In preschool, there is an art activity as part of the daily teaching practices.  The aim of this activity is to enable young children to be creative or help them to discover their creative abilities.  Preschool teachers choose the content of the art activity from preschool curriculum and prepare different activities according the content.  In daily teaching practice, art activities usually cut and paste and coloring types of activities which do not service for developing young children’s creativity or discovering their creative abilities. Contrary to helping young children to be creative, this type of teaching activity discourages young children from involving in art activities.  For this reason, it is necessary to find out how preschool teacher candidates define what creativity is.  In order to meet this goal, metaphor is chosen as a tool since metaphors are strong tools for teachers developing professional views.  The purpose of this research is to determine the views of preschool teacher candidates on creativity.  In this study, subjects were chosen from students who have been studying in class first, second, third, and fourth in Teacher College at Canakkale Onsekiz Mart University. Data was collected by asking the preschool teacher candidates to complete a sentence ‘Creativity is………………………………………………………………………………………because………………………………………………………………………………………………… The data was analyzed by using content analyze and the results were discussed for preschool teachers.

Key words: Teacher Education, Creavity, Art Activity