The theoretical part of the paper discusses the experience of educating extremely capable children in Lithuania and abroad, it also analyses the aspects of capable children‘s perception. In the research section of the paper the artistic – creative and perceptive – sociocultural competences of an 5 – 7 year old child are analysed. The study of the sources of referente has revealed that a highly capable child is likely to display the following qualities: curiousity, liveliness, keenness for exploration, creativity and sensitivity for beauty. The results of the research support the hypothesis that capable children have notable pecularities of perceptive – sociocultural competence: they tend to be intenested in technologies, they are originali n their way of thinking, have broad interests and are especialy good in logical thinking; they also quickly understand new information and use it skillfully.