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The purpose of this paper is to examine the significance of the plays and the playing areas engaged in by two young girls both on the Preoperational Stage. In terms of particular cognitive developments, the similarities between them will ne explored while the children make their ‘make-believe’ plays. In Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me, Monica asks her father to get a moon for her to play with it, and in It’s a Secret, Mary goes out with her friend, a human-like cat, Malcom to join to a secret party in a midnight. The moon and the cat can be alive vividly in these two children’s animistic imagination. However, because of their different ages and developmental stages, the incompatible characteristics between them emerge in relation to the types of their plays and playing areas. Monica makes her interplay in the moon through the symbolic representation on middle playground. Mary enjoys her intersubjective play with perspective taking on the potential space. For this thesis, firstly I will investigate the topics of children’s ‘symbolic representation,’ ‘animalism,’ and ‘middle playground.’ Secondly, I will analyze the significance of ‘perspective taking,’ ‘intersubjectivity’ and ‘potential space.’ This essay will show how the interplays between children and objects will be interacted interrelatively and intersubjectively in terms of the plays and the playgrounds of them.