Anything that can develop hand-eye coordination skills and muscle memory should work. The point of being hands-on is in that kind of sensory experience where yo

Anything that can develop hand-eye coordination skills and muscle memory should work. The point of being hands-on is in that kind of sensory experience where you see and feel the object, make things tighter or looser, observe the layouts etc. This is the kind of thing you can make projects with just with cardboard and various fastening elements, in fact - tape and rubber bands and glue. It's not necessarily about "real electronics" at this stage, it's just that electronic objects have a combination of intricate design and visible access. Art often crosses over with this stuff in that you can also "take apart" things by transferring their visual appearance into hand motions through blind contour drawing. Graph paper and a color multipen can be a huge hit for this kind of kid, if they're shown how to use it to this end.