Music games are a regular game activity carried out accompanied by music and aimed at developing children's musical abilities. It expresses rich educational requirements in the form of lively and interesting games. Children master certain knowledge and skills while listening, singing, moving and playing, and unknowingly penetrates regular education and aesthetic education. At the same time, in the pleasant and free game activities, children also gain positive and pleasant emotional experience and enjoyment, which improves their physical and mental health, cultivates and forms their interest in participating in activities and their active and proactive personality, and develops creativity. Therefore, music games can have a positive effect on the development of young children.
1. Musical games delight children’s bodies and minds and promote their healthy physical and mental development.
Children are always happy when participating in music games. Their emotions are in a positive state, and the various organs of the children's bodies are also in a positive state. Various music games have different amounts of activity and different parts of the body. These activities not only promote the development of children's nerves, heart, breathing, bones, muscles, digestion, etc., but also develop children's basic movements. For example, in the small class music game "Pull a Circle and Walk", although the children in the small class are new students who have just entered the kindergarten, the sound of cheerful music will ease their Oedipus and family complexes and activate their emotions. Make it easier for them to adapt to kindergarten life and be willing to participate in kindergarten activities. During the activity, with the alternation of different contents of walking, running and jumping, children's basic movements of walking, running and jumping have also been developed. Their anxiety will also be washed away by cheerful music and interesting games, and a feeling of happiness will arise spontaneously. This relaxed and happy atmosphere also has a positive effect on the physical and mental health development of young children.
2. Music games can consolidate and enrich children’s existing experience and knowledge, and promote their intellectual development.
Games are children’s reflection of real life. Music games are based on this and add elements of music to sublimate old life experiences and explore new knowledge. In music games, children use various senses, attention, memory, thinking, and imagination to actively engage in activities. For example, in the middle class music game "Cat and Mouse", children need to mobilize their past life experience and imagination to figure out how to match the movements with the music and to catch or avoid being caught by the other party in the game. For another example, in the big class music game "Little Mouse and Beer Keg", the teacher tells the story along with the music and uses teaching aids to let the children understand the development of the game plot. At this time, children will consolidate and deepen their understanding of the plot of the game through association based on their existing life, knowledge and experience, thereby laying a good foundation for the following performance games. It can be seen that music games will have a positive impact on children's knowledge and experience accumulation, consolidate and enrich children's knowledge, and promote their intellectual development.
3. Music games can also play a positive role in promoting children’s aesthetic taste.
In music games, children reflect the beautiful things in nature and social life, as well as the beautiful images in artistic works, and use artistic language. These are activities that enhance children's sense of beauty. Expressing beauty and creating beauty through movements is helpful for the development of children's aesthetic ability and beauty creativity. In music game activities, children can actively choose various movements, shapes, expressions, gestures and other body language as well as colorful, vivid and rich props, and freely perceive, experience and create beauty.
For example, in the music game "Aquarium", the teacher used brightly colored sponge paper to make a picture of the underwater world, vividly showing the world of underwater creatures and giving children a visually beautiful experience. The teacher also asked the children to use movements to express the animals on the seabed. This link made the children's limbs fully active. Some children posed in the shape of mermaids, some children made beautiful clown fish, and some children transformed themselves into Some children turned themselves into cute jellyfish, and some children turned themselves into big sharks. Each child tried his best to show off his best movements and express his yearning for the beautiful underwater world.
Coupled with the beautiful music, it gives children a beautiful experience. Games are an important source of beauty for young children, and music games can more easily inspire children to express beauty in beautiful music.
4. Music games are conducive to the development of children’s creativity.
Musical games are also a creative activity, because the process of musical games is the process of children's imaginative activities. The more fully and richly children's imagination is used, the more vivid and vivid their performances will be. Therefore, music games can also promote the creative development of young children. For example, when I was playing the music game "Flower Party", I added storylines such as: how the mother duck takes the baby duck to the flower party, how to say hello, etc., to guide the children to further experience the content of the music, and ask them to Children make various movements along with the music to help them experience and express the plot of the game; in the second section of the music, children are guided to make different movements of flowers blooming and pose. Part 3: Children freely express the nature of the music. Children are encouraged to perform the created actions of walking, greeting, swimming across the river, and flowering shapes according to their own imagination, and then follow the music to fully display the plot of the game. In this way The learning process of children can better develop their enthusiasm for using their brains, and they can follow the teacher's effective questioning and guidance, spread the wings of imagination, create actions and viewpoints that are different from others, and give full play to their creativity. Another example: When I was playing the music game "Making Dumplings", in order to let the children understand how the dumplings roll after being boiled in the pot, and the process of making dumplings, I specially brought an induction cooker from home and kneaded and rolled the dough on the spot. Dumpling skins and making dumplings create a thick dumpling-making scene. In this real scene, children naturally understand the process of making and cooking dumplings, and understand how the boiled dumplings tumble in the pot. When I asked the children to show everyone the movements they had come up with, some children jumped on one foot, some jumped on both feet, and some even turned somersaults, really like the pot rolling. Here are the dumplings! We have to admire how rich children's imagination is and how creative their thinking is. In this learning process, children transfer their life experience to the plot of music games, which not only makes them full of interest, but also enables their creativity to be better developed.