Educational Game Snakes and Ladders Toward Children Social Development Pre-School Aged in Kindergarten

Abstract

Currently, many children spending more time to watch the television and playing the gadget which might influence their social development. Social development could be developed optimally through several playing activities, such as education game snakes and ladders. This study aimed to determine the effect of educational game snakes and ladders to social development of pre-school aged children. This study used one group pretest -post-test design. This study was held at Sukorejo Wedi Kindergarten. A total 36 population of preschool aged children (60-72 months) and sample as many as 16 children. The sampling technique used purposive sampling with participants received intervention educational game snakes and ladders. The data before and after intervention were collected using questionnaires. Then, the data analysed with Wilcoxon signed-rank test. Our findings showed the average pre-test and post-test score on social development was 7.31 and 9.06, respectively. The results of statistical test showed 0.000. There is influence of educational game snakes and ladders towards social development of preschool aged children.

Snakes and Ladders Game: Developing the Early Childhoods’ Cognitive Ability at Cendrawasih II Kindergarten

“…Therefore, play activities cannot be limited to play only in a playing area or using expensive play equipment, because play activities can be done by early childhood at home or in the house yard that are regarded cheaper or event free. However, what is the concern is parents or adults around them must pay attention and ensure that they are safe during playing (Agustina et al, 2018;Suyami et al, 2020).…”

“…To stimulate early childhoods" cognitive development, parents and teachers need the appropriate game that is effective and contain appropriate strategy or method to encourage early childhoods to think creatively and also have fun. One of the games is the snakes and ladders game (Abarua & Lokollo, 2021;Suyami et al, 2020).…”

“…According to Srinivasan (2018) the snakes and ladders game is a kind of game using board for early childhoods that is played by 2 or more players. On the other hands, the snakes and ladders game is a game using a board in the form of small boxes completed by the certain number filled with a number of "snakes" and "ladders" as the link to the boxes (Suyami et al, 2020;Wulansari & Azizah, 2018). The benefit of playing the snakes and ladders game, early childhoods are able to develop cognitive aspects such as counting, recognizing numbers, colors, shapes, symbols, letters, and also animal names and its characteristics (Agustina et al, 2018;.…”

“…The findings of the study showed that playing way method of teaching children with snake and ladder board is an effective intervention to increase the knowledge of oral health among children. The second previous study is conducted by Suyami et al, (2020) with the research entitled, "Educational Game Snakes and Ladders toward Children Social Development Pre-School Aged in Kindergarten". The findings of the study showed that there is influence of educational game snakes and ladders towards social development of preschool aged children.…”