Bunayya : Jurnal Pendidikan Anak Volume 10 Issue 1 . Pages 48-61 Bunayya : Jurnal Pendidikan Anak Volume 10 Issue 1 . Pages 48-61 ISSN: 2460-4437. E-ISSN 2549-3329 (Onlin. DOI: http://dx. org/10. 22373/bunayya. THE EFFECT OF FINGER PAINTING ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILDRENAoS CREATIVITY Zikra Hayati 1. Heliati Fajriah2. Nida Jarmita3. Wati Oviana4. Riska Ovalia5 1 Prodi PGMI FTK UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh 2 Prodi Pendidikan Islam Anak Usia Dini FTK UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh 3 Prodi PGMI FTK UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh 4 Prodi PGMI FTK UIN Ar-Raniry Banda Aceh 4 Prodi Pendidikan Islam Anak Usia Dini FTK UIN Ar-Raniry Banda A Email 1zikra. hayati@ar-raniry. id ,2 heliati. fajriah@ar-raniry. id , 3nida. jarmita@ar-raniry. oviana@ar-raniry. id 4riskaovaliamwd2@gmail. Abstrak Berdasarkan hasil observasi yang dilakukan di PAUD Ceria pada bulan Agustus 2023, ditemukan bahwa terdapat anak-anak dengan usia 5-6 tahun memiliki permasalahan pada perkembangan kreativitas yang diidentifikasi pada saat anak belum mampu menyelesaikan tugas menggambar dengan tema bebas yang diberikan, ketika kegiatan menggambar sedang berlangsung anak tidak terlihat bersemangat, serta anak akan meniru contoh gambar guru yang ditampilkan, anak belum mampu membuat karya berbeda dari teman. Tujuan dalam penelitian ini adalah untuk mengetahui adakah pengaruh finger painting dalam mengembangkan kreativitas anak usia 5-6 tahun di PAUD Ceria Sabena Kids II Aceh Besar. Penelitian menggunakan jenis kuantitatif dengan metode eksperimen, design penelitian AuPretest dan Post-test one group designsAy. Populasi dalam penelitian ini 46 anak dan sampel 26 anak dengan menggunakan teknik purposive sampling. Hasil penelitian ini memperoleh nilai pretest 57,38 dan posttest 74,42, perolehan nilai signifikansi pada uji normalitas pada pretest adalah 0,066 > 0,0, pada posttest 0,002 > 0,05 dapat dinyatakan bahwa kedua data tersebut berdistribusi normal. Perolehan nilai thitung > ttabel yaitu 8,8 > 1,708, dengan demikian terjadi penolakan Ho dan penerimaan Ha yang artinya adanya pengaruh finger painting terhadap pengembangan kreativitas anak usia 5-6 tahun di PAUD Ceria. Kata Kunci: Finger Painting. Kreativitas. Anak Abstract Based on the results of observations carried out at PAUD Ceria in August 2023, it was found that there were children aged 5-6 years who had problems with the development of creativity which were identified when the children were not able to complete the drawing task with the free theme given, when the drawing activity was in progress. progressing, the child does not look enthusiastic, and the child will imitate the example of the teacher's drawing shown, the child is not yet able to create different work from his friends. This research aims to find out whether there is an influence of finger painting in developing the creativity of children aged 5-6 years at PAUD Ceria Sabena Kids II Aceh Besar. The DOI: http://dx. org/10. 22373/bunayya. Page | 48 Bunayya : Jurnal Pendidikan Anak Volume 10 Issue 1 . Pages 48-61 research uses a quantitative type with experimental methods, research design "Pre-test and Post-test one group designs". The population in this study was 46 children and the sample was 26 children using purposive sampling technique. The results of this research obtained a pretest score of 57. 38 and a posttest of 74. 42, the significance value obtained in the normality test in the pretest was 0. 066 > 0. 0, in the 002 > 0. 05 it can be stated that the two data are normally distributed. The obtained value of tcount > ttable is 8. 8 > 1. 708, thus there is a rejection of Ho and acceptance of Ha, which means that there is an influence of finger painting on the development of creativity in children aged 5-6 years at PAUD Ceria. Keywords: Finger Painting. Creativty. ChildrenAos Corresponding author : Email Address: zikra. hayati@ar-raniry. Received 22 March 2024. Accepted 06 June 2024. Published 03 July 2024 INTRODUCTION Creativity Based on the opinion above, creativity is all individual skills to produce and create something new in conceptualizing, forming, constructing, the form of ideas and the results are different from before. Creativity is an future or the ability to predict new advantage that children carry from trends, the ability to analyze the basic birth and depends on the stimulus needs of society, the ability to preserve provided so that it develops and nature, and so on. So, creativity is very complex and has many sides. Creativity in early childhood can be person's creativity is the talent to create something imaginative. According to Chaplin in Alex, creativity is the ability . roblem-solvin. to produce new forms of art or to solve creativity enjoy different things to do problems with new methods. including exploring, experimenting. Noor Laila Ramadhani. Melukis Di Atas Kain Untuk Meningkatkan Kreativitas Siswa Bidang Tata Busana, 2019. 