I had one of those Creepy Crawler ThingMakers when I was 6 years old. I don’t remember playing with the bugs, I was just fascinated by the process of them hardening to rubber when they cooked.
I can’t imagine any modern parent getting something like that for a kid that age.
I also had a small wood saw (it fit my 6 year old hand), which I would use to cut slots into the edges of wooden furniture. We had a table in the den with slots all along its front.
When I was 8, I got a woodburning set. By then, I had tired of altering the furniture... although I *did* use my pocketknife (which I got when I was 11) to carve faces into the headboard on my bed.
Kids these days just don’t get fun toys.