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In South Africa, Wendy houses are a form of accommodation for live-in domestic workers and is a wooden structure on the employer's property. The structure is usually erected in someone's backyard. They feature basic amenities such as electricity and running water. The corrugated iron homes, known as
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is more generic and more common than the term Wendy house. A few online companies offer rustic, inflatable, or corrugated iron varieties. A playhouse may become a hide-away, fort, club house in a child's imagination or simply a place to "play house" in imitation of adult behavior.
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A Cubby House is another name for playhouses. There are both indoor and outdoor children's playhouses and manufactured kits for assembly by adults or children. A playhouse may become a hide-away or club house in a child's imagination.
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A prop house was created by Barrie for the first stage production of the play in 1904. It was constructed like a tent so that it could be erected quickly during a song which Wendy starts with:
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kit to something resembling a real house in a child's size. Usually there is one room, a doorway with a window on each side, and little or no
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and the Lost Boys built a small house around her where she had fallen. It was inspired by the wash-house behind Barrie's childhood home in
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in which fairies build a house around Mamie Mannering—the prototype for Wendy—so protecting her from the cold.
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Among the more affluent population, wendy houses are used as entertainment huts, children's playhouses, or for storage.
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built by or for adults are often appropriated by children as a secret vantage point and may become a safety concern.
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The term "wendy house" or "wendy" usually refers to the wooden temporary accommodation.
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sometimes serve as a playhouse or secret vantage point for children.
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Playhouses for children

Peter Pan

Chartwell
Winston Churchill
United Kingdom
children
plastic
furniture
Wendy Darling
J. M. Barrie
Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up
Lost Boy
Neverland
Peter Pan
Kirriemuir
The Little White Bird
John's
hat
chimney
slipper
door knocker
gardens

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