The article deals with the formation of skills of safe behavior of preschool children in emergency situations. Security is a natural human need, without which the full development and self–realization of the individual is impossible. The child's personality as a particularly flexible and unstable system is particularly in need of ensuring the protection of its interests and needs, since only in conditions of security is a full-fledged personality formation possible. The problem of the formation of safe behavior skills in preschool children is becoming quite relevant, especially recently. This is not accidental, since the most vulnerable and exposed to various dangers category are preschool children, and therefore, the risk of their safety increases. The purpose of the study is to determine the level of formation of the skills of safe behavior in emergency situations in older preschool children.

The authors analyzed the current state of work on the formation of safe behavior skills in preschool organizations, home, street conditions; characterization of behavioral reactions of older preschool children was given; the concepts of "health", "safety", "danger", "emergency" were considered; the State mandatory Standard of preschool education and training of the Republic of Kazakhstan and a standard curriculum were analyzed preschool education and training of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the educational direction "Physical development", research by foreign and Kazakhstani scientists.

We analyzed and adapted diagnostic methods to determine the level of formation of preschool children: Talk with children, "Why are safety rules necessary?" (N.N. Avdeeva, O.L. Knyazeva, R.B. Sterkina); Observation of the observance of the rules of behavior in the preschool organization (staircases, in the area); Modeling situations "Let's make a map of the house and mark safe places with green circles"; Training exercise "Evacuation from a building during an earthquake"; Adapted diagnostics of A.I. Zamaleeva test on safe behavior on the street "What is extra here?". The results are presented in tables.

The need to organize special types of work to form children's clear ideas about the dangers encountered on the street, in kindergarten and at home is noted. Effective, according to the authors, are the following types of work: conversation-explanation; modeling situations; training exercise; QR-code; creative work to create a layout; training game; didactic games; case solving; leisure activities and more.