Handmade education for preschool children refers to an educational activity in which teachers guide children to exert their imagination and creativity, directly process and transform various forms of plastic materials with their hands or simple tools, and make various artistic images occupying a certain space.

Therefore, it is of great significance, and its characteristics can be summarized as the following three aspects:

(1) Combining creative training with imitation learning.

Creativity is the essence of preschool art education. In manual innovation education, whether children's inherent creative potential can be induced and activated is the main symbol to measure the quality of education. It is very important to imitate repeatedly through children's own experiences. Practice has proved that this is feasible for young children.

Of course, for children of different ages, imitation is different, and the purpose of imitation is to create better. In fact, the concept has become an invisible repository of emotions and intentions, which helps children to consciously innovate by hand.

② The combination of perception, thinking and creation.

Manual activities are mainly intuitive and perceptual activities, but there are also ideas involved. Usually the so-called play is not comprehensive enough. It should include: seeing-thinking-doing, thinking in the process of doing, supported by rich associations and flexible thinking. The defect of traditional education is that the word "thinking" is omitted or replaced by adults.

For example, to make a handmade work, the teacher has designed the whole process of education, and then taught it step by step, which has caused children to be passive and dependent in activities and actually deprived them of the right to think.

③ The organic combination of all kinds of knowledge.

Art education plays an important role in preschool education curriculum. Are the courses communicating, infiltrating and promoting each other? The answer is yes.

This kind of communication not only stays in the content, but also goes deep into the potential formal factors of beauty. Let children have a strong interest in artistic activities. The stronger the interest, the richer the knowledge and experience, and the more refined it is reflected in the pictures and works.