The Development of Art Skills for Preschool Children Using a Creative Art Activity Model

Abstract

The objective of this research was to compare the level of art skills of preschool children before and after using the creative art activity model. The samples of this research was firstyear kindergarteners in the second semester of the school year 2013 at Siddhisas School. In order to accomplish the assigned objectives, the researcher selected one classroom, consists of 10 students, by using the simple random sampling theory. The primary data was conducted by carrying out a test which includes 12 sessions of 50 minutes each and the instruments used were the creative art activity and the art skill evaluation sets. In terms of methodological work of this experimental research, the researcher uses the one-group pre test, post test design and the data was collected by undertaking the mean test, standard deviation test and t-test for dependent samples.