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The excitation in groups of children has often been considered so excessive that it does not allow for symbolization, driving psychoanalysts either to turn away from groups or to control the use of the time (welcome, games, introspective feedback on the play). For several decades now, we have been running children’s groups where expression (verbal, play, gestural) is left free throughout the session, and we have been particularly intrigued by these moments of intense excitation and on the “reason” for their existence. Should we prohibit them, moderate them, allow them to develop or even encourage them? To what extent and how? What do they tell us about psychic work in groups? Can we infer particular transference movements from them, and accord them a specific place in the development of group and individual psychic processes? These questions are discussed in relation to clinical sessions of psychoanalytic psychotherapy groups with children during particular moments such as those involving the constitution of group psychic material and those of group illusion.