The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of intramural recreational sports programming on the reduction of elementary school students\' stress. Study problems for this study were: The level of stress would be reduce meaningfully not in the control group which wasn\'t given the intramural recreational sports programming . There would be the difference between the boys and girls in level of the effectiveness on which the intramural recreational sports programmming influence in the experimental group. The experimental design for this study was pre-post test control group design.The experimental period was between the second week of September through the fourth week of Octover in 2003 . the program was given 24 times for 8 week (3 times a week) The statistic analysis for examing study problems was tried by t-test the average of gain scores from stress pre test-post test for the experimental group and the control group. As a result of testing study problems1), there was difference in the side of the poing gained by the experimental group which was given the intramural recreational sports programming, Therefore, study problem 1) accepted and it is meaningful that difference exist. As s result of this study , the intramural recreational sports programming was effective for stress reduction but didn\'t make special difference between boys and girls.