Cognitive Painting as a Broadly Applicable Method of Constructing a Positive Cognitive-Emotional Space for Young Children and Adolescents under Conditions of the Coronavirus Pandemic

The paper introduces an original, broadly applicable method of creating a highly useful online prop being appropriate for the particular situation when children and adolescents find themselves in the pandemic restrictions launched into the digital cosmos without being trained to bear a flight lasting almost half a year, being a member of a busy crew, though they have never had an experience of being together with for twenty four hours a day. This method is called cognitive painting. Within an online course in addition to the usual tasks we have started up a project dealing with creating a new year story underpinned by students' own perception of snow (in case of snowy winters), their love towards their favorite Christmas toys, their Christmas wishes and hopes and underpinned by sound reasoning about Christmas gift in general, Christmas miracles a and Santa Clause. 62 school children took part in this work (the age from 7 to 18 years). As a result, we have a 92-pages printed book as an output of that co-creative work. A very precious feature of our method is that it can be effectively applied in arbitrary countries, taking into account the peculiarities of national culture and nature.