Dolls and doll furniture fit well in many children's rooms. With doll furniture, children can create their own play world. But are doll furniture and doll houses also suitable as educational toys - if there is more space in the children's room? The answer here is a clear "yes" - and in more ways than one.
Dollhouses as educational toys – practicing everyday life
Children learn through play by taking on certain roles and practicing more or less predetermined behavior. Doll furniture, which can be bought in most wooden toy shops, creates the perfect conditions for acting out the life of an adult.
Doll furniture gives the child a very specific input by creating a similarity to a situation in which the children are reminded of “real life”.
This means that children are encouraged by doll furniture to imitate behavior they have seen their parents do. This has a twofold learning effect. Firstly, children imitate the situational behavior of adults in this environment. This means that children are enabled by doll furniture to practice certain everyday actions and, above all, to discover the meaning behind them.
You can certainly try to explain to a child why a toy belongs in a cupboard or why a loaf of bread should be put in the oven. Only when the child is enabled to imitate these actions in practice can it be ensured that he or she has really understood why mom or dad behaves in this particular way.
Imitation of what is shown is an important step in learning social patterns. In short: doll furniture gives the child a place to practice and internalize everyday life. And classic clichés about role distribution can also be tried out here at your own discretion.
Promoting language skills through interactions
This then leads to a second, important aspect. It may sound unusual, but doll furniture can be very beneficial to a child's language acquisition. The starting point here is again that doll furniture creates an environment that is very similar to the one in which the parents operate.
Of course, speaking is also part of the parents' behavior. A child acquires and improves its language skills by imitating its parents. As already described, doll furniture creates exactly this environment in which children are motivated to imitate their parents' behavior in detail.
If your child plays with his dolls in this environment, he will say the same or similar things as you usually do. From a very theoretical point of view, one would say that your child reproduces your language actions in the corresponding correct usage situations.
The child practices using certain sentences and words correctly. And this is exactly what helps the child to better understand the meaning of the statements.
Doll furniture promotes children's development simply by simulating an environment in which children can practice social behavior and, with it, language behavior. However, not every child's room has enough space to set up one or more doll furniture items.
If you still don't want to give your children a place to practice and rehearse social behavior, you can achieve a similar effect with dollhouses. In a dollhouse, your child will find an environment that is almost as suitable for imitating what they have experienced. Here, too, your child can imitate and practice social behavior in authentic situations.
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