Toys and Play in Early Childhood Education

This book aims to address the factor of the action of play and toys in the teaching-learning process in the context of early childhood education, as well as their playful contribution to child development, seeking to identify their relevance to this process. In the course of this work, the concepts of toy, play, games and psychomotricity will be explored. Based on bibliographical research, it will be possible to identify and compare opinions on the importance of playfulness in the educational process, as well as the methods adopted to achieve the child's intellectual development in the pre-school phase. When children enter school, there is a change in their routine, and it is up to the teacher to be sensitive and, with this, the task of being the facilitator of this inevitable path that they must travel, and they must do this without excluding playfulness from their school life.