Lydiya Tseeva

The author discusses psychological-pedagogic and ethnocultural features of Adyghe folk games, promoting the development of personal qualities of a child: independence, activity, creativity, curiosity, and determining the formation of valuable relation to the surrounding world, nature, people, and his own «I».

The authors deal with the impact of theatrical play on the development of creative abilities of preschool children. Development of the creative potential of each child is one of the priorities of modern pedagogy. The authors examine the effectiveness of psycho-pedagogical conditions (program content, methods, tech-niques, mini-environment), contributing to the development of creative abilities of preschool children in the theatrical games.

The authors deals with retrospective modern psychological and pedagogical research on the game, sets out the principles and conditions of socio-personal experience of preschool children in the game; revealed relations game and experience that eventually allows to understand the phenomenon of "social experience" more deeply and further outline the path of formation of personality development in gaming activities.