其他摘要：The purpose of this study is to clarify the theoretical concept of "as if" creative molding activity in free-play situations of kindergarten children. In this paper, I hypothesized that children who are motivated to create and reproduce are able to find correspondence between material and their knowledge when they are in free-play situations. Based on this hypothesis, I observed five-year-old children in free-play situations. I was able to confirm that when children found correspondence and expressed this as art, they seemed to be motivated to create and reproduce. It was suggested that the theoretical concept of "as if" creative molding activity had ecological validity.
