16-Piece Friends Play Set

🎨 Meet the Friends Set — 16 magnetic wooden blocks including 8 diverse kid heads, 4 torsos, and 4 legs. Mix and match to create child characters representing a wide range of ethnicities, genders, and cultural backgrounds. Every combination is different. Every story is theirs.

🌍 Diversity and Inclusion at Play — Designed to reflect the real diversity of children in classrooms, communities, and families. Children build what they know, and ask questions about what they don't. That's where the real conversations start.

🧠 Supports Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) — Used in Pyramid Model classrooms, Head Start programs, CCR&R resource kits, and early childhood education centers across the United States. As an SEL manipulative, it supports fine motor development, emotional literacy, empathy, and culturally responsive classroom environments. Among the wooden people figures sets evaluated within the Environment Rating Scales (ECERS/ITERS) framework used in early childhood program accreditation.

🌱 Eco-Friendly and Handcrafted — Made from sustainably sourced eco-friendly wood and coated with non-toxic, water-based paints. Safe, durable, and built for years of daily classroom and home use.

🏆 Award-Winning and Trusted — Parents Choice Gold Award winner. Featured in the Washington Post, CNN, and Good Morning America. Used by Bright Horizons, Primrose Schools, Goddard Schools, YMCA, Northeastern University, Penn State, and Erikson Institute. Distributed statewide across Tennessee's CCR&R network serving 95 counties and thousands of child care providers.

🔗 Compatible with All My Family Builders Sets — Combine with the 32-piece or 48-piece Family Sets to expand your collection and add adult characters, activity cards, and even more combinations. All My Family Builders magnetic blocks work together.

✅ Certified Safe — Meets ASTM F963, CPSIA, and EN71 international safety standards. All pieces are sized to pass choke-tube testing — safe for children from 18 months. Free from choking hazards, toxic materials, and sharp edges.

Where Most Classrooms Start.

Focused entirely on children and community characters — no adult pieces. The 16-Piece Magnetic Friends Set is sized right for toddlers, small group play, individual therapy sessions, and CCR&R resource kits distributed to child care providers across a network.

Teachers reach for it during free play when they want the conversation to start on its own. Therapists keep it on the shelf next to their multicultural dolls and family figures. CCR&R coaches pack it into provider kits because it works at 18 months and still holds a five-year-old's attention.

A culturally responsive classroom material built around one idea: every child deserves to see their family in the room.

🌟 Ready to expand?
The 48-Piece Family Set adds adult characters, activity cards in English and French, and free downloadable Spanish instructions — triple the combinations for classrooms and families ready for more.