The practices of playing activities or the incentive to the flow of artistic expression are proposals related to education, since classical antiquity. Nowadays, the crying needs to consider the contextual inclusion of these practices have been consolidated by the proposed plans for curricular standard, either in the subjects Physical Education or Arts. However, this space, tenuous, deserves a more incisive focus, by deep studies accompanied by directed practices which consolidate its importance. So, this study, of a qualitative nature, aimed to investigate if these variables are available within the disseminated contents by the teachers, and if they have or not a specific space within formal education. So, an exploratory study was accomplished with thirty volunteer teachers, both, male and female, researched in loco, free consented, in the subjects of Physical Education and Arts, and in order to collect the data needed, it was used a questionnaire with assorted questions. The data were analyzed in a descriptive way, indicating that it is possible to find the playing activities and art, in both subjects, mediating the learning processes. Besides, it was observed that the teachers widely use these resources, however, not always in a conscious and contextual way, and in spite of the introduction of the National Curricular Parameters since 1998, this space isn't consolidated yet.
Arts; playing activities; education