Developing Children's Social Emotional Through Cooking Class Activities

The Social Emotional Aspect aims to foster children to be able to control their emotions naturally and be able to interact well with each other and with adults and be able to help themselves in terms of life skills, interact and adapt to their environment. Social emotional abilities in children so that they can be achieved optimally are carried out by stimulating cooking classes. The purpose of this research is to develop the social-emotional aspects of children through cooking class activities. This type of research is descriptive qualitative. This research was carried out at RA Diponegoro 224 Adisara. The research subjects were RA Diponegoro 224 Adisara students with a total of 30 children consisting of 10 girls and 20 boys in class B. Data collection techniques were carried out by means of initial observation, then interviews, demonstrations and documentation. The data analysis technique used in this research is qualitative data analysis in descriptive form. The results of the study show that cooking class activities can develop children's social-emotional development such as training children's independence and care, developing an attitude of cooperation and mutual help, and increasing children's self-confidence. Cooking class activities are very popular with children, because learning with cooking classes is fun, children are directly involved in activities.