All you need to start playful conversations and lessons to explore disability with your KS1 & KS2 learners. Get ready to grow some open minds and boost self-esteem with this Big Chatty Pack from ToyLikeMe. In this pack you will find the seeds to get you started (lots of images and ideas), all you need to do is water them by creating conversations, activities, and fun to get your class talking and thinking about disability. It all links to the KS1 and KS2 curriculum too! Contains - 12 printable images of toys with disabilitiess and accompanying display text for creating a classroom exhibition Quiz for engaging learner to look at the images Playful conversation starters Tips on how to talk about disability Class design challenges Advice about where to get disabled toys to bring your lessons to life 4 colouring sheets featuring disabled characters Philosophical and problem solving challenges Lots more fun! Using the Toy Box Tales images (12 stunning photographs of toys with disabilities) as a springboard, you can print and build playful lessons to explore human diversity in an engaging fun way. ‘Academic research by Dr. Sian Jones at Queen Margaret’s University has found that after playing with disabled toys for just three minutes, children develop more positive friendship intentions towards their peers with disabilities.’ Use this high quality engaging pack to grow some open minds today!

Play is the way that children make sense of the world around them, explore situations, feelings and relationships. But what if we are living in such unchartered times that there are no toys or play resources to reflect our daily lives? We are a not for profit organiation. A share of all sales will be donated to the NHS charity, the remaining will support the delivery of workshops in schools. The creative team at ToyLikeMe have specially created the ‘My Little Lockdown Life in a Box’ project to enable you to play and create stories around life in the Covid19 crisis to help children process and understand why life has gone a bit… topsy turvy! Contains 50 pages of colour and cut resoruces to start conversations. One day, children will tell their own grandchildren about the strange time when the schools shut and we all had to stay inside for weeks and weeks and not see our friends This printable download contains all you need to create a paper version of your family members and a shoebox lockdown home. An heirloom to keep forever - it’s literally ‘History in the MAKING!’ Crack open the felts tips, grab an old shoe box and get the whole family involved. Colour, cut, stick and talk about what has happened,  how it’s affected your family and  build your tiny lockdown world just the way you like. Send pictures of your creations to us at Facebook.com/toylikeme or toylikeme@gmail.com Stay Safe, Keep Creating! This project was created by children’s illustrator, Kate Read and ToyLikeMe co-founder Rebecca Atkinson.

Start playful conversations with your D/deaf learners! This FREE resource covers the history of D/deaf toys and is designed to open conversations with your hearing impaired learners around identity, play and representation.