O brinquedo e o brincar de crianças no leito hospitalar

Abstract

Play and toys are part of the universe of children, regardless of the environment whereh they live. This work was carried out with the objective of creating a playful tool for hospitalized children without the possibility of leaving the hospital bed. For this it was used Bruno Munari’s methodology, which led to the study about children, play, hospital environment, asepsis, materials, and ergonomic positions in the bed. After collecting the data, a synchronic analysis was made of existing toys for this public and of trends brought by the biggest toy fair, Spielwarenmesse in Nuremberg. An analysis was performed on the objects and the construction of parameters for the play tool, and 6 toy ideas were created from the study. Reanalyzing the exclusion criteria, only one idea passed the selection, resulting in the construction of Olu, a toy that plays with perspective. It was built and tested with children from the Hospital Universitário Evangélico Mackenzie in Curitiba, Paraná, obtaining favorable opinions about the object. The product, according to the tests, can be used with children from 5 to 10 years old, one year more and one year less than first outlined, and can also be used outside the hospital context.