In the article to substantiate the integral system of methods of personality development by means of theatrical pedagogy in labor education of primary school pupils. To achieve this goal at different stages of scientific research used the method of systematization of theoretical and empirical data to design methods for the systematic use of acting in the labor of primary school pupils. The aim of the study was to find suitable for existing concepts of personality development ways to use theatrical skills in labor education and upbringing of pupils, methods of their systematic use, which would clarify educational outcomes and the ratio of variables in the description of components of personality development. The main strategy of research of methods of systematic use of acting, which would correspond to conceptual approaches to personality development was the formulation of working definitions in the form of descriptions of goals, objectives, principles, content, methods and forms of organization of formation and development of components. in the lessons of labor training. The results of the study testify to the achievement of its goal and the solution of the tasks to substantiate the methods of systematic use of acting in lessons of labor training, aimed at: development of pupils (the method of mandatory participation of all pupils in collective creativity pupils skillfully demonstrated by the teacher in the lesson of labor actions); development of properties of cognitive mental processes of the pupil’s personality (methods of physical actions, creation of creative well-being, historical parallels, change of role positions, effective analysis); use of personal qualities of each pupil in mastering the educational material (sketch method, methods of stage exercises of pupils in memory of physical actions, stylistic improvisational tasks-dramatizations); acquisition by students of the ability to transfer the model of communication through the use of artistic skills for role-playing images (step-by-step method of teaching students artistic skills); conditionality of the results of educational influences by the level of the pupil's own activity (group sketch improvisations based on the works of classics of painting). Key words: theater pedagogy, labor training, acting techniques.