Childhood is a time of intense development, growth and learning process in a ones life and games are an important part of childhood. Games can be organised, disorganised, single, with others, with rules or without them, short or long. Looking at it from a kinesiological view, games are important mean in the development of ones capabilities and characteristics. Although they are regularly used in process of health and physical culture education, their usage in sports recreation is even higher. It is important to adjust the games to the childrens psycho-physical development as they tend to lack interest in simple and non organised games as they grow up. There is a classification of games regarding the chronological age of children: biotic games, pretending games, games with simple rules and games with complex rules. Part of every game is body exercise and it is classified as simple, complex and more complex. Optimal time frame for body exercising, and also the games, is the same as process of health and physical education as it is in sports recreation: the lenght of a class lesson (45 min) or double the lenght of a class lesson (90 min). Effects of the body exercising this way can be spontaneous, direct and indirect. One of the main elements in choosing the right game for children is their age, and so there is a classification of games for children: from 3 till 6 years of age, 7 till 10 years of age and 11 till 13 years of age. In the age from 3 to 6 kids are playing games with simple rules as they use their biotic motorical abilities. Kids aged 7 to 10 play complex games as their movement is better coordinated and more agile. For children who are 11 to 13 years of age games need to be dynamic. Also, this is the age when puberty strikes so there is a good need for proper motivating the children.