Angelova, Keti2024-09-172024-09-1720242815-4134https://doi.uni-plovdiv.bg/handle/store/231This article aims to emphasize the importance and importance of pedagogical play in the formation of knowledge and skills in the process of education of children from the preparatory groups of kindergarten. It is a known fact that play with all its emotion and colorfulness in its application, ennobles the educational environment and activates the desire of children to participate voluntarily in pedagogical situations. Each interaction that is prepared and conducted according to the requirements of game technology marks high educational results and leaves a deep mark in the socio-emotional intelligence of 6 – 7-year-old children. Here is the moment when we should also note the importance of games-dramatizations and children's theater games. Deep down, they remind us of story-role-playing games, which gives us reason to see them as their variety. In essence, games-dramatizations open vast expanses to children and their imagination. They open new horizons when getting acquainted with new knowledge or consolidating it. They open new horizons when getting acquainted with new knowledge or consolidating it. Therefore, it is important to reflect the role of children's theater games in forming elementary quantitative ideas of children from the preparatory groups of kindergartens.othergame – dramatizationsocial intelligenceemotional intelligenceformation of elementary quantitative conceptsArticle