Primary education pupils learn through actual objects and situations and therefore teachers use didactic materials in their teaching so as to simplify their learning process and enable the visualisation of abstract concepts. A few concepts are used in the educational process to describe the notion of didactic material, such as teaching means and aids, teaching media and didactic games. Didactic materials make teaching and learning easier, so this research aimed to examine male and female primary education teachers’ attitudes toward the use of didactic materials in primary education classes. The research was conducted on a sample of male and female primary education teachers from the whole area of the Republic of Croatia (N=638). The research shows that most of the teachers use didactic materials in their work with pupils frequently or every day, and they think that all pupils have the same benefit from the use of didactic materials. Many teachers sometimes create didactic materials themselves, which means that they use the materials offered by publishers or those downloaded from online pages and then create their own to adapt them to their classes. With regard to the material working conditions, teachers like to mix traditional didactic games and computer didactic games. They are also of the opinion that the use of didactic materials is the most efficient to work on a new teaching content, as well as to revise and practice it, and they think that didactic materials make learning easier to a great extent.