Games for Girls in a Playhouse

Imaginative, creative play is the key to a young child's development. Many children see playhouses in magazines and catalogs and long to have one in their playroom or backyard. Once you purchase a playhouse, there are lots of games that can be played to keep the playhouse engaging for your child, and to keep your toddler or preschool wanting to use it regularly.

  1. Visit

    • Little girls often love to play "visit," where once person sits in the playhouse, pretending to cook or read, while another comes to the door and knocks, pretending to visit. Allow your child to take on various roles of different hosts or guests, but emphasize manners and courteousness while you play. This game can be incorporated with kitchen play if there is play food and a toy kitchen in the playhouse and with dress-up clothes and costumes as well.

    Tea Party

    • Girls perfect their manners while having play tea parties.

      Very few little girls can resist a tea party. Tea parties can serve real food, or play food from the toy kitchen, or even just food that is imaginary. Buy a simple plastic or sturdy china tea set from a toy store or discount store. Wash the set well or run it through the dishwasher if you plan to serve real food. A vase of real or fake flowers can dress up the table in the playhouse. Invite over a friend or have the tea party during a play date. Let dolls and stuffed animals fill the rest of the seats at the party table. Little girls and their friends may want to dress in their dress-up clothes to attend the tea party.

    Play School

    • Pretending to be at school mixes learning and play.

      Many children love to play school, acting out the scenes they have experienced at preschool or Kindergarten. Simple school supplies can include books, a small whiteboard or chalkboard, paper and pencils, maps and globes, stickers and a time-teaching clock. Take turns with your child being the teacher and the student.

    Play Store

    • Children learn about money and counting skills while playing store.

      Pretending to run a store is a wonderful imaginative activity, and is a great way for a parent or caregiver to sneak plenty of learning into creative play. Take turns with your child being the shopkeeper and customer. Purchase inexpensive play money, which is available at most toy stores. Use the plastic coins that closely approximate real coins, so that your child becomes familiar with the different looks of the various denominations. Price the items "for sale" in odd prices like $13.00, or as she gets more advanced, $17.22 so that there will be plenty of opportunities for your child to both figure out the amount to pay and make change. Purchase a toy cash register at a toy store or use a simple shoe box to contain and organize your play money.

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