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Kindergarten, as a life space, a space for children’s and adults’ game and learning should be open and satisfy the needs of children, parents and its cultural and social community. A theoretical framework regarding organization of the institutional early education and preschool education should reveal and incite the development of various children’s needs (Miljak, 1996). …

The paper discusses theoretical explanations (characteristics and functions) of children’s symbolic puppet plays elaborating on the possibilities of their incitement. The results of the monitoring, which implies the analysis of videos displaying children’s puppet plays in a kindergarten, have been presented. The interpretation of the results coincides with the findings indicated in the relevant literature …