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Playing activity has various advantages for early childhood development. One of playing’s advantages is to building language skill such as listening skill. Listening is one of language aspects which used on daily activities frequently. Nevertheless, listening often does not get serious attention eventhough listening skill is very influential on understanding a material that is delivered orally. Consequently, the purpose of this research is to develop early childhood’s listening skill by playing activities. This research employed action research within Lewin’s model design. This research was done in four cycles. In addition, 15 children involved as the research participants and it is located at one of kindergarten in Majenang Sub-district. Techniques of collecting data involved observation and listening skill test meanwhile the data analyzed by thematic analysis. Moreover, the data validated by using triangulation technique. Result of this research showed that playing activities can develop children’s listening skill. As result of this research, researcher concludes that playing activities can be one of facility to develop early childhood’s listening skill