Listening is one of the key aspects of language development. Listening enables children to understand, interpret and respond to verbal messages in everyday communication. Language games are one of the main helpers in the development of speech in preschool education. According to Peti-Stantić and Velički (2008), we define them as all games in which the means of expression is language in all its manifestations. In addition to educators, language games can also greatly help parents because they are easy to implement. With them, the child does not have to feel as if he is being forced to learn something, because they are mostly played in society. The child is not focused only on one particular thing, and repetition can be fun, not tiring, because certain elements of the game are always present. Accordingly, language games play a significant role in encouraging listening in preschool children. They not only make language learning fun, but also develop listening skills in an interactive way (Peti-Stantić and Velički, 2009). Likewise, language games use different techniques to encourage children to actively listen and participate in everyday life with adults and peers. The research was conducted in the older kindergarten group during one quarter of the pedagogical year. The aim of the paper is to investigate how language games affect the development of listening skills of preschool child. The results of research show that the children within the group made progress in the linguistic activity of listening. All the children in the group made progress, but that is not the only positive thing that came out of this research. Most children showed interest in language, letters and voice synthesis and analysis, which is a first step in acquiring reading and writing skills.