Early childhood is extremely important, one could say the most important, period in a person’s development. In childhood, the child is the most sensitive, but also learns the fastest and grows through various developmental stages that include cognitive, physical, emotional, and social aspects. Because of the importance of this period of child development, many experts have researched it and came to conclusions and ideas about it. For a child to grow and develop properly, it needs a family that will take care of it in its most vulnerable years, support it in growth and development and enable the conditions necessary for progress, research, and play. However, apart from the family, the child is increasingly found in educational institutions that equally care for all the needs of the child when the parents aren’t present. While staying in them, the child acquires habits, learns, and plays. Play, as an essential element of childhood, is the subject of numerous theories, discussions, and research. There are many divisions and types of games. To be the most effective, a game must be in the focus of children’s occupations, freely chosen, fun, safe, and enjoyable. Educators, as people with whom children spend most of the day, have the task of constantly monitoring, participating in, and supporting the game, adapting the environment, and equipping it with materials so that children can enjoy this activity without interruption.