The Development of Young Children’s Creative Problem-Solving Skills by Providing Activities of Loose Parts Play Through Literature

Abstract

The purposes of this study were to 1) study young children’s creative problem-solving skill development throughout their activities, and 2) examine effectiveness of young children’s creative problem-solving skill before and after participated in activities of Loose Parts play through Literature, The target group were 20 young children’s aged between 5-6 years old. In the kindergarten level 2 at Pracharatbamphen School, in their second semester of the 2021 academic year. The instruments included 1) the activities plans of Loose parts play through literature, 2) the assessment form of creative problem-solving skills for young children, and 3) the observation form of young children’s creative problem-solving skills. Data were analyzed by mean, standard deviation and content analysis.

The result showed that

1. young children who participated in activities of Loose Parts play through Literature had higher post-test scored than pre-test scores in overall of creative problem-solving skills and all aspects of the creative problem-solving skills. The effectiveness index of 0.49 indicates that 49% of young children’s student were able improve their creative problem-solving skills.

2. the implication of activities of Loose Parts play through literature greatly develops young children’s creative problem-solving skills, where the mean average of 5 skills were 1.48, more specifically in the areas of, 1) understanding and identify problem skills µ 1.45, 2) explore loose parts to solve problems skills µ 1.55, 3) choose a method for solve problems skills µ 1.40, 4) implement the plan µ 1.50, 5) evaluation the work skills µ 1.50