SUMMARY
The article discusses the possibilities of organizing an informal aesthetic and pedagogical education of eldrly people in the context of finding ways to mitigate the problem of social orphanage in preschool children as a result of labor migration of parents.According to the results of a blitz-survey in pre-school educational institutions in Kharkov, it was found, that a large share of responsibility for the development and upbringing of children in the situation of the spread of the phenomenon of labor migration in Ukraine was assumed by senior family members and / or nannies, nurses, governesses, who at the same time experience certain difficulties due to the lack of pedagogical motivation, new methodological knowledge on the organization of educational activities with children, the ability to apply a creative approach to the development of a child’s personality, are not involved in mobile educational programs, aimed at the formation of modern, relevant in society labor skills in elderly people.To overcome the social orphanage of preschool children as a result of the labor migration of their parents, an educational project “The colorful world of childhood - with experienced hands” was developed, aimed at developing the ability of elderly people to take care of young people, developing their ability for artistic thinking, creativity, contributing to the formation of skills in the branches of drawing, coloration, practical graphics, decorative art and the basics of design, studying with them nature, the environment as an inexhaustible regular enrollment image otvorchogo art.The program for preparing elderly people to organize the artistic and aesthetic activities of preschoolers is fully adapted to classes at the “University of the Third Age” or other similar structures of adult informal education and provides an increase in the pedagogical potential of elderly people. Within the framework of the course, varied types (drawing, wood carving, wickerwork, pottery, quilling, etc.) and forms of organizing artistic and creative classes and pedagogical education of elderly people have been developed, as well as teaching students and listeners how to use the acquired artistic and creative skills in freelance and promotion of their own professional services. The project is designed for a long-term result - the systematic organization of a course of informal aesthetic and pedagogical education of elderly people as an important way to mitigate the problem of social orphanage of preschool children as a result of labor migration of parents