The Regulations on Kindergarten Work points out that "the kindergarten takes games as its basic activity" and "games are an important form of children's all-round development education". It can be seen that games play an extremely important role in the healthy development of children's body and mind. It is a combination of freedom, fun, imagination and creativity, which fully conforms to the age characteristics of children who are curious, fun and active. Children play games every day, but the content and level of games are changing every day, and children's knowledge, skills and creativity are also improved in games. Games are children's learning and children's work. What they show in the game is always active participation and bold attempts. They develop their brains and muscles in the game and actively gain various experiences and abilities. Games are an important way to cultivate children's creativity.
How to cultivate children's creativity in games? After several years of teaching practice, I have summarized the following points:
First, in the game, stimulate children's curiosity
Curiosity is the source of creativity. Curiosity can make people think, stimulate interest in the unknown, and thus enhance the motivation for creative activities. In the face of complicated society, children are full of strong curiosity and doubt about all the unknown things around them. Due to the limitation of their own ability and life experience, they can't fully understand them, which stimulates their curiosity in the game and promotes their understanding of things. The process of children's understanding of things is the process of their creation, that is, on the basis of their existing cognitive structure, they creatively absorb or adapt to unknown knowledge and experience.
For example, while playing with gouache colors, children mumble, "Yellow, blue ……" Some children put yellow on wet blue, and yellow is no longer pure yellow, and blue is no longer pure blue, and the color becomes green. Children's curiosity began to stimulate, and the desire to create began to be strong. He put red on yellow again, and the color changed again. It is strange that the color will "change". The child's curiosity aroused his interest in this activity and prompted him to continue exploring. In a short time, he created several colors such as purple and gray. Children create unknown colors in play and enrich their understanding of colors.
Second, encourage children to actively explore in the game.
The children are full of a strong desire to explore everything. They hope to understand the things around them through their own exploration. At the same time, in the process of operating and playing with toys, we can enrich our cognition, improve our ability and give play to our creativity in the process of exploration. Therefore, children should be encouraged to explore and operate boldly in activities that allow them to explore, so that they can gain new knowledge and experience on the basis of existing knowledge and experience.
When playing with sand, they actively explore the characteristics of sand by building castles, digging rivers, blocking fences, etc., while ordinary sand children can play ever-changing tricks, and they create good products in a novel and unique way.
In the scientific game of "ups and downs", children actively explore how to put various materials into the water, see some objects floating on the water, some objects sinking into the water, find that the water is buoyant, and then give them a piece of plasticine to make it float on the water. After repeated fiddling and operation, the children finally created plasticine and floated on it in the shape of a boat. In this process, children make bold attempts and take the initiative to explore, and they solve problems through their own operations, thus promoting the development of creativity. Creative thinking
Third, cultivate children's creative thinking in games.
Creative thinking is realized with the participation of decentralized thinking and centralized thinking. To improve children's creativity, it is necessary to cultivate children's divergent thinking, encourage children to think in many directions and pay attention to cultivating children's concentrated thinking.
In the role game "Dining Room", children are given a pile of plasticine, and waiters pack jiaozi, fried dough sticks, cakes, and Kentucky Fried Chicken legs and bread. The children rubbed around excitedly, and some made exquisite cakes and delicious snacks with the help of boxes, sticks and other counseling materials. The enthusiasm and initiative of children's games are fully reflected, and their divergent thinking is constantly revealed.
When playing ribbons in outdoor games, the children are in groups of four, each with a corner of the ribbon. Isn't it the embodiment of children's creative thinking to creatively change the play of "balloon umbrella" to rise, fall, rotate and surf?
When playing with paper in sports competitions, how to make the paper stick to your chest without the help of your hands? The children tried many methods, but the results were not the best. I found a child running hard with paper on his chest. As a result, the paper really dropped. And he continued to run and found that the faster he ran, the tighter the paper stuck to his chest. In this game, the child's concentrated thinking has experienced another exercise, and it is this game that has contributed to his creation.
Fourth, support children's imagination in the game.
Imagination is the wing of creation, children's creation comes from naive imagination, and relaxed and happy games are the free kingdom of children's phenomenon. Therefore, the phenomenon of supporting children, even whimsical, is particularly important for the development of children's creativity.
Play "driving" in the role game. A child shouted, "The car caught fire and exploded!" "A teacher heard this and criticized without thinking:" How do you play? Drive well. "But another teacher took a completely different attitude. She believes that this is the full embodiment of children's willingness and creativity to play games and the improvement of children's cognitive ability. She immediately guided the child: "What if the car catches fire?" The children creatively proposed to transfer "passengers" and then sent "fire engines" to control the fire, and the game plot turned to a new climax.
Here, it is the teacher who supports the children's bold imagination and creates a vigorous scene of "fire fighting". Does the child's imagination not reflect the child's "creation"?
After the "Happy Wheels" activity, children realized that putting wheels on cars can improve speed and save labor, so they began to imagine putting wheels on heavy appliances and furniture, so that their parents would have less hard work in life, and some even designed "houses with wheels" and went wherever they wanted.
The children's imagination is really unique. Newton didn't see the apple fall to the ground before he discovered gravity. Didn't Watt see the steam from the teapot open the lid before he invented the steam engine?
Imagination is the premise of creation. Let us correctly understand children's imagination and let them gallop freely in the kingdom of imagination, which is the greatest support for children's creativity.
The development of society has reached the rapidly changing era of knowledge economy, and the cultivation of creativity is becoming more and more important for the future development of children. Let's fully respect children's games and let them further create in the games!