Buy them an expensive professional adult tool of some sort. Like a $1000 microscope, a Moog synthesizer, a FLIR camera, a Stratocaster guitar and Fender amp, a high power computer, an automated milling machine, a good 3D printer, a Black Magic Design Pocket video camera and Macbook, a pottery wheel and kiln, a bulldozer, etc. Something they can grow into and which will be rewarding and improve their life for a very long time. Safety is a concern (especially with bulldozers and kilns!) however providing oversight will make it a shared activity.
I second funtional adult tools. I would say maybe don't get them $1k top of the line stuff. Decent mid-level stuff is great.
Power tools are an excellent idea. They can build things and learn safety (ashame shop class doesn't really exist in many places). I had a "business" selling bird houses that I built using power tools around that age.
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Buy them an expensive professional adult tool of some sort. Like a $1000 microscope, a Moog synthesizer, a FLIR camera, a Stratocaster guitar and Fender amp, a high power computer, an automated milling machine, a good 3D printer, a Black Magic Design Pocket video camera and Macbook, a pottery wheel and kiln, a bulldozer, etc. Something they can grow into and which will be rewarding and improve their life for a very long time. Safety is a concern (especially with bulldozers and kilns!) however providing oversight will make it a shared activity.
I second funtional adult tools. I would say maybe don't get them $1k top of the line stuff. Decent mid-level stuff is great.
Power tools are an excellent idea. They can build things and learn safety (ashame shop class doesn't really exist in many places). I had a "business" selling bird houses that I built using power tools around that age.