Creative Art Activities to Develop Scientific Abilities for Early Childhood

Abstract

The purpose of this research is to study the development of scientific abilities in early childhood children and to assess the quality of early childhood children's scientific abilities. The sample group used in the study consisted of 125 male and female students, aged 4-5 years, studying in Kindergarten 3, Semester 1, Academic Year 2023. Thienprasitsart School, Sathorn District, Bangkok. So that the children could receive learning activities. Learn creative arts for 10 weeks, 1 day a week, 50 minutes a day. The tool used in this research was a set of creative art activities to develop scientific skills and a test to assess science process skills. Use the research design of One – Group Pretest – Posttest Design. The data analyze by t – test Dependent statistics. The research results found that development of science skills of early childhood children after using the creative art activity set. The overall score was higher than before using the creative art activity set to develop scientific skills. It has a statistical significance of 0.1 when considering each aspect, observing the world around us, sensory perception and learning, shape and related things and classification. Statistically significant at the 0.1 level in all aspects, especially in classification.