The basic task of aesthetic education has three aspects: first, to cultivate children's correct aesthetic view and ability to feel and evaluate beauty, so that they can understand the difference between beauty and ugliness; The second is to cultivate children's skills and skills in music, art and other artistic activities and develop their artistic creation; The third is to cultivate children's noble sentiments and civilized habits, so that they can show beauty in life.
Judging from children's physiological and psychological characteristics, aesthetic education for children is not only necessary, but also has special functions. Children's understanding of the world is intuitive and emotional, and it is inseparable from concrete images. Therefore, too much reasoning education is not good, and aesthetic education achieves its educational purpose by intuitive image and emotional encouragement, which is just in line with the psychological characteristics of children and adolescents. In the process of aesthetic education, children are constantly influenced by realistic beauty and natural beauty, influenced by artistic images and trained in artistic skills, and their observation, imagination, thinking and creativity will be improved, which will eventually play a positive role in promoting children's all-round development. Aesthetic education is integrated with moral education to form spiritual beauty; Melt into intellectual education and form intellectual beauty; Melt in the movement, forming a strong sense of beauty. Aesthetic education, intellectual education, business education and physical education influence and promote each other, and become a powerful driving force for children's progress. Therefore, aesthetic education is not dispensable, but essential.