https://doi.org/10.31648/cetl.2650
For centuries people have enjoyed playing. Play is an essential element of everyone’s life,
not only children. This article explores own research containing: ethnographic interviews with
citizens of Elk region, participant observation of children’s plays and shows by folk artists, survey
with preschool and school teachers conducted during traditional play workshops for children.
In addition it analyses memories from diaries and from an autobiography. The analysis is supported
by examples from literature.
Description of some plays gives an opportunity to find out more about everyday life in a particular
region in a certain period of time. The literature shows how old are some plays, which are popular
and still taught in kindergartens. It is noticed that in the past children, young people and adults
had similar plays. Nowadays adults choose mainly dance events, which differ from those described
in the article. Children however know and sometimes play the traditional games alongside with
new ones. Considering play as a cultural phenomenon it is observed that the rules of children’s
plays has not changed, only their form or contents may differ. Children have still enjoyed playing
and miming the reality around them.
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