Natural and intuitive, the art and ability to visually express a particular message, allows children to express their thoughts, feelings and needs that ought to be satisfied. For preschool children, visual modes of expression are an unavoidable step in language - speech, cognitive and socio - emotional development. Depending on the age of the children and the expected developmental characteristics, the correct use of visual communications has a number of advantages that would be unfair to ignore in educational practice. The aim of the research in this paper was to examine children 's ability to express themselves through a visual message in the form of comics and pictograms. Seven research questions were asked and examined during a research conducted in a group of preschool children in a private kindergarten in Zagreb. Group activities were carried out as part of the preschool program in a total of four meetings. Children's possibilities of forming a visual message in group work as well as in independent activities of making art works were examined. The obtained results are in line with expectations and correspond to the developmental characteristics of children in the seventh year of life. The children showed understanding and preference for visual forms of communication. The first encounter with the form of the comic showed that children understand the role that the panel plays and that they are able to shape the comic, but are not able to send the original message through it. Pictograms are a familiar form to children for which they have shown intuitive understanding and the ability to design them with a predefined message. Children did not successfully design and create pictograms with a self-designed message therefore it was concluded that children in the seventh year of life are not capable of visual expression through the form of pictograms and comics.