Over the last couple years Hanna has pretty regularly received sets of magnetic “paper dolls”. I was thrilled to see them the first time because they were so cool! They really are like paper dolls, but they are wood and magnetic, so they are much more durable. She’s gotten a Daisy Girls dress up set which came in a handy carrying case, and had 40 pieces, between the dolls and all the clothes. Having a bag for them all to go in was really nice.
This year, it was my mom who picked out more Daisy Girls and she opted for the Daisy Girl Dollhouse. This is a gorgeous doll house. It’s 2 feet tall, and 17 inches across. It’s dollhouse itself is solidly constructed and very sturdy. It is only 2 inches deep ~ which is more than enough room for the dolls and for your child to play ~ however, it makes it a little unsteady and easily tipped over. You’ll notice in the picture Hanna has hers leaned against a chair, otherwise it simply topples over when she moves the pieces around.
Aha! As I was looking at the box I realized we have missed an important element of this dollhouse. The “tip resistant supports”! Hanna brought them to me earlier and I thought they were just decorations for the outside. oops. Ok, so I just tried to add the supports and while it looks simple on the diagram (which is included in the kit) it seems the screws are not long enough to connect with the threads. I could not get the supports on. I will see if my husband can do it when he gets here. 
All in all, even if the supports don’t work, I’m still giving this product a thumbs up, for the sheer entertainment value it’s providing thus far.
This set comes with the dollhouse, 4 dolls, 2 pet dolls and over 130 different outfit pieces. Yes, I said over 130 pieces. I tell my mom whenever she mentions getting something with a gazillion pieces to get a plastic tub to go with it. She didn’t do that… however, when we opened the dollhouse there was a nice wooden box with a sliding plastic lid to keep all the pieces in. That’s great in theory, but in practice there are too many pieces for the box size and the lid doesn’t fit on correctly and it doesn’t stay on. I’m thinking, now that the supports won’t be in the box, that might leave enough room for the pieces… so it might work, but we’ll definitely be getting a plastic tub for all the pieces.
Anyway, there’s a set of clothes for rainy weather, activities, tea party, bath time, swimming, cooking, everyday clothes, bedtime, dress up, and winter. As you can see there is a wide variety of clothes which will help create a variety of playing scenarios for your kiddo.
Hanna has been playing with this dollhouse for hours since she got it Christmas morning. I can hear her in her room making up stories for the dolls, and scenarios they need to change clothes for. I can hear her incorporating the animals into the family activities as well.
The dolls come with a small block of wood in the bottom to help them stand up. She banged one of the dolls the first day and the block popped out, but it will be simple enough to fix with some super glue. This doll house is a wonderful find, and as long as we can work on containing the pieces when your kiddo’s done playing it will definitely provide hours and hours of imaginative play.
Pros:
Tons of imaginative play.
Plenty of pieces to keep the ideas coming for different ways to play.
Cons:
Screws didn’t fit for the support pieces
Blocks popped out of the doll (another has popped out even since I started this post)
So it seems the construction could use some work, but anything that keeps my kiddo’s imagination on overdrive for this amount of time still gets a thumbs up in my book. I’d much rather have her upstairs playing with the dollhouse ~ even if it’s leaning on a chair than begging to watch tv.
