KIDS TELL THEIR VIEWS ON LOVE, CREATION . . .

Elementary schoolchildren expressing their opinions on everything from death to the presidency--that’s what the HBO special “Kids on Kids on Kids,” airing tonight at 8, is all about.

Too sugary? Surprisingly not.

Remember those “aw, gee” kid spots on Allen Funt’s “Candid Camera” and Art Linkletter’s “House Party”? Well, there’s cuteness here too. One third-grader, on the subject of love, insists to a doubting friend that dating someone 25 times means you have to propose marriage.

Creation is earnestly explained by another youngster: “a dinosaur married a gorilla.”

But listen closely. In this short half-hour show that includes joke-telling spots (“Did you hear about the guy who spilled beer on his stove?”) and all the young-children-eating-spaghetti scenes you’ll ever want to see, there are genuinely touching moments.

A little girl wants to be a dancer when she grows up. She won’t have children, she explains, because when you have a job, you don’t love your children. Another thinks that those who start a nuclear war and destroy the world will laugh about it. One boy wants to stay a kid forever, so “I can still dream.”

The children have center stage; there are no adults in sight. Precocity is in evidence, but these candid stars appear natural and unaffected. At the end, one senses a hint of sequel in the air. More might be too big a dose, but this light half-hour is easy to take.