The development of the Tetris game to improve the fine motor of 5 years old children

Abstract

Early age is a suitable age for children's early education, the age range of early childhood is 5 to 6 years, and this age is known as the golden age. At this age, an educational model is needed that can help both physical and spiritual growth. At this age, the child is in the active-hyperactive phase, which makes the child unable to stay still. This is problematic for the parent makes it difficult to teach them properly. The use of gadgets in the parenting process has, and this is commonplace, this is because by giving children a gadget, the child's focus will be shifted to the gadget, but the use of gadgets can also help in the educational process while still putting forward the game, so that it helps in the process of developing motor skills, especially fine motor skills. In this study, an educational game model will be created that focuses on the development of the fine motor system, namely the ability to coordinate small muscles and eye-hand coordination; this motoric development trains children to remember about block shapes and trains children to learn colors (cognitively) by utilizing game media, the educational game that will be made is the Tetris game. There are several stages of testing in this study, and the first stage is testing in the development stage, after that testing on 35 respondents with a distribution of 25 children by aged 3-6 years, ten children by aged 7 with the results of 85% user agree that the game helps them focus and enjoy to play. The last stage is testing by the teacher. At this stage, there is a point of view from an early childhood expert who stated that the easy level of introduction was made for children to recognize block shapes from the Tetris game. At the medium level is an advanced level, namely the shape of the block is the same, the easy level, but there are additional blocks that are L-shaped, the last level is the difficult level plus the block shape with Z and triangles, and children are taught to recognize the primary colors in contrast such as yellow, blue, etc) so that in conclusion the game can be said is run properly