The puppet plays an important role for the child from his earliest childhood, giving him a sense of security, the moment he separates from his mother. As the child grows, the puppet's meaning for him changes, that is, it becomes a valuable didactic toy, which helps the child to spontaneously overcome various situations in which he finds himself. A puppet can also be an educator's ally in achieving educational goals and tasks. Games with a puppet, strengthen the child's speech, expressive abilities, peer relationships, encourage him to create and help develop a positive, self-image, and at the same time develop facial expressions, coordination and movement. Puppets bring the child into a state of excitement, playfulness, move his mental, imaginary and emotional world and allow him to more richly express his experience of the world. Puppets that come to life in a child’s hand allow him to participate in an imaginary world he has just created. The puppet replaces living beings, it is manipulated by the child in the game as he wants and, most often, as he cannot in reality. The aim of the research was to investigate to what extent and in what way educators use a puppet in the educational process. The tasks of the research were to examine whether educators use a puppet and how often, then what types of puppets are used the most, how much children are interested in activities with a puppet, then how educators stimulate children to play with a puppet and in which situations they think the puppet is the most helps.