Children need to be encouraged in order for their speech to develop properly. Therefore, it is best to encourage speech through play and other children's fun and interesting ways, because it is the easiest way to gain new knowledge, skills and abilities through play. The theoretical part of the paper lists the prerequisites for orderly speech and language development of the child. We can also encourage speech with various games that will affect its vocabulary, grammar, and phonological development. The paper will describe the development of children's speech, ie how a child's speech develops from birth to the age of seven, we will mention some of the speech disorders that can develop in preschool children, and how to encourage speech development through various activities in children. At the end, an example of good practice presented by the author of the work in the kindergarten Vrapčić, Gola. When conducting research and studying the literature for work, it is concluded that children learn and develop their speech and other abilities much easier through play and fun,and through the many fun ways mentioned in this paper. A child can progress a lot if he is given enough time and attention and enough work is done whit him, because with effort and work,the child will become a real speaker.