The preschool period is the most important period of a child's life. This period is marked by accelerated growth and development and the biggest influance on the changes in personality, ability and knowledge can be made in this period. The child's growth is followed with measurements since birth. The prime goal of physical education is the development of anthropological features. Because of the sedentary and accelerated lifestyle there are more obese children. The prime goal of this research was to establish if there are any differences in antrophological characteristics and functional abilities considering the habitation place and gender of the respondents. The research covered 42 children from 2 kindergartens (day cares) in Karlovac and Petrinja. For research needs 6 anthropometric criterions have been taken: height, weight, arm length, leg length, waist radius and forearm radius, and a test for the chech of functional ability: F1 test. For the establishment of statisticaly important diferences considering the habitation place the T-test was used. The results showed that the respondents from Petrinja differentiate in one important anthropometric criterion, and the better results in the test of functional ability are the ones from the children from a kindergarten in Karlovac. Comparing the respondents results considering gender there are no important differnces in any criterion.