Dollhouses

A dollhouse is a miniature home toy. Today they are on the top of the demand list of growing girls. Luckily, several toy companies and doll manufacturers are offering miniature houses for different types of dolls.

Historically speaking, since the early 20th century, these houses have been the domain of children. But the collection and assembly of tiny parts of a dollhouse is a beloved hobby of many adults as well. Today we can also find many crafty people making their dollhouses with cardboard and other daily life recycling products. The dollhouses trace back their history to about four hundred years old “the baby house” display cases of Europe. It showed the idealized interior. Just like modern-day dollhouses, these older versions had realistic interiors and exteriors. However, today they are mass-produced and readily available at cheaper rates.

Benefits of playing with miniature houses

Just like any other type of toy for kids, playing with baby dollhouses also brings several health, mental and development perks for kids. It is an understood reality that kids learn about the world around them every moment they are awake. They do so by imitating what they see in the real-time examples given by their parents, teachers, and other elements in the surrounding. A miniature horse is a collection of toys that fosters imagination and imitation in a growing child. The imaginative play helps in polishing motor and social skills along with other developments, some of which are discussed below.

Social skill development

Kids are born with the curiosity and desire to learn and grow up.  They also love to do whatever they watch the adult doing around them. A big dollhouse allows the kids to put themselves in an imaginary position where they will imitate the elders using toy tools and accessories.  While playing with the dollhouse, the kid will communicate with the tiny puppet family members. They are seen in practising situations like parents telling the kids to do daily. While doing that the child tries to adjust furniture, invite neighbours for tea or park the car in the garage. All such activities allow them to become part of their social setting far before they become one.

Fine motor skill development

A small dollhouse is something that precisely involves fine motor skills. Placing and small furniture items offer practice in grasping and in perceiving spatial relations like shape and size. Therefore, it is important to choose a dollhouse size appropriate to the agility and age of the child. Large wooden dollhouses with a simple house can work well for a young preschooler. At the same time, an older kid can handle a house with several rooms and fragile furniture or dolls. You can also buy options where kids will need to build the house from scratch by connecting different parts of the walls, roof and floor etc.

Acquiring vocabulary

A dollhouse promotes conversation about all kinds of topics. Kids can learn about home decoration terms like dresser, sofa, powder room or guest room etc. They can also practice words like downstairs, upstairs, indoor, or outdoor. Additionally, they will learn about sizes, shapes, colours, and more. The parents can play with the kids to expand the topics and thus introducing new words to kids. Studies also show that kids don’t talk much in classroom settings as they speak and learn to speak while playing with dollhouses and other such toys. This is also because of the private setting and the comfort that they don’t get in the classroom gatherings.