Imitating adults was one of the first and the most important pretend play in the past. Thus, boys were hunters and girls were mums to their dolls made of wooden branches. Later on, their dolls got the more sophisticated shapes and finally, they got houses with furniture. At that moment, wooden dollhouses became girls’ favourite toys.
Today, small, one-floor or even bigger dollhouses, with or without furniture, with a variety of colours and designs, are available on the market. There are all sorts of additional elements, like pets, trees, flowers or a lot of house decorations sold separately to add and make dolls’ homes more enjoyable. Girls love them all, they don’t make a distinction, but let us look from the parents’ side and find a suitable present for our or for any other girl.
Product Specification
(As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.)Product: Wooden Dollhouse with Furniture Toy Set 26 pieces
Price: $65.95
Material: wood
Style: three-floors house
Dolls: no
Furnished: yes
Packing Size: 16.1 x 11.6 x 26 inches / 40.89 x 29.46 x 66 cm
Recommended Age: 3 years +
My Rating: 9.5/10
General Review of Wooden Dollhouse with Furniture Toy Set
A twenty-six-piece pink Wooden Dollhouse makes a perfect home for any doll up to 15 cm long. It consists of three floors with a lovely living room, a bedroom, a small bathroom and a cute little kitchen. The sides of the house have windows, bricks and pebbles printed on the sides, and the roof is pink. There are two flights of natural wooden stairs leading to each floor. The front side of the house is open and the backside is half-closed. The roof on the front side is also half open so you can have a good view of the last floor.
Bathroom elements include a toilet, a bath and a sink with a mirror and a cabinet underneath. A double bed with two bedside tables with lamps on each one and a makeup table make convenient furniture for the bedroom. The living room is equipped with a couch, two armchairs, a coffee table, a big lamp and a TV stand with a television set on it. Finally, there are seven kitchen elements, including a table with three chairs, a cooker with a cooker hood, a basin and a kitchen cabinet.
All house furniture is a combination of baby pink, white and natural wood colour. TV has a pale blue display and the bottom of the bathroom sink is also blue representing water in it. Those are delicate colours that girls like.
How to Play
Twenty-two pieces of furniture can be combined depending on girls’ imagination and creativity. In the photo provided on the Amazon site, the cute pink and white kitchen is on the first floor. The elements are set opposite the stairs and as the house is spacious, girls can move them wherever they want. On the second floor, there is the living room equipped with six elements and the third floor is furnished with bedroom and bathroom furniture.
Children have complete freedom to move and combine the elements the way they want. Experimenting with furniture combinations and changing the order of the rooms, different from the picture shown, is desirable so the kids develop critical thinking and practice problem-solving skills.
Moving into the house is also a ceremony, so if you are invited to a house-warming party, please accept and come to have some tea and congratulate on a doll’s moving in. Children will appreciate it and you will spend some precious time chatting with your kid and getting to know them better. I know most of you are now thinking that you know your child well. Believe me, they constantly change and play is the best way to find out about things that are going on at the moment. Take on a role of a friend or a neighbour and you will see.
Pros and Cons
As my readers know well, I always high-rate products which encourage children’s imagination, creativity, and mental and motor skills. The more skills involved the higher my rating is. When you watch your child growing up you will ask yourself where they got all those skills from. Remember, the right toys encourage many skills needed in life.
The charming dollhouse will take up all their attention, time and creativity. It is not only a play, it is a preparation for the adult world. Many skills are engaged in this kind of play. Girls learn how to organize the home, and take care of the furniture and dolls. They also develop routines as they have to feed, walk, bathe and put to bed their dolls. By practising the routines with the dolls they also build up and respect their routines too.
For older children, they can also make bed sheets and covers, add some more furniture made by themselves from recycled materials or even add some led lighting to the house, of course with the help of an adult. Creativity, imagination and life-management skills are developed through this captivating play.
The only objection I have about this product is that the help of an adult is needed to put up the house, that is, to assemble the walls and roof. Of course, it can be surpassed by letting children help with assembling and I recommend that you let children do as much as possible under your supervision. Depending on the age of a child, they can do a lot of work. Once the house is up, they can continue furnishing it by themselves.
Conclusion
If you are considering this dazzling dollhouse as a present to your charming princess you will definitely strike the right chord in their hearts. Don’t worry about anything else except providing a janitor for the assembling of the house. Assembling is easy and illustrated in the instruction book that you get with this product. Leave everything else to your child’s imagination. They will spend magical moments and develop much-needed skills for their future life.
Imagine we had so many choices when we were kids as they have now. I had only one doll of a famous brand brought to me from Switzerland. This doll is still cherished after almost forty years. I made her a cardboard house and furniture using a variety of materials and I sewed the clothes for her. I really wish I had had such a dazzling house as this one on Amazon.
Rest assured that this wooden dollhouse will last long even for generations to come. It is hard and strong, so durability and longevity make every dollar worth it. It is really a good product to invest in, especially if you already have or plan a big family.
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