The puppet in children`s minds has great significance and power. By using puppets in small forms of puppetry, kindergarten teacher can establish verbal and non-verbal communication with every single child in group more easily. Reaserches has shown that kindergarten teachers which use puppet in everyday interraction with children recognize its possibilites for realization of many educational goals. By giving children the oportunity to join int he small forms of puppetry trough play, they learn forms of communication, build confidence in their own possibilities, learn social behavior, establish friendships, develop empthy, establish relationships within agreed rules and boundaries. Rechearches has also shown that theather activities like participaiting in small forms of puppetry has a good influence on child`s thinking, imagination, verbal communication and emotional developement. It can be concluded that small forms of puppetry in which main protagonists are puppets have a great potencial to stimulate almost every aspect of child`s development. It is important to have a knowlege about how to includ pre-school children in small forms of puppetry. That is why the main goals of this work are to explain the meaning puppets have for children, to show how can kindergarten teachers use them in different ways, which kinds of puppets exist, how to make them along with children; and to present exaples of small forms of puppetry in work with pre-school children.