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0 pointsselllikesybok10y ago0 comments

Absolutely! Boys do the same with their dolls. :) I spent countless hours crafting physical things (block forts, mostly) and fantastical backdrops for different generations of "action figures". From 9-10 my go to was an elaborate mythology developed around Micro Machines and dinosaur figurines. Something about dead race drivers reincarnating as sentient dinos in an alternate universe, IIRC.

I was never very good at drawing, but evidence shows I did scribble a lot.

My son loved to draw, and is still pretty good but seems less interested since his early teens. He, too, spent long hours with his different dolls, in addition to the video games.

I'd say so the same things as for a girl, honestly. Provide opportunities to draw/paint/sculpt/make noise. They will do so. :)

I think it's more around school ages that things change more. And puberty, or course.

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eli_gottlieb10y ago

My brother and I had an elaborately worked-out story and setting for our Nintendo-themed plush dolls that mostly reflected our exposure to Dragonball Z in afternoon/early-morning cartoon blocks.

In fact, it was slightly more aware of its own genre conventions than DBZ ever achieved.

Of course, we had loads and loads of free time back then. Why, I had so much free time back then, I could spend time trying to write my own pathetically hand-crafted D3D8 game engine and play with dolls with my brother, all in the same week!

Compare to adulthood, in which I'm lucky to combine going to the gym, basic household tasks, and accomplishing 5 hours of hobby-stuff in a single week of outside-work time.

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