The thesis deals with pre-school children´s games and toys. It is divided into two parts theory and research. The target of the theoretical part is to summarize basic information about toys and games of pre-school children. These facts are applied to the research part which investigates the extent of fondness for different toys and preference of modern and traditional toys in the course of various spontaneous games. The introductory chapter characterizes a pre-school child and his or her cognitive, emotional and social development. The following chapters describe games and toys history, features, functions and classification. The final theoretical part gives a modern and traditional toy description. The research part includes one essential and three minor questions about pre-school children fondness for toys.
