Keyword: «creative imagination»

The article discusses the results of an empirical study to identify the aptitudes, interests and talents of junior schoolchildren. The results of diagnostics of creative thinking and imagination of children are shown. The study confirmed the identified contradiction between individual capabilities and the demand for their development and the collective nature of learning, which constrains this process.

The article presents the role of fairy tales in the development of creative imagination of younger schoolchildren. The author reveals the essence of imagination, defines the main types of work with fairy tales in literary reading lessons.

The article briefly describes the research conducted to identify the level of development of creative imagination in younger schoolchildren, provides the content of the work on the development of creative imagination in extracurricular activities in drawing.

The article considers the problem of developing the creative imagination of younger schoolchildren in extracurricular activities through work on fairy tales, its characteristic features; substantiates the specifics and pedagogical conditions of the organization of extracurricular activities. The authors have identified the level of positive development in primary school children based on the organization of extracurricular ac-tivities; a system of more effective methods, tools, and techniques for developing creative imagination in primary school children through work on a fairy tale has been developed and proposed.