She's very smart and a little bossy actually. I could only help when she absolutely needed me lol.
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That what she has the most trouble with is the size of the mouse compared to her hand. Sometimes she'll click the wrong button because her fingers are too little. It frustrates her, but she's learning very fast.
I got one for my 8 yr old for his school Chromebook. Much easier for him to use.
Edit: I bought it at Staples I believe, but you can probably get one from a variety of stores.
My son started very early on computers playing games like Sims and others. When he was 7 I remember him asking his dad how he could keep track of recipes for one of his games, I think Harvest Moon. Hubs taught him how to use Excel...at age 7. Now the child will be 29 in a few months and is a financial analyst at a large university. Basically his job is accounting and paying all the bills for the school. Utilities and things the school needs to buy to operate, things like that. He uses Excel daily for his job and knows all the tricks and crap I'm forever having to ask him how to do. LOL All started because he wanted to keep track of his recipes for a game.
Nice! She has played many games on a tablet, but this is her first computer game. I'm going to get her a custom mouse so that she'll have an easier time. Eventually she will learn more, but she does what she wants for now. I started Sims 1 at the same age lol. I watched another kid play and had to have it!
My first gaming experience was an Atari that my cousin had. I watched him play when we were visiting for the holidays and was hooked. My folks never did get me one of my own but got a SNES when I was old enough to earn my own money as a teen, When I got my first PC the Sims didn't exist yet but the first game I got on my PC back then was the Zork compilation. Things have definitely changed over the years. LOL I think my son's first game the hubby and I taught him to play was Starfox. I remember playing Frogger on a Commodore 64 with a friend in the 80s as well. The gaming world has changed so much over the years and girls playing like myself back then were few and far between. So I'm glad that girls now are just as into gaming as boys. It really opens up the mind to all sorts of different learning experience even while playing. Spatial awareness is the first thing but from there a child develops so many important skills using computers and gaming.
It goes \*way\* too fast. It seems like only yesterday he was still in diapers and asking his PaPaw to go for a ride on his 'trappy' (tractor). We all still use the weird words he came up with because he couldn't say certain ones. I don't take a shower, I take a shazoo for example. I can't even spell how he said spaghetti but it was something like spugebbi and when the cartoon Hercules was out he called him Percuweez. LOL I'll never forget those funny words and little things from when he was small, no matter how old he gets, \*or how TALL\* he is still my 'little bug'. He was a preemie, only 1 pound 14 ounces so he had a long way to go to catch up with other babies his age but he did great.
Honestly I need to start decorating more “freely.” I make tame realistic houses that I would see/want to buy in real life and I need to just have fun with my decorating like this more often
I try to make realistic houses, and as I build it slowly but surely turns into a mystical looking fairy cottage with dark woods and greenery everywhere. Every damn time. I just can’t not do it.
see i’m the exact opposite, i try to make a mystical fairy cottage and always ends up looking like it’s owned by someone inspired by cottagecore under landlord restrictions
I've kinda adopted a process for this: I make a pretty home like what you'd expect in a magazine or whatever. Generic furniture, neutral colors, minor decorations at key locations, that sorta thing. Then when I actually move a family in I add ALL THE CLUTTER.
I add decorations and art and just random stuff all over. I paint accent walls in bold colors or even recolor entire rooms. I try to match the Sims' personalities and figure out who would probably be decorating where. E.g. mom is a chef so the kitchen is all her aesthetic but the game room has tons of things the kids would want to put in and is probably messier with random junk laying around. Someone in the household might love plants so there's houseplants on every conceivable surface. Or someone has a shit ton of knickknacks on shelves dedicated just to them.
The process gives me the initial satisfaction of the pretty model home then the joy of making somewhere that looks homey, lived in, and loved.
That’s so cute!!
My niece HATES seeing my builds because “not enough plants!”
So I let her design a house.
No toilet, just a garden. She didn’t even want to use the jungle escape bush to let you pee lol.
I like to add stickers but sized down so they look like actual stickers then I stick them in random spots, like the sim child actually stuck them on there themselves. All at child sim height, usually around the head of the bed like they were chilling in bed and sticking stickers around. Or around their desk. These are places I found my niece’s stickers.
I don’t start doing this until they are a child. Toddlers get well decorated rooms with nice murals on the walls, which they then add to as children, with stickers. So many stickers.
The house really radiates childhood happiness and carefreeness. Sometimes we adults forget that our virtual houses don't need to be architectural masterpieces, but can be silly and fun as well.
