The purpose of this research is to determine the influence of dance creations art towards children aged 5-6 years gross motor development in the Al-Huda Islamic Kindergarten Semarang. This study uses a quantitative approach with methods Pre-Experimental Design in the form of one group pretest and posttest design. The population in this study were all students Kindergarten Al-Huda Islamic Semarang. Samples are students aged 5-6 years with 30 students at the Islamic Al-Huda TK Semarang based

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... ing using purposive sampling. Based on research and Paired Sample t-test was done, it can be concluded that there are differences after stimulation given dance creations on gross motor development of children aged 5-6 years in kindergarten Islam Al-Huda Semarang with t_hitung values obtained with a value of-15.082 sig (2-tailed) 0.000 < 0.05, which means that there are significant differences between the pretest and posttest. Obtained a mean of-19.867. These results indicate that an increase in gross motor development of children with stimulation of dance creation, after to treatment in the experimental group, accumulation pre-test scores are accumulated in 2164 and posttest score is 2760 with an increase in overall score was 596, or about 27.54% of the pretest scores.