Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional festival in China, and moon cakes are the most representative food. Combined with this traditional custom in China, children can learn about the Mid-Autumn Festival through a series of processes of appreciating, observing and making moon cakes by themselves, exercise their brain and hands-on ability, cultivate their interest in handcrafting, and experience the joy of labor.

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1. Know that Mid-Autumn Festival is a traditional reunion festival in China, understand the traditional customs of Mid-Autumn Festival, and experience the joyful atmosphere of Mid-Autumn Festival.

2. Explore the method of making moon cakes, and be able to skillfully use mason skills such as dough making, flattening and kneading.

3. Be able to make bold and confident productions and experience the fun of artistic activities.

Activities to be prepared

1. Children and parents collect videos, pictures and objects about Mid-Autumn Festival (all kinds of moon cakes, packaging boxes, photos of previous festivals). )

The children enjoyed the pictures of moon cakes and tasted all kinds of moon cakes.

3, paper plates, various colors of plasticine, bean stuffing made of yellow mud, peanuts.

4. Moon cakes of various shapes.

5. Teachers wear chef's clothes and work display tables.

6. Plastic knives, toothpicks, molds, etc.

7. The song "Grandpa hits me with moon cakes"

Teaching focus

Be bold and confident, and experience the fun of artistic activities. Children play with mud to their heart's content, without any restrictions or demonstrations, and encourage and affirm the innovative works that children show in the process of playing. )

Teaching difficulties

Explore the method of making moon cakes, and be able to skillfully use mason skills such as dough making, flattening and kneading. (Use peer learning and imitation to accumulate rich masons' skills. )

Activity process

I. Acceptance

The teacher led the children into the activity venue in the song "Grandpa hits moon cakes for me", and the children acted with the music and gathered around the teacher.

Teacher: Little friend, this song just sings a delicious food, moon cakes. When do you eat moon cakes? Do you know why you eat moon cakes in the Mid-Autumn Festival? Children are free to talk about their ideas. )

Teacher: What shape is the moon cake you eat? What's that smell? What's in it?

Summary: August 15 is the Mid-Autumn Festival every year. Eat moon cakes on Mid-Autumn Festival. Round moon cakes symbolize family reunion.

Second, children observe all kinds of moon cakes and are interested in making them.

1. As a chef, the teacher shows all kinds of moon cakes. Look, Chef Sun also brought you moon cakes today. )

2. Observe and explore the color, shape, pattern, soft and hard characteristics of different moon cakes by looking, smelling and touching.

Teacher: Please take a closer look at the shape of the moon cake I brought. What did you find on the moon cake?

Children's observation and discussion

Summary: We have round and square moon cakes here. There are patterns and designs on moon cakes, and some have words. The teacher opened the plastic bags of moon cakes and let the children smell and touch them to feel the taste and hardness of different moon cakes.

3. Open the moon cakes and see what's inside.

Ask each child to speak out what they have observed.

Summary: There are various fillings in moon cakes, such as bean paste stuffing, five kernel stuffing and purple potato stuffing. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, we can choose different flavors of moon cakes according to our own preferences.

Third, children's production, teacher guidance.

1. Teacher sets the scene: Ask the children to be small chefs to make moon cakes for the doll's house.

2. Discussion: What material is it made of?

The teacher introduced the creative material: show various colors of plasticine to make moon cakes, and recall the method of playing plasticine with children.

3. Explore ways to make moon cakes.

Children discuss with each other how to make moon cakes. Let children try how to make plasticine round and flat.

Summary: Knead the prepared plasticine into a ball, knead it by hand, then select the stuffing, hold the dough in one hand, wrap it, knead it along the edge of the dough by hand, finally put the wrapped plasticine into the mold and flatten it, and then knock it out, and the moon cake is ready.

Children are made in groups.

The teacher plays the song "Grandpa Beats Moon Cakes for Me", and the children make them in groups and put the prepared snacks into small plates. Feel the cheerful atmosphere of Mid-Autumn Festival in production.

Teachers give individual guidance: encourage them to create boldly, and accompany children in need to appreciate and observe moon cakes again. Encourage children to design beautiful patterns for moon cakes.

Teacher: How are the patterns on the moon cakes made?

Children explore, teachers guide children to use toothpicks, plastic knives and other auxiliary materials, and design patterns by drawing and cutting.

Fourth, the display and evaluation of the works.

1. Children put their works on the exhibition platform to enjoy each other.

2. The teacher commented on the chef's tone and encouraged the children's novel creation.

3. Encourage children to "taste" their own moon cakes to teachers and friends, and introduce their own works and production methods.

5. Tasting party of delicious moon cakes.

Children taste moon cakes and talk about their feelings.

Extended activities of intransitive verbs:

1. Launch the moon cake exhibition. Show the moon cakes made by children, evaluate each other, and stick small stickers to choose the most beautiful moon cakes.

Children can continue to explore making moon cakes in the art area.

3. Play the song "Grandpa Beats Moon Cakes for me" in the performance area, so that children can learn to sing independently, and carry out percussion performances and song and dance performances.

4. After the Tenth Five-Year Plan, please take the mooncake packaging box to the kindergarten, hold an exhibition on mooncake packaging, and visit and appreciate the exquisite packaging. Design and manufacture packaging containers to give full play to children's imagination and creativity, as well as their perception, understanding and expression of beauty.