Dance is a part of traditional as well as cultural heritage that is passed down from generation to generation and is very often applied in work with preschool children. By applying dance in work with preschool children, it is necessary to pay attention to the age of the children as well as to the individual differences of each individual child. Dance connects children and has many positive effects on the physical, intellectual, social, speech and cognitive development of children. Through children's folklore dances, children are introduced to the tradition and heritage of the region in which the children live, and later of other parts of Croatia. Folk dance, as a dance of the past, present and future, carries a multitude of values, and in it it is possible to recognize the syncretism of children's play in different nations. Dance is closely related to play because play is a means by which children explore, develop and build on existing knowledge. The preschool period is critical for personality development because at that time the foundations of a child's social identity are built, abilities are most intensively developed, such as: balance, weight transfer from foot to foot, natural forms of movement, rapid change of dance figures, concentration, attention, memory, adoption concepts (right, left, forward, backward, turn) and begins to build a view of the world. Kindergarten environment is particularly suitable for working on preservation of tradition, culture and heritage in working with children, because the child in kindergarten has been exposed and in contact with the values that promote and encourage the preservation and further transfer of the quality of cultural goods since the earliest age, and a positive attitude towards the inheritance, values and belif that the kindergarden environment will contribute to the growth of children in persons who respect and preserve their and other people's cultural identity.