PlayPrint Kids printables are illustrated and laid out in-house. Our visual research and inspiration draws on a number of well-respected open-licence creative communities, listed below for transparency. None of the work on these external sites is reproduced directly in our printables; we credit them as inspiration sources for the formats and visual conventions we follow.
Open Game Art
OpenGameArt.org is a long-running community of independent game artists who release sprites, tilesets, and themed art under permissive Creative Commons licences. Their kid-friendly tilesets are a useful reference point when designing themed board game tracks, and their sprite atlas conventions inform how we lay out memory cards.
Wikimedia Commons
Wikimedia Commons hosts millions of freely licensed images including historical illustrations from public-domain children’s books, vintage classroom posters, and educational diagrams. We consult Commons for reference imagery when designing realistic animal, vehicle, or plant illustrations for our coloring pages.
Openverse
Openverse aggregates Creative-Commons-licensed photography from across the web, making it an efficient way to find appropriately-licensed reference photos for everyday objects: cars, fruits, vegetables, weather, and so on.
Teachers Pay Teachers (free resources)
The free section of Teachers Pay Teachers, especially the PreK through Grade 2 game and activity filter, is a useful pulse-check on what classroom teachers are actively using and adapting. We periodically review the trending free downloads to make sure our catalog keeps pace with classroom-floor needs.
Other resources
We routinely consult research summaries from the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework, the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), and Zero to Three for guidance on age-appropriate skill targets. