Wonderfully Diverse Toys for Inclusive Play

Kelly R:  Baby Stella was the perfect first baby doll for my daughter, and I love that Manhattan Toy offers diverse dolls in a range of skin tones. The doll and its accessories are completely plush and huggable, and my daughter got a kick out of the magnetic pacifier that attaches to baby's mouth.

Alexandra F.:  Lottie Dolls are "inspired by kids" and are purposefully made to reflect "kids in all their glorious, heart-warming and life-affirming diversity." The dolls are all modeled on the average proportions of a nine-year-old child, with racially diverse dolls for boys and girls that reflect a wide range of interests - from activists, to snow queens, to astronauts.

Shila:  In every blind ball, an L.O.L Surprise! is packaged with a variety of spunky, glittery, glamorous and fabulous characters with white, black and brown skin. Collect them all! The greater win, however, is hand-collecting a set of diverse dolls that embrace great differences in styles, skin colors, hair types, etc.

Shila:  LEGO Friends is a line of the popular bricks featuring building sets that include a group of diverse characters. Unlike most traditional LEGO minifigures with yellow blocks for faces, these doll faces are alive with racially diverse skin tones and personality.

Shila:  Memory games have been popular games for young kids for decades! Check out this version featuring multicultural smiling faces from around the world. Each card to match represents a different home country to celebrate.

Alexandra F.:  These handcrafted wooden blocks with magnetic connectors are meant to be mixed and matched, with each set providing heads, bodies and legs that kids can put together however they like for pretend play. The characters include boys and girls of various ethnicities, skin colors, and clothing styles so that kids can construct little diverse dolls that reflect our communities.

Alexandra F.:  Puzzle Huddle offers a range of beautiful jigsaw puzzles for kids of all ages featuring diverse subjects and careers.

Alexandra F.:  This beautiful set of eight skin tone crayons was created by a mom to honor and accurately represent the variety of skin tones that make up our diverse world. The crayons are made with beeswax and use no paraffin and no chemical fillers.

Kelly R:  This colors of this eye-catching LEGO set are as vibrant as the inclusive message it's promoting, and the build is easy enough for pretty much any LEGO lover. My tween is itching to get his hands on this set for the diverse array of monochrome minifigures that celebrate differences.

Shila:  Barbie and Ken are evolving with the Fashionistas line of multicultural dolls, each containing a variety of body types, skin tones, abilities, and even medical conditions such as Vitiligo.

Shila:  Crayola's Colors of the World is a line of skin tone crayons, pencils and markers in a wide array of shades. This marker set includes 24 different tones for kids to color diversity into their artwork!

Shila:  American Girl celebrates unique qualities found in kids across the world. They feature an inclusive and diverse selection of white, black and brown skin dolls with a variety of face molds, hair textures, eye colors, plus hundreds of accessories like wheelchairs, hearing aids, eye glasses, prosthetic limbs and more.

Alexandra F.:  Fusion Dolls is a black, woman-owned business creating multicultural dolls and accessories that celebrate diversity, with a range of dolls in various skin tones, hair types and clothing styles.