Interest is the driving force of creation. Interest can stimulate children's learning motivation, stimulate their enthusiasm for learning and actively explore the external characteristics of things. Thereby stimulating children's desire to express beauty and create beauty, and promoting the development of children's creative thinking ability. In order to stimulate children's interest, teachers should create a relaxed game environment for children and integrate clay sculptures into the game. Role games are children's favorite activities. The children are playing in a relaxed and happy atmosphere. According to my own life experience, I will carry out games such as "Doll's House", "Panda Restaurant", "Candy Processing Factory", "Little Leaf Shop", "Zoo" and "McDonald's Restaurant". Children play the roles of "chef", "pastry chef" and "breeder" in the game. Children are familiar with the nature of clay in the game, which enriches the content and plot of the game, stimulates children's interest in learning clay sculpture and lays the foundation for cultivating children's creative interest.
Second, be good at catching the spark of creative thinking.
Clay sculpture is a three-dimensional (height, width and depth) plastic art. To cultivate children's creative thinking ability through clay sculpture activities, it is necessary to teach children the methods of clay sculpture. When children are shaping objects, I constantly guide them to care about things around them, learn observation methods, and capture the main characteristics of objects. Guide children to shape the objects they want to express by kneading, kneading, grouping and pressing according to their own imagination. Make people understand. In the process of shaping objects, children's conception ability is constantly improved, and they can synthesize their own knowledge and truly express their thoughts, feelings and experiences. For example, after learning the whole modeling method, if children want to express the color of tiger fur, they will use their brains to overlap brown and yellow mud and twist the two colors of mud into tiger stripes through overlapping rotation; Some children will learn how to shape rabbits, penguins, goats, sea lions and other animals by adding one and subtracting one. Teachers should be good at discovering and catching the sparks of children's creative thinking in the process of children's operation, even if they affirm children's innovative thinking and creative spirit, so that the seeds of creative thinking can be protected and strengthened.