1. required materials: drawing paper or drawing board, colored pencils, crayons, watercolor paints or markers, scissors, transparent tape, colored paper or cardboard and glue sticks. Before making moon cake paintings, prepare the required materials and tools, and ensure that the workbench is clean and tidy.
2. Choose canvas and tools: provide enough paper or drawing board for drawing moon cakes. According to personal preference, provide colored pencils, crayons, watercolor paints or colored pens to choose from.
3. Design moon cake patterns: Children can start designing moon cake patterns. They can choose to draw a traditional round moon cake, or try to draw moon cakes with different flavors, such as lotus seed paste, red bean paste and Wuren moon cake. Draw the outline of the moon cake gently on the drawing paper with a pencil.
4. Fill the moon cake pattern: Fill the moon cake pattern with colored pencils, crayons, watercolor paints or colored pens. You can use different colors to represent different flavors of moon cakes, such as yellow for lotus seed paste, red for bean paste, green for five kernels and so on. Let children give full play to their creativity and add color to the moon cake patterns.
5. Increase the three-dimensional effect: In order to increase the three-dimensional effect, children can cut out some small moon cake patterns with scissors and add a small wrinkle at the bottom to make them stand up. These three-dimensional small moon cakes can be fixed on the drawing paper with transparent tape to form a three-dimensional effect. Let the children try different sizes and shapes of three-dimensional moon cakes to increase the interest of painting.
6. Draw a background: Draw a suitable background on the drawing paper, which can be a table, a piece of cloth or a plate with moon cakes. Children can use colored pencils or watercolor paints to add details, such as textures, shadows or reflections.
7. Decoration and retouching: Children can add some extra decorations, such as patterns, little stars and the moon, to increase the visual appeal of the painting. Help them polish and improve all parts of the painting.
8. Show paintings: Once children have finished painting three-dimensional moon cakes, let them proudly show their works to family, friends and teachers and share their creations with others. It can be displayed in the school gallery or hung on the wall at home to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival. This handicraft project can not only exercise children's creativity and painting skills, but also teach them cultural knowledge about Mid-Autumn Festival.
What does the moon cake stand for?
1, Reunion and family feelings: Mooncakes are usually eaten during the Mid-Autumn Festival family reunion, so it represents family reunion and affection. In this festival, people share moon cakes with their families to express their thoughts and feelings for their loved ones.
2. Gratitude and prayer: Mid-Autumn Festival is a time of gratitude. People usually taste moon cakes carefully and feel the happiness of moon cakes. Moon cakes are also often used as a symbol of prayer. People will make good wishes and hope that their families will be happy and healthy.
3. Bright future and cultural inheritance: The outer layers of moon cakes are often decorated with exquisite patterns, which represent a bright future. People pursue happiness, health and prosperity in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the patterns of moon cakes also reflect these wishes.
4. Cultural inheritance, harmony and unity: Moon cakes are a part of China culture, bearing hundreds of years of history and tradition. Making and eating moon cakes is helpful to inherit and develop China's cultural values and customs. Moon cakes are usually round, symbolizing harmony and unity. On the Mid-Autumn Festival, people emphasize the harmony of family, community and country, and hope that people can live in harmony.