(1) background

1. Modern psychological research shows that hand movements are related to brain development, and the training of finger movements can stimulate brain cells well. Hand movement is directly related to thinking activities, and information is transmitted from hand to brain and from brain to hand. The more manual movements, the more complicated the movements, the more it can stimulate the physiological activities of the corresponding motor areas on the cerebral cortex, and make the level of thinking activities higher and higher. At the same time, zankov, an educator in the former Soviet Union, believes that modern society needs people who can use their hands and brains. Students trained in kindergartens should be good at thinking and hands-on, and practical operation ability is an important factor for children's all-round development. For today's children, of course, it is no exception, so children's art production activities are a good way to develop themselves in an all-round way.

2. The Guiding Outline of Kindergarten Education points out: "Children should be guided to choose their own things or waste materials to make toys and handicrafts to beautify their lives or carry out other activities." Art production activities can enrich children's knowledge, develop children's experience, develop children's practical ability, and make children develop in an all-round and harmonious way.

3. Our garden is influenced by society, environment, culture, teachers and parents, and children are highly dependent and weak in practical ability. In recent two years, with the continuous improvement of teachers' level and the increase of teaching funds, in order to change this situation, our garden has determined the case study of handicraft activities in art teaching from the perspective of children art's production, and carried out corresponding practical research in this respect to improve children's practical ability.

(2) Definition

Kindergarten art teaching activities refer to activities that aim at cultivating children's aesthetic feeling and focus on children's painting, handcrafting and appreciation. Beautiful colors, beautiful language and beautiful movements always affect children. Artistic activities have created a kingdom of free expression for them. In the world of artistic activities, they really become the small masters of activities.

The manual activity in kindergarten art teaching is an educational activity process in which kindergarten teachers guide children to exert their imagination and creativity, manipulate materials with their hands, and produce works with aesthetic feeling and craftsmanship according to the goal of kindergarten manual education.

Second, the theoretical basis and significance of the study.

(A) theoretical basis

1. Tao Xingzhi's creative education thought

Creative education is a distinctive and basic feature of Tao Xingzhi's educational thought and practice. In view of the bondage of feudal education to students, he called for "breaking children's hell and creating children's paradise". In many articles, Mr. Tao Xingzhi repeatedly put forward the "six liberations" of "liberating children's creativity", namely, liberating children's eyes, hands, mind, mouth and time.

2. Bruner's Discovery Teaching

Bruner believes: "The discovery in learning really affects students and makes them become a structuralist." In the article The Behavior of Discovery, Bruner described this new method in detail. He pointed out: discovery is not limited to seeking things that humans don't know yet. To be exact, it includes all methods of acquiring knowledge by oneself. In other words, under the guidance of teachers and relying on the materials provided by teachers and textbooks, learners can find, answer and solve problems by themselves, thus becoming discoverers of knowledge, rather than passive recipients.

3. Tao Xingzhi's life education theory points out that life is education and society is school. This can greatly increase the educational materials, methods, tools and environment.

4. Modern early childhood education theory

The outline points out that it is necessary to make full use of social resources, guide children to truly feel the richness and Excellence of the motherland's culture, and stimulate children's feelings of loving their hometown and motherland; Art is the main way to practice aesthetic education, giving full play to the emotional education function of art and promoting the formation of children's sound personality.

5. Reggio theory

In Reggio's preschool education institutions, works of art and clay sculptures can show children's understanding of the world around them, clarify their understanding and construction process of things around them, and thus trigger the natural expression of children's emotions.

6. Psychological basis

Children are in the stage where unconscious attention is dominant and concrete image memory and thinking are dominant. In art activities, children are very emotional and easily moved by emotions and emotions. Therefore, teachers should provide some interesting and novel stimuli to arouse children's interest. If they want to keep a steady interest in artistic activities, they must have enough content and activities to attract them to participate in the activities. Art production activities can not only meet the needs of children, but also attract children.

