Toy Department — braille bricks, shared play

LEGO Braille Bricks Play with Braille - English Alphabet (40656)

The verdict

The idea is disarmingly simple: standard LEGO studs, but each brick's stud arrangement is the braille letter, with the printed letter alongside. A blind child reads the word in braille; a sighted sibling reads the print; the bricks snap together like any LEGO.

LEGO Braille Bricks Play with Braille - English Alphabet (40656) — about $89.99 · star rating unverified in our research (LEGO.com shows no review count) · Blind pick — the mainstream toy brick, rebuilt so blind and sighted kids genuinely play together.

The set has 284 pieces, two baseplates, and free play-starter ideas on LEGO.com. Because the bricks are fully compatible with regular LEGO, a braille set and a standard set combine into one shared build — no separate-but-equal toy table.

For blind parents, there's a second win: the letters on the box and in the starter guides are printed and embossed, and the set plays by touch from the first brick. Nothing here needs sight to set up or to sort. The price is real money for 284 bricks, and it opens the door to LEGO's famously pricey play world — but as an inclusion tool rather than a toy, the math changes: one set turns every LEGO box in the house into a shared game.

Honest caveats: we could not verify an independent star rating, so this pick rides on LEGO's maker reputation and the NFB-partnered design process, not crowd reviews. As of October 2026, LEGO.com listed the English set in stock at $89.99; other alphabet sets (Spanish, French, German) exist in the same line if your house is multilingual.

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Last reviewed: October 2026.