The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between creative environment
and creative thinking ability for preschool children. The instruments used in this study were
'Early Childhood Integrated Creativity Test'(Lee, 2003), 'Creative Home Environment
Scale'(Oh & Choi, 2006). Self-reported response data on these instruments from 114 children
of kindergartens in Seoul and Incheon were analyzed. The data were analyzed with descriptive
statistics, Pearson correlations, ANOVA analysis by using SPSS 18.0. The major results of
this study were as follows; First, It was found that there was no significant difference of
creative thinking ability by their kindergarten's education program. Second, the correlations
between creative home environment and creative thinking ability were significant. Among the
variables of creative home environment, some subfactors were significantly correlated with the
subfactors of creative thinking ability. In addition, limitation of this study and the direction
for future research were discussed.