The subject of our contribution aims at restoring the context of childhood play, which in Arabic countries and mainly those third world ones, means the street, the “zanka” the “haouma”. Imposed as a fact on public authority, the massive presence of children on the streets transformed to play spaces is the sign of urban policy failure. To these kids on the street are associated misery and poverty. The lack of space in their tiny dwellings is given as the major reason for their presence out of doors.How can a child appropriate his immediate environment, the street, and what does he find outside institutional socialisation spaces such as family and school ? What needs does this massive and almost permanent street occupation meet ? How does the child occupy the street ? How does he establish management with the other sex when one knows all the educational prohibitions linked to co,education ?