4 year old doesn't colour

[MommaSB]

My son is almost 4.5, starts primary in September but I have a niggling concern.
When he gets out his pens crayons etc and papers, he will start off by scribbling random lines however after a short while he turns the pens in to characters and launches in to a complicated role play game 😅 I'm all for a good imagination but when I encourage him to draw he says he's playing. This is a common occurrence and I don't know if it's something I need to be worried about.

Along with this, I have my parents and grandparents and aunties expressing concern for his hyperactive behaviour, inability to sit still ever or be calm or quiet 🙂 I think most of that is down to boredom, he met all his milestones well and is very forward with interaction, wanting to learn as much as possible and a great talker, and obviously if it continues in to school then I'll investigate it properly.

Thanks

Have you had his eyes tested OP? My DS didn't really colour but it turned out he was extremely long sighted.

I've got no advice on the other things sorry apart from maybe reading up on the different forms of ADHD and talking to his teacher when he's been in school fir a little while.

Thanks, he actually has pretty awful eyesight. He is +8.50 in glasses and wears a patch 4 hours of the day. I feel its more he doesn't enjoy colouring and gets lost in his own world bless him.

My 3YO seemed to take a while to become interested too. Only ever seemed to want to scribble for a few seconds then lost interest. Then just before turning 3 she randomly drew her first picture of me and her and daddy. She's interestingly also a bit long sighted. I found what really helped engage her with it was getting her an activity easel. She went from not interested to drawing pictures and writing her own name in the space of a few weeks. It kick started her and now she loves to draw and colour on paper and we've packed the easel away. Our's was only about £20 from Hobbycraft. If he really isn't interested you could also set him up other fine motor activities such as tweezers/threading cherios on string etc which will keep these skills going until he is interested x

PS he sounds lovely and his imagination play brilliant. I suspect from what you're saying that the 'hyperactivity' might well just be boredom. I would just mention it to his school and ask them to monitor it x