Doll Houses

[ctdoula]

I'm just looking for feedback regarding doll houses. I have a large Plan Toys doll house & furniture for every room (no dolls yet, LOL) that I got a great deal on. Recently my mothers helper started bringing over the doll house furniture/dolls that she used to play with (she's 17). My dd LOVE them. She asks for them as soon as the mothers helper gets here, and even when she's not here. She does play with her doll house, but I think she prefers the plastic stuff that the mothers helper brings.

Over the weekend I was at Walmart (gasp, LOL), and bought her a Fisher Price Loving Family convertable car set (double gasp) to go w/her house. She LOVES it. SHe also will sit & browse through the little catalog that came with it for 10 minutes (she's only 2!!).

So, here's the conundrum (spelling?)..... do I go get some plain Plan-type dolls that go with the house? Or do I go & start building a collection of the plastic, brightly-colored Loving Family stuff? The purist in me wants to go with all the wooden stuff, but then I see the FP stuff & it just brings be back to being 6 years old.

What do your kids like? WWYD? Thanks!!

[LuvMy2Kidz]

My dd seems to prefer plastic too. She has a plan type wooden house with everything, doll, furniture etc etc. She doesn't pay any attention to it. She loves the FP little people school, (old one like I had as a kid), the FP little people house, and the FP little people barn. *sigh*

[crazy_eights]

we have a whole assortment of characters for our girls' dollhouse and they play with all of them. We have plastic ones, cloth ones, Guatamalan dolls - they don't seem to discriminate.

[kazmir]

My DD has a small wooden doll house with some furniture, I think its a Melissa & Doug one. She likes to put her playmobil furniture and people in it and also her Polly Pocket people. She gets some very creative fantasies going with all the differenct parts, mostly princesses and princes. I think having a variety of options is good for them and gives her imagination a work out. Alto of time she plays out Sleeping Beauty/Little Mermaid and Rapunzel and wants me to join in. Those are more tedious than active open play but I go along and add my own twists to the stories Sometimes even Barbie gets involved (thanks grandma!)

I would check out garage sales and thrift shops to add to the collection of possibilities, we have alot of odds and ends too.

Have fun with it!

Robin