The purpose of this study is to analyze the perception of play through the metaphorical method of infant and child teachers and to examine the perception of play according to the personal variables of teachers, And to provide basic data necessary for education. The data were collected from the surveys done by 179 Infant and Toddler Teacher from Day care Centers and kindergartens located in Gyeonggi and Chung-cheong provinces and interviewed six others. After analyzing contents, each category was categorized and qualitative analysis and frequency analysis were performed according to category. Frequency analysis was conducted to find out the differences between career and the age of class, and teacher’s interviews were conducted to see actual perceptions of play by infants and Toddler. First, 72 expressions of infant teachers' play on infant play were classified into nine categories: experience, life, education, developmental process, emotional-purification, communication, pleasure, search, and autonomy. Second, the perception of play by infants and young children through metaphor is related to experience, behavior, education, emotional aspect. Third, the analysis showed that the perception of Infant and Toddler teachers differ upon the participants’s career and age of the class.