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Children who are physically hurting others intentionally is a behavior that showed a lack of ability to manage conflict, less control in managing emotions, or lack of ability to convey the desired appropriately. Teaching children to resolve conflicts is a strategy that can be used to create more adaptive behaviors. Children are taught how to resolve conflicts with some of the approaches that suit the environment will grow into adults who are better to cope with emotional problems, especially with other people in the neighborhood. The problem-solving strategy in this research used technological approaches, MATA which is the development of Android-based media where children with aggressive behavior problems can be used MATA as a tool to express emotions through art. Children can freely express their thoughts and feelings visually through color scratches; they can also see the results of their work in three dimensions. The method used in this research is the experimental method. Determination of the research subjects with a purposive sample previously granted WPS Aggression Questionnaire and choose a subject with aggression medium-high categories, the number of subjects in this study were five children each in the control and experimental groups. Results showed that the experimental group experienced a decrease in the level of aggressive behavior than the control group.