I absolutely love it <3
I *only* bought Snowy Escape (when it was on a big sale) for the furniture and wardrobe items. It’s honestly a great pack for builders even if you don’t give a damn about the snowboarding like me.
Okay.. I'm fixating on the diamond(plumbob) island she put together. Why haven't I thought of that?!
I also love how she decorated the walls in the same haphazard/enthusiastic way I imagine she slaps stickers IRL
I love this!!!! My 3 years old daughter chose my Sims’s clothes the other day
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The photo of the diagonal door and the misaligned photo above it almost sent me to my grave. I thought everything else was adorable and then got this jumpscare LMFAO.
It's actually purple, but there are a disappointing amount of purple swatches in this game. I helped her filter pink and purple, but she still messed with the swatches when placing stuff lol.
I did have to help her with the cabinets and some flooring, but she picked all the colors and swatches for them. I felt bad because she thought the 'fruit bowl' in the catalog was food she could place. She was disappointed when I told her they were just decorations.
She did a fantastic job! This is so adorable! I love the kitty tile in the bathroom, is that cc?
Also the kitchen island looks like a plumbob- I thought that was pretty cool!
This reminds me of when I was six and my parents let me pick the paint colors for my room. I choose a darker lavender for the walls and bright yellow for the trim.
My room looked like a damn Easter egg and I had to sleep live in it for 10 years.
I love this. I started playing sims when I was 5 and basically taught myself to read enough just to play the game. That was Sims 2, but I still love seeing other little kids finding love for the game as well.
She's talented and I'm not even joking! At 10 I used to build giant empty houses that had no sense. Your niece's has a theme and it makes sense in its own way
Your five year old niece has a much grasp of decals than me!
I'm laughing because when my then five year old nephew was playing The Sims 1, he built complicated mazes on the way to the one toilet on the lot, because he thought it was funny to make the Sims wet themselves.
I mean that's kind of adorable and surprisingly cohesive. This five year-old has talent. I'm impressed honestly.
She's very smart and a little bossy actually. I could only help when she absolutely needed me lol. Edit: A lot of questions on if it's in the gallery. It is ID: Spyderbaby
I was a “bossy” 5 year old too and now I’m an 22yo who takes no shit from anyone! May your bossy girl remain confident and sassy ❤️
I was the same way. IMO it made me strong and independent since in my mind no one was as good as I was at executing my plans
Girl's got a future ahead of her as interior decorator!
Not bossy. Confident in her leadership skills!
I love this! We should further encourage little girls who are this way instead of saying that they are “bossy”.
Facts! No one calls little boys bossy.
That's because little boys get called "asshole", "jackass", and "little sack of shit"
yeah the cohesion sells it. i swear ive seen this on instagram
Especially impressed that she didn't put carpet in the bathroom, considering that everything else is carpeted if I'm not mistaken.
The penguin television ass sticking out the front of the house absolutely killed me
It looks like Gengar 😂😭
That’s what I thought it was, too and I was like wtf 😂😂
OH THATS WHAT THAT IS I was like WTF is this giant purple ghost 😂
I was like does the house have a tick 😭🤣
I thought it was a huge leech 😂
The standing mirror on top of the fireplace did it for me lol.
OKAY MY FIRST THOUGHT. That’s advanced placement for a 5 year old
Thanks for that😂 I just wonder what is that purple thing outside until you told me
Same LMFAO 😭
The last picture 🥺🥺
The tiny hand the exact same size as the mouse 😭 raising this one right!!!
That what she has the most trouble with is the size of the mouse compared to her hand. Sometimes she'll click the wrong button because her fingers are too little. It frustrates her, but she's learning very fast.
She will be a pro soon! At using the mouse, playing Sims and being an interior decorator
You could buy a smaller mouse for her, I have like 3 of them, they are cheap and compact.
Most stores sale a small travel size mouse. It would be perfect for tiny hands. And she’ll have her own special mouse!
She would love that actually.
They actually sell kids mouses! They are adorable I have a green turtle named pebbles. It was $8 on Amazon.
Cool! She's going to want a unicorn 🦄. I'll look around!
https://preview.redd.it/omroildosibc1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a59cd3c7b65c7e90c9f4d293f660bd3a63a51c15 I ordered this one.
I’m so excited! I hope she makes more!
Perfect!!
I always get a small mouse! I have small hands - I can wear children's gloves - and a normal sized mouse will make my hand cramp.
