.. and I find that hysterical and an admirable use of their time!
At an Etsy shop called Modern Marie Antoinette you can find a morbid little creation of a Black Plague Castle Dollhouse.
The playset includes three wooden Plague Victim figures, two wooden Plague Doctors, a hand sculpted catacombs and graveyard, tea stained etchings, and real moss.
Imagine the rainy afternoons you could while away recreating historic tragedies on a small scale!