7. Physiological basis

Children have a natural demand for artistic activities. Children's hand movements become more and more complicated, and at the same time they show strong interest in hands-on activities. Children like to do it, and in the process, the tiny movements of their fingers develop rapidly.

② Children's nervous system is underdeveloped, the coordination of brain, eyes and hands has not been well established, the control ability of brain and visual opponents is poor, and the bones and muscles of hands are underdeveloped. Therefore, through artistic activities, we can practice and exercise the coordination between the brain, hands and eyes, thus promoting the healthy and harmonious development of children.

It can be seen from a number of materials consulted that in previous studies, it was more reflected in painting, but less in art research. At present, there is a phenomenon that children art pays too much attention to skill training, and the activities are monotonous, boring, divorced from life and lacking in interest. Therefore, integrating art activities into kindergarten activities can promote the development of children's hand coordination ability, language expression ability and cognitive ability, better implement the spirit of the Outline, and make children develop in an all-round way.

(2) Significance

Suhomlinski mentioned in "Suggestions for Teachers": "Handmaking is a modeling activity that relies on manual skills and uses simple tools to process materials. In people's childhood and adolescence, if you don't rely on the delicate and dexterous movements of your hands to activate the abstract thinking area, it will affect people's future development. " Handicraft has such a great influence on people's life that it is an indispensable and important way to educate children aged 3-6. The Guiding Outline of Kindergarten Education (for Trial Implementation) points out that teachers should "guide children to make toys and handicrafts with things around them or waste materials to beautify their lives or carry out other activities." Therefore, as one of the important contents of kindergarten art teaching, manual activities are of great significance in preschool education.

The research on manual activities in kindergarten art teaching has been widely concerned by kindergarten teachers, and its research has gradually deepened. Relevant research results have been published one after another, such as Cultivating Children's Good Quality in Kindergarten Manual Teaching Activities, How to Improve the Quality of Kindergarten Manual Activities, and Development and Utilization of Kindergarten Manual Activities Waste Resources. Throughout the relevant works, most of them study its application value. Although there are some lessons to learn, from the perspective of case analysis, there are still some shortcomings. According to the practice of manual teaching in our garden, we encountered some practical problems in the process of activities, such as single form of manual activities, insufficient materials, empty teaching evaluation, and weak parents' sense of cooperation. In order to properly solve these practical problems, improve the level of manual teaching activities in the whole park and comprehensively improve the quality of teaching guarantee in our park, we chose this topic and conducted in-depth and detailed research from the perspective of case analysis.

The improvement of the quality of kindergarten manual activities provides a great development space for children's imagination, thinking and creativity, which can stimulate children's strong interest in art activities, experience the joy of art activities, let children appreciate and feel the beauty of images in art works, and cultivate children's good quality. As a garden with rich experience in manual activities, a team of teachers with high manual skills and a good atmosphere for manual activities, our garden strives to make "manual activities" a major educational feature of our garden through the development of this topic, improve the level of education and teaching, and improve the quality of teaching guarantee.

Third, the goal of the study.

1. Study and explore a good form of art teaching activities suitable for children in our garden.

2. Stimulate children's interest in art production, make them spontaneous and active, and improve their production ability.

3. Renew teachers' concept of education and teaching, and improve teachers' teaching reflection ability and teaching and scientific research ability.

Fourthly, the research method of the subject.

This study mainly adopts qualitative research methods and action research methods. Specific methods are:

1. literature method: by consulting books and materials, we collect the development of children's art education at home and abroad on the internet, improve our educational methods through learning, drawing lessons from and discarding the useless, and tap the practical value of this study.

2. Investigation method: On the one hand, by investigating the views and attitudes of teachers and parents on art activities, as well as the present situation of kindergarten, family and community on art education for young children. On the other hand, it investigates children's interest in art activities and children's activity characteristics. Grasp the basic situation of children's art education from the above two aspects, so as to constantly adjust the education and management behavior, create a good research atmosphere, and promote the smooth progress of research.

