Children's Creative Abilities and Features of Their Manifestation in Fine Arts Classes

Abstract

The article reveals the importance of teaching pre-school and primary school age children to the fine arts, which plays a special role in the process of their growing up. It is art that, as a component of children’s education, develops their feelings, helps understand the nature of things and shapes an ability to un¬derstand the beautiful. In addition, arts and crafts develop creative abilities, pro¬mote the manifestation of identity and originality in drawings forming divergent and inductive thinking in children. To do this, he has to be in a positive educa¬tional environment, which can lay the foundation for the development of the indi¬vidual, strengthening the interest in fine arts. However, in the traditional meth¬ods of teaching the fine arts, there are currently problems in certain inertness of teachers regarding the use of various methods and techniques of instruction that activate the imagination of the child, the ability to observe, analyze, compare, imagine, create something new and original. Still not enough modern teaching aids are used such as multimedia interactive educational resources to create free and creative atmosphere in the learning process aimed at developing the creative potential of the child. The article proposes the substantiation of the active use of the method of assessing children’s artistic creativity, based on the patterns of psy¬chological development of preschool and primary school children.