In the first half of the XX century in Colombia, childhood speeches were related to the game as a privilege way to educate speeches. While, the childhood-game relation allow us to perceive the New Education, force that it had as a scholar directive, what is tried to be stand out in the article, is the place of the game as speech-stuff that spread modern perceptions to conceive, name and educate the childhood. In order to make that, three different segments are developed: one is referred to the relation between childhood-game in the daily idealism; other is centered in the Colombian childhood-game dyad, in the analysis period, and finally, one that mixes some traces of the paper that the game played as a carrier and spreader of images filled of pedagogical, psychological and medical references, so as a modern alternative.