Highlights in Art and Design

ISSN: 2957-8787 | Vol. 4, No. 2, 2023

How to Introduce Creative Thinking into Primary

School Art Class
Lin Zhou *
Adamson University, Manila, Philippines
* Corresponding author Email: [email protected]

Abstract: Today's primary school art class, its primary task is not painting works, the key is to cultivate students' innovative
ability and creative thinking. People often say that the same is not beautiful, beauty is unique, it needs to be constantly created.
So how to introduce creative thinking into primary school art class is an important link in the development of contemporary
primary school aesthetic education. If we want to cultivate talents with creative thinking, we should start from art class. This
paper first expounds what is creative thinking, then puts forward the problems existing in the art classroom in primary school,
and finally gives the methods of cultivating students' creative thinking.
Keywords: Creativity; Primary School Art Class; Innovation Ability.

creative thinking is the easiest to achieve in art class in

1. Introduction primary school.
In recent years, the state attaches great importance to
quality education and promotes the continuous optimization 3. In the Process of Cultivating
of quality education. Regular course training of teachers is a Creative Thinking, what are the
new opportunity and challenge for primary school art Problems Existing in the Primary
education. Teachers as the primary school art class guide, to a School Art Classroom?
large extent will affect the children's judgment, cognitive
ability. Thinking activity, so how teachers should tap Primary art class participants include art teachers, students,
children's creative thinking, it is particularly important. parents. Therefore, I will start from the above three aspects to
analyze the problems existing in the primary school art
2. What is Creative Thinking? classroom.
1. Limitations of art teachers' own level. Some teachers are
Throughout the ancient and modern figures, the older and less exposed to new things. They generally explain
understanding of creativity is different, but the whole is the according to textbooks and seldom dig the depth of
same. Such as: full of vitality into Jun, day workers Qiao day knowledge. Art includes painting and art history, which
for new. From Zhao Yi's "Poetry", the meaning of the poem is correspond to different historical eras, and the historical
that nature and human society are constantly growing and theories derived behind it are worthy of discussion and
developing, and the natural ghost axes of nature and the explanation. However, teachers rarely explain history theories
products under the clever works of human beings are and other contents, resulting in boring classes. They only give
emerging every day, one after another. As Peter Drucker said, students a few representative works without specific
innovation is the creation of a resource. interpretation, which fails to stimulate students' exploration
Creative thinking is a kind of advanced and complex ability, let alone stimulate their creative ability.
thinking, a pioneering thinking of exploring unknown things, 2. Students participate in off-campus art training, which is
and a kind of thinking with its own characteristics and mostly based on copying. Most off-campus institutions are
creativity, that is, a thinking activity that opens up new fields named after creative art, which is actually the application of
of human cognition and creates new achievements of human comprehensive materials such as painting. The uniform
cognition. Creative thinking is a high-level psychological picture thousands of times leads to the solidification of
activity based on the ability of perception, memory, thinking, students' thinking, forming the idea that "like" is beautiful and
association and understanding, and characterized by "like" is "right". Long-term training has wiped out students'
comprehensiveness, exploration and novelty, which requires creative ability. As a result, students do not love to use their
people to pay hard mental work. Creative thinking ability can brains and are lazy to use their brains.
only be possessed through long-term accumulation of 3. As the third participant in the primary school art class,
knowledge and sharpening of quality. As for the process of although parents do not directly participate in the classroom
creative thinking, it is inseparable from a variety of reasoning, learning, they are actually the main contributor to the class
imagination, association, intuition and other thinking work. In particular, the lower grade students, the practical
activities. ability is weak. Parents are the practitioners of home art
Primary school students are in the most active stage of homework, but most of the parents are non-art majors,
development of thinking, through the correct guidance, will homework is through the Internet search, copy and complete.
form students' creative thinking. Among many subjects, the As a result, the works submitted lack of students' subjective
openness and freedom of art class in primary school can most creativity, long-term development, so that students rely on
stimulate students' creative thinking, so the training of parents to complete the homework, stifle students' subjective

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exploration ability, and thus, is not conducive to the formation observation and teachers' reasonable guidance will trigger
of creative thinking. students' active thinking, thinking will create miracles, and
creative thinking will be formed. So, taking students out of
4. Methods of Cultivating Students' the classroom is critical.
Creative Thinking in Art Teaching
Activities in Primary School 5. Conclusion
Creative thinking can be inspired by different courses, but The cultivation of creative thinking is not done overnight,
but step by step. Grasp the advantages of art class, starting
art class, as the most open and free, is the most conducive to
inspiration. Therefore, it is necessary for teachers, parents and from the foundation, starting from the lower grade students,
students to cooperate in various aspects and achieve it step by from simple to difficult, from the inside to the outside. At the
same time, this also needs the comprehensive cooperation of
step. So, in the primary school art class, we should cultivate
schools, teachers, parents, and students in one, for a long time,
students' creative thinking through the following aspects:
the effect will naturally be revealed, and then the difficult road,
1. Seek different solutions to common problems and a little bit to go on, will eventually reach the other side, only
individual problems to cultivate students' individualized perseverance, can lead to the stars.
development
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