Resumen Summary This article tries to contribute an empirical vision of the showed didactic utility of fairytales. By means of the direct work with a group of educational of Infantile Education, one has been to generate an explanatory model of the use of these materials in the classrooms from a scholastic and playful perspective, taking like axis for his use the present cross-sectional contents in the currículum, given his capacity to provide an integral formation to the pupils. Key Words: infantile education, cross-sectional content, didactic resource, fairytale.