This thesis under the title „Children's play in a traditional and contemporary context: a cultural anthropological perspective“ is a review of old games for children which were played in the landscape of Ogulin with emphasis on the rural areas of Zagorje Ogulinsko and Salopek Selo. In the thesis can be seen a comparison of the game, the way of children play today with the games that children played a few generations ago. The seating marked the way of life of the people of Ogulin and theire seanse of regional affiliation, witch is tipically neither Gorski Kotar or Lika. It's an area dominated by agriculture, and erstwhile dominated by livestock and cattle breeding, the way people lived is different from life in the city. Encorauged by this I researched games playes by our grandparents when they were children, the games played at home, but also games played while they have keeping cattle (sheeps, cows, ...) because it was mosty the only time when they could play and hang out. Games change across the time and generations and that bring to the fact that old games like „kamenkanje“ are almost disappear. Those games aren't played at all'anymore, except sometimes in folklore events or at the initiative of the organising commitee it is known to „pull the rope“, throw the „ring“ like a king of competitive games during same celebration. In this thesis except the games are mention children's toys that children played with, and their change and modernization across generations, as the change that happend with the game from traditional games to modern games and the development of tehnology that offers same completely different kind od game opposed the way how children played seventy or more years ago. For the purposes of this thesis I have interviewed same people from the area of Ogulin and Ogulin region (Zagorje Ogulinsko and Salopek Selo), and were described their own experiences and observations with participation in the games with younger children.