3. Action research method: In the practice of art education, teachers modify, observe and collect data while learning, understand the children's activity performance, constantly adjust the teachers' educational behavior, and improve the kindergarten-based curriculum with children's artistic characteristics.

4. Case method: Starting from children's life, teachers should find children's interests and carry out independent art generation courses. After an activity demonstration, the teacher should make a case study of this course, summarizing the children's production process, growth process and highlights of activity design; Reflect on the shortcomings of activities and actively improve them.

5. Work evaluation method: collect, sort out, summarize and analyze children's art works, understand children's development, and constantly sort out the course content and research methods.

6. Experience summary method: through stage summary, analyze the research results and problems existing in the implementation, constantly adjust the research strategies in the next stage, and form the final research report.

Fifth, the steps of research.

(1) preparation stage (20 12.9)

1. Investigation on the current situation of art education in kindergartens.

2. Collect relevant materials about children's art education at home and abroad.

3. Collect tools and materials related to artistic activities.

4. Set up a small project working group, implement the main members, and define the division of labor and tasks.

5. Draw up the goal and teaching plan of art education, and put them into practice in this park.

(II) Implementation stage (20 12.9-20 13.4)

1. Improve the curriculum of children's art education and form a relatively perfect curriculum plan for children's art education.

2. Observe the teaching cases, curriculum design and related educational activities.

3. Explore manual teaching design, carry out teaching design appraisal activities, pay attention to children's excellent handmade products, improve teachers' evaluation, and carry out parent-child manual activities.

4. Use the methods of works analysis and comparison to collect all kinds of data for evaluation.

5. Training, research and communication. Experts are regularly invited to guide courses, hold teacher training and carry out exchanges. Exhibition and research activities.

(III) Summary stage (2013.4.30-2013.5.30)

1. The teacher writes cases and arranges teaching materials.

2. Organize materials and summarize the achievements of teaching activities with artistic characteristics.

3. Summarize the results and write a research report. Announce the project results.

Sixth, the research content of the subject

(A) to create a rich artistic atmosphere, to stimulate children's interest in artistic activities.

The outline points out that "the environment is an important educational resource, and children's development should be effectively promoted through the creation and utilization of the environment." Kindergarten art activity environment should constantly create and change learning places according to the needs of children's life, guide children to be lively and active, and promote their development. Therefore, while creating an environment, our garden constantly adds elements of art design to stimulate children's interest in art design activities. For example, when creating a corridor environment, we have created "paper-cut art gallery", "colored clay sculpture" and "abandoned and transformed pendants", which are close to children's lives and stimulate their desire to participate. In addition, in order to give children a better art operation space, create an art operation atmosphere and avoid material restrictions in class activity areas, our park fully develops the resources in the park and opens an art room for children.

(2) Choose materials in life to stimulate children's creative inspiration.

The creative cost of children's art activities is high. Many things in life that are regarded as waste in adults' eyes are often children's favorite and most precious creative sources, such as pieces of paper, empty bottles, small stones, colored packaging bags, boxes and so on. These materials are the intermediary and bridge between children's learning and creation, and the use of special materials will make children have a stronger interest in creation. For example, in the "Skillful Hand Change" activity, parents take the materials such as waste paper, shells and buttons that are idle at home to the kindergarten and make them into exquisite works.

In addition, teachers also use their brains to make waste paper such as Lulu cans, cartons and oil drums into outdoor game equipment such as stilts, caves and cars that children like. These toys not only come from life, but also can be really used in life, and enrich the outdoor game toys in the park.

(three) to carry out a variety of activities to promote the diversified development of their homes.

Talking about cooperation-Let parents participate in parent-child artistic and creative activities

At the beginning of the activity, parents did not support the art activities carried out in kindergartens, and they were always confused about collecting materials. In order to let parents better understand the importance of art activities in kindergartens, we use half a day's open time to let parents and children make handicrafts together, and our teacher actively explains the changes of children after art activities are carried out. After careful observation on weekdays, parents are very pleased to find that their children have changed a lot, with active thinking and rich imagination. We also conducted parent-child observation activities and made "lanterns". After the activity, the parents said, "In the past, when doing manual activities, the baby always said, Mom, you made it for me. Now you say, Mom, do you think I did it beautifully?" As can be seen from the children's words, our children's practical ability has developed well, won the recognition and support of parents, and promoted the effective cooperation of the family.

