Playing Shelter: The Reproduction of Institutional Routine in Structured Situation
Camila Lima Filocreão, Celina Maria Colino Magalhães, Luana Carramillo-Going

Abstract
By playing, children represent roles, activities and elements that are part of their immediate environment and its sociocultural context. This qualitative study aims to analyze the symbolic game about a shelter in structured situation. Four children aged from five to seven years in institutional care participated in the study. During the playful sessions, a representative model of the shelter, dolls and toys were used. Overall, four 30-minute sessions were performed with each participant. "Playing shelter" was defined as the main category, whose subcategories are: "recognition of people and spaces", "representation of routine" and "relationships". The structured situation has been successful in stimulating the playful representation of institutional life, which was presented through a collective routine and rigid in timetables.

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