Best age for a doll's house

[AnyDream]

What's the peak age for doll-house play? Just regular doll-housy stuff, not barbies etc.

[Taurean]

I don't know about my own kids but we got ours when I was about 3 and I played with it for years. I was a real girly-girl though - I was still playing with my dolls at 11!

I can't wait until our DD is old enough for a dolls house. I think I'll have just as much fun as she will, lol

[indie24]

DD is 2 and has one. She doesn't really do imaginative play as such but tends to put the the dolls in the bed and talks to the dolls. She loves it. It is one of her favourite toys.

[LimeSlice]

Charlotte got one a few weeks ago for her (3rd) birthday, and she loves it!!
I did get a second hand one, needs some reno work lol, but I didn't want to go spending a fortune if she wasn't interested. But she adores it, so will be getting some more furniture and bits for it for Christmas from Santa.

[~Kim~]

We got DDs at 18months (a chunky FP one) and she still loves it. She'll be 5 in May.

[2girls]

My father made a wooden one for my girls for last Christmas, so they were just 4 and nearly 2. DD2 has only started playing "properly" with it in the last few months, but they both love it Can't see either of them growing out of it for quite a few years. My mother-in-law does folk art and she did all the painting so it's just beautiful, I'll be sad when they do get too big!

If you do get one, get the Early Learning Centre furniture. It's really tough and you can leave out anything that's a bit too small (like books for the study set!) We had some other stuff from Ebay and it started breaking really quickly.

[Visitor7]

DD1 got one for her 3rd birthday, and both DD1 and DD2 love playing with it.