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The current study aims to identify: 1) the level of creative imagination among preparatory school students. 2) The significant differences in the level of creative imagination depending on the variables of specialization (scientific, literary) and gender (male, female). The study sample consisted of (534) students at preparatory school / study morning for the academic year 2013-2014 were randomly chosen. To achieve the aims of the study, the researcher used three tools, the first one was creative imagination, the researcher constructed creative imagination scale depending on the theory of creative imagination to Vygotsky’s. The final version of the scale consisted of (12) situations which distributed across three dimensions of creative imagination scale. The researcher has achieved the psychometric properties of the scale then the validity has been extracted into two ways which are; face validity and construct validity. The reliability has been extracted by split-halfway and reliability coefficient was (0.939). According to data research processing, the researcher used statistical methods to achieve it, namely; (t-test for one and two independent samples, Pearson correlation coefficient, alpha – Cronbach formula, two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), factor analysis affirmative and multiple regression analysis. The researcher reached to a number of results such as; the number of students who have a creative imagination are fewer than the number of the study sample. There are statistically significant differences in the level of creative imagination according to the variables of specialization (scientific, literary) in favor of the students of preparatory school with literary specialization, and there are no statistically significant differences according to gender (male, female). The researcher reached to a number of conclusions, recommendations and suggestions, such as; recommendations: 1) the ministry of education should include the textbooks of preparatory stage with creative imagination themes. 2) The researcher recommends the specialists in the field of educational and psychological sciences at the ministry of higher education and scientific research by constructing programs for the development of creative imagination among preparatory school students. Suggestions: 1) role-playing and storytelling and its relations with creative imagination among kindergarten. 2) Studying creative imagination and its relations with other variables such as cognitive styles and problem solving. (Published abstract)