This thesis explores the connection between speech and motor skills. The introduction states how speech and motor skills are of extreme importance to the child from the very birth. It is along these skills that the child develops other skills important for its development. In order to highlight the bond between speech and motor skills, we must start from the very beginning, which is why parts one through four talk about motor skills, movement and speech in general. Part five titled The interdependence of speech and motor skills considers the fact that a child's activity is reciprocally linked to intensive development of its speech. The sixth part, titled Malešnice in children's literature talks about the function and different aspects of malešnice. Part seven, Practicing pronounciation through songs talks about the need to create a fun game containing movement and rythm in order to make this phase of often repetition and spontaneous learning of rythmical and simple songs easier on the child. Part eight examines the activity of the Samobor based kindergarten, „Izvor“. The children were led through an activity revolving around the bus song, characterized by considerate hand and finger activity. By the means of this activity and observing children through work the author of this thesis has noticed the way children enable speech development through movement in a fun way.