This dissertation covers the expressive possibilities of various puppetry techniques with regards to working with children in a professional setting. In the world of children, puppets have great significance and power. Using puppets, an early years teacher can more easily establish verbal and non-verbal communication with every child in a group. Every child is an individual which is why a teacher must be capable of recognising their needs and interests. Research shows that teachers who use puppets in daily communication with children can incorporate them in achieving many educational and developmental goals. Those goals are realized in natural way, as logical order of events. If children are given the possibility of incorporating puppets in their play, they can learn a means of communicating, build confidence in their own abilities, learn socially acceptable behaviour, establish friendships, strengthen their ability to empathise and learn to respect rules and boundaries in relationships. Research also shows that dramatic activities such as participating in small form puppetry has a positive effect on a child’s ability to think, on their imagination and their verbal skills and, in a gentle and joyful way, on their emotions. It can be concluded that small form puppetry, where the main protagonist is a puppet, has great potential to help the development of the child as a whole. The purpose of this work is to show the meaning a puppet has to a child, how an early years teacher can use puppets, the range of puppets that exist, how to make them with children, and to present personal examples of using puppets with children in a preschool environment.