Art education of children begins at an early age and the results of scientific research on the characteristics of the developmental age of children. It is up to the educator to provide the child with time, space, materials and to encourage it to express their creativity and imagination. Very important part of art education is the introduction of preschool children to works of art and their authors. A work of art as a stimulus for artistic activity implies quality preparation of educators, a creative way of offering a work of art to children, observing and talking to children about what they see and expressing their feelings. Ways of offering and observing works of art depend on the creativity of educators, but also children. In order for the motivating part to have an affect on the children and encourage them to further work and express creativity, the educator must devise different and new ways of presenting the work of art to children. This paper contains some of them that achieved the goals, presented the art works of children. The second part of this paper presents the conducted art activities with preschool children. Three activities were carried out in three educational groups: younger, middle and older. The encouragement for the artistic activities in this paper were the works of the famous French painter, sculptor and graphic artist Henri Matisse. He was one of the representatives of Fauvism, an artistic movement that appeard in 1905. In his creative career he used collage and tempera the most, and left behind a number of famous works of art. The Matisse Museum is located in his native La Cateau.