2 Alex Sobur. AoThe Influence of Curiosity and Self-Confidence of StudentsAo, 5. , 9Ae21. Children with Widyasanti. AoStrategi Pengembangan Kreativitas Anak Usia Dini Dimasa KUMAROTTAMA: Jurnal PandemiAo. Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini, 1. , 54. DOI: http://dx. org/10. 22373/bunayya. Page | 49 Bunayya : Jurnal Pendidikan Anak Volume 10 Issue 1 . Pages 48-61 being curious, and interested in new creative attitudes, such as in creating products that suit their imagination. Based and in communicating the products observations carried out at PAUD Ceria they make, generally children really in August 2023, it is known that there like making things, creative children are children aged 5-6 years who have are children who work or create problems with the development of full of humor, not stiff, and creativity which can be identified when rich in play . with stages of the child is not able to complete the creative development in toddlers, one drawing task with the free theme given. of which is that at the age of 5 years, by the teacher, when the drawing they can mix and use colors boldly. activity is going on the child does not Based look enthusiastic, and the child will observations, it can be said that imitate the example of the teacher's children aged 5-6 years at PAUD Ceria drawing shown, and the child is not yet able to create work that is different because children can imitate examples from his friends. When asked why they of teacher drawings and their friends' didn't want to make drawings with work, therefore researchers will look at their ideas, they answered that they didn't know what kind of drawings to children aged 5 -6 years, namely through finger painting activities. activities with free themes, which Finger painting is a painting indicated that they didn't have the technique by applying colorful paint to Meanwhile, at the age of 5-6 years, without using tools or brushes. For children should be able to show finger painting activities, children can 4 ulfa Zikra , rani. AoPengembangan Media Usia Dini, . , 6621Ae40 . 13 Khotimah. Sunaryati, and Suhartini. DOI: http://dx. org/10. 22373/bunayya. Page | 53 Bunayya : Jurnal Pendidikan Anak Volume 10 Issue 1 . Pages 48-61 Based on table 1 above, it can be seen guess the name of the picture shown. that the pretest or initial test obtained The teacher wrote the vocabulary "Bees an average score of 57. 38 from tests that produce honey" on the blackboard and were carried out on 26 children. then asked the children to write it back Treatment in the book. respectively, the teacher Treatment in this study was names the body parts of a bee and their carried out 3 times with finger painting Sings the song "Bees and activities carried out on October 25, 26. Honey", the teacher asks the children to Meanwhile, treatment I on color a pattern with a picture of a bee October 25 started with a finger using the finger painting technique. painting activity with a butterfly theme The teacher asks the children to name where the teacher showed a picture of a the colors that have been used. butterfly and then asked the children to The third treatment was carried guess the name of the picture shown. out on October 30, where the teacher The teacher wrote the vocabulary showed a picture of a dragonfly, and "Butterfly" on the blackboard and then then asked the children to guess the asked the children to write again in name of the picture shown. The teacher their respective books, the teacher mentioned the body parts of butterflies dragonfly and their functions. Singing and their functions, the teacher asked the song "Dragonfly", the teacher asked the children to color the butterfly the children to color a pattern with a pattern using the finger painting picture of a dragonfly using the finger technique, the teacher asks the children painting, the teacher asks to name the colors that have been used. the children to name the colors that Meanwhile, have been used. treatment was carried out on October Postest Data 26, 2023, where in the second treatment Posttest are tests carried out to activity the teacher showed a picture of measure whether the learning we have a bee, and then asked the children to DOI: http://dx. org/10. 