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How to Create My Own Doll House Game

Doll houses are powerful vehicles for challenging a child's imagination and pushes them to envision their own games and activities. Incorporating a game into the toy will help to engage the children in the activity as well as introduce healthy competition. Add a challenge to games of make believe will add new dimensions to the activity as well as enhance their critical thinking and analyzing skills.

Things You'll Need

Doll house
Doll house furniture
Penny
Paper
Pen
Dolls

Instructions

- 1
  Fill the rooms of the doll house with the appropriate furniture as well as dolls. Designate one doll to be the detective and keep this doll out of the doll house for the set-up.
- 2
  Map out a scavenger hunt that will lead the player around the house in search of the penny or "hidden treasure."
- 3
  Create clues to complement the map. Hide these tools at each hiding spot in order. For example, the first clue could read "Look under the place that smells soapy and clean," and the next clue would be hidden under the doll bathtub in the doll house bathroom.
- 4
  Lead the player through every room of the house. She will use the designated "detective doll" to progress through the house and find the clues.
- 5
  Hide a penny at the end of the clues path. When the doll detective comes upon the penny, she wins the game.

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