Designing Educational Media to Promote Clean Living Habits among Kindergarten Children through Illustrated Books Lumi dan Taman yang Bersih

Abstract

Clean and healthy living habits are essential behaviors that should be instilled from early childhood. However, in practice, kindergarten children often demonstrate inconsistency in applying clean living behaviors, such as handwashing, maintaining personal hygiene, and caring for their surrounding environment. This issue is influenced not only by children’s limited understanding but also by the lack of engaging educational media that align with their developmental stages. This study aims to design an illustrated book as an educational medium for promoting clean and healthy living habits among kindergarten children using a Design Thinking approach. The research methods include observation, interviews with teachers, questionnaires distributed to teachers and parents, and prototype testing. The design process follows the five stages of Design Thinking: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test. The results indicate that the illustrated book “Lumi dan Taman yang Bersih” was positively received and demonstrated potential to support children’s understanding of clean living concepts. The designed illustrated book is expected to serve as an effective educational medium that supports the consistent practice of clean and healthy living habits both in school and home environments.