Abstract:Children's game-based teaching is one of the hottest fields in preschool education. To analyze the current studies and development of children's game-based teaching, the thesis quantifies and visually analyzes the papers from CNKI database by the visualization software citespace. The results are as follows: Firstly, the number of the papers increases rapidly as time goes by, and the researchers are quite diversified while there lacks the leading ones; secondly, the researches focus on the combination of children's games and education and the teachers' instructions in children's games; thirdly, children's game-based teaching has gradually become a main teaching method in preschools. Beside, the children have played the leading role in children's game-based teaching. What's more, both theories and practices are very important in children's game-based teaching researches.