Folk arts and crafts suitable for children.

Folk arts and crafts suitable for children: shadow play.

Shadow play, also known as shadow play and light shadow, is one of the oldest folk art forms of the Chinese nation. It is the essence of China traditional culture, bearing the rich cultural connotation of China for thousands of years. Rich story themes, diverse visual expressions, profound and interesting language and entertainment elements firmly grasp the hearts of young children.

Shadow play performance can enrich children's vocabulary, provide children with language information and improve their language expression ability. Give children a platform to speak, so that their language ability can be developed and used, and promote the development of their language ability.

Strategies for Shadow Play to Promote the Development of Children's Language Expression Ability

(1) Create a shadow play atmosphere in the activity environment of the language area.

A good language learning environment can stimulate children's interest in language learning more effectively and integrate them into language learning activities with a relaxed attitude, thus promoting the smooth development of language activities. Therefore, kindergarten teachers need to create an interesting teaching environment for children from two aspects: venue and spirit.

To carry out language regional activities in kindergartens, we should not only keep the learning site clean and tidy, but also arrange some shadow figures and music that children like in the performance area according to the needs of shadow play, so as to create a more simple scene and space for language activities and promote the orderly development of activities.

For example, kindergartens carry out language regional activities through shadow play, and teachers can arrange some shadow people in the classroom in advance, so that children can play games by themselves and create a fairy-tale shadow play environment for children, so that children can integrate into shadow play as soon as possible and reproduce fairy tales. Through shadow play, children can not only realize a deeper understanding of the stories in the book, but also exercise their language skills through shadow play, which can promote the improvement of children's language skills under the full enthusiasm and high learning atmosphere of children.

(B) a reasonable choice of language activities in shadow play

Children of different ages have different psychological characteristics and language development levels. Teachers should choose appropriate shadow play language activity games according to the characteristics of children's age development, so as to effectively improve the effectiveness of activities and promote the improvement of children's language ability. For example, middle-class children are unfamiliar with many things because they have just learned, have not received formal language education, and lack the foundation of language education. At this time, teachers should pay attention to cultivating children's basic language expression ability through shadow play.

Because the children in the middle class have little contact with things, teachers can choose life-oriented situations to create shadow play, such as pony running games, that is, let children play shadow play, some students use pony shadow play, and some people use horse-driver shadow play.

In the game, the teacher asked the children, "Little friend, how did the horse driver drive the horse?" At this time, children will review their impressions of people riding horses, answer teachers' questions with their own impressions, and gradually exercise their language skills in the process of asking and answering questions step by step.

Through this kind of game related to shadow play, children can also pay attention to recording some experiences in life, actively express their thoughts through language, and improve their language expression ability in the process of active learning and exploration.

(C) Respect children's dominant position in the language activities of shadow play.

In the language education in the new era, teachers put children at the center of the whole language teaching activities, respect children's dominant position, and take necessary measures to let children give full play to their dominant position and actively participate in language learning activities. Based on this, teachers can reasonably choose some simple shadow play games in the language teaching activities of shadow play to stimulate children's interest in participation and make them actively learn language.

For example, in the process of language activities in shadow play, games of watching actions and speaking words can be introduced. First, teachers make actions through shadow play, so that children can say corresponding words through the actions shown in shadow play. After children understand the rules of the game, guide children to give full play to their imagination, and make corresponding actions by linking words with themselves through shadow play, so that other children can say the corresponding words. Such games can not only train children's language expression ability, but also cultivate children's innovation ability and expression ability.

In the process of language activities, teachers should pay attention to observing children's performance and behavior, dynamically understand children's thoughts and interests, rationally adjust teaching objectives and the use of shadow play according to the actual situation, gradually optimize language activities, improve the effectiveness of activities, and promote the effective development of children's language ability.