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.

The article examines the issues of developing the creative imagination of third-graders in the process of decorative and applied arts classes in fine art lessons. The pedagogical conditions of the development of this process are being studied. It offers the organization of exhibitions and excursions on decorative and applied arts, as well as the development of a program for art lessons in the section "Decorative and Applied Arts" in elementary schools, aimed at developing the creative imagination of third graders. The article concludes that decorative and applied art is an effective tool for developing the creative imagination of third grade students.