The Traditional Game of Hide and Seek on Early Children’s Development Aspects

Abstract

With the development of modern times, at this time the games that are of interest to early childhood are online games. With the existence of online media, it can dominate children to play games that are already available, so that children nowadays do not know about traditional games, especially hide-and-seek games, most children nowadays in hide-and-seek games only hear the terms of the game without knowing how to play the game. This study aims to describe the development of early childhood with the traditional game of hide and seek based on previous research studies. The method used in this research is library research. The steps of literature study are choosing a topic to be used as research, looking for some information about the topic to be discussed, focusing on research, looking for various reading materials to focus on research, reading and making research notes, reviewing materials that will be the focus of research, and classifying materials reading that will be the focus of research. The results of this study are that the traditional game of hide and seek on aspects of child development is that it can stimulate physical motor development which can result in an increase from cycle to the next cycle, then on aspects of social development children will work together, interact and empathize, then on aspects of children’s cognitive development can mention the sequence of knowing numbers, mathematics, solving problems by discussing, and in aspects of language development children will get to know literacy in hijaiyyah letters. The conclusion of this study is that hide-and-seek games can develop aspects of physical-motor, social, language, and cognitive development.