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On how to carry out paper-cutting activities in kindergartens
Paper-cutting is an art form created by working people to meet their spiritual needs, and it has been applied and spread among them. It exists in the deep soil of workers' life, is not restricted by utilitarian thoughts and values, embodies the most basic aesthetic concept and spiritual quality of human art, and has distinctive artistic characteristics and life interest. Children's paper-cutting is an important part of children's quality education. It can not only cultivate children's aesthetic taste, but also exercise their practical ability and make them "ingenious". Therefore, paper-cutting has become one of the art teaching courses often used in kindergartens and primary schools. Mr. Chen Heqin, a famous children educator in China, said: "Children should have the opportunity to cut paper." He believes that paper-cutting has two advantages: "one is to develop a good habit of relaxing alone, and the other is to exercise hand muscles." In other words, paper-cutting can make children quiet and concentrate on one thing; It also allows them to develop a pair of dexterous hands, which often means brains, because the training of hand muscle groups is conducive to the development of the brain. Homelinski, a famous educator in the former Soviet Union, once said: "Children's wisdom is at your fingertips." Therefore, I set up a paper-cutting interest group in my class. Through practice, I summed up some experiences: First, create a good paper-cutting environment. Because paper-cutting is a folk art, modern children seldom touch it. Therefore, as a teacher, we should first create a good paper-cutting environment for children, so that children can develop better in activities. For example, the wall layout of the classroom is a typical paper-cut painting. There are all kinds of window grilles hanging on the window, while the flower chains made by the children themselves fall on the wall. Usually, I often lead my children to watch the works of some famous paper-cutting artists in China, and feel the charm of paper-cutting art, and secondly, stimulate their interest in paper-cutting. The paper-cuts that children come into contact with the most in life are all kinds of "hi" characters they see when they get married, including round, square and heart-shaped. They are also particularly interested. So I collected these "hi" words and showed them to the children. After reading it, all the children asked me to teach them to cut these "happy" words, so I asked them to learn the simplest double happiness cut from me. After the activity, each child held his own work and his face was filled with a happy smile. Since then, they have developed a strong interest in paper-cutting. I often cut all kinds of window grilles in the corner of the area. Third, guide children to learn to observe that paper-cutting is a folk art, and its theme comes from life and nature. Therefore, when children create paper-cuts, they first need to have rich life experience, which requires children to be a conscientious person in their daily lives, learn to observe and be good at observing. My first paper-cutting teaching, let children draw a small animal. This seemingly simple activity has caused many problems. Many small animals painted by children have no typical characteristics, which can be said to be four unlike. This also fully shows that children lack observation in daily life. So I left my children a week to find a small animal around their lives to observe and then create. The second time, the children's works really changed a lot. Although the lines are not smooth enough, they can accurately show the main characteristics of animals. From this activity, children also know that only by observing things around them attentively can they create excellent works. In the future, I often find that children pay special attention wherever they go. Once I took my children to the playground to play games, and several children gathered in a corner of the playground to observe something. The next day, a child handed in a work of his own creation-Centipede. I was surprised and asked him why he cut the centipede. He told me that he found a centipede on the playground yesterday. He has many feet, which is interesting. It seems that children have begun to learn to observe. Third, from easy to difficult, step by step in paper-cutting teaching, I first teach children to cut straight lines and curves and practice the most basic lines. When they have a certain foundation, I let them learn to cut simple figures, starting with circles. In the process of cutting, I gradually taught some skills. For example, when cutting a circle, you can fold the square paper in half, then cut out a semicircle and open it to become a circle. Fold the paper many times and you can turn it into a five-pointed star with a knife. The difficulty of the whole teaching process is gradually increasing, which is very suitable for children's development level. After a period of time, children have been able to create all kinds of interesting works by themselves. Fourthly, all kinds of educational infiltration and any educational methods in paper-cutting teaching are not isolated, and they all have their own internal relations. Before each paper-cut, I let them think about what they need to cut, how to cut it and what to add. Doing so is conducive to cultivating children's thinking construction ability and language expression ability, and learning to do everything with a purpose. When they cut, they sometimes fail, and the cut image can't meet his expectations. This is why I will let him imagine what the cutting shape is like at this time, so as to create another work based on this existing finished product. This will not cause children's sense of failure, but also help to stimulate children's interest in activities. After finishing a work, I invite all the children to be small teachers, evaluate their works together and improve their aesthetic ability. Every season or festival, I will also ask my children to cut some works on these themes to increase their understanding of seasons and festivals. 5. Incorporate fun into paper-cutting activities. The paper-cutting activity itself is very boring. For children, they like novel and interesting activities, so I often insert some episodes in paper-cutting teaching to increase children's enthusiasm for activities. 1. Design activities that children are interested in according to the teaching content. Combine all kinds of graphics with concrete things in life to make children feel interesting and easy to understand and accept. For example, if you practice cutting straight lines visually, you can design it as "learning to be a little chef" and let your children cut the square lines into slender noodles to see which little chef can make the noodles well; Cutting circles along the line can be designed as "peeling apples", which is longer than peeling anyone's apples. 2. The combination of paper-cutting with painting and pasting enriches the works. Due to the limitation of skills, children's paper-cut works can't accurately represent objects, such as cutting butterflies and flower baskets. Tiny parts, such as the tentacles of butterflies and the handles of flower baskets, are difficult for children to cut out, so they can be instructed to use strokes. Some large-area objects, such as dresses and houses, can guide children to cut and paste decorative graphics or patterns to make their works richer and more beautiful. 3. Paper-cut works can be used to play games or beautify the environment. Such as: shaving and clothing, you can play the game of opening a shop; Flower arrangement and window grilles can be used for program decoration. Children can see that their works enrich the game, beautify the environment, stimulate their interest in paper cutting, stimulate their emotional experience of beautiful things and beautiful environment, and cultivate their sensitivity to beauty. Paper-cutting is a folk art with strong practicability, rich expressive force and the widest popularity. It has a long history, has a profound traditional foundation in China, embodies the most basic aesthetic concept and life interest of the Chinese nation, and has distinctive local artistic characteristics. It can not only promote children's physical and mental development, but also develop their creativity and inherit the traditional art of China. Therefore, I think it is very necessary to carry out paper-cutting teaching in kindergartens.