Chen Heqin, a pre-school educator, advocates that "nature and society are living teaching materials", and nature is the most beneficial educational resource for children to learn and play. The important materials of natural kindergarten activities, because children's understanding of the surrounding things is mainly based on direct perception, leaves, branches, stones and so on in nature, these readily available materials provide children with a sense of familiarity and freshness, close to their lives, and easily stimulate their creative enthusiasm and desire. Natural objects have the characteristics of strong plasticity. Many reasons such as the characteristics and shapes of natural objects should be taken into account when making, which can stimulate children's interest in operation to a greater extent and effectively promote the development of children's observation, imagination, experience and expressiveness. The resulting works are also different from other works. Such materials can enrich children's activities and let children bury their awareness of environmental protection in their hearts.

There are abundant natural resources around our kindergarten. In the early stage of our "Close to Nature, Art Life" trade union activities, teachers showed their talents and made use of the natural materials collected during the holidays to produce various exquisite and practical natural works. What surprises can children bring to us by using natural materials?

On the first day, I chose oranges and nebulae from the natural corner and came to the district corner. I looked at the materials we put in, pointed to the pictures made of natural objects put in by the teacher and asked the teacher, teacher, I want to make this house, teacher, I want to make this big boat! However, it is difficult to read all the materials in the box. They put them together and put them on the table. I think, since children are very interested in splicing, they can start from the less difficult graphic production step by step.

Reed stalk is a low-structure material, and children need to study its thickness and cut out its length. The child first pasted the adhesive tape on the cardboard by drawing and sketching, and while pasting it, he compared the materials in his hand, and it soon took shape.

It turns out that thick reed stems are difficult to cut short, but the number to be pasted is small ... When the original length is wrong but you don't want to waste it, you can compare the connections. Inadvertently, the children explored a lot of math-related content.

On the first day of the activity area, the children basically made the main body of the work according to the teacher's drawing. When they came to the activity area the next day, the children began to pick up the materials and enrich the background and situation of the work by themselves.

Under the big ship, hemp rope can be used to roll out the shape of wind and waves, and two lovely seagulls are flying in the sky. The big house is made of rope, and the small house next to the door has a square window. The trees in the distance are made of branches, and beans and peanuts are placed at the door to make cobblestone paths ... children are really creative.

In fact, in the process of collage of natural objects, children learn to count, compare, classify, classify and even sort with reed stalks and beans as materials. For example, children find that the bottom of the big ship is trapezoidal, getting smaller and smaller, the roof is triangular, getting sharper and sharper, and so on. I think we can imagine, design and make some three-dimensional works with our children through some auxiliary materials, such as glue guns.

In outdoor activities, I saw children using natural materials as substitutes in game activities. For example, some plants, stones or shells are used as rice and vegetables in the doll's house game, and leaves are used as plates and bowls. We can use natural materials to create more interesting game situations for children to explore.

In addition, natural materials can also be used to make sports equipment. For example, wicker and straw are used to weave flying rings, beans are used to make sandbags, and branches are used to make slingshots and bows and arrows for children to carry out various sports activities.

I think children can be encouraged to be the protagonists of collecting natural materials in the mud academy. For example, if they find a stone, they may think it looks like a little turtle, so they can bring it back to draw or make it. For example, there are many dead branches, dead leaves, pine cones and so on around us, as well as stones and shells. To this end, our teachers should also broaden their thinking, scientifically estimate the use of natural materials, try to tap the versatility of materials, improve the utilization rate, achieve unexpected artistic effects, fully tap and utilize resources, and truly use these interesting natural materials flexibly.