The Educational Value of Traditional Games in Kindergarten

(A) promoting the good development of enlightenment education is conducive to the cultivation of children's social cognitive ability.

Enlightenment education plays a key role in children's future development. Enlightenment education is conducive to the development of children's intelligence and the cultivation of social cognitive ability, so that children can gradually understand the relationship between individuals and society and promote their social development.

Early childhood is an important period to develop children's intelligence. By stimulating children's hearing and vision, children's musical ability, computing ability and oral ability can be developed. For young children, if they want to integrate into society smoothly in the future, they must have good social cognitive ability.

After a long period of development, children's folk games contain the wisdom of working people and present the basic concepts and customs of our traditional society. The application of children's folk games in preschool education is beneficial to the development of children's intelligence and the effective cultivation of social cognitive ability.

In early childhood education, teachers should choose appropriate children's folk games in combination with the training objectives of early childhood education, so as to promote the smooth development of early childhood education, such as telling children folk stories and performing folk programs, and cultivate children's imitation ability and language ability in this way. And with the help of educational games, children's creativity and imagination can be cultivated.

When the game goes deeper, children can gradually feel the connection between individuals and others, individuals and collectives, and can gradually feel the basic social values, and then learn to get along with others.

(2) It is conducive to the healthy development of children's body and mind.

Early childhood is a period of rapid physical development of children. Children are naturally active and used to playing games. Traditional folk games in China include rubber jumping, throwing sandbags and the eagle catching chickens. These games have a lot of activities. By participating in children's folk games, we can not only conform to children's playing nature, but also exercise and improve physical fitness.

For example, through the game of throwing sandbags, children's reaction ability and physical flexibility can be greatly exercised, which can effectively stimulate children's physical and mental development; For another example, by playing the game of catching chickens with eagles, children's gait strength can be improved, and their muscle strength can be improved during the whole game.