Student’s Interest and Creativity in Cultural Art and Craft Lessons

The research objectives are to discover students' learning interest and to investigate students' creativity in creating mosaics, collages and montages by using leaves. These are quantitative and qualitative research. The participants were 25 students of grade IVA in an Elementary School. Data collection techniques employed questionnaires, interview sheets and students’ works. The results of the study demonstrate an increase in students’ learning interest, suggested by 22 students’ happy feeling (88%), student attention mentioned by 18 students (72%), and students' willingness, 20 students (80%) and 20 student’s knowledge (80%). In the effort to increase students' creativity in creating mosaics, collages, and montages, 21 students (84%) by using the media of leaves. The students’ works as well as show very variety. The conclusion is that students’ learning interest is high and students’ creativity is significant in creating mosaic, collages, and montages by using the media of leaves. It means using media in students’ learning activity particularly leaves has very important effects. To use an appropriate media in learning is one solution to resolve problems related to students’ interest and creativity.