Teachers pay more attention to the cultivation of skills, such as paying attention to the external shape of objects, color matching, and spatial arrangement of pictures; the only criterion for evaluating the quality of children's works is "resemblance". In this way, children strive to follow the teacher's requirements when painting, which inhibits their self-expression and stifles their potential creativity. In activities, teachers often go to extremes. Either "focus on results and focus on learning skills", or "focus on developing imagination and focus on laissez-faire". How teachers find the best "suitable point" between imitating learning and encouraging innovation, and how to master the "suitable scale" in teaching, are worthy of our teachers' deep thought. I think it can help children initially feel, discover and love the beauty in the environment, life and art. Through independent exploration and trying various creative materials and forms, children are encouraged to be willing to explore, imagine and create. You can give full play to your imagination in a relaxed and independent atmosphere of creative activities, and use your favorite creative methods to creatively express beauty. Cultivate children's self-confidence and sense of accomplishment with the idea that "anything I am interested in can become my work, and any material I like can become the material for my creation." Diverse creative art activities provide children with the best form of self-expression. They express their personal feelings through this artistic method and experience happiness and success. So, where should we start?

1. Change ideas and update concepts. Teachers should establish the concept of "child development first" to meet the needs of children with different differences, encourage each child to be active, and encourage and guide them to have independent and spontaneous art. tendencies and creations. At the same time, teachers teach children some basic production skills in a planned way. Only by mastering certain skills can children gain flying wings to express themselves better. In the past, the materials prepared by teachers were relatively simple, except paper and paint. In current teaching, various waste materials: paper towel tubes, cartons, disposable chopsticks, cold drink sticks, waste newspapers, plastic bags, plastic cups, etc. have become our The teaching content provides necessary conditions for the cultivation of children's creativity. At the same time, teachers should pay attention to cultivating children's creative thinking qualities and habits in all aspects of children's daily life, enriching children's experience, and expanding children's knowledge; they can use literary works and musical works to guide the appreciation of various forms of artistic works and expand Children's vision; during the guidance of art activities, children are encouraged to fly with the wings of imagination and make the impossible possible.

2. Create an environment full of creative and artistic atmosphere. Creating an open, new-form educational environment full of creative and artistic atmosphere is the entry point for kindergartens to carry out creative art. Pay attention to the potential educational functions of the environment.

(1) The creative works of peers stimulate children’s creative thinking. We installed a work display board at the door of each class; and each class has a work display stand open to the public in the garden, providing these frameworks Finally, our children's works are displayed here. This is the best display of children's stage-by-stage art achievements, and it also creates a world for children's artistic exchange.

(2) Use parents’ design inspiration to open up a display stage for children. In addition to children, parents are also participants in our art environment. We organize a home-based education toy production competition every year. The requirements for the works are parents and children. They are conceived and made with discarded environmentally friendly materials in our daily life. We have a work exhibition hall, which displays the wisdom of parents and children. Some of the novelties are unexpected, and the whimsical ideas are refreshing and deeply inspiring. When the children visited, they all enjoyed explaining their works to their peers and the interesting things they had done with their parents during the production.

(3) Use the abstract art of famous artists to stimulate children’s creative thinking. We first invested a lot of manpower and financial resources to create a beautiful, vivid, interesting and contagious environment. Our art corridor The abstract paintings of world-famous painters allow children to appreciate the best art works of mankind, allowing children to directly communicate with the masters and directly perceive the charm of art, so that they can have a good aesthetic taste from an early age. force.

(4) Use a personalized creative art environment to induce creative thinking in children. We strive to make every painting, tree, grass, facility and space design in the kindergarten It can give children the influence of art and the enjoyment of beauty. There are a variety of workshops in the art and creative activity room of our park, such as: color workshop, clay sculpture workshop, handicraft workshop, ink workshop, paper workshop, etc. Each workshop has a large workbench with a variety of materials, including paints, brushes, ropes, beads, sticks, etc. Children are encouraged to use a variety of artistic methods to express their inner feelings. Children have different preferences for art tools, and different art materials that are frequently changed can arouse children's interest and enthusiasm. Providing diverse and open materials and tools gives children the opportunity to choose, which helps create diverse forms of expression, helps them learn to use a variety of tools during operations, feel the different effects brought by different tools, and add Fun and added beauty. The children will use short ropes, straw, old CDs, and buttons to collage them into little birds, and they will use paper towels, paste, and paint to make facial makeup. Each work is the creation of children's bold imagination and full of personality. Teachers hang these works on the walls and put them on shelves, so that children can feel the process and joy of their own creation. On the bookshelf in the art room, there are picture albums by famous world painters, and children can browse and appreciate them at will.