22373/bunayya. Page | 54 Bunayya : Jurnal Pendidikan Anak Volume 10 Issue 1 . Pages 48-61 Therefore, the posttest is always carried percentage score for the 26 children was out at the end of learning. The posttest in this research was carried out on Nilai Pretest dan Posttest October 31 2023 with the teacher showing a picture of a butterfly and then asking the children to guess the name of the picture shown. The teacher mentioned the body parts of the the "peacock" song, the teacher asked Pretest the children to make a picture of a The Posttest butterfly and their functions, and sang Pretest 74,42 57,38 Posttest Figure 1. Pretes and Posttest Data Based on the graph above, it is children to name the colors that have known that the pretest activity on the been used. Meanwhile, the post-test green graph got a score of 57. 38 and on scores can be seen in the table below: the red posttest graph, it got a score of Tabel 2 Data Posttest So, based on the increase between Inisial Anak 4 MMAN MZG MAR AAS MFA MRA 10 MRAA ALK MFA MAZ Total skor Mean Indikator Penilaian 1 Indikator Penilaian 2 Indikator Penilaian 3 Indikator Penilaian 4 Indikator Penilaian 5 3,15 2,88 3,19 3,27 3,27 Total Persentas Mean Skor 15,77 3,15 74,42 Based on table 2 of the posttest above, it can be seen that the average the initial test and the final test, it is known that there is an influence of finger painting on the creativity of children aged 5-6 years at PAUD Ceria. Technic Data Analysis Uji Normalitas Normality testing is carried out distribution is normal or not, this is important to know because it is related to the selection of statistical tests to be Normality test research was DOI: http://dx. org/10. 22373/bunayya. Page | 55 Bunayya : Jurnal Pendidikan Anak Volume 10 Issue 1 . Pages 48-61 carried out using Shapiro Wilk using Tabel 4 the help of the SPSS version 26 T-test Value Pretest X After obtaining the pretest and post-test techniques will be carried out using the normality test which can be seen in the table below: Table 3 Posttest Y Inisial Anak Total Mean Total Mean MMAN MZG MAR AAS MFA MRA MRAA ALK MFA MAZ Total skor Mean 11,85 2,37 15,77 3,15 0,88 Xd. d-Md 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,88 0,32 0,32 2,32 -0,28 0,12 0,32 0,32 -0,48 -0,28 0,12 -0,28 -0,48 0,12 -0,28 -0,28 0,12 -0,28 0,72 -0,48 -0,08 -0,68 0,12 -0,08 -0,48 -0,68 0,12 0,10 0,10 5,38 0,08 0,01 0,10 0,10 0,23 0,08 0,01 0,08 0,23 0,01 0,08 0,08 0,01 0,08 0,52 0,23 0,01 0,46 0,01 0,01 0,23 0,46 0,01 8,76 Hypothesis testing is carried out Based on the output that has by comparing the results of the count . - been carried out using SPSS 26 using tes. with a table using the pretest the Shafiro-Wilk method, statistical scores and posttest scores. table value is data obtained on the pretest . nitial tes. obtained by determining the value 927, df . requency deficienc. 26, based on the significance level . and Sig (P-value/probability valu. with degrees of freedom . k = n-. Meanwhile, on the posttest or Based on the results of data final test, the value obtained statistics processing that has been calculated, the 856, df . requency deviatio. 26, and t-table value is 1. So it shows that Sig (P-value/ probability valu. the value of t-count> t-table is 8. T-test 708, thus there is a rejection of Ho and The t-test is a class of parametric acceptance of Ha, which means there is this statistic is used in an influence of treatment or it can be hypothesis testing. concluded that there is an influence of finger painting on the developer. DOI: http://dx. org/10. 22373/bunayya. Page | 56 Bunayya : Jurnal Pendidikan Anak Volume 10 Issue 1 . Pages 48-61 Based on research conducted at In the t-test, the value is tcount > PAUD Ceria which started on Tuesday ttable, namely 8. 8 > 1. The decision to 24 to Tuesday 31 October 2023. With 26 accept or reject the hypothesis is based children as samples in class B, using Pretest. Posttest significance is smaller than 0. 05 then activities using three data analysis the hypothesis is accepted. So by techniques, namely test normality. obtaining a test value of t-count > t- Where based on the hypothetical table, namely 8. 8 > 1. 708, then Ha is decision-making criteria based on p- accepted and Ho is rejected. In this way, value or significance . , namely as there is rejection of Ho and acceptance of Ha, which means that there is an Treatment, if sig < 0. 05 then ha is accepted or the data is normally distributed influence of treatment or it can be concluded that there is an influence of if sig > 0. 05 then ho is rejected or the data is not normally distributed. finger painting on the development of creativity in children aged 5-6 years at Or it can be concluded that: The PAUD Ceria Sig value (P-value/ probability valu. Based on the results of this of statistics on the pretest . nitial tes. is research, it can be said that finger 066, namely 0. 066 > 0. 05, so ha is painting can influence aspects of early accepted or the pretest data . nitial tes. is normally distributed. The Sig value supported by research conducted by (P-value/ Lia Istiana and Nurhenti Dorlina Simatupang 002 < 0. 