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The current study aimed at identifying the level of creative thinking activities practicing among the secondary stage gifted students in Kuwait from their viewpoints. The study made use of the descriptive method and adopted Torrance test of creative activities. The participants of the study were (92) gifted students in the secondary stage in Hawally governorate in Kuwait. The results of the study revealed that the level of creative thinking activities practicing among the gifted secondary stage students in Kuwait is below the average degree. The results also revealed differences in the creative thinking activities among the gifted students as the level of practicing the activities was respectively greater for creative practical, social, artistic and linguistic activities. The results of the study showed that the creative activities came respectively as follows the practical, social, linguistic and the artistic creative activities in the light of their frequencies and percentages. The results also showed that there were differences in the creative activities (artistic) in the light of the grade (ten and twelve) as the differences were in favor of the tenth-grade students. There were differences in the artistic creative activities among the first and the second grades secondary stage students and in favor of the first-grade secondary stage students. The results of the study showed that there were no differences between the tenth grade and first year secondary stage students. (Published abstract)