Pendidikan Life Skills Anak Melalui Literasi Entrepreneur di PKBM Sunan Kalijaga Kota Kediri

Abstract

Life skills education plays an important role in equipping students with skills that can be applied in everyday life. This community service program aimed to develop the life skills and entrepreneurial literacy of students at PKBM Sunan Kalijaga, Kediri City, through practice-based learning activities. The program was conducted over three days using a participatory and experiential learning approach through demonstration, hands-on practice, mentoring, and reflection methods. The activities consisted of training in making aromatherapy candles and keychains in the shapes of fruits and flowers. The program began with an introduction to life skills and entrepreneurial literacy, followed by hands-on product-making activities and concluded with evaluation and reflection. The results showed that hands-on product-making activities provided students with direct learning experiences that fostered creativity, accuracy, independence, teamwork, responsibility, and problem-solving skills. The activities also introduced basic entrepreneurial concepts through the process of producing products, developing designs, and understanding the functional value and potential economic value of their creations. Thus, product-based training can serve as an alternative approach to integrating life skills education with entrepreneurial literacy in non-formal education. Further activities are needed to develop students' skills in product packaging, production cost calculation, pricing, promotion, and product marketing.

Keywords: life skills; entrepreneurial literacy; non-formal education; PKBM