When the Corgi family came to stay with us recently, they were adding to our small but growing Sylvanian Families collection, however if you’re thinking of starting a Sylvanian Families collection, then you may be wondering where to start.
I began my collection almost thirty years ago with a gift from my Nan of two families. My collection grew  to a few sets of families and some furniture, but I was never lucky enough to own my own Sylvanian home.
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When Miss A was old enough to appreciate Sylvanian Families we introduced her to the Cosy Cottage Starter home, a small home with enough accessories to get her started with one figure included/
The home can be connected with the larger homes such as Beechwood Hall, Maple Manor with Carport, Seaside Restaurant, Country Doctor Clinic, Hamburger Restaurant and the Supermarket as she decides her collection needs to grow.
The Cosy Cottage starter home comes with one figure, a chocolate rabbit girl, and enough furniture such as a ladder, table, bench, chairs, bed, and accessories to be able to play with without having to purchase anything else at the same time.
Playing with Sylvanian Families sparks great imagination in children, and I have watched Miss A interact with her characters and vehicles to create great stories for her Sylvanians. Having one character is plenty to start with but as there are so many different families to collect (61 different families as of 2014).
Then I think an additional family is a great idea to expand the range of play. The Grey Cat family, Perkin, Dorothy, Austin and Zara are a lovely family to welcome into your Sylvanian home.
With more than one character to play with, it’s easier to expand some of the furniture and activities to make everyone fit comfortably into their new home. There are plenty of different furniture sets that you can choose from, however to make your starter home more comfortable,how about a washing machine set to make sure everyone has clean clothes.
Perhaps a children’s bedroom furniture set to make sure everyone has room to sleep at night, a kitchen cookware set because we don’t want the families to go hungry now do we, and perhaps a high chair for the dinner table for the young ones.
If you’re looking for a bit of outside space next to your home, then maybe a slide, or a pushchair to go out and about to meet new Sylvanian Families.
With over 37 houses and 368 furniture accessories it can be difficult to know where to start and what to buy if you’re looking at starting a Sylvanian Families collection then I hope these suggestions have helped you with some ideas.
What set did you start your Sylvanian Family Collection with?
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a scientist set, for all your b-film science lab scene needs! 🙂
A farm set would be great
A campervan!
I used to have a load of sylvanians, but my favourite accessory was the bakery!
Adventure playground as lots of fun climbing and jumping
A kitchenette set with food to learn cooking.
A hotel because it’s always fun to go on holiday 🙂 .
an oriental set as it would be unique to have something like this
I’d have a disco/ballroom for them to go dancing in!
A spaceship so boys can play with them 🙂
I love the bedroom set.. I used to have so much of this when I was a kid id love to win so I could give it to my god daughter 😀
as rugby fans I have to say a rugby pitch.
a car park, my little girl is obsessed at the moment
A baking set or a Fun Fair set would be fab as these are things my little ones love to do! x
A theme park – we love theme parks!
A sweet shop that you can pretend to weigh out sweets into little bags.
A campervan so they could travel all over the house in style lol
a camp site 🙂
I love sylvanian families 🙂 I had loads when I was little … I’dlove the ice cream van for my daughter… she loves sylvanian families and ice-cream!! = perfect
I would love them to have bycycles and a bike ahop
A boat!
A fancy dress set as the animals would look really cute dressed up and they could get in the Halloween spirit.
A hospital set, or nursing home for the older ones.
a campervan
Ice Cream van! All the little ice cream cones and flavours, great 🙂
a static caravan kids love spending time at there gram and grandads one during school holidays 🙂
school set – we like playing school at the moment…
i adore the cosyy cottage starter home x
I have two little girlies that would love this.
Amusement park
My girls would love a funfair set x
Adventure playground because i want a go lol x
I always wanted the barge set!
A ranch with cowboys and cowgirls. They’re always fun.
It would have to be a medieval themed set as I am so fascinated with that era! Sylvanian families / Game of Thrones esque! Ha ha! Love it 😀
I would love the canal boat! My inlaws have a canal boat so I think it would really appeal to the kids
I think a little Photographers studio would be cute 😀
A gymnastics themed set as my daughter loves gymnastics!
