Abstract
Objective: To raise a reflection for the multiprofessional team on the importance of playful activities for hospitalized children. Experience report: The project was conducted in two institutions in the Midwest of Minas Gerais, where nursing students acted as storytellers for hospitalized children, who were trained by the guiding professor and nurses. The stories were based on children's classics, and different plots associated with the use of music, puppets and costumes that favored the imagination of children and companions, promoting humanization and minimizing the effects of the disease and hospitalization for the child and his family. Final considerations: The elaboration and execution of this project allowed health professionals to reflect on playfulness in the lives of hospitalized children, as a strategy for care, attention, communication and bonding. For the academics it was an experience in practice, in which the dialogical process between the University and the health institutions favored the interdisciplinarity and interprofessionality necessary for the student's training, standing out in a significant learning of a project with social and humanitarian relevance.