At that age, or a bit older, I would have never destroyed an iPad (or equivalent) by violent means, I would have destroyed it by trying to take it apart to see what was inside.
I drove my parents nuts that way!
Ha! Sounds like my own childhood. With just about any mechanical toy I got, I would proceed to take it apart to see how it worked. Sometimes I was even able to put it back together. Sometimes not!
My daddy always told my mother not to worry, sooner or later he will figure out how to put it together.
That's the difference between young boys and girls. Supposedly boys are harder to raise because they're more destructive. When I was a kid, I took apart doorknobs and devices for the heck of it. I had one of those 3-speed bicycles with gears and brakes in the rear wheel hub. Put it back together, took a ride down a hill and discovered I had no brakes (where you pedal backwards to engage the brake). Lucky I didn't die when I crashed! Then there was the time I was a young teen of 14 and took apart my dad's carburetor in his Chevy. It had to be towed to a shop and my dad wouldn't talk to me for weeks. One of my granddaughters seems to take after me. Two and a half years old and she plays with my socket wrenches taking apart bolts and nuts and putting them back together. She'd rather do that than play with dolls. She took apart her Etch-a-Sketch with a screwdriver, and put it back together. Good thing an iPad has no external screws.