What are the traditional folk festivals for children in China and why? Or know little or nothing. In view of this phenomenon, our garden has carried out the research on the topic "Infiltration of traditional festival culture in kindergarten theme activities". By letting children perceive and experience the atmosphere of various traditional folk festivals, they can initially understand the origin, significance and customs of various traditional festivals.
Festival culture is rich in connotation and has a long history. Different nationalities and regions have different customs. It is far from enough to carry out the infiltration education of traditional festivals in kindergartens, but it also needs the understanding and support of parents. Therefore, we pay special attention to the excavation and utilization of parents' resources in the research process. The Guiding Outline of Kindergarten Education points out: "Parents are important partners of kindergarten teachers. In line with the principle of respect and equality, attract parents to actively participate in kindergarten education, strive for parents' understanding, support and participation, and actively support and help parents improve their educational ability. "In teaching practice, I realized that the creation of a good educational environment is inseparable from a rich material foundation, and the integration and utilization of resources is inseparable from effective home interaction.
First, close family ties and establish good family relations of equality and cooperation.
In the traditional festival education activities, the origin and customs of various traditional festivals are publicized through the "traditional festival column". Teachers in each class also set up an information platform for exchanging traditional festivals between families in the form of "home through train", "home contact column", "parents' mailbox" and "theme wall" according to the actual situation of families. When every traditional festival comes, a "holiday questionnaire" will be sent to every family to find out how much parents know about the origin of traditional festivals, and how Yumen locals live traditional festivals and their folk customs. For example, we learned from the questionnaire of the Dragon Head-raising Festival that on February 2 of the lunar calendar, adults and children should shave their heads to commemorate the day when the dragon heads up, which also means that they can be as strong and take off as dragons. On the day of the festival, we encourage children to follow their parents to get a haircut, so that children can feel the lively scene of people vying for a haircut during the festival. Then through organizing and implementing a series of theme activities such as understanding dragons, festivals and the rise of dragons, and the origin of the Year of the Loong, let children know about the folklore of dragons and festivals, and understand that different places will have different customs when celebrating traditional festivals. Through the questionnaire of Lantern Festival, we know that there are some customs in Yumen area, such as building social fires, setting off fireworks, enjoying lanterns and eating Yuanxiao. We mobilize parents to lead their children to watch social fire shows and fireworks during festivals. With the support and guidance of parents, we designed and organized the artistic activities of "rubbing Yuanxiao" and "making Yuanxiao", so that children can feel the festive, lively and peaceful holiday atmosphere through hands-on operation and personal experience, and deepen their understanding and perception of the Lantern Festival.
Second, effectively organize parents to participate in the creation of kindergarten environment and the implementation of educational activities.
In the traditional festival activities of kindergartens, according to the customs and characteristics of each festival, parents' resources are used to carry out various forms of home interaction activities inside and outside kindergartens, which not only makes parents and children feel the festive atmosphere of reunion, harmony and happiness, but also effectively promotes the feelings between parents and children.
For example, when the Mid-Autumn Festival comes, parents and children are invited to collect pictures, stories and legends about the Mid-Autumn Festival. On the basis of children's understanding of the Mid-Autumn Festival, teachers launched a series of activities with the theme of "Happy Mid-Autumn Festival" and invited parents and children to participate in the "parent-child moon viewing party" to let children and parents feel the happiness of the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion. We also learned that local people have some food customs such as burning pot helmets, offering sacrifices to the moon and giving gifts to relatives and friends during the Mid-Autumn Festival. Therefore, we designed an art activity of "making pot helmets" based on this, and invited parents to participate in parent-child making pot helmets, so that children can understand the customs and eating habits of local people in Yumen during the Mid-Autumn Festival and get a preliminary understanding of the method of making pot helmets. In the "Welcome the Spring Festival" parent-child activity on the first day of the Lunar New Year, after we sent an interactive letter of "Please Help" in advance, parents sent couplets, Chinese characters, Chinese knots, lanterns, window grilles and other Spring Festival items. We arranged these items in the theme wall and activity area, and the classroom showed a lively and festive atmosphere. In the process of these activities, we adopted the multi-directional interaction mode of teachers, children and families. At the same time, let us understand that family resources are important resources that cannot be ignored in holiday theme education activities.