Project activities in the kindergarten are a new direction in the upbringing of children.

At the present stage of the development of society, when the state began to understand that the general prosperity of the country depends on the personal potential of each individual person, the methods of raising children at the pre-school stage are undergoing significant changes. First of all, the authoritarian-command style of mentoring goes to the past, showing its extreme inefficiency and even harmfulness, since it significantly limits the freedom of thinking and creative potential of the child, preventing his self-determination and self-realization in the future. But you can not just "throw away everything old" without offering anything in return. Therefore, the leading teachers and psychologists developed a completely new method of interaction with the younger generation, which was named project activity in the kindergarten.

The uniqueness and value of this approach is that the project activity in the kindergarten motivates the child to look for answers to the questions of interest to him, getting new knowledge and skills in the process of searching for communication skills, social adaptation, preparation for the school curriculum. Adults who act as positive leaders only skillfully provide relevant activities through planning in the kindergarten. The group of "adult leaders" includes not only the employees of preschool institutions themselves, but also the parents themselves, who assign an important role to the project activity in the kindergarten. Thus, the barrier between education in a kindergarten and home upbringing is smoothed out. The cognitive process of increasing the luggage of knowledge and the personality of the child in this case flows continuously, as if by itself and becomes a habitual way of life for the child.

At the same time, together with the absolutely necessary educational component, the project activity in the kindergarten is focused on the individual psychophysiological characteristics of each child, respect for him as an independent person, taking into account his interests and abilities. It is thanks to these features, which constitute, in fact, a humanistic approach to the upbringing of children, which has already become the standard in many developed countries, that project activity in the kindergarten on the one hand forms children as self-sufficient and harmonious individuals capable of independent thinking and self-improvement, and with The other side - fully fully preserves a full-fledged childhood, which, as is known, happens only once.

Planning in the kindergarten is carried out collectively under the supervision of the manager and, in theory, should pursue a single goal: the development and approval of a specific plan for the week, month, quarter, etc. The period during which the project activity will be carried out in a kindergarten of a certain type. Accordingly, at the end of the designated period, the results of the activity must be summed up, with corrective actions taken, if necessary.

Types of projects for which pre-school institutions operate can have multiple options that give considerable freedom of choice and can be divided according to the nature of the dominant method (research, information, gaming, practice-oriented, etc.), by the role that determines the child's participation in the program Executor, customer, expert, full participant from development to summing up the results), on communicative tasks (within his group, involving other groups, including other age, member family, third-party non-governmental organizations) on the number (from the individual to the front with the involvement of other POC), by maturity (short - medium and long term).

Planning must include the presentation of the kindergarten, which is designed in a visual and accessible form to show parents and other interested persons all the directions in which the project activity in the kindergarten will be carried out, as well as all its advantages.