The present document called recreation and educational practice: a means for life in three primary school teachers, it was carried out at the Universidad Catolica of Pereira within the master's degree pedagogy and human development, this investigation aims at the autobiographical which is established within the schools inductive. Among some conclusions we find that recreation is a condition that is not only innate of human beings, hence, beyond a biological need human beings understand it as a cultural manifestation, so under these circumstances we understand that the recreation beyond them Biological and cultural limits ends up being a means for life: we educate ourselves, we associate ourselves with others and we even make war without letting ourselves lose that dimension of recreation. If in something we all human beings join is in the recreation whose deepest manifestation is the game and laughter.