Who can remember how exciting it was to play with a Wendy House or a Play House when you were young?
Dim and very distant memories for me, but I do recall how exciting it was to have doors and window that were child size and clearly not intended for grown-ups. We weren’t lucky enough to have a wooden play house. Ours was more like a tent that had been printed to look vaguely like a house. But our imaginations would take over and we’d happily play with our little Wendy house for hours.
A child’s imagination is wonderfully capable of transporting them from this world to another fantastic place populated by fantasy characters, demons and dragons. A few well chosen props can be enormously stimulating to this form of play which is important in aiding a child’s language and social development. A playhouse, no matter how simple, can provide this valuable stimulation.