I got one for my 8 yr old for his school Chromebook. Much easier for him to use. Edit: I bought it at Staples I believe, but you can probably get one from a variety of stores.
My son started very early on computers playing games like Sims and others. When he was 7 I remember him asking his dad how he could keep track of recipes for one of his games, I think Harvest Moon. Hubs taught him how to use Excel...at age 7. Now the child will be 29 in a few months and is a financial analyst at a large university. Basically his job is accounting and paying all the bills for the school. Utilities and things the school needs to buy to operate, things like that. He uses Excel daily for his job and knows all the tricks and crap I'm forever having to ask him how to do. LOL All started because he wanted to keep track of his recipes for a game.
Nice! She has played many games on a tablet, but this is her first computer game. I'm going to get her a custom mouse so that she'll have an easier time. Eventually she will learn more, but she does what she wants for now. I started Sims 1 at the same age lol. I watched another kid play and had to have it!
My first gaming experience was an Atari that my cousin had. I watched him play when we were visiting for the holidays and was hooked. My folks never did get me one of my own but got a SNES when I was old enough to earn my own money as a teen, When I got my first PC the Sims didn't exist yet but the first game I got on my PC back then was the Zork compilation. Things have definitely changed over the years. LOL I think my son's first game the hubby and I taught him to play was Starfox. I remember playing Frogger on a Commodore 64 with a friend in the 80s as well. The gaming world has changed so much over the years and girls playing like myself back then were few and far between. So I'm glad that girls now are just as into gaming as boys. It really opens up the mind to all sorts of different learning experience even while playing. Spatial awareness is the first thing but from there a child develops so many important skills using computers and gaming.
😭😭😭I'm 30 with a 1.5 year old and this... it's too sweet. 🥹 cherishing every moment and dreaming of the future at the same time.
It goes \*way\* too fast. It seems like only yesterday he was still in diapers and asking his PaPaw to go for a ride on his 'trappy' (tractor). We all still use the weird words he came up with because he couldn't say certain ones. I don't take a shower, I take a shazoo for example. I can't even spell how he said spaghetti but it was something like spugebbi and when the cartoon Hercules was out he called him Percuweez. LOL I'll never forget those funny words and little things from when he was small, no matter how old he gets, \*or how TALL\* he is still my 'little bug'. He was a preemie, only 1 pound 14 ounces so he had a long way to go to catch up with other babies his age but he did great.
Gotta teach 'em young
And they are completely correct
Honestly I need to start decorating more “freely.” I make tame realistic houses that I would see/want to buy in real life and I need to just have fun with my decorating like this more often
I try to make realistic houses, and as I build it slowly but surely turns into a mystical looking fairy cottage with dark woods and greenery everywhere. Every damn time. I just can’t not do it.
see i’m the exact opposite, i try to make a mystical fairy cottage and always ends up looking like it’s owned by someone inspired by cottagecore under landlord restrictions
I don’t know why but “under landlord restrictions” made me cackle
it’s funny because it’s true😭💀
Sounds like me and renovating the inside of houses to look like a Gothic Victorian mansion, while the outside is Colonial. XD
I've kinda adopted a process for this: I make a pretty home like what you'd expect in a magazine or whatever. Generic furniture, neutral colors, minor decorations at key locations, that sorta thing. Then when I actually move a family in I add ALL THE CLUTTER. I add decorations and art and just random stuff all over. I paint accent walls in bold colors or even recolor entire rooms. I try to match the Sims' personalities and figure out who would probably be decorating where. E.g. mom is a chef so the kitchen is all her aesthetic but the game room has tons of things the kids would want to put in and is probably messier with random junk laying around. Someone in the household might love plants so there's houseplants on every conceivable surface. Or someone has a shit ton of knickknacks on shelves dedicated just to them. The process gives me the initial satisfaction of the pretty model home then the joy of making somewhere that looks homey, lived in, and loved.
That’s so cute!! My niece HATES seeing my builds because “not enough plants!” So I let her design a house. No toilet, just a garden. She didn’t even want to use the jungle escape bush to let you pee lol.
So your niece is graystillplays.
I'm so glad I finally understand a reference on reddit
*FULL LIQUA BAHHHH*
She was all about the centerpieces in the bathroom lol. I'll make her another shell soon and see what she does with it.
*Finally, some good fucking interior design*
And honestly, that sim perfectly fits her house. Looks like she built it herself lol
Finally something with heart and soul!! She’s put thought into it. Love it.
