Improving The Physical Motor Ability Of Early Children With Educational Playmat Tools

Abstract

Early childhood education is an education aimed at protecting children aged 0-8 years. Early childhood education is very important to do because in early childhood, as is well known, is the golden age or the golden age. The golden age period is a very important period because children are at a very extraordinary stage of growth and development, at this time it is necessary to provide good stimulation in order to maximize the golden age period in early childhood. Giving stimulation to early childhood can be in the form of stimulation on the development of religious and moral values, physical motor, cognitive, language, social emotional, and art. Physical-motor development in early childhood is the basis for the development of other aspects, if the physical-motor aspects in children are hampered it will affect other aspects of development. Physical motor development can be stimulated by various activities, one of which is playing. This is very interesting for children because playing activities are the most important activities in early childhood learning. Play activities can be carried out directly or with the help of educational aids (APE). This study aims to identify the physical-motor abilities of early childhood with educational playmat media conducted at RA Bani Malik, Ledug. Qualitative research using the type of field research (field research) is the type of research that researchers choose, the method of collection used is observation data, interviews and documentation. Based on the results of the research conducted by the author, it can be concluded that educational playmat media is an educational teaching tool that can be used to stimulate the physical-motor development of early childhood, this is because educational playmat media combines various kinds of physical motor movements, such as running, jumping, tiptoe , creeping, zig zagging and balancing on one foot.