Electronic Theses and Dissertation

Abstract nazara, syarianti. 2018. developing children’s creativity through constructive play activity in aisyiyah bustanul athfal kindergarten, simeulue regency. thesis, early childhood education department, faculty of teacher training and education, syiah kuala university. supervisors: (1) dr. anizar ahmad, m. pd. (2) dr. israwati, m. si. four to five-year-old children have an ability to produce new ideas in creating a creation which is a form of their creativity. in fact, four to five-year-old children in aisyiyah bustanul athfal kindergarten feel difficult in developing their creativity. children are only emphasized to read and write. the aim of this research is to develop children‘s creativity through constructive play activity in aisyiyah bustanul athfal kindergarten, simeulue regency. this research is qualitative descriptive research by using classroom action research approach which uses two cycles. each cycle is done through planning, implementation, observation, and reflection stage. this research subject is 20 children of group a1. the data collected by using observation and work sampling system. the result of this research indicates that in the first cycle, three children have not developed yet, eight children have begun to develop, four children have developed as expectation, and five children have developed very well. the result of the second cycle shows that seven children have developed as expectation and thirteen children have developed very well. it can be concluded that constructive play activity can develop children’s creativity in aisyiyah bustanul athfal kindergarten, simeulue regency. so, teachers can add more knowledge in choosing appropriate medias for learning, one of them through constructive play. keywords: creativity, constructive play activity, early childhood.