The #ToyLikeMe campaign calls for toys with disabilities

Recently, a trio of British mothers started the #toylikeme social media campaign calling for better representation of disability in the toy box. On Facebook and Twitter, parents of kids with disabilities all over the world have been sharing photos showing the creative lengths they’d gone to making over their kids’ toys. 

A couple small companies in the UK have heeded the call. MakieLab, which sells 3-D-printed dolls set according to your personal preferences, has announced they’ll start creating accessories, such as hearing and walking aids, to go along with their customizable dolls.

But Rebecca Atkinson, one of the campaign’s founders, asks in The Guardian, “But what of the big girls and boys of the toy world? The Legos, Mattels, Playmobils? We’ve tweeted them, we’ve tagged them, we’ve talked about them, we’ve sent them invites. But as yet, they still haven’t come out to play.”

Header image credit: BethMoseleyPhotography.co.uk