Developing the Potential of Early Childhood through the Play Dough

Erna Budiarti

2017

Abstract

Creativity of early childhood has a very important role in children lives in the future. Through creativity, children can create in accordance with talent or abilities, child can solve a problem and can improve the quality of her life in the future. Therefore, the required stimulation that can develop the creativity of children, one of them by the using of play dough. In fact, early childhood creativity has not been well developed, early childhood has not been smooth in expressing an idea or ideas. The aim in this study is to describe the level of early childhood creativity by applying media, the difference in the level of creativity play dough in early childhood before and after using media of play dough. This research took place in 2016. As for the method of the qualitative approach is used with a method where the subject of the research is early childhood Group B with a total of 12 children in kindergarten Nurul Aulia. The results showed that the level of treatment given before the child’s creativity is at a low category. Whereas after using play dough, media creativity level has increased. The conclusion can be drawn that a playdough media gives significant effects. It can be recommended for teachers in using the playdough can be used as alternative media to develop creativity in children effectively. For school, the aim is to facilitate by providing other learning media can improve early childhood creativity.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Budiarti E. (2017). Developing the Potential of Early Childhood through the Play Dough.In 1st International Conference on Educational Sciences - Volume 2: ICES, ISBN 978-989-758-314-8, pages 235-239. DOI: 10.5220/0007048307840788

in Bibtex Style

@conference{ices17,
author={Erna Budiarti},
title={Developing the Potential of Early Childhood through the Play Dough},
booktitle={1st International Conference on Educational Sciences - Volume 2: ICES,},
year={2017},
pages={235-239},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0007048307840788},
isbn={978-989-758-314-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - 1st International Conference on Educational Sciences - Volume 2: ICES,
TI - Developing the Potential of Early Childhood through the Play Dough
SN - 978-989-758-314-8
AU - Budiarti E.
PY - 2017
SP - 235
EP - 239
DO - 10.5220/0007048307840788