Art education for preschool children belongs to the category of general art education. It is an aesthetic education that educators follow the general requirements of preschool education, according to the law of preschool children's physical and mental development, consciously and systematically infect preschool children through artistic appreciation and artistic creation activities, cultivate their artistic aesthetic ability and artistic creation ability, and finally promote their harmonious personality development. That is, preschool children's art education is not to train professional artists, but a series of educational activities to meet the needs of children's physical and mental development and improve children's aesthetic cultivation and artistic quality. Combining the characteristics of children's development and art education, preschool children's art education generally has the following characteristics. (1) is an emotional education that meets the aesthetic and emotional needs of preschool children, with strong emotional color. Preschool children obviously show the important role of emotional factors in their development. They like to imagine and often have amazing works. Children have a natural need for art. They like to draw here, draw there and play color games. In his early childhood, a major feature of his psychological development is that he is self-centered, easily projecting emotions onto objects and perceiving our world with his body and mind. It is this characteristic of children that makes art activities an important way for children to communicate and satisfy their emotions. It is not difficult for concerned parents to find that your children always like to regard the cracks in the wall as big monsters, the stars in the sky as small lights, and the fallen leaves as the mother tree's treasure. Their colors also change with the change of mood. Parents should create a relaxed psychological environment and emotional aesthetic environment for their children, let them express their feelings or ideas through artistic activities, encourage their children to communicate with others with works, and let them gain a kind of affirmation from others and themselves in communication. In this process, children are not only exchanging emotions, but also gaining new emotional satisfaction. (2) It is creative education with preschool children's aesthetic creativity as the core, emphasizing children's creativity. Every child has creative potential. In the development of preschool children's art, children's unique creativity ranges from graffiti period, that is, they gradually draw something and give it a name, to symbolic period, that is, children symbolically recreate an image that is mostly incomplete and sketched, and then to schematic period, that is, children use painting to express various concepts or reorganize deformed pictures according to their own subjective experience. Of course, this kind of creativity is different from that of adults. Adult's creativity refers to his ability to create products or ideas with social value, while children's creativity refers to his ability to create new and unprecedented things for himself. Specifically, the creativity in preschool children's artistic activities is their ability to use material materials and past experiences and recombine them to create novel and valuable works of art for themselves. It should be noted that children's creativity is based on their own personal values and cannot be measured by the standards of adults. Adults should have the awareness and vision of discovery. Children's creativity is not only reflected in their works, but also in the process of making them. In children's works of art, many adults' rules and regulations about artistic creation have been broken, and some absurd and lovely phenomena appear in adults' eyes, such as illogical ideas, disproportionate modeling, subjective imagination colors and random space composition. These extraordinary and unique performances contain children's natural bold imagination and magical creation. The process of children's artistic creation is a very personal process, which consists of personal emotional perception, aesthetic processing and creative expression. It is in order to protect children's creativity that parents should not only have the vision to discover children's creativity, but also have positive encouraging behaviors. (3) Training preschool children to coordinate their hands, eyes and brain. Preschool children's art education should also attach importance to children's operation. Operation education is an important part of preschool children's art education. At the same time, it is also in the operation that children experience the development of certain emotions, experience the fun of artistic activities themselves, and further gain aesthetic perception and aesthetic creation. The artistic activities of preschool children include psychological operation and practical operation. In this process, the child's hands, eyes and brain are used together. Use a variety of senses to perceive aesthetic objects, use the brain to imagine, understand and process aesthetic images, use language to communicate their aesthetic feelings, and use hands to operate artistic tools and materials to express their emotions and thoughts. Operation education must be based on children's physical and mental development level and needs.