Fairy Tale as a Means of Creative Development of Senior Preschool Children

Мета статті – теоретично обґрунтувати доцільність використання казки як засобу творчого розвитку старших дошкільників. З цією метою у статті з’ясовано вплив казки на творчий розвиток дітей старшого дошкільного віку, розкрито особливості впливу казки на здатність дитини фантазувати, розвиток творчого мислення, мовленнєво-комунікативних здібностей, уяви, на розкриття внутрішнього світу дитини. Казка має велике значення і в процесі різнобічного – психічного, розумового, емоційного, мовленнєвого і, зокрема, творчого – розвитку дитини, адже спроможна позитивно впливати на мислення та мовлення, викликати позитивні емоції, пробуджувати дитячу уяву та фантазію.The purpose of the article is to substantiate theoretically the feasibility of using the fairy tale as a means of creative development of senior preschoolers. To this end, the article deals with the influence of the fairy tale on the creative development of senior preschool children, reveals peculiarities of the fairy tale’s influence on the child’s ability to fantasize, development of creative thinking, speech and communication abilities, imagination, and the disclosure of the inner world of the child. A fairy tale is of great importance in the process of a diverse – mental, emotional, speech and, in particular, creative – development of a child, because it is able to positively influence thinking and speech, cause positive emotions, arouse children’s imagination and fantasy. Fairy tale helps children to improve and self-actualize, the educator is only an assistant, which gives the opportunity to fully identify and stimulate their creative development, which carries internal energy as an opportunity for self-actualization of the person, serves as a model of correct behavior for preschoolers, prepares them for life, solve personal problems in communication with friends, relatives, find a way out of difficult situations. The creative development of the senior preschooler is revealed and developed in the process of joint (educator and child) speech-making process of education and upbringing of preschoolers, which is manifested in certain activities, thinking, feelings, communication, characterizes both the personality of the child as a whole, and his/her individual abilities, products of creativity; the process of creating them. In the process of interaction of the child with the fairy tale, the fairy tale events, the child opens something new in the surrounding reality (interpreted through the fairy tale) and in him/herself and seeks it to recreate, express, convey his experiences, the inner world of emotions, thoughts to others. Such creative process promotes development of cognitive interest of preschoolers, and the fairy tale forms in children an adequate attitude to the world, deepens their impressions and ideas about life, work, nature