Playing Barbie Games after School

I like to watch my younger sister come home from school. She’s excited about learning and since she only has a few minutes of homework every evening, she’s able to spend plenty of time playing with her favorite toys – the Barbie games. I can sit at the table working on my homework for extended periods of time while she plays quite contentedly in the next room. The Barbie games make me smile because it’s nice to see the innocence that comes with the early years of school.

My little sister is like many young children. She’s young enough to enjoy school and not be frustrated by it. It’s all new to her and she loves her warm and friendly teacher who thinks of fun projects and experiments to do in class. She loves to dress up for classes and to carry her Barbie games lunch box. And when she gets home, she just picks right back up with the Barbie games she was playing the day before. While I’m happy watching her be happy, I’m also just a tiny bit jealous of how carefree she is playing – enjoying herself and totally free of anything that resembles stress. It’s a charmed life with her Barbie games and I find myself charmed by it as well.

Barbie Games in the Car

There are some great car games out there, but one of the best are Barbie games. There are Barbie games online, but the best Barbie games for the car are the ones that don’t require the internet. Fortunately, there are plenty of these out there. To play them, you need a laptop and a pad or pillow to put in her lap to be sure that the laptop doesn’t fall while driving. Load up the Barbie games on the computer and she can get right to work dressing up the dolls to suit her inspiration at the moment and creating stories.

The trouble with playing traditional games in the car is the movement. You can’t position a mouse perfectly in the moving car, but with Barbie games you don’t need to. The Barbie games are more drag and drop than anything else – moving clothing onto a doll base in order to dress the doll to your liking. It’s easy to drag something around on the screen, even if you’re on a bumpy road. So long as she’s not likely to get car sick, having something to work on that’s not television or movies is a nice way to engage her mind during the drive.
 

Barbie Games Tempt Me Again

I have two boys who simply aren’t interested in Barbies. With those boys, I’ll never have a chance to accumulate Barbie games. I won’t get to dress the little Barbies in the way I did when I was a little girl. I have grown to accept this loss of Barbie games from my household, but the clever people at Mattel managed to tempt me recently. I almost bought myself a Barbie doll.

Actually, it was a Jacob doll, but they are made by Barbie and part of the Barbie games collection. I am impressed with how well the Twilight series have done and thought about buying the doll just for fun. I could display it at work for laughs, but at the same time I’d get my Barbie games fix that I just can’t get when I’m playing with all the boys in my household. I will say that I didn’t buy Jacob or Edward for that matter. But I did think about it for more than a few seconds. Barbie games are definitely still tempting.  

Barbie Games Are Getting Classy

A quick stroll down the pink aisle recently made me realize how classy many of the Barbie games have become. There have always been the basic Barbies in their cheerful swimsuits ready for clothing and designs. But with the new black packaging, the elegant line of classy Barbie games impressed me. They were more adult looking than the pink packaged Barbie games.

If I could hazard a guess, I believe Mattel is targeting little girls with their pink boxed Barbies. The princesses and original Barbies in swimsuits and the like are very popular with the little ones. But to reclaim some of the older girl crowd, the company needed something different. The black boxed Barbies are that different. The dolls are sleeker and more sophisticated – just the sort of thing that older girls would be looking for in a fashion doll.

Barbie Games Are Immortal

Stop for a moment to think about all of the different toys that have survived over the years or seen a resurgence. Transformers, GI Joes, Strawberry Shortcakes and even the Smurfs have all popped up on toy shelves and they are all great fun. But among these only two types of toys are truly immortal – they will always be popular and always be around. These two are the toy cars and Barbie games. Why are these so timeless? Because they aren’t timeless at all.

Transformers and Strawberry Shortcake are essentially the same toys they were a generation ago when we played with them as children. The Barbie games a decade ago, however, are different from the games of today. And the Barbie games from two generations ago are night and day. The dolls in Barbie games change over time and her fashions change even more. The only other product in the toy aisles that has the same effect are the toy cars that take on the shape and design of popular cars of the decades.  

Barbie Games and Presents

I love to give Barbie games as presents. The Barbie games are fun to grab and they are nice and shiny when you open up the box. I like a gift to look exciting when the paper is ripped away. After all, how much fun is it to rip open the paper and see a cardboard box? It’s totally boring – even if there is something exciting inside. So when I pick out Barbie games as a gift, I try to pick one that is exciting to look at in the package – one with lots of extra details, for example, of an accessory she might not have already like the horse or car.

Barbie gifts are easy to find in just about any store as well which makes it easy to grab the gift and go. They also make nicely packaged Barbie games in virtually every price range, so depending on your budget for a particular gift, you can grab something applicable that looks fun and is fun, but doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. Barbie games are truly timeless and I’d probably get excited if I got one as a gift today – even though I’m old enough to hand them over to my own children as gifts.

Barbie Games and Fashion Trends

If the makers of Barbie games had their way, Barbie games would be the start of all kinds of fashion trends. Barbie has always been marketed as a fashion doll and she is always stylist, but she’s not a trend setter. Love her to death, but Barbie is a trend follower. She doesn’t define the fashion trends of each generation or decade. Instead she sets the trends for fashion dolls by redoing the trends that are already out there.

In fact, Barbie has left much of the fashion world behind by focusing on her own versions of timeless outfits. The doctor Barbie is dressed in a pink gown with a doctor’s jacket and the Vet doctor is similar. There are actually very few fashion Barbie games out there. Most are either career minded, dressed in a swimsuit or designed as a mythical or movie creature. You can find Barbie games designed as characters from Camp Rock as easily as you can find Barbie games designed as mermaids. Fashion setter? Nope, but fun none the less.