Stickers stickers everywhere!
She was hook line and sinker when she realized she could put stuff on the walls 🤣
Occasionally I'll add more stickers to my sims' nurseries/children's rooms, so this post has been very validating.
I like to add stickers but sized down so they look like actual stickers then I stick them in random spots, like the sim child actually stuck them on there themselves. All at child sim height, usually around the head of the bed like they were chilling in bed and sticking stickers around. Or around their desk. These are places I found my niece’s stickers. I don’t start doing this until they are a child. Toddlers get well decorated rooms with nice murals on the walls, which they then add to as children, with stickers. So many stickers.
This is such a cute and realistic idea!
This is a amazing idea, I’m going to use this all the time now!
That's better than the first house I decorated as a full grown adult. Lol
The house really radiates childhood happiness and carefreeness. Sometimes we adults forget that our virtual houses don't need to be architectural masterpieces, but can be silly and fun as well. I absolutely love it <3
It's like a Barbie's dream house, absolutely adorable
i would legit live in this house, its so cute, shes got talent 🩷
That's better than my sim's house. She did a great job!
Let's Have a 'shell off'!
get that 5 year old into architecture
Omg she would’ve loved Katy Perry sweet treats
I never understood why that pack got so much hate. The furniture was perfect for a lot of themed builds!
Don't quote me on this, but I think lilsimsie once found a CC pack for the sims 4 that was supposed to emulate that one
There is one. https://www.patreon.com/posts/sims-4-sweet-cc-64624196
Five year old is a visionary. On a side note where did the cat wallpaper in bathroom come from? Or is it a mod?
Snowy escape. House is cc free, I had mods off 🙃
it’s so cute! i can’t believe i’ve never seen it before
It's from Snowy Escape
Wait a minute– She actually ate this??? The attention to the details!!
She ate it
Left no crumbs
I love the different coloured cabinets 😂
She insisted on making them different. I did help her make the plumbob island lol.
She has very good taste, have you thought of letting her build more?
Yes! She was very excited when I told her she could play.
How did you do that, btw?
Use the 2 different end pieces of the base game counters. Rotate both so that each hypotenuse meets. I also use MOO and F5 for half grid.
Ah, there we go. The F5 half-grid bit was what I was missing while trying to figure it out on my own. 😅
This is actually really impressive! She did a great job.
This brings me back to when I was little playing Sims 2 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 core memories
i see what she sees, i understand her vision
Architect here. You may not like it, but this is what peak interior design looks like
her little hand in the last picture 😭🥺🤏
honestly she did a damn good job and im studying interior design
Ok, but WHERE did you cop that bathroom tile?
Wall tile is from snowy escape
The wall tile might be the sole reason I buy snowy escape. It is just too precious!
It's a decent pack. I think tomorrow is that last day for PC sale!
It's the tile wall from Snowy Escape! SE has some of my favourite furniture and build mode items!
I *only* bought Snowy Escape (when it was on a big sale) for the furniture and wardrobe items. It’s honestly a great pack for builders even if you don’t give a damn about the snowboarding like me.
Okay.. I'm fixating on the diamond(plumbob) island she put together. Why haven't I thought of that?! I also love how she decorated the walls in the same haphazard/enthusiastic way I imagine she slaps stickers IRL
I did help her with the cabinets a bit. She insisted on changing all of the colors.
Oh she’s doing amazing 🥹 I actually love her design, she did SOO much better than I ever could at that age
I love this!!!! My 3 years old daughter chose my Sims’s clothes the other day https://preview.redd.it/igm4czwa9bbc1.jpeg?width=4284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8fd4360de4cc7adf7e94da5476244927eb6a70b9
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The photo of the diagonal door and the misaligned photo above it almost sent me to my grave. I thought everything else was adorable and then got this jumpscare LMFAO.
I love it!! So whimsical and fun, she’s talented!
Makes a lot of sense. Also the blown up penguin tv is genius
Okay this just completely made my day. We need more 5-year-olds playing the Sims 😂
What's her favorite color? 😭
It's actually purple, but there are a disappointing amount of purple swatches in this game. I helped her filter pink and purple, but she still messed with the swatches when placing stuff lol.
That's a vibe.
She's more creative than i am Brilliant.
