Handwriting books for holiday practice

[CoralLemur]

My DS will be in year 4 in September and I am looking for an handwriting books / printables recommendtions that we can do over the holiday.
Over year 3 he managed to improve from below expectations to working at in writing. I want something to practice so he can maintain the progress he has made. He currently doesn't join his letters in his general writing but he has been practicing at school.

Often children who struggle with fine manipulative skills and writing struggle with cursive script. There’s more of a focus on this in schools now.

I’d Google fun fine manipulative activities cutting, sewing, weaving, playdough pegs and boards etc. Craft activities with various implements, chalks and water and a brush outdoors etc. Make it fun.

He's made good progress I’d be careful using more formal worksheets. You don’t want to put him off.
Try Writing Wizard on a tablet with a stylus. Fun and interactive. You can add your own word lists or names. Helps with spelling too.

Thanks for the suggestions unfortunately DS is not interested in crafting, although he does do a lot of building with lego. He likes activity / puzzle books and will quite happily sit down to complete a maths challenge.
I will have a look at writing wizard and getting a stylus my concern is the letters might be big on a tablet. One of the thing he has worked on is getting his letters proportional to the lined paper and each other.

I used to give ds a book and let him choose a small page to copy out. I got the handwriting books with a faint line half way between two lines. Also if write something out and get him to copy my writing on line underneath. I only gave me 10 mins first thing most mornings. Over one summer when he was 7 he learned to join his writing including which letters joined and which ones didn't. Once he's caught up he didn't fall behind again. My DS was left handed and used to smudge his writing using an ink pen.

They have lots of handwriting books in Home Bargains / B&M / The Range type shops.
We used these for my son who struggled. Not entirely sure it helped though and I feel that he eventually just got better. The most important think is that he is reading and writing - never mind it being joined up!

I would just encourage him to write.

Could you encourage him to write a diary over the summer? Or to write letters to his grandparents?

We get him to write postcards while we are on holiday but unfortunately part of his issue around writing is taking a long time to work out what to write. He can spend 30 minutes and only write one sentence. This then gets him frustrated.
I am hoping that by improving his handwriting, his speed of writing will improve then we can work on the speed of generating ideas.
Unfortunately it was not helped that at his old school he could just dictate his answers to a TA in some lessons if he was taking too long.

Please don’t make your 8 year old do lines on holiday.