艺术是人类感受美，表现美和创造美的重要形式，也是表达自己对周围世界的认识和情绪态度的独特方式。美在现实中是到处存在的，美是想象与创造的源泉，美能陶冶心灵，愉悦心情，塑造人格。每个幼儿心里都有一颗美的种子，但是他们已经具有了初步的审美意识。

Art is not only  an mportant outlet of human emotion express one's  standing and motional attitude towards the world around us. 

Beauty is a part of our eality. Beauty is the source of imagination and creation. Beauty enriches the soul, delights the mood,and shapes the personality. 

Every young child has the ability to create something beautiful.

我们经常把3~4岁孩子的画画阶段称为幼儿绘画的涂鸦阶段，他们开始尝试用身边的材料涂涂画画，折折剪剪。他们能用简单的线条和色彩大体画出自己想画的人或事物。

Although a child’s experience of beauty may appear shallow or naive, they already possess basic aesthetic wareness. We often refer to the drawing/doodling stage of children aged three to four as the “graffiti stage” of early childhood painting.

4~5岁幼儿经常用绘画，捏泥，手工制作等多种方式表现自己的所见所想。年龄较大的孩子在表现生活中的事物时能够采用多种形式，从多个角度看问题。对于色彩的感受，幼儿的内心世界远比我们成人要丰富得多。他们笔下的色彩可能与我们实际生活中的色彩很不一样。

Four- to five-year-old children often use paints, markers, pencils, clay, and other mediums to express their thoughts and ideas. Older children use these mediums to express emotions and ideas in their lives and to better understand issues from multiple perspectives. Children use many bright colors in their creation of art — colors are much more vibrant in a child’s inner world when compared to an adult’s, so their perception of color is very different from color in real life.

5~6岁幼儿能用多种工具，材料或不同的表现手法表达自己的感受和想象，能用自己制作的美术作品布置环境，美化生活。他们会把自己收集到的彩色纸剪成窗花等。

Five to six-year-old children use a variety of tools, materials It is common for them to decorate their room or classroom with their own artwork. They can even cut color paper for window decorations.