How to Cultivate Young Children's Interest in Painting

With the deepening of the reform of early childhood education, the concept of "respecting children" and "giving children free space for development" has been y rooted in people's minds. In the early childhood painting activities, many teachers have changed the traditional "model painting" form of teaching methods, focusing on the active development of children's space, to encourage children to create freely.

The Outline of the Guidelines for Kindergarten Education explicitly states that children should be allowed to "enjoy participating in artistic activities and be able to boldly express their own feelings and experiences; they should be able to use their own preferred methods of artistic expression activities." This affirms the role of art in the implementation of quality education in kindergarten. The painting of young children is an important part of art education, is the foundation of painting, cultivating the painting interest of young children in small classes can make young children enter the door of art as early as possible, to accept the inculcation of the beauty, so as to inspire young children to pursue a healthy and upward noble sentiments.

The purpose of painting is to explore the potential artistic qualities and abilities of young children, to shape their lively and cheerful personalities, and to promote their comprehensive and harmonious development. The youngest children in the early stages of the class have a lack of knowledge and experience, their imagination is weak, and their psychology and physiology are in the process of development. Although they have begun to paint since they were very young, their state of mind is still in the stage of scribbling, and the purpose of painting is not very clear, so they regard painting activities as a kind of game. They see drawing as a kind of game. Moreover, the observation power of small children is more generalized, the small muscles and functions of their hands are not yet perfect, and their movements are not coordinated. Some children are reluctant to hold a pen during the activity, and some even cry when they see a pen and paper. Therefore, teachers should focus on guiding and helping children to understand painting activities and make them interested in painting activities.

The key to organizing drawing activities for small children is to stimulate children's enthusiasm for drawing, cultivate their interest in drawing, and let them feel the joy and success of drawing in interesting drawing activities. So, how to cultivate children's interest in painting in small groups? In the author's opinion, there are the following ways to cultivate children's interest in painting:

One: Expanding horizons and enriching perceptions are the basis for cultivating children's participation in painting activities in small groups

The Outline points out in the second part of the "Educational Content and Requirements" that "children should be guided to come into contact with the surrounding environment and the beautiful things in life, as well as the beautiful things in the world. In the second part of "Educational Content and Requirements", the Outline points out that "guide children to come into contact with the surrounding environment and the beautiful people, things and objects in their lives, enrich their perceptual experience and aesthetic interests, and stimulate their interest in expressing and creating beauty." Enriching children's perceptual experience means enriching their life experience. Teachers should always use the natural environment around the children, social life to deepen children's experience, so as to produce the desire to express beauty, not only in the classroom to listen to the teacher, look at the teaching wall charts. For example, if the classroom nature corner to plant some real plants, raise some small animals; parents to take children to the zoo, parks, travel, and even life in the meal, bath, brush teeth, sleep, etc., are rich in children's painting inspiration of the best source.

Two: choose close to life, image intuitive content, to attract children's interest in painting activities.

The third part of the Outline, "Organization and Implementation", also points out that it is one of the principles that should be followed in the selection of the content of educational activities to choose the things and issues that are of interest to children close to their lives. As young children in small classes have little life experience, they tend to be interested in drawing and painting only familiar and interesting things that they often come into contact with in their daily activities. When the children are not interested in the content arranged by the teacher, even if the teacher tries to guide the children, the result is unsatisfactory. By pulling the children's attention to the content determined by themselves, it seems that the teaching goal has been accomplished on the surface, but in fact, the children have not really learned it. When choosing the content of painting for small children, it should be based on the age characteristics of small children, and should choose the content that the children are familiar with, interested in, and often in contact with. Choose subjects that children are familiar with or interested in, for example, small children like small animals, so we can design paintings such as "cute little sheep" and "little snail crawling". We can also choose familiar people, toys or food as the theme, such as "cutting cake", "sweet watermelon" and so on. In the small class, drawing is often used for teaching, so the teacher should prepare a background for the children to draw on. Such as: "fragrant noodles" on the drawing of a large bowl, "save the little fish" on the drawing of two small fish, "picking apples" on the drawing paper cut into a large tree. "Ride in the car" cut a big car out of the paper. Draw squares on the paper cutout of a giraffe. Practice drawing straight, horizontal, and diagonal lines on a paper cutout of a zebra. By teaching in this way, the children will be attracted without realizing it, and they will enjoy completing the activities in a relaxed atmosphere.

Three: Using different drawing tools and materials to cultivate children's interest in drawing activities

The third part of the Outline, "Organization and Implementation", points out that: kindergarten educational activities, is the teacher in a variety of forms of purposeful, well-planned to guide young children in a lively, lively, active activities of the educational process.

(1), tools and materials are necessary for the creation of paintings, the appropriate choice of tools will increase the children's interest in learning, prompting them to more actively involved in the creation. The first step is to provide the children with the tools and materials they need to create a good picture, so that they can be interested in drawing and painting, and also be able to achieve success.

When choosing a new tool, children should be given ample opportunity to try it out and familiarize themselves with it. Tools first choose watercolor pencils, watercolor pencils bright colors, when the child has a certain understanding of watercolor paintings, the use of young children will not feel fresh, then, the teacher will have to change the other painting tools, such as: cotton swabs, finger point painting, stamp painting, blowing paintings, crayon gouache, chalk paintings and so on. These forms of painting are easy for children to learn, colorful and effective, and the printed paintings are fast and good-looking, which can easily make children feel the joy of success y. The number of tools and materials provided must be considered in line with the thinking characteristics of small children, an activity can not be too much, otherwise it will make the children busy.

