OBJECT PLAY ACTIVITY IN EARLY-CHILDHOOD

The contents and the meaning of child's play with uniformative objects as well as its development are studied. Longitude observation of 6 ch ildren in a family and experimental research in a kindergarten (200 ch ildren aged 1-2.5 years) using the methods of Russian folk pedagogics show that the contents of object play include the variation of place, conditions and means of actions with the object, its equipment with un characteristic functions and the traits of an alive one. Such a play m akes children comfortable, they acquire the possibilities for conditio ned actions, symbolic replacement, imagined situations. Object play is a material base of images' transformation. The show of possible actio ns with the objects during the lessons and in everyday life is necessa ry for its development.