I played with dolls until I was twelve, at which time the 'rents began to think it was a tad weird, and the dolls had vanished when I came home from summer camp. I didn't see until years later that I was working out elaborate novel plots with those long games that involved our entire bedroom. (All the cardboard castles and stuff I also laboriously made with tape also kept disappearing--that being clutter to all eyes but mine.)
Anyway,
some thoughts on play and art.