By studying informatics textbooks for the fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth grades of elementary school, we have noticed that there are a small number of tasks with real-life context, which is contrary to the recommendations for the achievement of educational outcomes within the Curriculum [1]. The texts of the studied tasks are mostly adjusted to the age of the students. The emphasis in assignments is on learning through play over real-life examples. All the tasks contained in this paper contain real-life contexts. Listed tasks are diverse and cover all domains (Digital Literacy and Communication, eSociety, Information and Digital Technology, Computational Thinking and Programming) of the subject curriculum of informatics. Most of the tasks were found in elementary school textbooks, but a few were derived from my own experience gained in the courses Methods of Teaching Computer science 1 & 2 and Computer Science Teaching Practice in Middle School. Student reactions and critical reviews are given during analysing the tasks themselves. Current national curriculum, underline is on learning through play by incorporating real-life contexts. This is the reason why this paper emerged, as a critical review of the found tasks in textbooks for elementary school informatics, but also as a motivation and suggestion for future textbook authors in purpose of producing better quality teaching materials, enriched with real life context tasks. [1] Curriculum for Subject Informatics for Primary and General Secondary Education in the Republic of Croatia