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Development of motor activity in preschool children is necessary not only for their physical development, but also is the conditions and the means of overall mental development. The authors emphasize that bodily movements serve as an operational component of mastering different activities, essential to overall mental development. Motor activity is described not as a structure of motor actions, but is analyzed as physical activity in which voluntary movements begin their formation. For learning motor skills by children of senior preschool age and older a training program “Shamrock” as a teaching method was implemented. The authors introduce the analysis of the results of indicators of physical activity for children involved in this program. There were introduced empirical evidence showing that the development of physical activity for children of preschool age becomes a condition and factor of their overall mental development when learning motor skills is focused on the development of subjectivity of a child as a subject of motor actions.