(2), the use of handmade and painting combined form, stimulate the interest of young children.

The combination of handmade and painting can make the picture work more perfect, and at the same time pay attention to the hands of young children to operate, for young children love. For example, in the painting "plum blossom" activities, first teach children to blow a tree, and then finger point painting plum blossom, the picture is perfect, the children tasted the pleasure of success, enhance the children's interest in painting. For example, before painting "Piggy builds a house", we first carry out the pasting activity, and the children have a sense of the house through pasting, and then paint, which is much easier. In teaching, various and innovative teaching methods make children more interested in participating in activities and improve their ability to draw boldly. The first step is to make the children feel that painting is a game, and that it is a happy thing to do.

Four: Teaching children some simple drawing skills in the game can increase children's interest in drawing activities.

The teaching of early childhood painting should not overly pursue the mastery of techniques, but from another point of view, the children mastered a certain painting skills, in order to put their imagination and creativity on the paper to better reflect. Although the age of small children is relatively young, they still need to master some simple drawing skills. It's just that these drawing skills are mastered without the children realizing it while they are doing and playing.

(a) Recognize points and lines in play.

According to the characteristics of small children like to draw while painting, teach children to "point" practice, if a boring monotonous practice, the children certainly do not like, I will give each child a painting with a dark cloud pattern of the painting, so that the children say while adding the painting of raindrops "clattering, clattering, clattering rain". The children were very interested in drawing while talking! The children were very interested in talking and drawing. You can also add "sesame seeds on the crackers". Small children's painting in the graffiti period, to give full play to children's imagination, the free use of lines. "Colorful sugar peas" and so on. Teach children to practice a variety of straight line drawing, "I help my mother comb her hair" training children from top to bottom drawing line, "fragrant noodles" through the picture strip, practice messy line drawing, "save the little fish! "Through the addition of water ripples, practicing the wavy line drawing, and so on.

(B), in the game to recognize the shape

Teach children to recognize the circle, you can let the children first round of the best ideas, described in words, from different angles to develop the creativity of young children, and then inspire and guide the children to use the method of adding paintings to draw balloons, apples, wheels, the sun, the smiley face, the ball, cats, rabbits and other objects.

(C), free modeling in the game

The structure of various objects, can be expressed in geometric shapes. Such as: the roof of the house can be drawn as a triangle, public **** car body can be drawn as a rectangle, square, wheels can be drawn as a circle and so on. After the children have mastered geometric shapes, they should still be based on observing objects and real scenes. Through observation, children can understand the structure of objects, such as: how to draw a fish? You can let the children in the class first observe various kinds of fish, what are the fish? Observe the structure of fish: fish for the head, body, tail, body fins, eyes. When painting, I will ask the children, what shapes do you like to use to paint the head of the fish? Inspire children to use different shapes to shape the fish. Some of them drew a round head for the fish, while others drew a triangular head for the fish. This shows that there are many different kinds of fish in real life, so we can't use the formula of drawing a round fish and a round body as a formula for children to apply. Teachers in the unknowingly let the children master the skills of painting, but also give full play to the children's main role, the painting into the children's free imagination, bold creation, experience the joy of the activities.

V: Reasonable evaluation of children's work can promote the children's interest in painting

(a) encouragement and appreciation

The Outline pointed out that teachers should be the children's guide and supporter. Young children are still in the stage of otherness, and their rich imagination is closely related to the attitude of adults. Young children need encouragement and appreciation, evaluation of young children's paintings, to try to find out what is good, to show your appreciation, once the work of young children by the teacher's recognition and praise, they will show greater enthusiasm for creativity, thus enhancing self-confidence, more interest in painting, will be more and more paintings, the better. To avoid as much as possible accusatory words, such as: "you draw nothing like, ugly dead, messy" and other words, it is easy to frustrate the children's self-esteem and enthusiasm, the children's imagination will be worried about not getting the teacher's praise and depression.

(B), careful use of horizontal comparison

The Outline in the fourth part of the "educational evaluation" pointed out that: "recognize and pay attention to the individual differences of young children, to avoid the use of uniform standards of evaluation of different young children in front of young children, careful use of horizontal comparison. "The teacher should recognize and pay attention to individual differences in children's work and avoid using uniform standards to evaluate different children. When evaluating children's works, teachers should explore the sparkling points in children's works and encourage children's active participation, such as "You draw differently from others", "Your colors are really bright", "The coloring is really even! ", the evaluation should be based on a clear, encouraging basis, so that the child is full of confidence, which also achieves the goal of improving the painting skills, effectively extending their interest.

(C), let the children self-assessment

"Outline" said to "create conditions for young children to show their work, guide young children to communicate with each other, appreciate each other, *** with the improvement." Self-assessment--that is, let the children talk about their own works, say what they drew, tell the story of their own paintings, let the children talk about their own picture of the thoughts, feelings, moods and awareness of the outside world, to introduce their own works to everyone,

As the saying goes: "Good children are praised." So that young children in praise to get progress and development. When children are praised by their peers and teachers, they will be more emotional. Then painting will be sublimated in their hearts.

It has been proved that "interest is the best teacher", in painting activities, teachers should find ways to stimulate children's interest, care for and develop children's interest, through the gradual practice of painting, enhance children's self-confidence, so as to gradually cultivate children's interest in painting. In short, let your child paint happily and to the fullest! As long as the child draws, draws freely, draws happily, draws capriciously, this is the teacher's success. Let the child insert the wings of imagination, in the vast sky, depicting their dreams of tomorrow!