The personalized class layout of each class is also a highlight of our garden in the art creation. Teachers have full autonomy. They will design different theme wall decorations according to each teaching theme activity, such as: "Animal World" and "Faces" for the large class, "Underwater World" for the middle class, and "Leaf Painting" for the small class.

(5) Create a relaxed psychological environment and encourage free creative forms. A relaxed psychological environment and free painting methods are conducive to the activation of children's thinking and bold expression; an equal teacher-student relationship is conducive to Establish the awareness of independent expression in young children so that the presentation of works can be personalized. Masonry Bar, Creative Workshop, My Style Show, etc. are children’s favorite activities. The relaxed and free atmosphere and rich creative environment are conducive to children’s bold expression and performance.

3. Guidance Strategies for Creative Art Teaching Activities In order to allow children to receive art education more happily and to allow creative art teaching to play a greater educational role, we focus on the following teaching strategies:

(1) Stimulate children’s innovative thinking 1. Novel methods: Children like hide and seek the most, so our teachers capture the children’s playful psychology and play color-changing games with the children; oil-water separation painting: children first use oil pastels Draw a net, then paint it with gouache, and a net will appear in front of the children immediately; or first use oil pastels of various colors to paint the base color, then cover it with a layer of black oil pastel color, and then use a toothpick to scrape the painting, a new kind of painting Jumping onto the paper. We also tried to use transparent glue to outline the desired pattern on the paper, then painted it, and peeled off the tape; the children discovered that painting was not limited to oil pastels, and they experienced art creation inspired by the teacher's novel methods fun. 2. Unique method: Usually we draw flat pictures, but now we can also create three-dimensional shapes. We first use newspapers to make the basic concave and convex surfaces, then use tape to fix them, and finally use napkins and latex to shape and color. A three-dimensional shape was displayed in front of the children, and they were all surprised by this expression technique. Under the guidance of this unique method, we made crocodiles, robots and other shapes.

(2) Teachers should make “innovation” concrete and clear. Some teachers often require children's works to be "different from the teacher's" or "different from the children's". This empty request often leaves young children helpless. I think that the so-called "different" should first encourage children to innovate, so that their works are different from their previous creations, and they are not satisfied with the methods they have mastered. For example, in "Architecture of the City", I proposed to the children the activity of selecting outstanding architectural designers to arouse the children's interest, and let them watch the courseware of buildings from all over the world, and also specially selected a group of typical architectural features. Photos are posted on the wall for children to appreciate, guiding young children to understand the main features of the building. Then he proposed: "Imagine yourselves as designers participating in the election, to design unique architectural shapes, with various roofs, doors, windows, and balconies. The children watched a variety of buildings After observing the colorful pictures, they all cheered and started competing for designers with great interest. Not only could they draw buildings, but they could also use waste paper boxes to make three-dimensional castles, using a variety of materials to create unique expressions. With the construction, teachers don’t have to worry about “uniform” results.

Four. Use art materials creatively. Since it is a multi-faceted creative activity, there is no doubt that the materials are diverse. In the activity "Peking Opera Masks", children can choose to make sculptures with clay; they can choose to graffiti with paintbrushes; or they can choose to make them with living materials, especially the collection of living materials, such as boxes, cardboard, bottles, eggshells, and seeds. , cloth heads, straws, colored paper, etc. are all good materials for making. However, the more materials, the better, and the more complex the better. The age characteristics of children determine their physical and mental development level. In practice, we often find that the more materials, the better. , especially young children have no way to start when faced with complicated materials. Therefore, we must be targeted in preparing materials.

Before deciding to release materials, we need to think