Exploring the Strategies of Thematic Activities for Developing Early Childhood Art Core Experiences

Taking “Dinosaur" Theme Activity as an Example

Abstract

The Guidelines for the Learning and Development of Children Aged 3 to 6 divide early childhood artistic learning and development into two sub-areas: feeling and appreciation, and expression and creativity, emphasizing the importance of the development of young children's artistic feeling, artistic expression and artistic creativity. Core experience is the most important and crucial artistic ability acquired by young children, including the acquisition of young children's ability to feel, express and create art. The development of core experience in art for young children is proposed to be guided by the spirit of the Guidelines, which includes the development of core experience in feeling, expressing and creating beauty for young children. This action emphasizes interest-centered and process-oriented. Confucius said, “It is better to know than to be good, and it is better to be good than to be happy.” This one shows the importance of interest in learning. When an educated person is interested in what he or she is learning, he or she becomes passive and takes pleasure in learning, thus deepening his or her understanding. After the researcher's internship observation, he found that the familiar and mysterious dinosaurs have always been a topic of interest to young children, and the article utilizes this topic to create a situation to stimulate the core experience of feeling beauty, give the opportunity to cultivate the core experience of expressing beauty, and integrate various fields of education to develop the core experience of creating beauty.