The manual includes exercises that develop attention, imagination and fantasy, speech and movement. The author offers an original methodology for organizing thematic leisure and activities, staging performances with children, the scripts of which are given in the appendix. The proposed technology is convenient for working with children of different ages in short-term groups, in rural kindergartens. This technique can be successfully used by parents and tutors in the conditions of individual child upbringing. Addressed to educators and music directors of preschool institutions, primary school teachers, organizers of extracurricular activities at school, to everyone who seeks to build the upbringing and education of children on the basis of theatrical games and joint creative activities .The publication was prepared by order of the Committee of General and Professional Education of the Leningrad Region.