民族地区幼儿美术教育是满足幼儿身心发展需要,提高其审美修养和艺术素质的一系列教育活动。它强调幼儿在活动过程中的体验,是以活动过程本身为目的的一种需要的满足。作为民族地区的幼儿教师,在指导孩子进行美术活动的时候,应该重点培养幼儿的观察审美能力、模仿能力、创造想象能力及大胆绘画能力。民族地区幼儿很容易对美术表现出自发的热情,但往往是浅层的自发的兴趣,停留在“好玩”、“我喜欢”的阶段,并且具有不稳定性。因此,我们在上美术课时,要善于把幼 Children’s art education in minority areas is to meet the needs of physical and mental development of children, improve their aesthetic accomplishment and artistic quality of a series of educational activities. It emphasizes the experience of young children in the process of activity as a necessary satisfaction for the purpose of the process of activity. As a kindergarten teacher in minority areas, when teaching children to do fine arts activities, they should focus on training young children’s visual aesthetic ability, imitating ability, creating imaginative ability and bold drawing ability. Toddlers in ethnic minority areas tend to show spontaneous enthusiasm for art, but tend to be shallow, spontaneous interests, stuck in the stage of “fun”, “I like”, and have instability. Therefore, when we are in art class, we should be good at putting children first