Encouraging musical and theatrical creativity of preschool children with the help of puppets

Children in preschool can meet with diferent activities on diferent areas. Music and theather are just two of them that are important for their whole development. Preschool children are creative by them self and it is important that we encurage them. In this thesis I will present how it is posible to motivate children with the help of puppets and bring them closer to music and theatre, while encouraging their creativity. For this project that was run in kindergarten we used diferent musical and theatrical contents. In theoretical part of this thesis I wrote about methods of work with puppets and the advatages of their use in kindergarten, their use when introducing musical contents in preschool, the teachers part and the meaning of encuraging the creativity of preschool children. Practical part of the thesis describes how the children can, with the help of puppets, learn about music and theater activities and create in them. Children learn about musical instruments, played with them, sang songs, created sounds, explored their body and created varius movements while learning about the theater. Besides all that, the puppet was a grat motivator that helped children to enter a fantasy world where thay can relax and be completely left with