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Abstract This article focuses on the video animation “This is how to be a child”, of Bita’s World, available on the social network Youtube™. The main objective of the study is the analysis, based on this animation, of the role of make-believe type of games on children creations. Creativity, playful activities use and cultural production are some of the traces presented  by child chacaracters in the referred  video and leads teachers to  rethink their pedagogical practices in order to value children´s protagonism in their classes. The analysis´s process uses the semiotic method proposed by Charles Sanders Peirce and, according to Children´s Sociology and Everyday´s Syudies theories, to interpret the signs and reveal  the occult meanings proposed by the authors of this audiovisual material.

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