Game is an unavoidable part of childhood and characteristic of a person since birth. It is present in all cultures and has its unique cycle and development period. Games used to be passed on in families, among peers, and in schools. Children adapted them again and again to the characteristics of their region and lifestyle. Children's traditional games are partly recorded in ethnographic collections and manuals for educators, teachers, and leaders of folklore sections of cultural and artistic societies, so it is valuable, useful and exciting to research the traditional heritage of children's folklore of a particular region to preserve it for future generations. This paper aims to collect children's traditional games from the area of Valpovština. For the purpose of the research, an ethnographic study was conducted with four female narrators from the village of Valpovština. According to the year of birth, it can be concluded that the games in the described forms were played in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The results of research based on 27 collected traditional games show how the children of Valpovština played different types of games in the past, which can be divided into six basic categories: skill games, tag games, singing games, nursery rhymes, informal (symbolic) games and leader games. Children played by combining different game elements, and their games mostly contained one central player who had the role of tagging, leading a game or a song. The collected games deviate in certain rules because each child’s community in the game introduced its own rules according to the age of the players and current opportunities. In the past, children most often played in open spaces such as meadows, and pastures, along the banks of rivers, in gardens, yards, and on the streets. Children used all available places for their play, and most often these were open outdoor spaces that offered the possibility of free running, jumping, hiding and singing undisturbed. Traditional games are valuable research subject because they are natural to children and indispensable in stimulating development. By passing on traditional games to children, we leave them a legacy of traditions and customs and preserve the cultural heritage of our region from being forgotten.