1. Art education is an important part of children's all-round development.
Early childhood is the period when people's artistic talent begins to appear, which plays an obvious role in children's art education, among which art education is the main content. Children's art refers to painting, handicrafts, art appreciation and other extremely simple and primary content. With its unique visual image and color, it typically shows the beauty of nature and social life, and deepens children's understanding of the world around them with its vivid image and strong appeal. It can also stimulate children's aesthetic concepts and modeling wisdom. The improvement of children's aesthetic ability plays a fundamental role in his spiritual quality and cultural accomplishment throughout his life. For example, the appreciation of "national costume dolls" not only makes children know continuous patterns and contrasting colors, but also understands that there are many ethnic minorities in China, and their costumes are colorful.
Art education can also develop children's intelligence.
According to research, the left half of the human brain is abstract thinking, and the right half deals with the whole image information. At present, some parents and teachers attach importance to words and numbers, which makes children's left brain overburdened and their right brain insufficiently exercised. This phenomenon is not conducive to the normal and harmonious development of children. Art education is to inspire and induce children to perceive the shape and structure of things with interesting and novel stimuli, and to benefit the right brain through imagination and thinking in images. When a child sees a car like a loaf of bread, it will be summarized by a rectangle.
Art education also requires children to use both hands and brains, such as hand-making, exercise children's small muscle groups through hand operation, coordinate fingers and wrists, promote the control and adjustment ability of the brain, and enhance the flexibility and accuracy of children's hand movements. For example, when cutting and pasting "birds", children should first cut the colored paper printed with circles, semicircles and triangles along the line, then spell out the different postures of birds flying on the paper, and finally stick it on the paper with paste.
3. Art education can cultivate children's observation, imagination and operation ability.
Observation is the basis of understanding things; Imagination is the process of recombining external things and creating new images. Operation is a means of expression and a cognitive process. Children can use the three flexibly when drawing. For example, when drawing "Spring" in a large class, they can play a game of "Where is Spring" first. Teachers can inspire children to look for spring in the sky, flowers and lawns with their eyes. The children also recited the poem "Spring Girl Comes" and used their own strokes to show what they saw, knew and thought.
4. Art education can mold children's good personality.
Art education is the education of cultivating sentiment. A work of art can not only show children's innocent hearts, but also reflect their different personalities. From the works of art, we can see that some children are bold, active, enthusiastic and sensitive, while others are dull, cowardly and lack independence. Therefore, teachers can influence the formation and development of children's personality by observing children's artistic works.
Therefore, for children, art education cannot be ignored. Education in other disciplines also has its own functions. It is wrong to think that it is useless to teach children to draw, sing and dance. It is better to teach more reading, writing and arithmetic.