The interest to investigate child cares services from the perception that the child has the
physical and social dynamics of the institution has been gaining visibility in the area of
Development Psychology. This interest caused the emergence in the scientific –
academic context of the need to search the perspective of child in care from the
systemic approach that considers the person in development as active being in their
developmental trajectory. In this sense, the study aimed to investigate the perceptions of
children about their experiences of care in the context of “storytelling" activities. For
this, was used to collect data semi structured interviews with six children from a host
institution in the metropolitan region of Belém. The interview was conducted along six
"storytelling" activities. For each day of activity an interview script was developed so
that the questions were made coherently with specific time of each story. Six fairy tales
were used: "When I feel angry", "The Three Little Pigs", "The Ugly Duckling", "Where
the wild things are", "Choco finds a mother” and “Everybody is happy". The activities
were filmed and transcribed in full for content analysis. Was also used a
characterization formulary of the children to relate data obtained from the storytelling
activities. The main results demonstrate that children did not know about the real
reasons that determined their host; the teachers are cited by the children with the main
reference figures; activities outside the institution were cited by children as something
that made them happy and activities with tales also appeared as something that aroused
feelings of happiness. The children report also suggests that there is interaction between
siblings in the institution. For questions related to family, children, in general, did not
talk much about, were monosyllabic, when questioned more directly, but alluded to
family situations spontaneously, from the plot of the stories. The working with fairy
tales proved satisfactory, in those facilitated and encouraged children to express about
their experiences at the host institution.
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