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The authors of the article draw attention to the peculiarities of developing cognitive and creative activity in pre-school children in the context of pre-school education reforms. It is noted that the activities of a modern kindergarten are based on “favorable socialization of children” in the process of their assimilation of social life experience and relationships. This requires establishment in the preschool educational of a livelihood that would not only be safe but also filled with a variety of events; it also requires close interaction between children and adults in the educational process at the level of equal partners. The described model of innovative activities of a pre-school educational establishment is dedicated to the issue of formation of children’s cognitive and creative activity by means of familiarizing with the origins of the Russian folk culture is exactly the one that entails a variety of events and such a type of interaction with children when the adult deliberately tones down his or her subjectiveness in favor of the child, providing the latter with space for self-development.

Relevance (context) of the subject of the article. The problem of creative abilities is becoming increasingly important in two contexts at once – both in the context of human self-realization, and in the context of the development of practices and production. A special place is occupied by the development of creative abilities in preschool age: even in the works of Lev Vygotsky, it was said about the importance of considering the germs of creativity in the game and fantasy of children. Today, within the framework of the cultural-historical approach, there are a number of scientific schools that study the possibilities of diagnosing and developing children’s creativity.

The aim of the study is to analyze the approaches to the study of children’s creativity in cultural-historical psychology in order to understand what answers to the questions posed by Lev Vygotsky, were discovered over the past decades, and what remained unanswered. It is also important to see how the questions themselves were transformed, since the raising of a new question is a sign of the development of science. The correlation of existing approaches is important for the development of new research programs in the logic of cultural-historical psychology.

Description of the research. The article analyzes various approaches to the research and development of creative abilities: V.V. Davydov and V.T. Kudryavtsev, D.B. Bogoyavlenskaya, N.E. Veraksa and O.M. Dyachenko, V.N. Druzhinin, L.F. Obukhova. The general and specific characteristics of the interpretation of children’s creativity in different approaches of the cultural and historical tradition are highlighted. The conducted research correlates with the questions about the creative nature of the human psyche and about children’s creativity, posed by L.S.Vygotsky.

Research results. The article concludes that despite all the differences in the approaches that have appeared in the logic of the cultural-historical tradition, they are united by the idea of the resourcefulness of preschool childhood and the importance of educational efforts aimed at maintaining the “sprouts of creativity”. In Russian studies, the question is raised about the means of creative abilities that allow us transforming the present situation (dialectical structures and symbols), as well as about the affective-volitional component of the creative process – the ability to detect a task. All this distinguishes the concepts that were born within the framework of the cultural-historical approach from the theory of creativity by J. Guilford and E. Torrance. At the same time, it is indicated that children’s activities (playing, storytelling, experimentation, etc.) are still rarely considered in research as a context for the manifestation of creative abilities.

Conclusion. The article concludes that it is important to conduct new research, both ascertaining and longitudinal, which will allow us to take the next steps in understanding how the means of developing creative abilities are mastered in children’s activities and how this affects the formation of creative abilities in subsequent ages.

Introduction. The paper presents results of theoretical research and practical evaluation of the problem of developing creative abilities in senior preschool children. The purpose of the study was to develop a system of pedagogical support for creative self-realization of preschool children.

As theoretical foundation pedagogical studies on encouraging creative activities in children, made by L. A. Venger, N. F. Vishnyakova, R. I. Zhukovskaya, Т. S. Komarova, I.Ya. Lerner, A. I. Savenkov, N. M. Sokolnikova, A. I. Usova, O.S. Ushakov were used. The authors showed the possibility of developing creative abilities in preschool children by providing a focused learning process in preschool.

The practical significance of the research lies in determination the cultural practices pedagogical means of developing creative abilities in preschool children. Results of the research can improve the process of aesthetic development of preschool children in the system of preschool education. Results of the research can be used by preschool teachers, students of pedagogical universities colleges; they can be useful for creating preschool educational programs.

Conclusions. Pedagogical support in developing creative abilities in children is determined by a special set of pedagogical conditions: studying the level of creative activity of a child; development and implementation of the partial educational program, which presupposes developing creative abilities in children in the process of learning the culture and traditions of their country; pedagogical education of parents about creative development of senior preschool children.

This article presents a review of recent international studies on the problem of the creativity in childhood. The appeal to the problem of children’s creativity is methodologically set forth by the cultural-historical theory of L. Vygotsky. Unlike the works of Russian authors considering the problem of creativity in the context of the imagination, activity and creative potential of the individual, international authors focus on more particular research: cross-cultural differences in creativity, the relationship between pedagogical activity and the creativity of children, the effects of fixation on creativity, divergent thinking in the context of creativity etc. The article provides the review results of recent research in the field of developmental psychology where the problem of creativity is discussed in four ways. The first line of research combines resources which provide the theoretical underpinning of creativity and contemplate its structure. The second considers creativity in its cultural context. The third discusses creativity of teachers. The fourth reflects specific empiric studies of creativity in the childhood. These studies are both theoretical and empirical. The finding confirm the relevance of the study of creativity precisely in childhood, since the development and formation of the personality begins at an early age, therefore it is important to take into account the specificity of creativity in relation to and in interaction with other mental processes and personal states in early ontogeny.