Game materials affect the effectiveness of the game. The value of game materials is not based on the price, but on whether it can stimulate children's interest and promote children's independent activities. Because games are active, spontaneous and open, unstructured materials in daily life should be the first choice for children's games. Materials for daily life are derived from children's lives, and they are familiar to children. These items have many kinds and diverse structures, and are most suitable for children to use. The "Guidelines for Kindergarten Education (Trial)" points out that children should be guided to carry out activities by using things and materials around them. Therefore, the quality and level of children's games can be effectively improved only by trying to tap the available materials in children's lives, enriching children's game plots and stimulating children's enthusiasm for participating in games.
first, the collection of living materials in the game
the collection of living game materials is not only the preparation of the game, but also the pre-exhibition activity of the game. In particular, participating in the discovery and selection of game materials is an important learning and game activity for children, which is of great significance to the development of children.
children collect independently. In the process of the game, with the development and needs of the game plot, children will be unable to carry out the game activities in depth because of the lack of game materials. For example, in an activity, children want to play KFC, but there is no corresponding material. What should I do? In the process of discussion, children think of the "family bucket" package box stored in their home, which can be used as the material of the game. For this reason, we have set up a "treasure chest" in each class for children to put the collected materials into it. Therefore, in order for children to become collectors of game materials, we should let them know what they need and what kind of game materials they lack, so as to improve the purpose of collecting game materials.
teachers and children * * * collect together. Teachers are observers of children's games. Teachers can clearly realize the situation of game materials from the aspects of children's input and interest in games, and collect and add corresponding game materials in time. At the same time, you can also discover and collect game materials with children. For example, in the process of organizing children to visit and go hiking, teachers can be a caring person and guide children to collect all kinds of natural materials such as leaves, petals, camphor fruit, wheat stalks and so on, and put them into the game to enrich the activities of children's games.
parents participate in the collection. Parents are important educational resources in kindergartens. We should give full play to their role and let them participate in kindergarten activities. Parents' participation in the collection of game materials requires children and teachers to strengthen communication with parents so that parents can consciously provide necessary materials for children's activities. In addition, kindergartens can let parents watch children's game activities through open activities, deeply understand the significance of game materials to children's development, and stimulate parents' initiative in collecting and providing game materials.
Children, parents and teachers are all collectors of game materials. In the process of collecting materials, we can't ignore the existence of children. We should discuss with children to discuss the characteristics and uses of this material, so that children can have a deeper understanding of it and lay the foundation for developing game activities. Therefore, some ready-made materials can be directly put in by teachers and children according to the needs of the game after disinfection; Some waste materials can be put into the game according to the needs of the game after teachers, children and parents make some finished products together, and children can also make game materials during the game.
Second, the introduction of living materials in the game
Through observation and practice, we think that it is particularly necessary to add some daily living materials in the role game, construction game, puzzle game and art game. According to the characteristics of daily life materials and the needs of the game plot, we classified and put in corresponding materials.
1. Put daily life materials in role games.
Role games mainly include: store and supermarket games, barber shop games, hospital games, doll house games, food city games, etc. Specifically:
In the games in shops and supermarkets, we can put all kinds of packaging boxes and plastic bottles for food and daily necessities.
In the barber shop game, you can put plastic pots, towels, shampoo, hair dryers, combs, clips, curling irons and packaging tapes of various colors;
In hospital games, you can put medicine cans, medicine cartons, white coats, hats, medicine bags, disinfection cabinets, shelves for hanging salt water, receivers made of disposable paper cups, X-ray machines made of cartons, etc. In the doll house game, you can put in cartons, towels, baby bottles, clothes, telephones, food cans, bowls and pots made of instant noodles, washing machines and refrigerators made of cardboard boxes, etc.
In the food city game, you can put in a table made of gauze, sponge, foam paper, plasticine, carrots made of waste cloth, and bowls made of green peppers and instant noodles.
2. Put daily life materials in the construction game.
In the construction game, we can provide cartons of different sizes and various beverage cans for children to pile up into houses of various shapes; Building blocks with different sizes can also be provided for children to create shapes.
3. Put daily life materials in the puzzle game.
In the puzzle game, we can throw chess and cards for children to play chess and cards. Put some batteries and wires for children to operate; You can also provide some beans for children to practice counting.
4. Put daily life materials in the art game.
In the hands-on corner, we can throw wool for children to knit and make toys. Drop leaves for clipping and painting; Put straw for weaving and pasting; Putting stones for stone modeling; Put seeds for children to paste, etc.
In a word, there are abundant materials in life, so it is of great significance to improve the quality of children's games by letting them enter children's games. Teachers should treat children's game materials seriously, treat them from the height of children's development, and constantly enrich all kinds of living materials into the game according to the needs of children's activities to meet children's game needs and let children grow up healthily and happily.