The film tells about the history of the game, its role in education, training and moral formation of the personality. The film includes the following filming: children play football, walk in the park, actor A. Filippenko plays with his daughter in the sand, shows what yard games they played during his childhood, children play in the "trickle", "blind man's buff", in "burners, in" grandmothers ", in rounders, in" belts ", in" kubar ", in" chizhik ". The teacher Sh. A. Amonashvili conducts a lesson at school (synchronously). Students of the Lipetsk Pedagogical Institute are trained in the classroom for children's games. Children's carnival. Children playing computer games. Interview sociologist IS Kon (synchronously). Children's holiday.