In recent years, I have been engaged in daily rural art teaching for a long time, and found that our garden has great advantages in tapping rural 9th grade resources, taking natural objects with local flavor as the gap, and developing various content and forms of art activities. It can realize the transformation of art teaching from subject-oriented to children's active creative activities. Therefore, with the colorful rural life as the background, our garden tries to make extensive use of natural resources, create its own characteristics, and explore a way out suitable for art education in rural kindergartens.
First, the use of natural resources to cultivate rural children's artistic sentiment
1, return to nature and let children feel beauty in the embrace of nature.
The outline points out that to guide children to "feel and love the beauty in the environment, in life and in art", the countryside is colorful all year round. In spring, everything wakes up, flowers are red and green, birds are singing and dancing, and farmers are farming in the fields; Cattle are grazing on the green grass, and the weather is sunny. I take my children on a spring outing to feel the green of new life, cheerful birds singing, gentle wind, fragrant soil and people's hard work, and guide them to communicate with their peers while enjoying the surrounding scenery: What do you see? What shapes and colors are these things? Guide children to greet farmers, tell jokes to cows, roll up their trouser legs and touch the soil. The children were very interested and discussed, "Are cows and pigs good friends?" "What is the cow listening to?" "Is this bird singing the song of spring?" "What is the farmer's uncle doing in the field?" "Mud is soft and black. Really comfortable! " "The tree is green, a bunch of flowers are red, and firecrackers are crawling all over the wall." Everything the children heard left a good impression in their minds, forming a vibrant spring scene. Influenced by beauty in the embrace of nature.
2. Utilization of cultural heritage
Tao Xingzhi, an educator in China, pointed out: "Life is education". Our hometown is rich in historical and cultural heritage. I will take them to visit Xiao Yun Pavilion, Cungengtang, Shagang and Xiangu Well in my hometown. Let them know about the boat lights, folk songs, five fists and ten music in their hometown. Cultivate children to feel the richness and beauty of hometown culture in daily life, feel the changes and development of hometown, stimulate children's feelings of loving their hometown and motherland, and bring them incomparable imagination and creativity.
With these direct perceptual knowledge, they can freely express their thoughts in the game of rubbing, dyeing, dyeing and coloring. And cultivate children's perception and creativity of color. With these understandings of nature itself, children will naturally be influenced by beauty. In the activities, children can boldly express what they have seen and heard, and their creativity is endless, and they will be handy in creative activities.
Second, the use of natural resources, entertaining.
Rural art education activities should make use of the existing teaching conditions in rural areas, make every class as good as possible, change the content that is not suitable for rural teaching into the content that is suitable for rural art teaching, reflect rural characteristics, closely focus on rural natural resources, form a new image through observation, imitation, imagination and association, and express beauty in the form of painting and production. For example, in the activity of "painting stones", because we are located on the bank of Tingjiang River, grotesque stones can be seen everywhere, so I asked my parents to help my children collect stones that can be seen everywhere in their hometown. During the activity, I sat with the children and enjoyed these stones together first, so that the children could give full play to their imagination and exchange ideas. "This stone looks like a doll's head. I want to add eyes, nose and mouth to this stone. " "This stone is very similar to the Peking Opera mask we know. I want to paint it as a mask." "This stone looks like a mushroom." "This stone looks like an egg." "This piece looks like the sun. I want to decorate it as father sun. " ..... Children express their opinions and express their ideas with great interest. I let them choose materials freely, paint and decorate boldly, and give them targeted guidance next to them. The works created by children are really colorful and have their own characteristics. I also held a stone exhibition for them, so that the children themselves can be small commentators and introduce their works to their peers.
In the whole activity, the children's interest is very strong. Using cheap natural resources such as stones, children are endowed with whimsy, their hands-on operation ability is improved, and they learn to cooperate with their peers, thus improving their ability to express boldly and realizing the integration of various fields in artistic activities.
Third, use rural natural objects to talk to children in the corner.
Kindergarten regional activities are activities of children's free choice, spontaneous exploration and independent operation, which can cultivate their self-development ability. A lot of materials must be provided in the corner. There are many magical resources in our hometown, which are not only colorful, economical and unique in shape, but also of great value in our early childhood education, and can provide us with many economical and affordable materials.
