Explaining aspects of creative thinking in children’s drawing from 3 to 5 years old

Painting is a language in which children express their feelings and thoughts.The images created in children's drawing and illustrations often come from creative thinking and specific subjectivity. In this research, the features of creative thinking in children’s paintings from 3 to 5 years old have been studied.The method of this research is "descriptive-analytical". The population of the study is kindergartens in Tehran and a sample of 100 children from 10 kindergartens in different districts of Tehran. The results of the research indicate that children tend to express their thoughts and feelings through painting and they innovatively use the colors, lines and shapes in order to transfer their thoughts rather than being truly faithful to the real world. The lack of separation between humans and animals, adding specific features to some animals, the special Perspective, the impacts of comics and animations, are some of the most important characteristics of children's paintings.