My fave colours for pages about my son would be white, black, grey, dark blue, lime green - like this:
I would think any of these would be good for a generic boy: paint, doodles, stacked paper stars, puffy sticker stars, scatters, leaves and grass, buttons, metal pieces, word art, word strips, stamps, pennants, string, banners/flags, blank labels, arrows, washi tape, paper trim, staples, fasteners... lots of stuff! I'm flexible when it comes to boy kits.