(1) Cultivate children's aesthetic feelings
Aesthetic education is an education that can go deep into people's souls and touch people's emotions. Although emotion will not bring us practical material benefits, it will ignite the spark of human life and push people to a lofty realm. Therefore, we should cultivate noble feelings through aesthetic education, so that people not only love beauty, but also strive for beautiful things and beautiful ideals of mankind.
In the process of interaction with the surrounding environment, children's social emotions have developed initially. Although they don't have a mature aesthetic feeling, they have a foundation of self-cultivation. Emotions and emotions in early childhood are easily infected and stimulated. Children's curiosity makes them actively interested in exploring beautiful things. Beautiful things are vivid, colorful, tangible and attractive, which can attract children's unintentional attention and make them happy. As long as we provide children with beautiful things and let them understand the meaning of beauty contained in the form of beauty, we can stimulate their emotional experience and proceed from intuition. Produce the initial aesthetic emotion, and this emotion has been running through their entire aesthetic activities. Therefore, cultivating this emotion should be an important part of children's aesthetic education.
(2) Cultivate children's aesthetic feeling.
Aesthetic feeling is the starting point and foundation of aesthetic activities. To cultivate children's aesthetic feeling is to actively guide children to feel and experience the beauty in real life and the surrounding natural environment, so that their perceptual activities become sensitive to beauty, and they can find beauty and feel beauty in ordinary things and life.
The development of children's aesthetic sense is accompanied by the development of their general perception and cognition, from unconsciously paying attention to beautiful things to imitating the feelings of adults around them, and then consciously understanding, appreciating and expressing beauty. Children's aesthetic perception is superficial, for example, they are easy to accept superficial simple formal beauty, like bright and gorgeous colors, don't pay attention to the coordination of colors, and like to listen to cheerful and obviously changing tunes. Children's aesthetic perception is also action-oriented. They often directly express their feelings, understanding and attitudes towards beauty through actions, expressions, language and activities, such as touching, seeing, hearing and smelling beautiful things. Therefore, it is necessary to organize more activities to give children the opportunity to develop their own sensory organs and basic cognitive abilities, and at the same time make full use of their various senses to perceive beauty and develop rich sensitivity to beauty.
(3) Cultivate children's aesthetic imagination and creativity.
On the basis of feeling beauty, driven by emotion, children will have the desire and action to express beauty. The core of children's expression of beauty is children's imagination and creation, that is, children express their unique experience and understanding of beauty in their own way and with their own characteristics, and create new images and new concepts. Children's imagination and creativity need to accumulate a variety of experiences and a free learning environment, and develop certain abilities and skills through colorful activities such as painting, singing, dancing and language. Therefore, creating a relaxed atmosphere for children's free imagination and creation, providing an open environment for children to broaden their horizons and get rich stimulation, and creating opportunities and conditions for children to fully display their creativity are all important contents of aesthetic education.