Creative Children's Decorative Painting

Author: Mu Xinli
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Publish Date: 2002-09-01
Features: Handicrafts are activities that young children love very much. Through hands-on operations, children can train the coordination, flexibility, and practical skills of their hand muscles, develop observation, attention, imagination, and creativity. During the implementation of the "Kindergarten Work Regulations," Puhuanyu Kindergarten in Fengtai District, Beijing, focuses on conducting a variety of rich and diverse handicraft activities. It encourages teachers to boldly innovate, gives children the freedom to explore, and stimulates their creative desires, all while striving to enhance children's comprehensive abilities, earning unanimous praise from experts, peers, and parents. This book introduces the methods of making children's decorative paintings that have been explored by the teachers of Puhuanyu Kindergarten in their teaching practice. Although called paintings, this type of decorative painting is completely different from other painting methods. It is not drawn with a brush but rather made by assembling various natural objects and waste materials. A piece of cardboard, a few small stones, a discarded light bulb, some small seashells, a pile of fruit shells—through the author's artistic conception and with certain techniques of processing and assembly, all can be transformed into lifelike decorative paintings. Therefore, in a certain sense, it is a type of handicraft. Making such decorative paintings requires specific techniques. This book introduces four basic techniques in the form of "examples," with several works made by children attached to each technique for everyone to appreciate. These works are vivid in shape, easy to understand in technique, and simple to learn and remember, inspiring you to fully unleash your imagination and create new works by applying these techniques in various ways. This book can serve as a practical teaching material for kindergartens and families to guide children in making handicrafts, as well as a reference for adults who enjoy making decorative paintings.