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Long story short, I wish to help a 4 year old develop fine motor skills for writing/drawing. Child has very short attention span so I need multiple activity types to develop fine motor finger control to alleviate boredom. My son's school holds an annual finger-knitting competition and parents have told me it makes a huge difference to their kid's writing control. (Everyone's finger knitting then gets made into a collective object such as a rug and donated/auctioned.) So that's one idea. What other ideas do you have? Thanks. Edit: forgot to mention that the best fine motor control drawing this child has made was with my heavy metal Jinhaho I brought to a session once - light years ahead of when the child uses pencils or lightweight biros. The child has sensory difficulties, so I suspect the weight made a huge difference to the child's ability to control the nib, and the ready flow of ink meant the child didn't need to apply pressure downward as well as try to control horizontal/vertical strokes at the same time.