Formation of preschoolers’ awareness of ukrainian pysanka painting regional features

Abstract

The article characterizes the Ukrainian pysanka (Easter egg) painting as a kind of decorative and applied art and highlights its regional features of Dnieper Ukraine and Sloboda Ukraine. Classification of various types of painting, coloring, and ornamentation of Easter eggs is carried out. The focus is on the educational impact of pysanka painting on preschoolers’ personality formation, their cognitive processes development, and their knowledge and life experience enrichment. Criteria (the cognitive one, the ethnographic and regional one, and the productive and creative one), indicators, and levels (low, average, high) of preschool children’s awareness of regional features of Ukrainian Easter egg painting are defined. The developed authors’ method of acquaintance children with Ukrainian pysanka painting is presented. Forms and methods of preschoolers’ awareness of the regional features of pysanka painting formation are specified, and their efficiency is proved.