Keyword: «artistic and aesthetic development»

The article is devoted to the organization of the process of multicultural upbringing of preschool children. The authors propose a program of multicultural education "National Kaleidoscope" for 2–7-year old children, based on the use of national folklore in various kinds of artistic and aesthetic activities.

The article reveals the stages of pedagogical technology of forming ideas about the artistic image in chil-dren 6–7 years based on the integration of expressive means of music and the visual arts in the context of the educational field of “artistic and aesthetic development”.

This article studies one of the problems of the fine motor hand skills development in younger preschoolers by non-traditional drawing techniques using. The authors analyze the characteristics of the fine motor hand skills development in younger preschoolers and the role of drawing in this process. They developed and tested non-traditional methods of drawing system.