Leading activity in preschool children is playful, but elements of educational and labor activity, such as the perception of stories, fairy tales, are sufficiently developed in the skills of modeling, design, and drawing. The most intensive development of visual-figurative thinking and imagination occurs, moral and moral criteria begin to be formed. All this creates favorable conditions for maximizing the prerequisites for the education of love for nature in preschool children.
Communication with nature and artistic work are suitable tools for solving this problem. To develop the ability to see beauty, to form a careful attitude to nature is necessary from childhood, it is important to take into account the principle of consistency, level of development and individual characteristics of the child. The moral experience and skill of the teacher, combining kindness and exactingness, allows to instil in children a respectful attitude to the world around them.
In the system of moral and moral education - the education of love for nature in preschool children, should occupy one of the main directions. Artistic work can be used in addition to classical disciplines, harmoniously complementing them, it affects the development of the spiritual and moral sphere and the development of intellectual abilities. It is important that the development of ideas about national and artistic traditions, about nature, about work and life is formed together with the artistic image. This unity allows us to develop spatial, coloristic, visual-figurative thinking, independence, creative imagination, strengthens will, stimulates the education of love for nature.
Through the development of creative possibilities, observation and stimulation of the research experience, pre-schoolers form a love for nature. Molding of clay, plasticine, all kinds of applications, design with the use of cereals, dough and natural materials, dough, plasticine, drawing with the help of plant elements - all this contributes to the education of love for nature in preschool children. Nature offers great opportunities for the development of love. A familiarity with arts and crafts, and crafts of folk artists, most fully reveals the richness and diversity of cultural traditions, which also develops a love for nature. The desire to make beautiful, better affects the world of feelings, allows you to uncover creativity, improve the level of speech development in preschool children, learn to create, learn to understand and see the beauty and richness of nature.
Aesthetic education is easier to master, if there is much harmony around, there is a sense of belonging to beauty. Preschoolers have a strong natural curiosity, in the process of active search, the child expands the scope of ideas about the world, learns spatial and temporal relationships, learns to understand the cause-effect relationships. Artistic work, folk craft and arts and crafts help develop diligence, accuracy, observation, they induce cognitive and research activity, stimulate the development of thinking, imagination, speech skills, attention.
Education of love for nature in preschool children, based on the principles of the unity of impact on feelings, experience, consciousness, behavior - the basis for the harmonious and holistic development of the child's personality. Any pedagogical influence, should cause a positive emotional response, form awareness, expand ideas about the structure and phenomena of the world.