Effectiveness of experience provision of creative arts activities by inventing vegetables and fruits toward the scientific process skills of early childhood

Abstract

            The objectives of this research were 1) to compare the science process skills of early childhood between using a creative arts activities with fruits and vegetables invention on a 70 percent of the total score 2) to compare the science process skills of early childhood before and after experiencing the experience provision using a creative arts activities set with fruit and vegetable creations. The sample group in the research were 26 early childhoods between 4 to 5 years old studying in Kindergarten 3 (semester 1) in an academic year of 2022, Ban Tham Tao School, Sakon Nakhon Primary Educational Service Area Office Region 3. The sample were purposive sampling. The research tools consisted of 1) 24 experience provision lesson using a creative arts activities with invention of fruits and vegetables, 2) Science process skills test form for early childhood with designed for practical assessment, divided into 3 skills, 15 items were employed. The result of reliability values of the observation skill test was 0.79, the classification skill test was 0.81 and the communication skills test were  0.87 respectively. Data analyses were presented in percentage, mean, standard deviation. One Sample t-test and Dependent Sample t-test were used with statistics package program.

            The results showed that 1) Early childhood with received experience using the creative arts activity package had science process skills higher than the threshold of 70 percent with a statistical significance at .05. 2) Early childhood who experienced using a creative art activities have scientific process skills higher than before the experience provision using  creative arts activities with fruits and vegetables was statistically significant at  .05.