'doll play' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to reference the activity of playing with dolls, either as an activity of a child or for recreational purposes. For example: "My daughter loves to spend her afternoons playing doll play with her plush dolls."
As for the model rooms, it's enough that they enchantingly capture both the feeling of doll play and adult habitation.
Boys, on the other hand, can indulge in something like doll play with toy horses, which surely whetted the anticipation of owning horses for riding or driving fast.
As to how the stories that children create when playing The Sims differ from those in traditional doll play, there appear to have been no serious studies.
What role does a doll play in the life of the main character, Claudia MacTeer, and what does this doll represent?
That means no yawning, no twiddling of thumbs, no doll play, no singing under your breath, no swivelling in your chair or sliding under the table, no yelling for Mom, and no slouching your shoulders and moping like a dumb little baby, you dumb idiot.
The disrupted doll play is just part of a series of scenes in which young Jodie struggles to come to terms with her unique ability – Beyond is strongest here, in these early years, capturing the mannerisms and heartache of childhood with pinprick accuracy, turning a neighbourhood snowball fight into a rush of escape and excitement.
Now my daughters pretend that their Elsa doll plays with a package of Shopkins, giving both toys a second, and better, life.
Borrowing on last year's Elmo Live technology, the 14-inch animatronic doll plays turn-taking games like Simon Says, and can moon walk, thanks to his innovative hinged feet with locking wheels.
Given the close evolutionary relationship between chimps and humans, the implication is that doll playing and other gender-specific behaviors seen in young human children may be hard-wired as well, he says.
Also you're gonna have to write down the name of each character and which doll plays who because it would be a wreck to film an episode and keep forgetting each characters name.
· The Dresden Dolls play the Limelight in Belfast (02890 325968) on May 1, then tour.