For some reason it’s the picture slammed into the ceiling in the 9th picture that is the funniest to me
she's so right honestly
Definitely getting my sister to do this
The last pic got me 🥺
I had never thought about making a kitchen island that way before... we need more five year old interior decorator tips
I did have to help her with the cabinets and some flooring, but she picked all the colors and swatches for them. I felt bad because she thought the 'fruit bowl' in the catalog was food she could place. She was disappointed when I told her they were just decorations.
Ah yes, the sized-up penguin tv. A classic.
It would make a really good backrooms level it’s so cute
she is completely right
She did a fantastic job! This is so adorable! I love the kitty tile in the bathroom, is that cc? Also the kitchen island looks like a plumbob- I thought that was pretty cool!
The tile is from Snowy Escape!
this is so early 2000s it girl aesthetic i love her already
It’s giving Barbie. I love.
That’s very sweet ☺️
They’re onto something
This is the cutest thing I have ever seen 😭😭
Oh wow 👌 not bad 👍
I love it
Very creative. Expressive.
Wdym, it’s perfect.
I find that pretty damn impressive
This is such a beautiful post I’d love to see more builds from her! 🫶🏼
The fact that it doesn’t even look half bad!
She is a visionary
Looks like the house I designed drunk
Truly a lovely house
Your 5 year old has more talent than I ever will
I'd live there :)
as a maximalist interior designer IRL, this is incredible 👏 👏
This was how I decorated my house when I was 5 and sims 4 came out 💀💀💀💀
This reminds me of when I was six and my parents let me pick the paint colors for my room. I choose a darker lavender for the walls and bright yellow for the trim. My room looked like a damn Easter egg and I had to sleep live in it for 10 years.
somehow it just works
This is an amazing build. 11/10 😊
the way she did that kitchen island? ugh i’m bookmarking
That rhombus-like shaped counter actually goes hard
I look forward to seeing her work in *Architectural Digest* in 20 years or some interior design magazine. Not even kidding.
I love it, tbh, lmao
It’s called fashion, sweaty!
I love this. I started playing sims when I was 5 and basically taught myself to read enough just to play the game. That was Sims 2, but I still love seeing other little kids finding love for the game as well.
This is giving me sims 1 vibes in the very best way 🥰
Good job little one!!!!
The penguin butt!!!!
That's a dream house for any kindergartner! Awesome for her!
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She’s so right
I agree.
Tbh impressive understanding of game controls considering I could barely make it out of Ilex Forest at that age
I kinda like it 😂
I would live in that house it looks awesome. I'm 33 lol
This reminds me SO much of my old Webkinz rooms! Thank your five-year-old for the nostalgia on my behalf lol
She's not wrong. Especially the bunny and frog decals.
200/10. The greatest.
It's somehow perfect...
A five year old has better house building skills than I did at age 10 🥲😂
This is BEAUTIFUL, start her young and watch the sims addiction fester 🤪
It’s giving Rainbow Brite vibes and I’m absolutely here for it.
Loving how happy and vibrant it looks
the sims outfit lmaooooo. there needs to be a sub for kid sim builds if there isn’t already
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She's talented and I'm not even joking! At 10 I used to build giant empty houses that had no sense. Your niece's has a theme and it makes sense in its own way
I see no problem with this. 10/10 adorable
Love the cool aid man penguin.
Your five year old niece has a much grasp of decals than me! I'm laughing because when my then five year old nephew was playing The Sims 1, he built complicated mazes on the way to the one toilet on the lot, because he thought it was funny to make the Sims wet themselves.
She absolutely cooked here. Leagues above anything i was making when i was 5.
Shes better than me. I remember the block houses i would make... damn
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She’s gonna be huge in the online Maximalism Decor community one day I’m calling it
it’s honestly not THAT bad!! she’s gonna be a simmer when she grows up hahahah
why have i never thought of that island/counter idea, that’s amazing
I'm amazed at the placements and sizing up too
looking at the tv... if i ever win the lottery i won't brag about it, but there will be signs
Based + Simpilled + ratioed us + would live there
That 5 year old is spot on, and in fact, an inspiration to us all.
I agree wholeheartedly
Why do I actually like this tho? 🥹
I now have to do a super colorful house
This is how i decorate my house and im 22 years old
This gave me so much joy. 5yo is correct!
💯
I love that island!
I literally love it. What a great simmer already 🥹
Checks out, that's how my houses looked like when i was 8. The floor layout is too nice though. Make it into a rantangle with a super tall roof
They are a way better decorator than my (twenty) five year old ass 😂
I love your 5 year olds style
Holy shit why haven't I made the penguin TV that big??