The theme of work is the role of a puppet in a child's development, and the goal is to show how can a puppet influence in social - emotional development of a child. Knowing that a world of puppets is a world of imagination with no boundaries, a puppet is the best tool of influence on a child, with whom can a child identify to. On the beginning of this thesis , puppetry is described, which most important role is to reanimate the unliving tool through the actor (the puppetier). The history of puppetry is described, and it's beggings is first recorded in Far East. In Europe, puppetry beggining's is first recorded at the beggining of the 16th century, and through the 17 th century. Furhermore, because the puppets are great tool for motivations, encouragment, to fullfill the child's emotional, social and development, the puppets are described in different types, that can be devided in two basic groups: marionets and hand puppets. Besides scene puppets, a pupett can be any kid of object that we reanimate with some kind of movement or animation.In additon, we will show you what kid of role an educator has, and everything that he can achieve and show with a puppet in his hand. A puppet helps social encouragement, because through puppet, a child can easily communicate verbaly and unverbaly. It helps child to overcome fears and express wishes. In addition, a puppet's great success in a hands of an educator is reflected in basic things like tooth brushing, washing hand's, and bacic social behaviour. Through all of that, a puppet shows it's influence on social emotional child's development. A child can develop a safe affection, unconsciously develop emphaty, sense of righteousness, cooperation and reciprocity. A puppet can help in development of independence and self-confidence. That is the reason why in a child's activity with a puppet we can recognize different social skills and abilitys , of which we were not aware that a child has or has developed