1. Guide children to participate in various senses and experience the fun of creation.
In art teaching activities, I let children use various senses to perceive the beauty of nature and gain a profound and meticulous life experience. There is a collage corner in the corner activity of our class. I put in straw, mud, dog tail grass, leaves, stones, sand and other materials. Here, children can communicate freely, discuss freely and use their imagination freely. I encourage children to dress up their lives with beauty and realize that a good life depends on themselves. In the animal corner, we have rabbits, chickens, small fish and other small animals in each class. Children can observe their growth process and record their development and changes in the form of painting. In the process of learning together, children not only improve their practical ability, but also promote social development.
2. Experience the feelings of loving hometown and working people in "Nongjiale"
In the "farmhouse music" environment created by us, parents, children and teachers collect all kinds of natural materials together. For example, the seed corner, I provide all kinds of physical seeds, so that children can paste their own seed patterns and the growth process of seeds on the wall. Children can learn about soybeans, corn, peanuts, vegetables and other seeds in the seed corner, so that they can know what the original roots of those things are in our lives and know the seeds. Children weave their small tails, straw hats and cloaks of various animals with straw, and imitate various small animals with these homemade toys; Use small straw hats and cloaks as small actors; Make exquisite ornaments, heads, small tables and chairs with various bamboo products; We made small hoes and sickles out of wood, imitated the work of farmers' uncles, experienced the hardships of labor, cultivated children's love for labor, carried out children's art teaching activities with rural characteristics, and cultivated children's good feelings of loving labor, working people and hometown. By constantly enriching these natural materials, children can learn independently in regional activities and realize interaction and dialogue with the materials.
Fourth, let natural materials play a role in children's game activities.
The outline points out that games are an important form of children's all-round development education. 3-6 years old is a critical period for the development of creativity. Cultivating children's innovative consciousness in this period can effectively educate them about their innovative spirit and improve their ability, which is of great significance to their future development. Games play an inestimable role in cultivating children's innovative consciousness. Art comes from life, and the content of preschool children's art education should choose materials that children are familiar with, and I find that many rural resources provide conditions for cultivating children's innovative spirit and game materials.
1, in line with the age characteristics of children.
"Fun rope" is a game that children like very much. I have prepared a large bundle of straw for children of all ages to create freely. Under the guidance of the teacher, the children in the big class tied a live grass dragon and proudly played the game of "dragon" in the morning activities. I also made many scarecrows and played games to help farmers protect crops and drive away birds. Middle-class children rub a lot of long and short ropes in a cooperative way. I asked them, "How do I play with these ropes?" According to the existing experience, children happily play rope games such as "throwing rope, skipping rope and pulling tail". The children in the small class spread straw on the ground as a small bed and played the game of "Dollhouse". According to children's interests, we guide children to use straw, a cheap resource, to adapt to children of different ages as children's game materials.
2. Create a "warm home" and let the children feel the warmth of the farmer's home.
In the game "I love my family", children make the frame of photo frame with small wooden blocks, and put the painted photos of their families into the frame to decorate a warm family. There are many farm vegetables, fruits and furniture made of various materials; Keep the little fish tadpoles brought by the children In a family full of peasant characteristics, children are playing the game "I love my family". In order to keep their game activities fresh and interesting, I often change these natural materials, which can challenge children's familiar game plots, encourage them to try new ways of playing and develop new plots, which provides opportunities for developing their creativity. Through these activities, children can observe and appreciate beauty anytime and anywhere in life games, and can also express beauty at will and experience the fun of creating beauty.
It can be seen that the rational use of natural resources to carry out various activities plays an important role in the development of art education for rural children. In fact, each region has its own characteristics. Rural preschool teachers should use local materials to enrich children's life content and let natural resources play the greatest role in children's art education. Create a good environment for children, provide opportunities for children to use their hands and brains, provide conditions for experiential learning, and let children explore independently in a relaxed and happy state. Developing colorful and rural children's art teaching activities, stimulating children's interest in art activities and cultivating children's exploration spirit can maximize the quality of art teaching in rural kindergartens.