Culture is an integral part of a child's socialization. Getting acquainted with various techniques of fine arts enriches the child's experience, worldview, ideas about the properties of the surrounding world, develops imagination, increases interest in productive activities. The article analyzes educational programs for young and preschool children in terms of their recommendations to use unconventional techniques in children's art activities; the peculiarities of the organization of teaching children unconventional techniques of fine arts in preschool education are considered; techniques available to preschoolers are offered and their essence is revealed. We used research methods such as analysis and comparison to identify the degree of attention paid by current educational programs to the introduction of unconventional techniques in children's art work; analysis, synthesis, generalization of literature, video material, observation of the activities of educators to find out the essence of unconventional techniques used today in kindergarten, their advantages and possible disadvantages. Features of work in such techniques as stamping (half of a mushroom, apple, potato, Beijing cabbage, leaves, cork, polyfoam, etc.), monotype (reflection of half of symmetrical drawing on a pure half of a sheet), aquatipia (drawing on glass, film and reflection on coated paper), drawing on snow, drawing on crumpled paper, drawing with a fork, toothbrush, cotton swabs, candle, drawing with soap bubbles, three-dimensional paints, sand, poppy, application of stabilized moss, technique «water printing», ebru technique (creating a picture on water and transferring it to paper). Uncoventional techniques of art contribute to the fact that children are more interested in this process. After all, pupils with different levels of development of artistic abilities easily get a beautiful image, feel success.