37 Extremely Cool Gifts For 6 Year Old Boys That Will Actually Make Them Put Down Their iPad

You’re guaranteed to win uncle or aunt of the year when you show up to your nephew’s birthday with the Fart Launcher 3000! The best part is that the gun also creates foul smells to accompany the farts and make them as real as possible.

Teach your kid just how cool gardening can be with a My First Root Viewer kit. It’ll teach them the fundamentals of gardening and comes with everything that your little farmers will need to grow spring onions, carrots, and turnips.

Level up your paper airplane game with the Klutz Book of Paper Airplanes Craft Kit. The kit includes 40 custom-designed sheets of paper in addition to a detailed 56-page book that demonstrates how to build 10 different types of paper airplanes.

Forget couch cushions and bed sheets and set up the ultimate clubhouse for your kids with this big tree fort building kit. Ideal for indoor use, this whimsical cardboard tree comes with a hollowed out trunk that is large enough for several kids to play in simultaneously.

Create your own game of soccer hockey (aka sockey) in the comfort of your own home with this light-up air indoor soccer puck. Don't let bad weather stop the game, this disc-shaped ball glows, is rubber-rimmed to protect walls and feet, and hovers above a hard surface thanks to 4 AA batteries.

Make molecules, make robots, make your own new species of plants and more with a 3D doodler pen. It's a way to literally bring plans and blueprints to life, and comes with stencils and starter filament. It's kid-safe, too, so don't worry about burned fingers.

Build a kickass fort in mere seconds using this air fort inflatable tent. The tent works with any portable fan to instantly inflate and provide your little ones with a cool, secluded, and breezy hangout that they can set up anywhere.

Ah, the Tamagotchi, the first pet of many a person who didn’t have a cat or dog. This is the original version, so you will have to get up in the middle of the night to feed and clean it to keep it alive, it’s good for practicing having a real kit.

Double down on Taco Tuesday and make it game night, too! Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza is a favorite of kids nationwide, this easy-to-learn game guarantees a night of high-speed game play and lots of giggles.

Embrace the creative spirit of Minecraft's building with this crazy awesome transforming sword/pickaxe. With one quick move, the pickaxe turns into a sword to fight mobs, then back into a pickaxe so the mining can continue.

The kids will feel like they're taking a trip to the future when they create a place to play with his glow-in-the-dark fort-building kit. There are 53 rods and 28 connection spheres in the box, plenty enough for them to become architects of a cool place to play in.

At five years old, there are few things he wants more than to be like mom and dad. With this smart watch for kids, he’ll be able to track his fitness, take selfies, record videos, and leave himself video messages, just like mom and dad do with theirs.

Give an architect in the making tons of ways to express his building ideas with Magnetic Tiles. The cool multicolored set comes with hundreds of tiles that stick to each other in every kind of pattern he can dream up.

He'll never have a nightmare again when he has dinosaurs on his side to protect him. And with this kit, he can make his very own lantern nightlight. The silhouettes of the dinos on the glass will wow him and so will the fact that he made something so cool himself.

Gravity plus plastic tubes equal hours of fun with the Marble Genius Marble Run Super Set. With 75 pieces, the possibilities for combination and experimentation are almost endless. A kid can use his imagination to see what he comes up with, or build one of the creations listed in the set's guide.

Mastering hand-eye coordination is leaps and bounds more fun when you're doing it by playing a game of Whack a Frog. Styled after the arcade classic, Whack a Frog is hours of fun and hours of honing skills that'll help him in sports later on.

Batman and Superman might be best friends now but that doesn't mean they don't make great sparring partners. Kids who love superheroes and things getting smashed will have a ton of fun with this Rock 'Em Sock 'Em robots game with a twist.

He'll be a future soccer star in the making when he can play indoors with his soccer ball. And don't worry, mom, this one hovers around on the floor, it'll never fly into the vases or windows. It lights up, too, so he can play with it at night.