What do 6-8 year old boys like to play with at friends?

[Anonymous]

Cars and setting but obstacles are big in our house. Also laser tag and nerf. We don't allow video games during play dates at all.

[Anonymous]

If you've got an outdoor play structure, they'll still like climbing on it, turning it into a secret fort, and so on. Pillow forts and anything that'll let them build hiding places will be a hit (like Fantasy Fort cardboard panels).

Remote-control cars, Hexbugs and so on should also be a hit.

Miniature sport sets -- a mini-golf type set-up, lawn bowling sets, bean bag tosses, etc. -- may also be attractive depending on the kids.

Bonus points if these can be used to destroy the house.

[Anonymous]

Trampolines, play forts like nugget, balls, an obstacle course.

[Anonymous]

haha my 8 year old would be outside playing football during the whole play date if he could. If not, then it would be football in the basement, video games, LEGOs or a board game--they've been pretty into Monopoly and Uno lately--sometimes if they'll sit still long enough. One of his friends has a trampoline and that's where all the kids want to go so I'm sure that would be a hit if we had one but we don't have the space plus I am scared of them anyway due to injuries.

[Anonymous]

How about some board games. Outfoxed, connect 4, hungry hippos, pretend play with toys. Outdoors: Riding bikes and scooters, chalk pretend play in the bushes are all big hits with my kid.

[Anonymous]

We turned our basement into a ninja course for the hot Virginia summer afternoons.

[Anonymous]

what is projectiles?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My neighbor's boy, who is at the same grade as my son, won't come to our house after school because we don't have video games. He has an older brother and our boy is our first. So we haven't caved to buy him a video game yet. My son's cousin (same age) got one, and my son kept asking us to take him to the cousin's house. But when he plays he's so bad at it his cousin won't let him have the control.

We clearly failed our son. I buy him lots of pokemon cards, at least it's not video games, I tell myself.

Controlling video games is success, not failure. We do not allow video games in our house, and that will not change at any age. We will buy nearly any book and pay for any reasonable age-appropriate magazine.