How to cultivate children’s interest in painting in small classes

With the deepening of the reform of early childhood education, concepts such as "respecting children" and "giving children free space for development" are deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In children's painting activities, many teachers have also changed the traditional "model painting" teaching method, focusing on giving children space for active development and encouraging children to create freely.

"Kindergarten Education Guidance Outline" clearly states that children should "like to participate in artistic activities, and be able to boldly express their emotions and experiences; be able to carry out artistic expression activities in their own favorite way." This affirms The role of art in the implementation of quality education in kindergartens is highlighted. And small class children's painting is an important part of art education and the basis of painting. Cultivating children's interest in painting can enable children to enter the door of art as early as possible and accept the influence of beauty, thereby stimulating children's noble sentiments to pursue health and progress.

The purpose of small class children's painting is to tap children's potential artistic qualities and abilities, shape children's lively and cheerful personalities, and promote children's comprehensive and harmonious development. Children in the early stages of small classes lack knowledge and experience, have weak imagination, and are still developing mentally and physically. Although they have started painting activities since they were very young, their ideological realm is still in the graffiti stage, and the purpose of painting is not clear. They regard the painting activity as a game. Moreover, the observation ability of children in small classes is relatively general, the small muscles and functions of their hands are not yet perfect, and their movements are uncoordinated. There are also some children who are unwilling to take pens during activities, and some even cry when they see pens and paper. Therefore, teachers should focus on guiding and helping children understand painting activities and make them interested in painting activities.

The key to organizing small class painting activities for children is to stimulate children's enthusiasm for painting, cultivate their interest in painting, and let them feel the joy and success brought by painting in interesting painting activities. So, how to cultivate children’s interest in painting in small classes? The author believes that there are the following ways to cultivate children's interest in painting in small classes:

1: Broadening their horizons and enriching their perceptions are the basis for cultivating children in small classes to participate in painting activities

The "Outline" is in the second part The "Educational Content and Requirements" points out that "guide children to contact the surrounding environment and beautiful people, things and things in life, enrich their perceptual experience and aesthetic taste, and stimulate their interest in expressing beauty and creating beauty." Enrich children's perceptual experience, It is to enrich children’s life experience. Teachers should often use the natural environment and social life around children to deepen their experience, thereby generating a desire to express beauty, rather than just listening to the teacher in the classroom and looking at the teaching wall charts. For example: planting some real plants and raising some small animals in the natural corner of the classroom; parents take their children to zoos, parks, travel, and even in daily life such as eating, bathing, brushing teeth, sleeping, etc., which are all enriching children The best source of inspiration for painting.

Two: Choose content that is close to life and intuitive to attract children’s interest in painting activities.

The third part of the "Outline" "Organization and Implementation" also points out: Selecting things and issues that children are interested in based on their lives is one of the principles that should be followed when selecting the content of educational activities. Children in small classes have less life experience. They are often only interested in painting familiar and interesting things that they often come into contact with in daily activities. When children are not interested in the content arranged by the teacher, even if the teacher tries to guide the children, the result will be unsatisfactory. The child's attention will be forced to focus on the content he has determined. On the surface, it seems that the teaching goal has been achieved, but in fact Toddlers don’t really understand it. When selecting painting content for children in small classes, the age characteristics of children in small classes should be selected, and content that children are familiar with, interested in, and frequently exposed to should be selected. Choose themes that children are familiar with or interested in. For example, if children in primary school like small animals, we can design drawings such as "cute little sheep" and "little snail crawling". You can also choose people, toys or food that they are familiar with as themes, such as "cutting cake", "big sweet watermelon", etc. Adding pictures is often used in teaching in small classes, so teachers should prepare the background for children to add drawings. For example: "Fragrant noodles" draw a big bowl, "Save the little fish" draw two small fishes, "Picking apples" draw the drawing paper into a big tree.

"Taking a car" just cut out a big car from the drawing paper. Draw a square shape on the paper cutout giraffe. Practice drawing straight, horizontal and diagonal lines on paper cutout zebras. Through this kind of teaching, children are attracted unconsciously and complete the activities happily in a relaxed atmosphere.

Three: Use different painting tools and materials to cultivate children's interest in painting activities

Part three of the "Outline" "Organization and Implementation" points out: Educational activities in kindergartens, It is an educational process in which teachers guide children to lively, lively and active activities in a variety of ways in a purposeful and planned manner.

(1) Tools and materials are necessary conditions for painting creation. Proper selection of tools will increase children's interest in learning and encourage them to be more proactive in creating. Due to the imperfect development of their small muscles, children in small classes have poor hands-on ability. Therefore, teachers can only provide children with tools and materials that are rich and interesting and can produce better effects on pictures, so that children can not only become interested in painting activities, but also Make it easy for young children to succeed.

When choosing a new tool, children should be given ample opportunities to try it and become familiar with it. The first tool to choose is watercolor pens. Watercolor pens are brightly colored. When children have a certain understanding of and use watercolor pens, they will feel stale. At this time, teachers will need to use other painting tools, such as: cotton swabs, finger stippling, Seal painting, blow painting, crayon and gouache painting, chalk painting, etc. These painting forms are easy for children to learn, have bright colors, and good effects. The printed paintings are quick and beautiful, and they can easily make children feel the joy of success. The number of tools and materials provided must be considered in line with the thinking characteristics of small class children. There should not be too many activities at one time, otherwise the children will be confused.

(2) Use a combination of handicrafts and painting to stimulate children’s interest.

