The focus of this page is sim-children.

DSCali's Summer Fun

These zips were originally available at deviantsim so any readme's within should reflect that.

Also See Heather's Dream (coming soon) for a couple more child items created for a child-character in her sim-soap, California Simmin'.

Some of her dolhouse clones:

RELATED: The pirate's safe haven - outdoors page for (animated) baby turtles by Ruth (Bag of Tricks).

Forever Babies
The buyable baby that never grows into a child.

It always drove me crazy to take the time and simoleons to build a nursery for an infant that would be gone after 3 stressful days. There is just no opportunity to really enjoy playing a family that includes an infant. Here is my first solution to that problem.

Forever Baby v.1

This is not a "deco-only" cradle nor is it a "buyable" version of the Maxis cradle. It is a buyable bassinet with a Baby for your sims to care for, but this infant never grows into a child allowing you to build a family that includes an infant indefinitely. There is also no risk of the social worker taking the child (despite the message threatening otherwise.) and this baby can cry itself to sleep when it needs to (instead of NEEDING a song like the Maxis infant. A few other things have been tweaked to fix make the baby's coding more sensible.)

All of same interactions as the Maxis baby allowing Sims to gain fun and social by caring for the baby.

Sring Happiness cradle
Spring Happiness*
No expansion pack required
(no additional files required)

Orange Floral with Dressing Gown
Orange Floral**
No expansion pack required
(required Dressing Gown skins files included)

Blue Floral with Ducky Blanket
Blue Floral**
No expansion pack required
(required Blanket skins files included)

CHILD CARE:

  • Sims will care for the child autonomously. While all Sims will care for any of the baby's needs some personalities do have slight preferences. Neater sims will be more inclined to feed, playful sims will prefer playing with it and nice sims will prefer singing to it but, again, these differences are slight.
  • If the baby is very hungry Sims will wake it to feed it but they will never interrupt a sleeping baby to play or sing to it.
  • Babies do get rather cranky when tired and will cry for a while but, unlike Maxis babies, these babies will eventually fall asleep on their own once they are tired enough. Sims can soothe them to sleep with song instead, if you prefer.


    Country Crib - Wood
    No expansion pack required
    (no additional files required)


    Country Crib - dark**
    No expansion pack required
    (required Dressing Gown skins files included)


    Country Crib - White**
    No expansion pack required
    (required Blanket skins files included)

    MOTIVE INCREASES: Any interaction with the baby will raise social a little. The "Play" interaction will also raise fun a little and simply being in the same room as the baby will also increase social a tiny bit at a time (if both the baby and the Sim are awake) until the Sim's social bar is nearly full.
    NOTE: As with all motives cheats you must consider the impact this will have on your game, being careful where you put the baby. A cradle in the living room means the family wont be motivated to interact with each other much - relationships will suffer. A separate nursery, on the other hand, will allow Sims' social bars to drop enough that they will continue to socialize with each other.

    Kinderstuff crib
    Kinderstuff Crib
    No expansion pack required
    (no additional files required)

    White crib
    White Crib**
    No expansion pack required
    (required Dressing Gown skins files included)

    Wood crib
    Wood Crib**
    No expansion pack required
    (required Blanket skins files included)

    Simple white crib
    Simple White Crib
    No expansion pack required
    (no additional files required)

    CUSTOM BABIES: I have tried to make each cradle a little different to provide a variety of bases for object makers so some of the cradles available come with custom babies while others use the Maxis infant. The additional skins files have been included for the downloads that don't use the Maxis infant.

    "APARTMENT READY": These are not apartment hacked objects but they have been made so all you Apartment Hack fans will need to do is import the Simlogical Apartment Patch into each cradle, replacing my 'placeholder' BHAV with the real one. The rest of the work has been taken care of.