The main aim of this graduate thesis is to preserve, in a written form, the childhood of the children of Hrvatsko zagorje and how they used to spend their free time. The hypothesisfor the research was that the children used to have toysand that they played different games,just like children today do. Hrvatsko zagorje is a hilly landscape, which predominantly had poor population in the past, living of agriculture. The children have often been helping in everyday household chores and on the fields. As children spent more time together, they had fun with various games. The children used to take the cattle to pasture alone, without parents, so they were free to entertain themselves on the meadows with other children who also there. At that time, various games were born and were passed on from generation to generation. They became traditional in this area, until someone has written them down in books and brochures. Because of the way in which these games were born, traditional games are often referred to as shepherds' games. They were invented while the children were looking after the cattle. In addition to the games, the children had their own toys, which were made of wood, and the motifs on them were taken from their surroundings. The purpose of this paper is to keep the record of the lifestyle that people of Zagorje led in the past, collect the games that are known and have spread out beyond of Zagorje’s border, and lastly to collect the traditional wooden toys in their original form, as they were once made and with which the children once played daily. Nowadays these toys are a precious souvenir of Hrvatsko zagorje. Writing these games down and collecting the toys, keeps them alive and stops them from fading into oblivion.