Abstract
Abstract: This article aimed to report the experience of students of the 7th semester of the undergraduate nursing course about the importance of playing for children and their families during hospitalization, through a descriptive study, like experience report, elaborated in the context of the internship. Compulsory curriculum of the discipline of Pediatric Nursing, during the seventh semester of the Undergraduate Nursing course. Hospitalization is a difficult time in the child's life and can be configured as a traumatic experience, as it provides momentary dissatisfaction or damage that goes beyond hospitalization. Therefore, projects that are presented to children are viable and have brought healthy benefits to their lifestyles within hospitals. It is explicit that playing makes all the difference in the recovery of the pediatric patient in relation to their improvement of the clinical condition, and can avoid stress, depression or isolation of that child.