Stress and anxiety in children is growing. Anxiety is difficult to detect, it is time stable and increases with age. The goal of this research was to determine if there is correlation between emotional indicators of anxiety in preschool age children’s drawing of a house, a tree and a person and parents’ assessment of anxiety in children. The purpose was to determine usefulness of the drawings, analysed simply, as a screening method. 72 children took part in this research as well as one of each of their parents, they were selected from two kindergardens in Zagreb. The parents completed an informed consent form, a questionnaire regarding social demographic traits and SCAS questionnaire for assessing anxiety in children - parents’ version, and children drew a house, a tree and a person. Children’s drawings were analysed based on indicators which were collected from themed literature, which can be found in a table attached to this study. The research results showed that there is no correlation between SCAS questionnaires and analysed drawings. Also, the difference in intensity of anxiety has not been determined, tested with SCAS questionnaire and analysed drawings, according to gender nor according to age. Factor analysis showed single factor structure of SCAS questionnaire and dual factor structure of the indicators used to analyse the drawings. One factor represented indicators of depression, retreat and solitude, uncetrainty and shyness, and the other factors were indicators of anxiety, aggresiveness and compulsion. ž