The Effect of Therapeutic Play Applied With Amigurumi Toys

Inclusion Criteria: * Children aged 4-6, * Those who applied to the hospital as outpatients due to an acute illness, * Those who were rated as yellow triage in the 3-level (red-yellow-green) triage system, * Those whose mother or father was with the child during the procedure, * Those whose blood was drawn with a single procedure, * Those whose health status was stable will be included in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * \- Children who have a history of sedative, analgesic or narcotic substance use within 24 hours before application, * Children with a fever higher than 38 °C, * Children with visual, hearing, language development, mental and neurological disorders, * Children with a chronic or life-threatening disease, * Children who refuse to participate in the study, * Children who are treated in the red or green zone according to the triage system (red = critical emergency, requiring immediate action; yellow = unstable condition, requiring intervention within 60 minutes; and green = stable condition, intervention should be performed within 2 hours) will not be included in the study.