Mini Basket to Stimulate Multiple Intelligence in Early Childhood

Abstract

Mini basket provide children with all the skills they have to have rich experience and quality so they can play with enthusiasm (FIBA, 2005). The purpose this article to identify the intelligence of early childhood through mini basket game which is useful in daily life situation. This article was a literature study to identify the intelligence that emerged from mini basket. We can identify based on rules mini basket based on FIBA (2005) and theory about multiple intelligence based on Howard Gardner (1993). The results of this study indicate that rules in mini basket games can bring up eight intelligences as revealed by Gardner (1993), that is interpersonal, intrapersonal, kinesthetic, linguistic, mathematical, musical, naturalist, and spatial intelligence. This intelligence is important to be mastered by children from an early age because this is useful for their life tomorrow.