Utilization of Leaves into Creative Crafts of Leaf Bone Preservation

Abstract

Mothers for Family Welfare Empowerment in Blimbingrejo village generally like various craft-making activities to be used as side activities for PKK, especially for members who work as housewives. The village youth of religious organizations namely IPM and IPNU generally have constraints in terms of funding to conduct their activities, so they conduct business fundraising activities to obtain organizational cash income. The purpose of the training in making leaf bones into crafts is to make business opportunities for the Blimbingrejo village community, especially for groups in the village to be able to produce and even be able to do business management. The method used is training with the PALS (Participatory Action Learning System) approach, the basic principle of this method is the involvement of partners in the learning process of active participation in the application of the science and technology of processing leaves to be preserved products of leaf bones. The results of the training on the manufacture of leaf bone preserving crafts are products in the form of leaf bone preserves made by the participants and also flowers made from preserved leaf bones. The conclusion is that training on leaf bone crafts is carried out as a solution to overcome the problems of partners, namely PKK women and IPM organizations and IPNU to provide knowledge and train skills to create leaf bone creations products to sell and increase financial income.