This study was to examine the BGT(Bender-Gestalt Test) response level and the characteristic of perception of young children according to their age and gender. To analyze characteristics of perception, BGT figure copying was administered to 101 kindergarteners(46 boys and 55 girls) of Cheongju City, Chungcheongbukdo. And their responsive errors were scored by the developmental Bender Test scoring system of Koppitz, and differences were calculated according to their age and gender. The results were, first, BGT response levels of 5 and 6-year-old children showed a normal level. And 6-year-old children had the characteristic of perception to perceive visual stimuli as an integrated whole rather than discrete elements. Second, boys and girls showed similar BGT response levels of normality. Boys had the characteristic of perception to perceive systematically with regularity, and girls had the characteristic of perception to perceive totally with integration.