Abstract
The article discusses the importance of visual and critical thinking in the development of preschool children (5-6). The main problem of the research work was caused by the lack of emphasis on the development of visual and critical thinking in the practiceof preschool education. The main purpose of the article is to consider methods for the development of visual and critical thinking of children in thepreschool group. In this regard, the current research work is aimed at studying the development of cognitive activity based on visual and critical thinking of children in the preschool group. Quantitative and qualitative methods were used in the researchwork, and a control experiment was conducted. Teachers –educators of the preschool organization and children of the preschool group took part in the process of experimental training. As a result of the study, a positive result was obtained due to the study of the proposed methods / techniques. The article shows that using this method is much more effective than daily traditional methods. Since the study determined the effectiveness of the methods that were founded by Edward De Bono and Adelaide Krapsey, it is recommended to use thesemethods in the process of organized activities in preschool organizations.