The intellectual development of older preschoolers is determined by a complex of cognitive processes: attention, perception, thinking, memory, imagination. In the older preschool age, the child should be prepared for the leading activity in the younger school age - educational. The development of intellectual abilities and the formation of appropriate skills in children will be important in this case. The development of a preschooler can be carried out only in a natural, the most attractive type of activity for him – a game. A child who is carried away by the idea of the game does not notice that he is "learning", although he faces difficulties.

The use of educational games and puzzles in the pedagogical process allows you to rebuild educational activities, move from the usual activities with children to cognitive play activities organized jointly with an adult or independently.

The teacher can only use this natural need to involve children in more complex and creative forms of play activity. The development of intellectual abilities of preschool children is an urgent problem of modern preschool education. Today, the need of society to educate creative people who have a non-standard view of problems, who are able to work with people, information flows, and quickly adapt to changing conditions has become especially acute. At preschool age, knowledge is accumulated at a rapid pace, speech is formed, cognitive processes are improved, the child masters the simplest ways of mental activity. It is proved that intensive development of intelligence in preschool age increases the percentage of children's learning at school. After all, what you can lay in the mind of a child from the earliest years remains with him for life.