Creativity is the core of all cognitive activities performed by children, which is not only related to individual fields of art, but is also perceived as a way of thinking, learning about things and making decisions. This type of activity should be present in all areas of children's actions and in any aspect of the cognitive process. Children must be provided with a variety of diverse and appropriate materials, with the help of which they can express themselves. A very important, but somehow often overlooked factor in this process is the evaluation of art projects by children themselves and by their parents. In the paper, I studied how children evaluate their art projects: whether they are satisfied with their project, if they expect compliment, admiration or approval from teachers or their parents, whether they want to show or dedicate their project to anyone, using what words they evaluate it and if they want to exhibit it or not. I also wanted to determine the parents' reaction to the following questions: was their child satisfied with their project, did they want to show it to anybody, what did they expect as feedback from parents and how they think the children evaluated their project. The results were obtained through a survey addressed to parents and children and an observation sheet, which I filled out myself. Using the collected data, I tried to answer the research questions, set at the beginning of my study. 19 children were studied, of whom 11 girls and 8 boys, aged from 4 to 5 years. The children expressed their creativity using different materials. During the creative activity, I took notes on how they described their art project. They took their art project home and showed it to parents. Finally, the parents responded to the survey.
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