The topic of this final thesis are templates in the artistic expression of preschool children which can negatively affect children's artistic development, creativity, and authentic artistic expression. The paper highlights the importance of children's artistic expression from an early age, the stages of development of children's artistic expression and creativity as an important factor in artistic expression. Furthermore, the paper analyzes the role of educators in encouraging children's artistic development. As well, actions of educators that disturb and limit children’s artistic development are analyzed in this paper. In that context, the templates in the visual expressions of children of an early and preschool age are explained in more detail. This paper analyses reasons for the appearance of template expressions and dangers for the development of child’s abilities, if the template approach to expression is not prevented. Also, there are listed some of the most common examples of templates in children’s art, as well as the role of educators in preventing appearance and use of templated forms in children’s art.