The article is devoted to the issue of students’ project abilities’ development. The topic is relevant due to the education modernisation strategy. The article briefly reviews a set of project abilities, emphasizes the necessity of schoolchildren to acquire the abilities and reveals the modern understanding of the didactic notion of “projects’ method”. It highlights common and distinctive characteristics of the notions, explains the reasons of the art and project activities to be introduced among teenagers’ training, and describes an application of the art and project activities among teenagers.