These research had the objectives to characterize the preference of resources and activities of the games in agreement with the age groups and, in general to investigate the effectiveness of those resources and activities in the attendance to hospitalized children, facilitating the expression of feelings and acquisition of concepts related to the hospital context. The target people were thirty six subjects, twenty three male and thirteen female, with ages between nine months and twelve years old, interned in the children ward section of a Londrina's Public Hospital. The data collection was accomplished through the observations reported among the activities developed, and the gaming material used with one of the subjects. Was verifyed the relation between the frequency of using a kind of material and activity for each age groups. Deduced that activities or resources they could be explored in certain ages, while others were accepted in several age groups, however, with different objectives. In general, it can be said that the resources were effective, making possible the expression of feelings related to the hospitalization.
hospitalized children; infantile hospitalization; hospital psychology; activities of the games