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The object of this study is 6 classes of the 6th year in the elementary school T located in city K of Gyeonggi-do province. Pretest was performed with a questionnaire concerning stress level and coping behavior, 20 male and 20 female students in 2 classes holding the same nature were selected, then the folk game program was performed for 8 weeks. Measuring tools used in this study were stress level test sheet, and coping behavior level test sheet. Collected data was processed with SPSS package Ver 11.0 for Windows and analyzed by t-test and 2Way-ANOVA according to the objectives of this study. In summary of results, the folk play program was found to reduce largely all 6 lower domains of stress level regardless of their sex. In other words, it was found that children can refine their feeling by showing their free expression themselves with physical activities of a folk game, free satisfaction by controlling their emotion, then conclusively reduce their stress. Therefore, the folk game program reduced their stress level and contributed to their growth and development effectively. In addition, it revealed that children applied various coping behaviors rather than a response behavior to the stress condition and the folk game program helped them take appropriate coping behaviors to the stress.