boys doll house

clairec79

What about wooden trays - this sort of thing http://www.ikea.com/gb/en/products/tableware/serveware/klack-tray-rubberwood-art-06410406/

He could have a few to use as fields (could paint the bottom green if you wanted) then the tray edges are his hedges

Kim_kim

missbiggles1 wrote: »

Unfortunately, easily portable and flimsy go together.

I meant easily portable like his garage.

That's not flimsy, but it can be moved around.

Kim_kim

Nikkisun wrote: »

Have a look for Melissa and Doug Fold and Go Farm

curls wrote: »

Hi, this looks nice -

http://www.johnlewis.com/melissa-doug-fold-go-barn/p1835110?sku=234210778&s_kwcid=2dx92700013396675354&tmad=c&tmcampid=2&gclid=CjwKEAiAjIbBBRCitNvJ1o257WESJADpoUt0kWyjsclEKoF7eQEgUTFhUoVo4M_1G3Qy_9SLeayN_BoCSEHw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

Edit; Nikki has posted above at the same time as me and her suggestion is the same as the one in my link. It seems to be available other places too, Argos for example.

Thank you!!! A Dollis house for animals!
Just what I was after!!

Kim_kim

Kim_kim wrote: »

Thank you!!! A Dollis house for animals!
Just what I was after!!

Just realised that might be a bit young.

He's a very bright 5.5 year old & animal mad.

Something like that, but aimed at a slightly older age range.

Alikay

We have a dolls house very like this one, chosen deliberately as"non-gendered" when we started fostering about 7 years ago. It's been played with by girls and boys, and sits nicely alongside Brio, farm and garage toys.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Wooden-Dolls-House-With-Furniture-and-Doll-Family-/322021950597?hash=item4afa010485:g:CcIAAOSw~OVW0v3h

SamboJambo

A company called 'Baba Me' do lots of lovely toys that may be suitable and a lot of gender neutral toys too.

Savvy_Sue

Kim_kim wrote: »

Just realised that might be a bit young.

He's a very bright 5.5 year old & animal mad.

Something like that, but aimed at a slightly older age range.

Personally, it doesn't look too young to me: I think a 3 year old might be a bit young for it.

However it does look a bit small and therefore limited. If he's got lots of animals, they're not all going to fit in that.

I think I'd go for the diy route: either a suitcase or stacking boxes and put dividers into them which could be used for 'upright' play.

pollyanna24

I know you said you wanted portable "like a doll's house." My 5 year old's doll house is anything, but portable! It's not the largest thing in the world, but I wouldn't think to be dragging it around the house every time she wanted to play with it.

rach_k

Babipur has some nice farm buildings, like these:

http://www.babipur.co.uk/natural-wooden-toys/wooden-farms-dinosaurs/plan-toys-barn.html

http://www.babipur.co.uk/natural-wooden-toys/wooden-farms-dinosaurs/le-toy-van-pippin-farm.html

I don't know if they are the cheapest place to buy but you can at least Google some of the brand names from there.

Kim_kim

pollyanna24 wrote: »

I know you said you wanted portable "like a doll's house." My 5 year old's doll house is anything, but portable! It's not the largest thing in the world, but I wouldn't think to be dragging it around the house every time she wanted to play with it.

I mean portable like a garage.

Sorry that's what I should have said - something for animals instead of cars, but garage-like