GAMIFICATION OF ARTISTIC ACTIVITY OF PRESCHOOLERS AND PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS: ESSENCE AND PRACTICAL IMPLEMENTATION

Abstract

The article defines the essence of the gamification of artistic activity of preschoolers and primary school pupils, and explores the possibilities of its practical implementation in the educational process of preschool education institutions and primary schools. The gamification of artistic activity of preschoolers and primary school pupils is substantiated as the purposeful use of game elements during the realisation of individual and collective artistic creativity of children, carried out in various forms of art and involving the creation of an artistic product as the completed result of creative activity. It is emphasised that this occurs through the introduction of game elements into the educational process within different forms of learning organisation, each aimed at implementing the objectives of the educational areas “Child’s Speech” and “The Child in the World of Art” of the Basic Component of Preschool Education (the State Standard of Preschool Education) for preschoolers, or the language and literary, and artistic educational areas of the State Standard of Primary Education for primary school pupils. It is determined that in practice, the most common game elements appropriate for inclusion in the organisation of education, upbringing and development in this area for children of preschool and primary school age include: narrative, game characters, a main mission and additional tasks, a special internal currency, a reward system (tokens, medals, titles), team collaboration, time limits, visualisation of progress and achievement, opportunities to exchange bonuses, and role-play. The study shows that artistic products of such activity include: a learned and performed song or musical-rhythmic exercise, an expressively recited poem, a composed fairy tale or parable, a drawing, an appliqué, a plasticine model, a scene or dramatized game, a recorded video, a staged mini-musical, and other creative works produced or performed by children within the framework of gamified artistic activity.