The aim of the paper was to find out, based on methodological triangulation, how creative students, from the first to the fourth grade of primary education, are when writing poems or prose texts for the Kajkavian literary competition Draga domača rieč, in the period from 2002 to 2019. That is, whether students use, from year to year, stereotypical or innovative motives. The paper will explain the basic determinants of creativity and how creativity is involved in the upbringing of children and to what extent it is represented in the teaching process. Then, the Curriculum of the subject Croatian language will be mentioned, with an emphasis on dialects in educational outcomes. Numerous studies confirm how important it is for students to use a native idiom and how much its use has a positive effect on the acquisition of a standard language. In addition, students become richer in language and are less likely to make mistakes in spoken and written communication. Mixing modern expression into the original local speech, nowadays, is not unknown. One of the ways to preserve the local Kajkavian expression is the Literary Manifestation Draga domača rieč, which, in the Ivanec region, represents the crown of events in the Month of the Croatian Book. How important it really is shown by the fact of preserving the tradition and this year it is celebrating its fortieth anniversary. For the purposes of this research, an analysis of the contents of the Collection of Draga domača rieč in the period from 2002 to 2019 was conducted and an interview was conducted in which the director of the City Library and Reading Room "Gustav Krklec" Ivanec participated. The research was conducted in this period due to the fact that only since 2002, in addition to the name of the student whose work was published in the Proceedings, the class is enrolled, and this information is important for the implementation of the research.