The culture allowing to create common perceptions in the individual in a society is a key concept with regard to their behaviors in social life, their status, their expectations and what kind of responsibilities people have. Comprising any kind of language, emotion, thought, belief, art and all of the living components, culture is a whole of phenomena acquired in the past and transferred to the future. Traditional arts are the most important tangible proof introducing the culture of a community and symbolizing it.

Traditional arts hold a great place in transferring the traditions and customs of a country, their way of life from one generation to another, and maintain it by developing. On the other hand, traditional arts have not been given enough attention due to technological developments, the scarcity of the artists performing these art, gradually decreasing attention to the traditional arts, economy, an increase in being a community of consumption, the fact that traditional arts are less forefront that other branches of arts, and the fact that not enough interest is not given to them in the educational institutions. Even though these arts are being taught in higher educational institutions, there is no course for them in primary and secondary educational institutions. It is of crucial importance to make traditional arts survive and transfer to the coming generations. General objective of education is to give support to improve the personality of each person as well as providing individuals to comply with the organic unity of communal group to which he belongs. In order to realize it, there is a necessity for art education. From this point of view, it was aimed to determine the information levels of primary school students with regard to traditional arts in the current study. In order to gather data of the research, the technique of questionnaire was used. The data obtained were analyzed statistically and the findings were tabulated in a suitable way

Keywords: Traditional Arts, Art Education, Cultural Heritage.