“…The account shared in this article is the result of a research (Santos, 2021) in which we were -as researchers in the field of Early Childhood Education -imbued with the desire to ensure "[…] the children's right to play, create and perform, in new forms of content, never before imagined" (Machado, 2020, p. 369, our translation). Thus, based on contributions from Early Childhood Social Studies (Ferreira, 2004;Alderson, 2005;2011;Clark, 2015;Fians, 2015;Vasconcelos, 2016;Santos, 2021) and from the field of Performance Studies (Schechner, 2012;2013;Icle, 2010;2013;Bonatto, 2015;Bonatto, 2017;Caon, 2017), our objective is to analyze, in this article, the ways a group of eight children from a multiethnic group of Early Childhood Education, aged 3 to 5 years, produces performances during their play in recreational play installations. Fieldwork was conducted in a private Early Childhood Education School in Porto Alegre (RS), Brazil.…”