Carvalho, Letícia dos Santossilva, Patrícia Luciene da2018-03-022021-10-052018-03-022021-10-052017-12-27SILVA, Patrícia Luciene da. A importância da atividade lúdica na educação infantil. 2017. 38 f. TCC (Graduação) - Curso de Pedagogia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2017.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/handle/123456789/41829The present work of course completion has as its theme the importance of play activities in Early Childhood Education. It is a qualitative research of a bibliographic character that aims to show the importance of play activities (games, toys and games) in the socialization process and, consequently, in the consolidation of the teaching and learning process of children in Early Childhood Education. The choice of the subject is justified because we consider that the presence of playfulness in the classrooms of Early Childhood Education is a primordial factor that needs to be defended and made effective by all those who make up the school collective: teachers, community, family and students. Play, understood as an imaginary situation created by the child's contact with social reality, must be understood as a means by which the child recreates what he knows spontaneously and imaginatively. From this perspective, we affirm that classroom games provide children with motor development, language, perception, representation, memory, affective balance, appropriation of social signs and significant transformations of the child's consciousness. The jokes are stimuli to the child's cognitive, social and affective development, they constitute a form of self-expression. Thus, it is understood that the play should occupy a prominent place in the institutions of Early Childhood Education, and especially in the pedagogical make of the professionals of this modality of teaching. In this sense, we perceive the teacher's need to think about play activities at different times of their planning and make it present in their daily life.openAccessLúdicoPlayfulEducação InfantilChild EducationAprendizagemLearningbachelorThesis