How to teach children to cut window grilles

Mr. Chen Heqin, a famous children educator in China, advocated that children should cut paper. He thinks: "Children should have a chance to cut paper. First of all, you can form a good habit of enjoying yourself alone. Secondly, you can practice your hand muscles. " Because paper-cutting is a very interesting activity; During the activity, children can not only exercise the flexibility of small hand muscles and hand-eye coordination to promote brain development, but also cultivate their patience and carefulness. In the process of paper-cutting, letting children collect and sort out the cut scraps of paper can cultivate children's habit of loving neatness and labor; Paper-cutting is simple, convenient and low cost. With a pair of scissors and a piece of colored paper, it can be ever-changing In the process of cutting, they can also gain useful knowledge, enrich their imagination and cultivate their creativity. Therefore, it is very meaningful for children to carry out paper-cutting activities.

First, let children be interested in paper-cutting activities.

Interest is the first condition of learning. Usually, teachers can consciously cut some items for children to see. Seeing the wonderful changes of colored paper under the teacher's scissors will definitely stimulate children's curiosity and produce their own desire to try. Teachers can decorate the activity room by sticking children's works (such as cut colored strips) into colored rings and pulling flowers, decorate the walls of the activity room with children's childish works, and paste the windows cut by children on the glass in the New Year to add festive atmosphere ... This will not only give children a sense of accomplishment, but also increase their interest and confidence in paper cutting. Paper-cutting is one of the most popular folk arts in China, with distinctive national style and expression. When children master certain paper-cutting techniques, teachers should consciously guide them to appreciate various folk paper-cutting works, so that children can feel the charm of paper-cutting and be influenced by beauty. So as to love folk art and inherit the traditional art of China.

Second, according to the age characteristics of children, design different programs.

Small class children's hand muscles are not well developed, so it is difficult to use scissors, so it is most important to stimulate their interest. When they have the desire to cut paper, they can try to use scissors. First, let children know about paper-cutting tools, and then teach them how to hold scissors correctly: hold scissors with their right hand, and hold the two ring handles of scissors with their thumb and four other fingers respectively. The most difficult thing for children in small classes is that they can't master the power of opening and closing their hands well and let scissors open and close to cut paper. Teachers can make up stories for children to help them understand the use of scissors. For example, a little crocodile likes to eat paper. When he saw the paper, he opened his mouth (demonstrating the action of scissors opening) and took a bite (closing the scissors to cut paper). But it didn't eat enough, but climbed forward with its mouth open (opened scissors to cut paper) and took a bite (closed scissors to cut paper). The little crocodile kept crawling and opening its mouth. Considering the age characteristics of small class children, when they encounter difficulties, teachers should try to keep their interest in using scissors in various interesting forms and gradually master the use of scissors. In particular, teachers should pay attention to providing children with safe scissors, emphasize the safe and correct use of scissors, and provide some waste paper for children to practice from the perspective of environmental protection, thus providing them with more paper-cutting opportunities. After the scissors are used, the children are required to put the scissors back in the designated position, sort out the cut scraps of paper and cultivate their good behavior habits.

After a period of practice, the children in the middle class can initially master the use of scissors. At this time, teachers can gradually make demands from easy to difficult, and gradually improve children's dexterity in using scissors. For example, from cutting paper without outline to paper with outline, from cutting short straight lines to cutting long straight lines, and then to curves, you can also cut various geometric figures according to your child's mastery and try to cut them symmetrically, so that children can discover the mystery of symmetry. In order to improve the interest of paper-cutting, teachers can combine paper-cutting with pasting, let children paste the cut geometric figures on paper, let children use their imagination to create paintings, and let them feel the fun of hands-on creation.

Paper-cutting is characterized by simplicity, integrity and decoration. Due to the convenience of production conditions, symmetrical, radial and continuous patterns are often cut by multi-layer folding, which embodies the artistic effect of beauty, vividness, diversity and unity. After a long period of practice, the children in the big class have mastered the use of scissors and some skills, so they can be given further challenges: folding scissors, quadrilateral folding scissors, pentagonal folding scissors, hexagonal folding scissors, group flower scissors, lace folding scissors and so on. Further feel the fun of paper-cutting. For example, using four corners, 50%, 60% and different folding methods will have different effects, and different shapes and patterns will have wonderful changes, which will make children feel endless fun and encourage them to create art in their own way. When children create paper-cuts, they need to accumulate some life experience, which urges them to observe attentively and be good at observing at ordinary times, and then they can create all kinds of wonderful and interesting works on the basis of their own originality. Therefore, the famous educator Homlinski of the former Soviet Union said: "Children's wisdom is at your fingertips."

3. Infiltrate all kinds of education into paper-cutting activities to promote children's development in many aspects.

Carrying out paper-cutting activities is not simply to let children master paper-cutting skills, at the same time, teachers should pay attention to the cultivation of all kinds of intelligence, so that children can initially feel and love the beauty in the surrounding environment, life and art through paper-cutting activities; I like to participate in art activities, and I can boldly express my feelings and experiences, thus promoting children's development in many aspects.

Paper-cutting is a way to implement aesthetic education. Teachers should give full play to the emotional education function of art, promote the formation of children's sound personality, and avoid the tendency of focusing only on performance skills or paper-cut achievements and ignoring children's emotional experience and attitude in the process of activities. Children's creative process and works are important ways for them to express their knowledge and feelings. Children should be supported to express their individuality and creativity, and the prejudice of overemphasizing skills and standardization requirements should be overcome.

Finally, it should be emphasized that paper-cutting is an artistic activity, and children's artistic activity ability is gradually developed in the process of bold expression. The role of teachers should be mainly to stimulate children to feel and express beauty, so that they can freely express and create happiness. On this basis, according to children's development and needs, timely and appropriate guidance is given to expression methods and skills.