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This study attempted to examine what changes of creative play characteristics occur when having educationexperience using multimedia in the field of early childhood education. In order to conduct the study, 15 infants at H day care center and 15 infants at S day care center, both locatedin Seoul, were selected as the subjects. The program processing was composed of extension activities using multimedia after listening to fairy talesusing multimedia. For study instrument, the behavior test for creative play developed by Hwang Yoon Sae(2008) was used. This instrument consisted of total 5 subfactors: intrinsic motivation – imagination; sensitivity –curiosity; durability – immersion; various interests – challenge; and initiative – independence. For statisticalanalysis, SPSS 17.0 was used, and t-test was used for the statistic process. As a result of the experiment, it was concluded that the education experience using multimedia has positiveeffect on overall characteristics of creative behavior of infants; in detail, behavior characteristics of infants in theaspects of intrinsic motivation – imagination, sensitivity – curiosity, and durability – immersion were remarkablyimproved, whereas the characteristics in the aspects of interests – challenge and initiative- independence did notshow any particular changes. In other words, the infants who receive a lot of multimedia materials have morecreative thinking than those who do not receive a lot of multimedia materials, and this thinking ability is alsoreflected in play activities.