In Xigu Natural Art Workshop, we are committed to developing children's true perception of nature and life. Through observation and discovery, sensory experience and hands-on operation, we use natural materials to create artistic creations and express ourselves. Our curriculum emphasizes respect for children's individuality, encourages independence and independent exploration, and stimulates children's all-round development through various art forms.
Artistic creation needs a source of inspiration, and naturally it is an important source of artistic creation. Because of contact with nature, there are emotions, longings and impulses, and these inner feelings will make a person full of artistic creativity. If you want children to have certain artistic development or accomplishment, it is the best start to establish their feelings for nature.
In this valley, we don't offer skills-based training courses, but pay attention to children's perception, experience and self-expression. The natural art in this valley is characterized by-
(1) Adult Retreat-Children-centered Art Enlightenment
(2) Encourage free exploration and creation, set no standards and reduce evaluation.
(3) Focus and experiential learning
(4) Perception before art.
(5) Turn life and nature into art classes.
The teaching content of natural art should not be limited by the solidified classroom form. Whether it is artistic creation, handicrafts, or music and dance, we must follow some important principles about art education, especially art enlightenment education.
Principle 1: Art comes from rich, close and true life feelings.
Rich experience is the source of artistic creation. After children really feel life, they have emotions and impulses, and they have a strong desire to express themselves, so they can express creatively. At the same time, the teaching in the field of natural art is inseparable from the teaching in the field of feeling and life. Art activities are not isolated activities, but must come from life. Therefore, teachers should be sensitive to life and nature, have a pair of eyes to discover beauty, and take children to perceive and discover. A person who has no perception can't be an artistic creator, so discovery always comes first.
Principle 2: Encourage self-expression
Artistic expression is a very personal thing, and there should not be a single correct evaluation standard. A good art enlightenment teacher will attach importance to guiding children's personalized expression, encouraging children to follow their inner feelings, encouraging free creation, removing the requirements of patterning and reducing the judgment of adults. In art teaching, teachers are not necessarily masters of art, what is more important is to prepare the environment, take children to experience art and let them create freely. For example, compared with the so-called imitation-oriented art courses, free graffiti is the best way to stimulate children's artistic development.
Principle 3: Provide convenient and diverse creative materials.
All kinds of natural materials are the best materials for artistic experience and creation, such as water, sand, soil, mud, stones, branches, leaves, flowers and grass, including our own bodies, which can be used for artistic creation activities. To organize art activities, such as art, we should prepare certain tools, including brushes, paints, easels, sketchpad clips, picture frames, cardboard, scissors, paper cutters, tool boxes, etc. As a teacher, we should also take our children to experience richer materials and tools. Creation can be done anywhere, not just on the drawing board, for example, painting on soil, body, cloth, trunk, board, stone and sand.
Principle 4: Experience the diversity of art forms.
The world is pluralistic, and so are the themes, viewpoints, contents and artistic expressions of art. Art is a very personalized expression, and it is also very different because of the differences of countries, regions, cultures and races. Through artistic activities, guide children to perceive these differences. While developing their individuality, children also learn to accept, understand and respect others' differences, and establish a knowledge of the diversity of the world.
Principle 5: The role of teachers
If a teacher is obsessed with the activities of nature from the heart, if he likes photography, handcrafting, fiddling with small objects and collecting, then let such a teacher take his children to feel, discover, collect and create in nature and let their imagination play, which is very conducive to the growth of their aesthetic and artistic abilities. Children who grow up in this environment will have great differences in temperament, sensitivity and aesthetic level.
Series of courses: closed theme camp activities, in-depth experience, independent exercise.
Large-scale activities: large-scale art exchange, exhibition and experience activities: parent-child carnival, tree art festival, children's art competition, 100-meter scroll painting for thousands of people, graffiti art festival, color tour, expert lecture on children's art enlightenment, children's painting art exhibition and lantern festival.
Family painting: it is a unique choice for the whole family, relatives and friends to spend an "art" day, art birthday party, family gathering, parent-child painting and make a family souvenir together.
Adult art course: it's never too late to learn art, and watching children start work will make their fingers itch. Come on, specially prepared adult courses will definitely awaken your inner artistic cells.
Group art activities: team art experience and creation, promoting team building through art painting, is a good way for internal training and group building in units and schools, and is deeply loved by young people because of its novelty, novelty and vitality.
Plant rubbings, stone paintings, branch art, tree art festival, woodcut, hemp rope art, autumn sculpture, sand, light and shadow, bird's nest architect, leaves, vase flower art, dried flower art, flower arrangement, water art …
From the inexhaustible rich elements and substances in nature.
Suitable age: 2- 10 years old
Course form: children's class, parent-child class
Tie-dyeing, printmaking, paper-cutting, lantern making, kite making, ink painting experience, ice lantern, Facebook, shadow play …
Give children the opportunity to feel and contact with folk culture and art.
Suitable age: children aged 2- 10,
Course form: children's class, parent-child class
Activities: sketch, free graffiti, tree dressing, fluid painting, figure painting, palm painting, wax painting, good-looking food, abstract art experience, sketch, watercolor painting, oil painting experience …
In the process of open artistic creation experience, children can explore all kinds of activities almost completely freely.
Suitable age: 2- 10 years old
Course form: children's class, parent-child class
There are activities every week. You need to make an appointment in advance to attend.
The annual course and activity plan will be released in advance in the camp and the official WeChat account of "Beijing Valley Forest Nature Camp", and the specific course content will be updated at any time every week.
Course cards are divided into: single card, 20 cards and 50 cards. Each activity is limited to one child and one material bag, and there is no limit to accompanying adults.
The participation methods of summer camps, activities and adult activities shall be subject to the announcement of the activities.
Details consultation: firefly teacher, tel: 157 13570598.
Let's look at some photos related to natural art:
We can take our children to use light and shadow for artistic creation. Justice Sunshine is a great painter who can make everything in the world glow with different shapes and colors.
The colors in nature are very rich, so we can use them for cognition and creation. For example, Montessori often does the work of color cards, and it is also a very interesting experience for children to find objects with colors close to color cards in nature.
This is a work created by artists with natural materials.
The figure below is a sequence. Children can find the laws existing in natural objects and arrange them. This is both mathematics and art. Mathematics is a kind of thinking that can discover the laws of nature, and sequence is a kind of law.
The fruits of plants can also be used for natural creation:
There are many different natural creation materials and methods all year round, such as ice and snow in winter.