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5 sites to find images for your early childhood activities
By Laurence Bourassa | 9 April 2025
It's common for an early childhood staff member to create posters, memory aids or other materials to enrich activities for toddlers. Royalty-free images are invaluable allies for educators, helping to create a dynamic and attractive educational environment, while complying with artists' regulations.
So here are five sites where you can find free images and illustrations:
Unsplash: Unsplash offers a vast collection of high-quality images, covering a variety of subjects. A wide range of images by photographers are free for use in personal and commercial projects, with no attribution required. To find a suitable image, be sure to use the License/Free filter.
Pixabay: Pixabay offers a large selection of royalty-free images, icons and illustrations, available free of charge for commercial and personal use.
Pexels: Pexels offers thousands of high-quality royalty-free images and free videos. Images are available for both commercial and personal use, with no attribution required.
Freepik: Freepik offers a variety of free and paid vector images, illustrations, photos and PSD files.
StockSnap: StockSnap offers thousands of high-quality royalty-free photos, and adds hundreds of new images every week. All images are available for commercial and personal use, with no attribution required.
Explore each site for yourself, and you'll see that they're ideal sources of visual inspiration for your projects. You're sure to find the perfect element for your visual design ideas!
