Dear students can be a challenge for many teachers. Since the giftedness in the literature used for this graduate thesis is differently defined, there is a lack of recognition of why such students may lose motivation and interest. Students who exhibit artistic talent are desirable to timely identify, but given the insufficient hour of art subjects in our educational system, it is possible that there is no individual approach to be sought especially when it comes to gifted students.The aim of the research was to find out how the identification of gifted students in elementary schools is conducted, guiding the teachers and possibly offering new criteria for the identification of gifted students, if it is established that the indicators for the identification of giftedness do not exist in the work of teachers or are outdated ..The sample is made up of teachers from the Elementary School Vladimir Nazor (N = 4) and Zvonko Cara in Crikvenica (N = 8), Selca Elementary School in Selca (N=2) and Primary School Juraj Klović in Tribalj (N=4).The research results point to insufficiently elaborated criteria for the identification of gifted students, and there is also a lack of time to work with artistically gifted, given that only one classroom lesson is organized within a subject of visual arts.