Pemanfaatan Bahan Bekas untuk Meningkatkan Motorik Halus Anak Usia Dini di PAUD Mandiri Wamlana

Fine motor development is an important component of early childhood learning, particularly for activities that require hand–eye coordination, finger control, accuracy, and independent task completion. This classroom action research examined whether learning activities using reusable and discarded materials could improve fine motor development among children at PAUD Mandiri, Wamlana Village, Fenaleisela District, Buru Regency, Maluku, Indonesia. The study involved 15 children aged 5–6 years and was conducted in two cycles using the stages of planning, action, observation, and reflection. Learning activities included making flowers, pencil holders, photo frames, and woven products from used straws, bottles, and cardboard. Data were gathered through classroom observation and documentation and were analyzed descriptively using the developmental categories of not yet developed, beginning to develop, developing as expected, and developing very well. The reported observations indicate improvement from Cycle I to Cycle II: the proportion of children in the not-yet-developed category fell to zero across all five observed indicators in Cycle II, while the developing-very-well category reached 61–76% depending on the indicator. The findings suggest that structured craft activities using safe, accessible reused materials can provide repeated practice in cutting, arranging, pasting, decorating, and coordinating hand movements. Because some percentages in the original observation tables are inconsistent, the results should be interpreted descriptively and the raw observation records should be checked before publication.