Changing Face of Plays: A Comparative Research of Childhood Plays of Older Adults and Plays of Today’s

The aim of this research is to compare favourite childhood plays of adults aged 60 plus and favourite plays of children between 6 to 10 years old. The research is structured in basic qualitative research methods. Participants of the research, living in ？stanbul Province, are composed of 99 adults aged 60 plus and 99 children aged between 6 and 10. In this study, demographic information form and structured interview form for participants were used. Data were analysed through content analysis method. In the wake of findings, while 85.86% of the adults have stated that when they were children, they loved outdoor plays, it is seen that 36.37% of today’s children love outdoor plays. Additionally, 91.92% of adults loved group plays, 75.76% of them loved plays with vehicles and 63.64% loved plays that require movement whereas 56.57% of children prefer plays that do not require movement, 49.50% of them prefer individual plays and 31.32% prefer plays with vehicles. Besides, it has been detected that 34.34% of today’s children primarily love and prefer plays related with technology