A simple house set, with beds and chairs for the characters. My daughters would love that. We don’t have any Silvian families sets yet, so a simple one to start with would be just fine; there’s always time to grow a bigger collection later on.
A castle. Always wanted a Sylanian family castle
The farm set would be lovely and perfect for Luke. Ray xx
A camper van because they look awesome!
A hospital so that it becomes a place not to be afraid of.
A campervan
A windmill set as I think they look adorable!
A school because my daughter loves playing school!
I think this Adventure Treasure Ship is the perfect set, My little girl loves searching for treasure so I think this would be perfect for her.
a camper van because they are cool
A school set as it would be fun!
Has to be farm set 🙂
I think a school set would be fun! 🙂
A Treehouse would be fab – as I always wanted one as a child 🙂
Love these
A zoo xx
I love the campervan set just because its so cute and a bit different
a royal castle
An active Volcano would be pretty cool
It would have to be an ice skating rink set
A campervan would be fab for playing with
I love the caravan set – but if I could invent one it would be a geology fossil dig one – maybe with a family of moles!
My choice would definitely be a holiday set – camping or campervan x
A kitchenette set xx
a spaceship – would love to meet aliens
A viking longship.
Living room set as you can customise all the furniture using different fabrics.
I asked my daughter and she said a school set would be fun
Something natural like a vets or farm to get kids appreciate animals from an early age
a sports set, athletics or gymnastics would be nice!
campervan as its so cute
A day at the beach set!
Space- with planets and stars, lots of stars. I like stars 😀 x
A hairdressing set because it’s always fun to do each other’s hair.
The cozy cottage starter home, but they all look like beautiful toys
A school set would be an amazing set
a farm set would be fun, with lots of barns and out buildings to play in
A firefighter set would be a nice addition.
A greenhouse / potting shed with tools, seedlings etc
A nursery. My little girl loves going there, and enjoys playing “nurseries” with her teddy when she gets home.
A caravan set
My little boy says he would love to see a cricket set as he loves to play
A cake shop for afternoon tea adventures.
The farm set because we love animals!x
lovely prize!
A playground.
A farm would be fun
A sweet shop
I think a campsite would be fun!
a sea pane would be a bit unusual
a sea plane even
I Love the camper Van!
I love the fish & chip shop van. Its super cute
A camping set because it’s our favourite type of summer holiday.
A post office set because my little one loves postman pat xx
A supermarket set. My niece would love this!
I love the campervan set! I can’t afford my dream of a campervan of my own, so makes perfect sense to live vicariously through Sylvanian Families 😉
A hospital set would be good as my boys love being doctors at the moment x
Id love a little supermarket…lillie loves to play shops and I love anything mini
A farm – my daughter would love that
we can all join in with a A theme park
A farm set as all kids love the farm
I used to have a Sylvanian house when I was a kid! I loved playing with it!
The Sylvanian family house – I always wanted one when I was a kid
A camper van we love to explore new places
For my daughter she would love a caravan set as she loves camping
I love Sylvanian Families – I used to play with them when I was younger and unfortunately didn’t hang on to my collection for my daughters (age 4 and 6) who now have started there own collection. They are great for all ages and the imaginary role plays they come up with them are lovely to listen to and sometimes hilarious! x
The Camper Van 4 Sure!
a vet set would be great to show my children where i work x
I think it would be a garden picnic set as my little boy loves playing with his Sylvanian families when we’re out and about at picnics or friend’s BBQ’s. He’d love to be able to see them join in on the fun 😉
The washing machine accessory set, my daughter has some sylvanian pieces, but hasn’t got that… she would love the pirate set!
A farm set as my Grandchildren love animals
A campervan set would be great!
a classroom set. I used to love playing schools with my toys
A Camper van cos that’s what our family does
I little back garden farm would be amazing!
A farm set as my little girl loves farms
we live in weymouth so its gotta be our own hotel 😀
My girls would love the sylvanian nightlight nursery set because it would be great for them to e kind and caring 🙂
maybe a cute sewing machine or wool and a crochet needle
Hotel-nice to get room service
My daughter would love a set of vehicles.
The Fish and chip shop van as it reminds me of when we used to have a local chip van visit us.
A kitchenset
An airplane so we could take them off on holiday
an archaeological set!
