A character learning apparatus for preschool children and a method for driving the same are disclosed. The apparatus can be easily handle by preschool children. The apparatus originally prevents breakdown sources due to electrically bad contact because the apparatus does not need electrical contact to install elements thereto. For this, the character learning apparatus for preschool children comprising: more than one character input boards which are implemented with rectangular plates on which characters, figures are perforated, respectively; a body having a groove to which the character input boards are buriedly inserted; a piezoelectric device group which are adjacently aligned and coupled to each other in a predetermined area on the bottom side of the groove of the body; a central processing unit which operates electrical signals inputted from piezoelectric devices in the piezoelectric device group and converts the operated signals to character and voice signals to be outputted; speakers outputting voices corresponding to the signals outputted from the central processing unit thereto; a cover having a hinge to cover the body; and a display unit which is implemented with a flat member which displays images corresponding to signals outputted from the central processing unit and which is installed inside the cover.