The combination of handwork and painting can make the picture more perfect. At the same time, it pays attention to children's hands-on operation, which is loved by children. For example, in the activity of painting "plum blossoms", children are first taught to blow a tree, and then use their fingers to draw plum blossoms. The picture is perfect, and the children taste the joy of success, which enhances their interest in painting. For example, before drawing "Little Pig Builds a House", first perform pasting activities. Through pasting, children will have a perception of the house, and then it will be much easier to paint. In teaching, various and novel teaching techniques make children more interested in participating in activities and improve their ability to draw boldly. Let the children in small classes feel that painting is just a "playing" game and painting is a happy thing.

Four: Teaching young children some simple painting skills in games can increase their interest in painting activities.

Enlightenment teaching of children's painting should not overly pursue the mastery of techniques. However, looking at it from another perspective, only when children have mastered certain painting skills can their imagination and creativity be better reflected on paper. . Although children in small classes are younger, they still need to master some simple painting skills. It's just that these painting skills are mastered by young children unconsciously while playing.

(1) Recognize points and lines in the game.

According to the characteristics of small class children who like to draw and talk at the same time, when teaching children to practice "dot", if the practice is boring and monotonous, the children will definitely not like it, so I gave each child a For a picture with a dark cloud pattern, let the children add raindrops while saying, "It's raining, it's raining!" Children are very interested in drawing while talking. You can also add "scented sesame seeds on biscuits". Children in small classes are in the graffiti stage of painting. Children should give full play to their imagination and use lines freely. For example, when teaching small class children to draw short lines, they can say, "The grass grows quickly." When drawing long lines, they can say, "Woo, the train is coming." For circle drawing exercises, I choose "Little fish blowing bubbles," "Colorful jelly beans "wait. Teach children how to draw various straight lines. "I help mom comb her hair" trains children to draw lines from top to bottom. "Fragrant Noodles" teaches them how to draw tangled lines through the picture strips. "Save the little fish" "Practice how to draw wavy lines by adding water ripples, and more.

(2) Recognizing shapes in games

When teaching children to recognize circles, they can first imagine the circles and describe them in words, so as to develop the children from different angles. With creativity, we can then inspire and guide children in small classes to draw balloons, apples, wheels, suns, smiling faces, balls, cats, rabbits and other objects by adding drawings.

(3) Free modeling in the game

The structure of various objects can be represented by geometric figures. For example: the roof of a house can be drawn as a triangle, the body of a bus or car can be drawn as a rectangle or square, the wheels can be drawn as a circle, etc. After children have mastered geometric figures, they should still observe physical objects and real scenes as the basis. . Through observation, let children understand the structure of objects, such as: How to draw a fish? You can let the children in the class observe various fish first. What are the fish? Observe the structure of the fish: the fish has a head, body, tail, and fins and eyes. When painting, I asked the children, what shape do you like to use to draw fish heads? Inspire children to use different shapes to shape fish. Some draw round heads for fish, while others draw triangular heads for fish. This shows that there are many kinds of fish in real life, and children cannot just draw a circle for the fish and a circle for the body as a formula for young children to apply. The teacher unknowingly allowed the children to master the skills of painting, and gave full play to the main role of the children, turning painting into an activity for children to freely imagine, create boldly, and experience happiness.

Five: Reasonable evaluation of children's works can promote children's interest in painting

(1) Encouragement and appreciation

The "Outline" points out: Teachers Be a guide and supporter for your children. Young children are still in the heteronomous stage, and their rich imagination is closely related to adults' attitudes. Children need encouragement and appreciation. When evaluating children's paintings, try to find out the good points and express your appreciation. Once children's works are recognized and praised by the teacher, they will show greater enthusiasm for creation, thereby enhancing their self-confidence and their appreciation for the work. The more interested you are in painting, the more you will paint, and the more you paint, the better. Try to avoid blaming words as much as possible, such as: "Your drawings don't look alike at all, they are ugly and messy." These words can easily dampen the children's self-esteem and enthusiasm, and the children's imagination will be worried about not being praised by the teacher. And suffer from depression.

(2) Use horizontal comparisons with caution

The "Outline" points out in the fourth part "Educational Evaluation": "Recognize and pay attention to the individual differences of children, and avoid using uniform Children with different evaluation standards should be cautious in using horizontal comparisons in front of children." When evaluating children's works, teachers should explore the shining points in children's works and encourage children to actively participate, such as "you draw differently from others", "your colors are really bright", "the coloring is really even", Evaluation should be based on clarity and encouragement, so that children can be confident, thereby achieving the goal of improving painting skills and effectively extending their interests.

(3) Let children self-evaluate

The "Outline" states that it is necessary to "create conditions for children to display their works, and guide children to communicate with each other, appreciate each other, and work together." Improve. "Self-evaluation - let the children talk about their works, what they drew, tell the story of their paintings, and let the children talk about the thoughts, feelings, moods and understanding of the outside world represented in their pictures. , introduce your works to everyone,

As the saying goes: "Good children are praised." Children can make progress and develop through praise. When children are praised by peers and teachers, their emotions will be higher. Then painting will be sublimated in their hearts.

Practice has proved that "interest is the best teacher." In painting activities, teachers must find ways to stimulate children's interests, carefully care for and develop children's interests, and enhance children's imagination through step-by-step painting practice. Self-confidence, thereby gradually cultivating children's interest in painting.

In short, let the children be happy and draw vividly! As long as the children draw freely, happily and willfully, this is the success of the teacher. Let your children give wings to their imagination and describe their dreams for tomorrow in the vast sky!