New to sylvanians, so hard to say which would be a favourite and why, as anything sylvanian would o down well
A hairdressers would be great
the boat
The narrow boat set would be great
A vets/animal hospital because i grew up loving animals and i think it would be really sweet.
a ymnastic set!!
A farm set
A chocolate shop set…. Just because there is nothing better than chocolate (except for maybe tea!).
I always wanted the river boat!
Imogen’s Typewriter. <3
Im spending this years birthday hiring out a romany gypsy wagon so id choose that
A huge tree house
My little one loves playgrounds so any set involving a little slide would be something she’d love!
A ballroom so they could go to tea and dance
I’d like a hospital set my daughter loves playing doctors with her teddies
Would love a camper van and skatepark for epic road trips.
A farm set, love animals 🙂
A horse racing set
My daughter would love a playground with swings and slides 🙂
My daughter loves looking after people and animals so a vets/hospital set would be brilliant
a birthday party set would be lovely
I was too old for Sylvanian families the first around so would love my daughter to discover them. I think she would like a playground set. Swings, slides and maybe a roundabout 🙂
A zoo or a farm
a hotel to house the ever growing collection
My little ones would love a static caravan by the sea set. Love their hols spent in ours by the sea .
A horse and stables.
Fun fair set looks great
a mansion for the large collection that my daughter seems to be accumulating.
A scooter and helmet set so my daughter could make them scoot like she does
A little school set, my mum has a toy desk and chairs with some people and he loves playing with it so this would be a fab addition to our collection.
Little caravan
a shop would be lots of fun 🙂
A laundry set with washing machine, basket, rotary washing line, ironing board and little iron. How cute would that be?!
An aeroplane would be fab. x
A bathroom suite it might even help with potty training
A farm yard set would be lovely x
A campervan set so little imaginations can bring them on holidays to wherever they like!
A treehouse, because it is such an enchanting idea.
Love the Adventure Treasure Ship as my 2 little grandchildren have a few Sylvanian bits & pieces and my grandson also joins in playing with them & he would love this!
a large toy box, so we can keep all there toys in it!!!!!!
A narrow boat set would make a nice change.
My daughter would love a play park set as she loves pretending her toys are going on swings and slides like she does!
Go karting
A circus set with a funfair with different rides and stalls and pop corn stand would be amazing 🙂
a model of stonehenge or another historic monument
The campervan, my little girl loves trips out so would love playing make believe with this
A camping ser
A ‘Day Out’ set with bikes and picnic bits.
An army style assault course
my daughter would love a shoe house
An aquarium set for my dolphin mad son
A day at the Pool themed set would be pretty cool
A hair and beauty salon
space would be pretty cool!
A spaceship!! For great imaginations
A theme park with rides for the wee sylvanian residents to go on
The campervan always looks so good.
HALLOWEEN COSTUMES – Would be funny.
A cruise ship
We all love camping so a camp site.
A dentist so they wont be scared!
A Santas Grotto, with the Sylvanian folk dressed as Father Christmas and elves for the younger Sylvanian children! They could have a Christmas free, little toys to give out, mugs of eggnog or hot chocolate, and even make it musical, and have christmas tunes playing while the children queue up to see Father Christmas!
Yes, I’d probably play with this myself! lol, I never had any Sylvanian familes as a kiddy and now I love them even more when I see how much joy they bring my two little girls! x x Thanks for the giveaway x
A narrowboat so we could take the cute little guys on holidays
My girls would love a school set
An amusement park with lots of rides x
A winter wonderland because its almost Christmas!
A canal boat set to play out one of our best family holidays!
an allotment set, just love gardening
A cake shop
so much choice but probably the campervan!
I would love a holiday / campervan / caravan because family holiday are the best.
I really love the adventure Treasure Ship,
A bakery
beach house on the private beach
A stable 🙂 I had the pony as a child and I would have loved to have been able to fuel my horse obsession further!
Campervan would be great 🙂 I used to have the house growing up, I love Sylvanian Families
A little chocolate shop!
Your suggested kitchen cookware set as my daughter is obsessed with playing restaurant/ chef/ cooking games with her toys.
My daughter would choose a kitchenette. I always adored the little houses
I love the idea of a zoo!
Great post.