How to provide aesthetic education to children in nature?

The painter Wu Guanzhong said: "There are not many illiterates nowadays, but there are many beauty illiterates."

Mr. Mu Xin said: "Lack of aesthetic ability is a terminal disease, and knowledge cannot save it."

Esthetician Jiang Xun said: "The level of a person's aesthetic level determines his level of competitiveness, because aesthetics not only represents overall thinking, but also represents detailed thinking. The best gift for your children is Cultivate his aesthetic ability. ”

The best place to cultivate children’s aesthetic ability is nature. Nature is an unparalleled aesthetic education textbook and the source of aesthetic education. As the famous writer Xi Murong said: "If a child has never been in contact with nature, has never touched the bark of a tree, or stepped on dry and crisp fallen leaves, there is no way to teach him art, because he has not had first-hand exposure to beauty."

In nature, children's nature can be more fully developed. You can often learn things in nature that cannot be learned in books. Many writers and artists have emphasized the aesthetic education role of nature on children. Children's aesthetic psychological structure mainly includes keen perception, rich imagination, thorough understanding and other aspects. According to the aesthetic psychological structure of children, we should pay attention to three core elements when cultivating children's aesthetic education: feeling beauty, discovering beauty, and creating beauty.

The first element: Feeling beauty

"It is difficult for children to perceive beauty without experiencing the influence of beauty. Zhuangzi said: "The great beauty of heaven and earth cannot be expressed," and nature It is the most natural art museum, with flowers in spring, forests in summer, fruits in autumn, and snow in winter. When a child smiles at the first jasmine in spring, he points to the white clouds in the blue sky and appreciates it carefully. At that time, when he listened calmly to the chirping of birds... the child had quietly taken the first step in the entire aesthetic process of the world - aesthetic perception.

Different natural scenery brings children. Different experiences and feelings, the misty rainy season, the towering mountains; a butterfly in the rapeseed field in spring, a group of seagulls at sunset... Every natural scenery has its own unique color. Smell, sound, temperature, art, etc. are the best nourishment for children's aesthetic education.

The second element: discovering beauty

The famous educator Suhomlinsky once said. He once said: “There are many beautiful things in nature. If you don’t point them out to the children in advance and tell them about them, they won’t notice them themselves. "In order for children to truly learn to appreciate nature and improve their aesthetic abilities, while gaining rich perceptual knowledge in immersive situations, they must also be given necessary guidance and encouraged to express their inner feelings and imagination.

For example, parents and children hold small umbrellas and wear small rain boots to go to nature together. Parents can guide their children: "What do you think the small raindrops are doing?" When the children see the crystal small raindrops scattered on the umbrella, they will be very happy. Shouting, "Listen, the little raindrops are singing on my little umbrella." At this time, you can let the children talk about their feelings. Some children will say, "I feel like I have become a little raindrop, and I am singing with them in the little umbrella." Dancing on an umbrella. "Some children will say, "I feel like I am flying into the air with the little raindrops." "In this way, aesthetic imagination is infiltrated into aesthetic perception, making the content of aesthetic perception richer and deeper, deepening children's emotional experience of natural beauty, and gradually rising from perceptual understanding of aesthetics to rational understanding.

The third element :Create Beauty

When children experience the changes of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and the blossoming and falling of flowers in spring, they can be encouraged to use their most intuitive experiences and discoveries, their most true feelings and imaginations, and use their own Express and record it in a unique way, such as the simplest painting, allowing children to express their feelings about nature with the paintings in their hands, depicting the beautiful scenery in their hearts, so that the visual feelings and aesthetic taste in their hearts can be truly reflected in their hands and minds.

The beauty of nature is simple, and the beauty of nature is rich. Nature is full of materials that create beauty, such as stones, pine cones, seeds, leaves, etc. Thoreau. Said: “The combination of mind and nature can produce wisdom and imagination. "When children feel and discover beauty in nature, nature creates beauty. Those simple elements of nature become another unique natural beauty under the children's imaginative mind.

For example, children imagine the various leaves as different things and create lifelike works of art, such as making leaves into blue cats, Teletubbies, Ultraman, flying saucers, "The Tortoise and the Hare" pictures, or boats, flowers, etc. wait.

The above are the three elements for cultivating children’s aesthetic education in nature. However, training children’s aesthetic education in nature can not only feel beauty, discover beauty, and create beauty, but also nourish children’s soul and love for life.

Russian writer Shchedrin said: "If there is no direct and vivid connection between a child and nature, then the most vivid and gorgeous pictures cannot move him." The impact of natural aesthetic education on the soul Cultivation and purification are like the spring breeze turning into rain, which is silent at night, making people feel it in their ears and eyes, and it is subtle. Even in the most ordinary and common natural environment, a green leaf, a clear spring, and a clump of wild flowers will make children feel sympathy for all things in the world, sprout the purest goodwill in their hearts, and truly cultivate a beautiful personality and personality. soul.

Zhu Yongxin said: "Ideal aesthetic education must go out of the 'small world' of books, integrate into nature, and enjoy its aura in the embrace of nature."

Then take your children into nature, feel the change and magic of natural weather, explore the stories and mysteries of natural creatures, and appreciate the splendor and splendor of natural scenery! Slowly, you will find that the sunshine, rain and dew of nature expand the breadth of your child's life, develop your child's life imagination, and nourish your child's aesthetic soul. Unknowingly, they have developed their own appreciation and observation of beautiful things, can freely express their inner thoughts and feelings, and can feel the preciousness and passion of life. Return to nature, cultivate aesthetics and enlighten wisdom, and bring children's innocence to life.