小学美术教育的主要目的,是为让学生得到自由创造、自由想象、自由绘画的机会,从小培养他们对美的感受和表达,特别是发展想象思维能力和创造能力。本文提出了在小学美术教学中培养学生创新思维能力的策略:创建更加开放的课堂环境,引导学生大胆想象。同时,指出了创造力培养教学中的误区。 The main purpose of art education in primary schools is to give students the opportunity to freely create, freely imagine, and freely draw pictures, to cultivate their feelings and expressions of beauty from an early age, especially to develop their imaginative thinking ability and creativity. This article puts forward the strategy of cultivating students’ ability of creative thinking in elementary art teaching: to create a more open classroom environment and guide the students to make bold imagination. At the same time, it points out the errors in creative teaching.