5 ~ 6 Years Old Children In The Eyes Of Art

This study selects 67 children aged five to six from two kindergartens in N as the research subjects. Through personal interviews and drawing elicitation techniques, children’s understanding of arts and their key engagement in the arts activities are displayed and analyzed in the two main aspects of "children’s understanding of arts" and "children’s favorite arts activities". In the part of "children’s understanding of arts", the study displays and analyzes children’s comprehension of arts, including children’s perceptions of the meaning and value of arts. In the part of "children’s favorite arts activities", the study displays and analyzes children’s accounts of their key engagement in the arts activities, including what arts activities children like, where children like to participate in arts activities and who children would like to participate with in their favorite arts activities. On the basis of the results of the study and analysis, this study reaches the following conclusions.First, children have a broad and open perception of arts, which is chaotic, fuzzy and undifferentiated. It often drives from their arts experience in daily life, which presents a specific and intuitional characteristic.Second, arts reflect more individual value for most children, including the satisfaction of sentimental value, the improvement of skills, the achievement of future career, the communication and sharing with others and so on.Third, from the perspective of arts types, children prefer the performing arts and plastic arts, especially dancing, playing the piano and drawing pictures. From the perspective of core experience in arts activities, children prefer the art creation activities.Fourth, children’s favorite arts activities are held at home, and children like to participate in arts activities both in the kindergartens and off-campus arts training institutions. What’s more, children are eager to participate in outdoor arts activities, and sometimes children like to participate in arts activities in the imaginative space based on their unique age characteristics, such as imaginative, poetical and spiritual.Fifth, children like to participate in arts activities with peers most, and they have a demand for participation in arts activities alone. Furthermore, children need teachers’and parents’support in their favorite arts activities.Finally, four problems are discussed in the paper, such as serious deficiency of the arts appreciation and evaluation activities, off-campus arts training institutions undertaken an important role in children’s arts education, children longing for arts activities in nature and the construction of children’s arts community. In the end, the researcher reflects deeply on the research.