Sunday, October 4, 2009

How to Play Dress Up Games

Of the many girl games online, dress up games are arguably one of the most popular. What is it about these games that makes them so exceeding popular with girls of all ages? The complexity of the simple games is appealing as well as the many benefits you reap as you enjoy them.


Finding the Right Dress Up Games


Your first step in enjoying the games is to find the ones that you like. There is a huge variety of girl games online. A simple search can yield games with celebrities to dress, mermaids to create, Goths and punks to pull together and even witches and fairies to decorate appropriately. Finding the game you’ll enjoy is as simple as playing around with the selections available on the websites. Once you have one in your sights, however, it’s time to get busy getting creative.


Creativity


The bulk of playing the dress up games is pulling together a complete look for the doll. This can be as easy as picking out a top and bottom for her to wear or more complex with hundreds of clothing items and accessories to sort through to find the ideal selections. Many of the games include hair and make up styles as well making essentially everything about the dolls flexible and part of the creative process.


Girls work the games differently. Some start by defining the purpose of the doll ahead of time. If they are responding to a contest or a challenge from a friend, they will want to create a certain kind of dress up doll. For example, if a girl is in a challenge over a fairy tale creation, she might create the princess for the tale or the fairy. The princess would need to have a certain look to fit the fairy tale she was creating and she’d want to design her accordingly.


Being able to change the look of the doll to fit a design scheme or just a whim makes the dress up games much more versatile than the fashion doll equivalent. Playing with Barbie or Bratz dolls lets you enjoy dressing them up and playing pretend, but online fashion games are simply the next step. The options are almost endless and there are countless uses for the dolls once they are created.


Using Dolls in Dress Up Games


Once you have a doll created, you have a few different ways to enjoy it. You can simply admire your creation for what she is and go on to make another one. If you are especially fond of a creation, you almost always have the option to save her on your computer and use her for any number of purposes. Print her out and hang her on your wall or put her in a notebook. Use the image as your avatar on a social networking website. Use the picture as a decoration on a party invitation.


Online you can use the image as well. There are many different contests that encourage girls to create dolls and then to use them as part of a story or a poem. Make up the background information for your doll and submit her to a contest or just share her on one of the popular message boards that exist specifically for these purposes.