In this work it is shown the importance and the character of the children's play. The play is the crucial factor in the development of the child in its childhood. The play represents the most important way of the personnality development of the child, which should be the companion and the supplement of the prescholar's child life. The play, for the prescholar, is the easiest and the most natural way of learning, due to the fact that the child is motivated and emotionally engaged in the game. The childhood is, no doubt, the most remarkable and the richest period of each child. The experience in that period of child's life leaves the trace on the life as a whole, determines the way the person will be progressing in the future. The aim of this work is to show the importance of play in the life of the indivudual, through its history, characteristics, traits of play, 'till its classification and its influence on the complete psychological and physical development of the child. The play in the prescholar's life is not supposed to fall behind other important life factors such as love, protection and food. There is a huge role of the educator whose duty is to do his best in making the play - the constant value of prescholar's life.