Abstract
Traditional art as a guarantee for the preservation of national foundations of the society, opposing its teaching potential to the crises of contemporary society and popular culture which contributes to the targeted person through the "language" of human emotions, the complexity and subtlety of expression, which is directly connected with the development of students’ creative thinking skills. Until now, there has been no holistic view of traditional art as a factor in the development of students’ creative thinking skills. The identification of potential of traditional art in the students’ creative thinking skills development will create preconditions for further development of vocational and personal problems of the teacher's personality, who is able to examine and learn new information and adopt unconventional creative solutions, conceptual and factual understanding of the problem, undoubtedly, enrich pedagogical science with new knowledge of the essential characteristics of forms and methods of using the traditional art as a a major factor in the development of students’ creative thinking skills.