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This article presents findings on the particularities of cooperation between senior preschool children in various kinds of activities. The lines of research on the problem of cooperation between children are revealed. The findings of the empirical research are given. The sample consists of 64 senior preschoolers. The methods of E. Kravtsova’s “Labirint” and schemes of observation on the play activity of children, based on the methods of E. Smirnova and V. Holmogorovoy are used. Based on the obtained results, it is shown that in most children the ability to cooperate when accomplishing a general task is at the stage of development. The study reveals that although there is a high level of some features of cooperation in the free play of children, there are some difficulties in areas such as problem solving, planning of collaborative activity, taking initiatives, listening to peers and standing their ground, assigning roles on their own, and following the rules of the play. The effective mechanism for cooperative skills development in senior preschoolers is the organization of their collaborative cognitive and research activities in the context of a consolidated “learning community”, which main intent is the development of general goals and objectives of activity, and a joint search for ways to solve these problems.