05, so ho is accepted or the showing that there are differences in Posttest . inal tes. data is not normally children's creativity before and after Because both Pretest and Posttest data are normally distributed. Painting. Using finger painting games it can be continued with the parametric in children's creativity can provide test, namely the t-test. significant results. From the statistical statistics on the Posttest . inal tes. is DOI: http://dx. org/10. 22373/bunayya. This Page | 57 Bunayya : Jurnal Pendidikan Anak Volume 10 Issue 1 . Pages 48-61 data analysis stage using the Wilcoxon average of 3. 51 which was greater than formula, it is known that tcount < ttable . the results of observations of the < . so it can be concluded that the creativity development of children in the control class which had an average experienced by research subjects is It can be interpreted that there significant, thus Ho is rejected and Ha is an influence of finger painting is accepted. As well as research conducted by Sri Rahayu Hader et al, children's creativity, and . The results with the results of research that finger of the hypothesis test prove that t-count painting activities can develop the . > t-table . This is by the creativity of children in group B. The results of the hypothesis test: Ho is use of finger painting activities for rejected and Ha is accepted, so it can be learning turns out to have a great stated that there is a significant influence on the fine motor skills of influence of finger painting activities on children aged 4-5 years, in group B. Finger painting is one alternative that can train children's fine motor skills. The Finger painting activities are also used conducted by Khairunnisa Ulfadhilah by early childhood educators as a show that finger painting can increase: learning activity. creativity in children. increasing Research conducted by Selviana the power of imagination can help Wulandari with research results . The express it through the pictures the child application of finger painting activities . training the child's fine motor can develop children's creativity better skills so that all the muscles in the than learning without finger painting This is by the results of training the child's fingers and hand class which had an DOI: http://dx. org/10. 22373/bunayya. hand-eye Page | 58 Bunayya : Jurnal Pendidikan Anak Volume 10 Issue 1 . Pages 48-61 between the eyes and hands through where children can think and act finger painting creatively and develop the ability to express aesthetic values by depicting Miftahillah et al, the Wilcoxon test was creative works using hand. obtained with a value of Z = -3. 752 and CONCLUTION a value of Asymp. Sig . -taile. Based on the results of data where p/sig. < 0. 01, namely there is a analysis, it can be concluded that difference in the value or physical research conducted on the influence of development score of children's gross finger painting on the development of motor skills for the pre-test and post- creativity in children aged 5-6 years at These results can be seen in an PAUD Ceria Sabena Kids II Aceh Besar increase in creativity ability scores in resulted in the following conclusions: group B children before and after Finger painting influences the implementing learning using finger development of creativity in children So the research hypothesis aged 5-6 years at PAUD Ceria Sabena has been proven. The increase in Kids II Aceh Besar. This can be proven children's creative abilities is shown by from the pretest score of 57. 38 and positive and varied changes in creative posttest of 74. 42 and the significance aspects after taking part in learning to value obtained in the normality test in use finger painting. Children who take the pretest was 0. 066 > 0. 05 and in the part in learning using finger painting 002 < 0. 05 it can be stated that appear to be starting to apply and both data are normally distributed. understand the material that has been well as obtaining a value of t-count > t- table, namely 8. 8 > 1. 708, thus there was Based on the research and a rejection of Ho and acceptance of Ha, studies above, it can be concluded that which means that there is an influence finger painting activities can be used to of finger painting on the development develop the potential possessed by of creativity in children aged 5-6 years young children, such as creativity at PAUD Ceria. DOI: http://dx. org/10. 22373/bunayya. Page | 59 Bunayya : Jurnal Pendidikan Anak Volume 10 Issue 1 . Pages 48-61 Based on the research that has been carried out, there are several suggestions from the author regarding finger painting activities in developing the creativity of children aged 5-6 years. The hopefully be used as one of the many pieces of information about finger painting activities and the creativity of children aged 5-6 years. REFERENCES