Many parents have misunderstandings about art education. On the one hand, some parents pay too much attention to their children's skills in art learning and ignore their emotional experience in art activities. On the other hand, parents generally have no consciousness to create a family environment and atmosphere for children's art study, and think that children's art study is a matter of interest classes. In fact, family is the cradle of art education, the beginning of life art education, and occupies an important position in people's whole art education.
So, how to support children's artistic development, how to create an atmosphere of artistic learning in the family, and how to treat children's artistic expression and creation correctly? The following suggestions may be instructive to you.
Montessori, an Italian educator, believes that children have a natural receptive nature and can "absorb" everything presented to them by the environment. Extensive artistic experience in childhood will enrich their later life. Soviet educator Suhomlinski also pointed out that "the beauty of the surrounding world can cultivate children's sentiments and make them noble and elegant, compassionate and clear about love and hate." Children's initial aesthetic feeling is obtained from their perception of daily life and things around them, such as a leaf, a flower, a drop of rain and a dewdrop in nature, which can all edify children with beauty.
In the family, parents can create more opportunities for their children to get in touch with artistic "works" in the following ways: they often take their children to nature, art galleries, museums and other places to help them accumulate more perceptual and aesthetic experiences. Often read books on art with children and engage in art activities with children. Careful selection of home decorations, such as a bottle of flowers, a painting, a small towel with beautiful patterns, and different storage boxes, can bring children a beautiful experience. Play music that matches the emotional environment at different times, such as before eating, before going to bed, during festivals, etc., and you can also have a happy dance with your children. On family birthdays or festivals, encourage children to make greeting cards and other gifts by themselves, or express their feelings for their families by singing and dancing, playing musical instruments and reciting poems.
parents should understand that art education in the family is not to cultivate young painters, singers and actors, but more to cultivate children's interest in art, and to let children fully feel the beauty of art through the creation of family environment and a series of art activities. Therefore, parents should abandon the value orientation of excessive pursuit of artistic learning results, and should provide more opportunities to enrich their children's artistic experience.