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Abstract : Introduction: Schizophrenia is a complex, chronic mental health disorder characterized by an array of symptoms, including delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech or behavior, and impaired cognitive ability1.The increasing number of Patients with Schizophrenia have self care and social deficit (such as Communication skills, Self care activities and Inter personal relationship) in mainstream health professionals require to know how to identify their needs, being capable to adapt their social skills. Therefore Recreational activities were one of the method or therapy to divert and help to focus on improving the level of Social skills. Research results carried out on this topic suggest that Patients with Schizophrenia have poor social skills. The aim of the study was to assess the effectiveness of Recreational Activity on Social Skills among Patients with Schizophrenia at Selected Hospital, Chennai. Methods: A Pre Experimental One Group Pretest Posttest Design was used to assess the Effectiveness of Recreational Activity on Social Skills among Patients with Schizophrenia at Selected Hospital, Chennai. After taking a written consent, 50 Men and women with Schizophrenia were selected using Non probability Total Enumerative Sampling Technique. The Level of Social Skills among Patients with Schizophrenia was assessed by Modified Scale for Assessment of Social Skills. The data was analyzed by using frequency, percentage, mean and Standard Deviation. Comparison between pre-test and post-test Level of Social Skills was analyzed by using paired 't' test. The association between the demographic variables and post-test level of Social Skills was analyzed by using chi- square. Result: The results show the overall level of social skills among 50 Patients with Schizophrenia in pre & post test. 45(90%) of them had inadequate level of social skills and five (10%) of them had moderately adequate level of social skills in the pre test and in post test 22(44%) of them had inadequate level of social skills, 27 (54%) of them had moderately adequate level of social skills and only one (2%) had adequate level of social skills. Mean of posttest Level of Social Skills (54.02) among Patients with Schizophrenia was higher than the pretest Level of Social Skills (40.54), t value is 13.764, which was statistically significant at the level of p<0.001 There was no statistically significant association between the post-test Level of Social Skills with the selected demographic variables at the significance level of p>0.05. Conclusion: The current findings suggest that the recreational activity is an effective method and it can be easily administered to the Patients with Schizophrenia which in turn will improve the social skills and it helps to promote and improve the components such as Communication skills, Self care activities and Inter personal relationship. The study participants get benefited by participating in recreational activity.