The Effect of Playdough Play on Early Childhood Fine Motor Improvement in Yogyakarta National Kindergarten

Abstract

This study aims to determine the effect of playing playdough on fine motor improvement in early childhood. This type of research is an experiment with desaian one group pre test and post test. The population in this study was 38 children from Yogyakarta National Kindergarten. The sample in this study was 10 people taken using purposive sampling techniques. The instruments used are to measure fine motor using (1) pattern thickening test, (2) coloring test, (3) memola test (4) cutting test, (5) bead meronce test with string thread. The data analysis technique used is the paired sample t-test. The results showed that there was a significant influence of playing playdough on the improvement of early childhood fine motor from the initial test and the final test there was an increase with a difference of 3.09 kg m / sec, namely from an average score of 9.3 in the pre-test to 15.1 in the post test, and strengthened by the results of the t test using a paired sample t-test with a t value of -7.127 and a p significance value of 0.000 < 0.05. The conclusion in this study is that there is a significant influence of playing playdough on the improvement of fine motor skills in early childhood, Yogyakarta National Kindergarten.