ABSTRACT
Adults usually consider toys as fun, or didactic tools without focusing on evaluating their contribution and impact on the play and psychic development of a child. Professional psychological and pedagogical evaluation of toys takes into account not only their hygienic or aesthetic properties, but also the potential psychological effect on a child's development, which is of central importance. Games have a special emphasis in the development of young children before beginning their formal schooling. Games promote mastery of a variety of typical interaction norms: sequence, sharing functions, distribution of functions within the group and the norms of justice. The basis of child development is connected with the specific types of child's activities. These developmental activities include: cognitive-explorative activity, play, productive activity and physical activity. In early childhood, productive activity promotes the formation of symbolic thinking, creative abilities, purposefulness and persistence. There are following types of children's productive activity: modelling, depictive activity, and craft.
