This article focuses on analyzing the status of factors affecting the use of Thaiethnic folk games in organizing educational activities for preschool children, influenced byobjective and subjective factors. We used in-depth interviews, interviews with 5administrators, 10 parents, 5 preschool presidents and 9 preschool teachers about theirperceptions and perspectives on the feasibility of using Thai folk games in educationalactivities for children at preschool. The research results show that all the factors studiedhave certain effects on the use of Thai folk games in children's educational activities inpreschools. In particular, the factor of teachers - objects directly using Thai ethnic folkgames in educational activities for children has a great influence in making the most of thevalues of each game in the activities education in preschool and they are also the bestbridge to persuade the participation and support of parents.DOI 10.18173/2354-1075.2019-0135