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The University Extension Project “Bau de Historias” acts in Santos municipality (Sao Paulo state, Brazil), in three sectors: health, education and social assistance. Students tell stories through dramatization through cooperative interprofessional practice, using residues to make the characters and the scenery. Objective: to present how the extension can create a sustainable awareness and stimulate services, territories, children and theirs relatives in vulnerable position, in general, to value the ecosystem where they live. Method: working topics that encompass sustainability, recycling and giving other meanings to the materials through playful activities. The results reveal the potential for interaction between: the university, territories, services and population by empowering children and their relatives as active subjects and multipliers of actions that transform their environment in a playful way. Consequently, the environment becomes more sustainable, less polluted and with more playful resources with easy access, promoting its health and development. Final considerations: the extension’s practical experience is based on interprofessional education and integral and humanized care. Providing a different teaching-learning process, offering environmental awareness, social interaction and child stimulation, reflecting the playing process as facilitating resource, in addiction to empowering the population.