EFFECT OF PLAYDOUGH ON FINE MOTOR

SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN PRESCHOOL

CHILDREN AGED 4 to 6 YEARS AT WACHID
HASYIM KINDERGARTEN, SURABAYA, EAST
JAVA

Rukmini
Diploma Program in Nursing, School of Health Sciences Adi Husada, Surabaya
The abilities that allow people to do Fine motor
things that involve using the large skill
muscles in the torso, arms and legs to
complete whole-body movements.
the ability to make
gross motor movements using the
skill small muscles in our
hands and wrists and they
involve the coordinated
efforts of the brain and
balance skill the ability to maintain a muscles.
controlled body position
during task performance
coordination
skill
 how fine motor can be developed through activity using playdough

What activities are

involved?

• writing or other
activities which
require them to grip
or using hands fingers
to hold something

How does it influence

children development?
 PRIOR RESEARCHES

Rita, 2012
Two main factors influencing Wiyani, 2014
child fine motor developement, The best years to develop fine
internal and external factors and gross motor skills is on
External factors highly aged 4 years
influence child fine motor
development

Suriantoso, F.A.;
Suryaningsih, N.M.A;
Endah, C;, 2016
33.33% of children still achieved relatively
low scores on fine motor skill although
there were once interception
METHOD
Quasi-Experimental
Study
ONE GROUP
PRE-POST TEST
DESIGN
Randomized
Control Trial
Wilcoxon signed
rank test
Object = 68
children aged 4-6
years
 playdough games have positive effect on child fine motor skills

Fine motor skills development on 4-6 years old

children at Wachid Hasyim Kindergarten increase
Decreased

Pre-Test Post-Test
Fine Motor
Development (n) % (n) % Descriptive statistics of the average fine motor skills
development on 4-6 years old children at wachid
Good 3 4.4 8 11.8 hasyim kindergarten
Adequate 34 50 43 63.2
N Mean Std.
Poor 31 45.6 17 25 Deviation
Total 68 100 68 100 Pre-treatment 68 11.9412 2.29784
Post-treatment 68 13.0294 2.59144

a significant
Test Statistics
influence of
playdough Pre-Post Test
games on child Z -4.044b
fine motor skills
Asymp. Sig. .000
development (2-tailed) a. Wilcoxon Signed Rank Test
b. Based on Negative Rank
Conclusion

Playdough as interception/treatment
for fine motor skill developments at
children aged 4-6 years is positive and
significant

This indicates the improvement after

the interception.

The deviation scores were 2.30 (2.2978) for the pre-test

and 2.59 (2.5914) for the post-test.

Playdough positevly influences on child fine motor development

(p < , where the  = 0.01 and p = 0.000)
 there any
qustions or
responses