Dollhouse dolls make a dollhouse complete. Without miniature people, the house is easy to imagine as just a house with furniture that will never be used and toys that will never be played with. As sad as that sounds, it is easy to remedy by adding a family of dolls.
A dollhouse family makes a dollhouse complete. Many children will want to have dolls that resemble their own family. In the world we live in today, families are becoming more nontraditional than ever before. Customizing the dollhouse family to include just mom or dad with the children or having the children live with their grandparents is a wonderful way for children to connect with their own special situation. Whether it is just mom and child or mom and dad with five children, there will be a dollhouse filled with love. The child also has the ability to choose a dollhouse family that is nothing like their own. This helps them to learn and understand that every family is different and special.
Because the priest must have like every dog his day
Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon,
We and our dolls being but the world were best away.
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
Dollhouse people don’t just need to be family members. The fun of playing with a dollhouse is using your imagination and creating stories for the dolls to act out. The stories don’t have to just be inside the house. You can have your dolls go to the grocery store, off to school, or to the post office. That means you will need other dollhouse people to be a cashier, postman, and teacher. You can be as creative as you want with your dollhouse dolls. That is what makes it so much fun. Use your imagination and you and your dolls can go anywhere and do anything!
Miniature dolls, like any doll are fun to dress up. If you have an old Victorian dollhouse with old-fashioned furniture, then it would be a nice idea to dress your dolls in Victorian clothing. If you have a nice old farmhouse, then maybe your dolls should wear overalls and straw hats. Don’t forget that you can have pets and animals in your dollhouse too. If you have an old farmhouse, then there are probably cows, chickens, horses, sheep, and pigs too! An old Victorian house would usually have small lap dogs. The right clothes and animals help set the scene in your dollhouse.
... my aim is now, as it has been for the past ten years, to make myself a true woman, one worthy of the name, and one who will unshrinkingly follow the path which God marks out, one whose aim is to do all of the good she can in the world and not be one of the delicate little dolls or the silly fools who make up the bulk of American women, slaves to society and fashion.
—Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards (1842–1911)
There is so much that can be done with a dollhouse. Children have amazing imaginations and with the right tools, they can only expand their minds. A dollhouse is one of these remarkable tools. The dollhouse alone is not enough. Children need the dolls to act out stories and real life situations. These dolls can help them act out their own feelings and deal with their own problems. A dollhouse gives children freedom to be themselves.
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