The Ideal Kindergarten Festival Activities Of Children

Kindergarten festivals are the inheritance of culture,and its rich educational resources and potential educational value are of great significance to the growth of young children,so kindergartens pay more and more attention to festivals.By reviewing and sorting out the literature on kindergarten festival activities,The researcher found that more scholars discussed from a single festival and less from multiple types of festivals.Scholars study kindergarten festivals more from adult’s perspective and less from children’s perspective.Therefore,this study presents ideal kindergarten festival activities of children from the perspective of children,explores its characteristics,helps front-line preschool teachers understand the world of children’s hearts,triggers teachers’ reflection on the organization and implementation of kindergarten festivals,and put forward corresponding suggestions for kindergartens to effectively carry out festival activities.The researcher used mosaic approach such as children’s meetings,children’s painting,and children’s photography to collect the interview data and works of 143 kindergarten children,in an effort to present the ideal festival activities of children.The researcher analyzed the collected data in a bottom-up way,and finally presented the ideal festival activities,participants,environment and effects of children.Activities include game activities,life experience and performance.The participants of the activities are collective,good friends,family and teachers.Among them,good friends are the most anticipated participants for children.In traditional festivals,they are more looking forward to the participation of their relatives,but teachers are mentioned relatively rarely.The ideal environment for young children’s festivals is reflected in three categories: nature,class and personal appearance.First of all,in nature,young children want to run freely in open areas and move around in an environment with flowers,butterflies and grass.In addition,children want to use colorful,festive decorations and their own works in the classroom.Finally,personal appearance is mainly reflected in the makeup and costumes during the performance,hoping to dress up beautifully.The effect of the activity is that children desire to get the opportunity to show themselves,the happiness of “helping others and helping themselves” in labor,and the both material and spiritual rewards.It is found that the ideal festival activities for children present four main characteristics: rich content,interactive characters,diverse environment,and enjoyable activity effect.The reason for the above characteristics is due to the long-term immersion of festival cultural life,the desire of children to construct social relations,the promotion of aesthetic psychological preferences of and their internal needs.Based on these,the following suggestions have been put forward: firstly,kindergartens should generate diversified and themed entertainment games according to the nature of children’s “play” when carrying out festival activities,and combine historical and cultural backgrounds to allow children to inherit the cultural spirit in life experience;Secondly,children should be encouraged to interact with others during festivals,cultivate children’s collective spirit,and feel the meaning of “reunion” during festivals;Thirdly,the authority of preschool teachers in festivals should be weakened,and they should stand behind young children and help them;Fourthly,we should create a dreamy,colorful,childlike festival environment;Finally,in order to stimulate children’s desire to participate,teachers should give children the opportunity to show themselves and meet their material and spiritual needs.