Seven. Research results and effects

(1) teacher

1. Accumulate rich experience and promote teachers' professional growth.

Although the teachers in our garden have not graduated from art major, through the research of this topic, teachers have been learning through various channels such as self-study through books, online charging and training practice, and accumulated rich professional knowledge and teaching experience, which stimulated teachers' research enthusiasm and promoted teachers' professional growth.

2. Tap teachers' artistic potential and improve teachers' awareness of environmental protection.

In the daily art teaching activities, teachers collect waste materials, reuse various material resources, improve teachers' awareness of conservation and environmental protection, and tap their artistic potential while creating various materials.

3. Deepen teaching practice and develop kindergarten-based courses.

Through the practical research of this topic, teachers' teaching practice ability has been improved, which reflects teachers' creative setting of teaching objectives and improving research ability in kindergarten-based courses. It highlights the distinct concept of running a garden and the advanced concept of sustainable development.

(2) Family education

The development of this topic has changed parents' educational concept and won their recognition and support. Realize the integration of family education.

(3) children.

1. Develop children's unique creativity

In the process of children's participation in art activities, teachers use the beautiful things in nature and social life to enlighten and educate children on beauty, so that the feeling of beauty is deepened and internalized into their own expression of beautiful things. Through various artistic activities, children can pour their own experiences and true feelings into artistic creation, form creative works of art, and gradually develop their unique creative ability.

2. Let the child's personality develop naturally.

Children express their personal feelings through visual arts, from which they can experience happiness and success, and determine their inner essence and value. Art activities provide children with the best form of self-expression, thus promoting the natural development of their personality.

3. Cultivate children's keen thinking.

Through the artistic production of various materials, children can form a unique observation field of vision for things and materials in life. In the design and creative activities, they not only developed the coordination of brain, eyes and hands, but also promoted their keen thinking ability.

(4) research.

Gradually enrich the kindergarten-based curriculum in practical research and form the artistic characteristics of the kindergarten-based curriculum. The case study of handicraft activities in art teaching in our garden takes children's favorite toys, animals and daily objects as materials, which greatly compensates the artist's sense of success and joy of beautifying the environment, letting parents see the results and letting children play with toys themselves.

(v) Results

1. Self-compiled collection of teaching plans, children's works, parent-child works and teachers' works in the park.

2. Form an empirical article: 15 teaching case analysis, 4 art activity workshops, 2 teachers' art education essays and 5 teaching designs.

3. Participate in the 29th National Children's Quality Cup Children's Painting and Calligraphy Competition. In this activity, I won the title of "Excellent Teacher in Quality Education", the title of "29th National Children's Painting and Calligraphy Competition 100 Excellent Teachers", 100 Excellent Teachers (Special Prize) and 15 Teachers won the Excellent Teacher Guidance Award. In this children's competition, * * * 140 children won prizes, including 47 gold medals, 39 silver medals, 35 bronze medals and 9 winners 19.

Eight, the existing problems and thinking

(A) In the implementation of the "Case Study of Handicraft Activities in Art Teaching", more emphasis is placed on the development of content and the cultivation of children's artistic ability, while the evaluation of children's artistic ability is relatively weak. Teachers need to further explore the evaluation strategies of art education.

(2) Teachers are not good at summing up their good experiences in practice in time, and their awareness of collecting and sorting materials needs to be improved. It is necessary to further cultivate the ability to summarize and improve, and timely sort out and retain the activity information.

(3) From the perspective of the long-term development of kindergartens, through the research of this topic, we only pay attention to the outstanding characteristics of kindergartens, and the research is superficial and single, which has not risen to the level of building a kindergarten-based culture.