First, art education and training children's observation ability
Educators once said: "Observation determines the intelligence level of children." Art activities are conducive to cultivating children's ability to observe, pay attention to and recognize images. As the main form of artistic activities, children's painting shows certain visual artistic activities by means of modeling, coloring and composition, which has children's unique performance characteristics. Art activities can greatly develop children's observation ability.
Most of the contents of children's paintings or handmade works come from their life experiences. Pay attention to the phenomena and changes around you. Children with rich life experience will have strong expressive ability and draw more colorful pictures or handmade works. At the same time, the completion of wonderful works of art will stimulate children to continuously improve their observation level.
However, it should be noted that the cultivation of children's observation ability includes not only vision, but also touch, taste, hearing and smell. Children know the world through various senses. When encountering the observed object, children can be encouraged to look with their eyes, touch with their hands and bodies, smell with their noses and taste with their mouths. In this way, they can observe more carefully and accurately, and also improve their attention and observation.
Second, art education and the cultivation of children's memory
Children's art works often show what they saw and what happened, which will test children's memory. The more children engage in artistic activities, the more works of art they produce, and the more their memory can be improved. The development of memory is an important factor to improve intelligence, and it is also a necessary driving force to promote the development of children's brains.
Art education can cultivate children's memory, and teachers can consciously cultivate children's memory ability in art activities. For example, teachers can let children draw their favorite fruits, so that children will try their best to recall and remember the shape, characteristics and color of a fruit in the process of painting, and perhaps they can create some scenes through their own memories and show them in art works.
Or after the teacher takes the children to visit the botanical garden or zoo, let them draw the things that impress them the most, so that the children will not only observe the different characteristics of different things while playing, but also play their own memories to recall things during artistic activities, so that the more artistic activities the children carry out, the more artistic works they produce, and the more their memories can be continuously improved.
Third, art education and the cultivation of children's imagination and creativity.
Children's art works can't be judged by whether they are like or not. Children are born innocent, and their works are full of innocence, which is beyond the reach of adults. Therefore, children's art works are wonderful works as long as they can truly reflect their hearts, be full of childlike interest and show rich imagination and creativity.
With the development of society, preschool education pays more and more attention to the cultivation of creativity. In art teaching activities, teachers should pay special attention to students' subjective initiative, cultivate their innovative ability and encourage them to practice and try boldly, which has a positive effect on tapping children's creative potential and is of vital importance to their life development. Art activities can not only cultivate children's observation, memory and thinking ability, but also cultivate children's imagination and creativity. It has strong interests and strong emotions.
It is intuitive and vivid, and it is the most favorite and acceptable art form for children. In fact, every child is interested in doodling on paper. Children aged 2-4 are in the primary stage of self-expression. By observing and thinking about external things, plus the extension of imagination and creativity, they will eventually show a strong personality and cognitive development in artistic activities.
(A) the cultivation of imagination
Imagination is the process of creating a new image by combining the previous perceptual materials through transformation. Without imagination, science will not develop and life will become gloomy.
Einstein famously said, "Imagination is more important than knowledge". Children, especially those in early childhood, have strong imagination, but poor writing ability. In their understanding of the world, they often rely on imagination instead of rational understanding, which is often unrealistic and naive. But this is the most shining place for children.
(B) the cultivation of creativity
Children are in the lowest stage of expressing creativity, which is the basis of other higher creativity, so we should realize the importance of cultivating children's creativity.
Creativity is the sum of various abilities developed by people in creative activities, an advanced and unique problem-solving ability, and one of the important capitals of successful people. Different creativity has different social functions. Psychologists' research has found that every child is born with great creative potential, and as long as it is developed in time and scientifically, it can become a very creative person.
Children's artistic works often appear unconstrained and unrestrained, divorced from the real world, reflecting children's strong imagination and creativity. Art activities, whether painting or manual activities, provide a platform for children's imagination and creativity.
When children come to a complicated world, they are willing to show what they see and think and communicate with each other. They use their own way of thinking to reorganize, process and rebuild the images they see in life, which is whimsical and interesting. Painting and manual activities not only develop children's ability of observation, perception and cognition, but also stimulate children's desire for free imagination, develop children's creativity and enlighten children's minds. They are one of the best means to cultivate children's creative quality.
Fourth, summary.
As an artistic activity, many people generally have a one-sided view that it is only a skill training and improvement. In fact, from the psychological point of view, art is helpful to develop people's logical thinking and image thinking, especially to enlighten children's minds, and it is one of the most effective means to train the right brain function and creativity. For children themselves, they are better at expressing and expressing their thoughts and feelings in the form of painting. Therefore, the greatest significance of children's art activities is to explore children's creative potential and stimulate and cultivate their creativity.
Expanding: Experience of Art Teaching in Kindergarten
In a blink of an eye, our kindergarten has been carrying out Milo art course for one semester, and all the training, teaching and achievements are vivid. Through a semester of training, study and teaching research, our art teaching is maturing.
I remember when I went out to study this summer vacation, I first came into contact with Miroko. I was listening to a class on rubbing imagination. I fell in love with Miroko from the beginning of my confusion about this course, to the later distrust, to the last surprise and admiration.
Painting is a favorite activity of children, which can give full play to their imagination and creativity and make them happy. Miroko's wisdom art curriculum system is a series of children's creative imagination art activity system with borrowing imagination as the core and relevance, similarity and relativity imagination as the basis. The so-called borrowing imagination is a form of applying the most universal and primitive imagination of human beings to children's education. Based on this idea, I started art teaching this semester.
An impressive lesson is Happy Kindergarten in a small class. When I learned that I was going to attend this class that week, I began to prepare seriously. First, I borrowed some small mirrors from my colleagues, and then I prepared all the necessary materials. Finally, the class began. I played a facial expression game with the children first, and then each group distributed two small mirrors to let the children observe their rich expressions. At this time, the children are very interested. I quickly got down to business and asked the children if they were happy in kindergarten, whether they were as happy as themselves in the mirror, why they liked kindergarten ... how to get rid of children's paintings as small as a small fist? Well, I've thought about it. I told the children to open your little hands on the drawing paper and make sure to draw bigger than them. Also look in the mirror, have a look, draw a stroke, and be sure to draw your own characteristics. At this time, the children began to draw seriously. I focus on guiding individual children who dare not draw, and observe the situation of children drawing back and forth. I was very happy when I saw Wenwen's painting. She also drew her unique glasses and her two lovely braids. She carefully looked at herself in the mirror, took a look and drew a stroke. When she felt satisfied, I praised her in time and told her that it would be more beautiful to add more. A perfect art class is over, now let's take a look at the results of the text!
This is Hua's ego:
This is a photo of Wen Wen:
What's the matter, little guy? He's amazing!
There are many beautiful pictures, which show the innocence and happiness of children. Looking at these achievements, I am also very grateful to Miroko's art teaching for bringing happiness to teachers and children. In the new year, we will make persistent efforts and make greater progress in art teaching!