THE TRADITIONAL GAME OF ENGLOLIBABA BISCUIT INCREASES SOCIAL SKILLS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN

As humans we are born as social beings, where we need other humans for us to live in this world. Elementary school age children are stewards of the nation which are assets of the nation and state, but as the times progress so that technology is increasingly developing, the shift in children's social abilities is decreasing. Children have started to be cool with the technology they have such as gadgets and the like. If this continues, it will make the nation's successors decline in social values ​​which will make future life no longer recognize these values. Based on this problem, the traditional game Englolibaba Biscuit is a solution to this problem. The purpose of this research is to improve children's social skills through the traditional game englolibaba biscuit. This research method is descriptive quantitative. The sample consisted of 20 children from SD Negeri 16 Banda Aceh. Based on the results of the study showed that there was an increase in social values ​​in SD Negeri 16 Banda Aceh children. This is proven based on the significant level taken, namely 5%. So if the value of sig.(2-tailed)> 0.05, then the results stated that there was no significant difference between the results of the pretest and posttest. Based on the results of the data table above, it can be seen that the value of sig.(2-tailed) is 0.00 <0.05. So it can be concluded that there is an increase in the results of children's social skills after being given the traditional game of Englolibaba Biscuit.