-eye coordination and regularly practicing his shooting stroke will help a little boy impress his friends when they play out on the real courts.

Jenga has been enjoyed for years on tabletops, but this set takes it to the next level with giant blocks that any 10-year old boy will be excited to play with the whole family. Watch the tower and the excitement build as the blocks stack from a starting height of 26 inches to over 5 feet while in play.

The set contains 56 sustainable sourced New Zealand Pine wood blocks that measure 7.5 inches long. It also comes with a sturdy nylon carrying case that makes it easily transportable. The game promotes critical thinking, fine motor skills, and hand-eye coordination at the same time.

The set is competitively priced, as the official Jenga-branded giant set costs almost twice as much as this one. The quality is virtually identical, so we recommend getting this one instead of the Jenga-branded one. It also comes with a satisfaction guarantee from the US-based manufacturer, and they will replace or refund the set if you encounter any problems.

Train future magicians with this set of fifty magic tricks involving cards, coins, illusions, and more. The set comes with everything he will need to put on a complete show to amaze both family and friends. The tricks are specifically designed and selected to be easy to learn for children with no prior magic experience. Though the box boasts of fifty tricks, kids can go to the manufacturer’s website to find even more tricks that they can do.

Tricks include classic magic tricks and props such as the floating match, the traveling aces, the impossible linking rings, x-ray vision, and a whole lot of card tricks. Performing his own magic show develops a child’s dexterity, showmanship, confidence, and social skills. Get ready to sit through A LOT of magic shows if you buy this, though.

This deceptively simple game, which is hugely popular and has sold over 10 million units, involves solving a slide puzzle to slide a car piece out of a “traffic jam”. The colorful tiles shaped like vehicles hide the fact that the logic required to solve these puzzles will train anybody’s logical reasoning, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills by requiring players to plan carefully and several steps at a time.

The set includes 40 puzzles, which range in difficulty from easy to extremely difficult, which makes it usable for a wide variety of skill levels.

Drones have become ubiquitous in the past years and have been used in everything from videography to delivery to even warfare: now it’s a kid-friendly toy. The Scoot drone is a hand-controlled indoor hover drone that looks and plays like it’s from a sci-fi movie. Kids use their hands to guide the direction of the drone as it flies and hovers through the air, helping develop hand-eye coordination.

The drone is small enough to play with indoors, has infrared sensors to avoid objects, and is CPSIA and FCC compliant, so the safety and quality are assured. It also comes with a USB charging cable so you don’t have to purchase any batteries.

Laser tag is a surefire hit for young boys and is a perfect group activity to play with their siblings, friends, or even their parents. This set from ArmoGear comes packed with everything you need to transform your backyard or the park into your very own laser tag arena.

It comes with 4 sets of guns and vests, and you can simply buy another set for bigger groups. The guns have different modes that affect its fire rate, magazine size, and damage. There’s a pistol, shotgun, machine gun, and rocket launcher mode. The guns come equipped with a flashlight to enable use in dark places or at night. They also have voice instructions to guide players, with instructions when hit, when to reload, among others.

The toys use certified child safe infrared signal emission for your child’s safety, and come with a full money-back guarantee if you’re not satisfied with the product.

Starting your little boy with photography gives him a chance to exercise his creativity and allows him to learn a new skill that will prove to be useful in the future. Kodak makes taking pictures fun by allowing you to create prints instantaneously for that retro feel of actually holding your photos.

The camera uses Kodak’s Zink Photo paper which prints water-resistant, smudge and tear-free photos. The product comes with 10 sheets for printing, and you’ll need to buy more separately if you want to print more photos. You can also insert a microSD card if you want to take photos the “normal” way and save them digitally.

The camera comes in a variety of colors so you can choose whichever one is your little boy’s favorite. It comes with a rechargeable battery and has slots for attaching a neck strap for easier carrying.

This STEM 3D single-player puzzle game will help exercise a boy’s mental muscles by tasking him with solving puzzles that will require logical reasoning and critical thinking skills. It builds planning and building skills as well, which are helpful tools for budding engineers. The problems are solvable by trial and error as well, which will help develop cause and effect thinking.

The set comes with 60 challenges with varying difficulty so a child can take on challenges that are suitable for him. It’s even fun for adults: so as a bonus, you might enjoy some of the more difficult challenges yourself when your child isn’t using the toy. Just make sure to put all the pieces back properly after playing, as they are small and may be lost easily.