Mud is an element of the earth, a product of nature and a rich culture of human beings. Playing with mud is a child's nature, but the rural children who were originally born and raised are far away from the local flavor. Under the "care" of parents and teachers, children rarely get a little dirt. I still remember when I was a child, mud that didn't cost money was our favorite. However, today's children always get such a lesson from their mothers when playing with mud: "Don't play with mud, don't climb on the ground, and don't grab branches." In fact, it is an instinct for children to play with soil, and it also contains certain health principles. So what are the benefits of children playing with mud?

The benefits of playing with mud?

First, playing with mud can improve children's hands-on operation ability.

As the saying goes, "children's wisdom is concentrated on their fingers." The development of children's intelligence and ability is often achieved through hands-on operation. Children's hands can promote the development of large areas of the brain. When the child's hand moves, the nerve cells on the finger will transmit information to the brain at any time. Therefore, strengthening children's hand movements is an important link to develop the potential function of the brain and cultivate creativity. It seems to be their nature that children like to play with mud. In childhood, most people have the experience of playing with mud. When three or five children are together, there is a kind of lightness and happiness in this simplicity, which reflects the childishness and simplicity. In the process of playing with mud, it improves the accuracy of children's hand-eye coordination and exercises small muscle groups. In the process of making small hands, hand nerves are massaged, thus stimulating the growth of brain cells. Squeezing mud can give children a chance to experience freely, and also exercise their arms and wrists?

Playing with mud can promote children's imagination, creativity and thinking ability.

Children like imagination, association, fantasy and whimsy. The plasticity of mud enables them to express their ideas boldly through simple operations. In the process of playing with mud, children unconsciously infiltrate their own thoughts and ideas and present them to others. When children have a strong interest in mud and also stimulate the desire to create, teachers can guide children to do it. Don't underestimate children. Their hands are very clever, and they can make various shapes. If you squeeze it into a long strip, children will say it looks like a snake and noodles. If you knead it into a ball, they will say it looks like a jiaozi and a balloon. No matter what shape it is squeezed into, they can always say similar things. In this process, children learn basic skills such as pinching, kneading, pressing and kneading. In addition, teachers also organize children to play family games with their clay sculptures, and add some traditional folk clay sculpture games to children's daily activities, such as "Weasel drives chickens" and "Who will mend my pot".

Third, playing with mud is good for children's health.

People who lack soil in the five elements pull whatever they eat. Children often climb on the ground, and playing with mud can nourish the spleen and stomach. Children's spleen and stomach are still developing, their teeth are growing, and they don't chew enough food, so problems often occur in the digestive system. Especially for children in cities, if the diet structure is unreasonable, there will be gastrointestinal diseases such as indigestion and diarrhea. Spleen belongs to soil. More contact with soil, playing with sand and even burying can enhance the function of the spleen and stomach.

Traditional drama

Red soil in the south and black soil in the northeast

Purple soil in Sichuan and yellow mud in northern Shaanxi

Mud has a very different color.

But playing with mud makes no difference to us. Why do we play with mud is probably a kind of natural love, or it comes from.

The story that Nu Wa made people out of mud and ancestors made things out of mud tells us that playing with mud is fun.

When we were young, we all had the complex of playing with mud. At that time, some friends were eating and drinking Lazar next door, and they didn't want to sleep apart.

We have childhood memories, playing with mud all over, shoes and socks soaked, and being taught a lesson by our parents. We made mud into various shapes and exposed it to the hot sun, so mud bowls and cups appeared, although they would crack when they were dry and turn into mud when they were filled with water. We also used it to make mud balls and play with them as marbles, so what we liked best at that time was that it rained.

Back to nature? Avoid sensory imbalance

When we grow up, soil is the mother of nutrition. When we play and create, we become the judges of the final use of soil.

This semester, our class postponed the theme of "interesting egg baby" and started "chicken March" As the chickens hatched, the children were worried about the accommodation of the chickens, so they had grandpa's suggestion: take off the mud and build a "brick" house.

Playing with mud is no stranger to children. In a leisurely and comfortable afternoon, in a corner of the Herbal Garden, it's amazing to be carrying a shovel or squeezing a shovel, sometimes there is a big pit and sometimes there is an underground tunnel. I am very happy, very happy and very surprised.

With the support of such past experience, the earthwork link before stripping seems effortless, (insert earthwork video)

In the process of playing with the soil, the children found many interesting animals and plants hidden in the soil, which was as exciting as digging up treasures. This scene makes the teachers feel how happy and valuable the children are to carry out this activity.

Playing with mud for a long time can't fully meet the needs of children's games. At the same time, in order to build a house for chickens, mud has become the only way to play.

So what's a good way to mix mud?

What is the ratio of mud to water?

What's the difference between peeled mud and ordinary mud?

What happens when the mud dries?

These are mysteries that children need to try and explore with their four-year-old hands.

Let activities give children a sense of success, a sense of accomplishment and improve their self-confidence. A sense of accomplishment can stimulate children's ability to a certain extent and achieve greater success. Although short-term accidental achievement motivation cannot fundamentally change children's self-confidence, repeated successful experiences will inevitably affect and promote the formation of children's self-confidence.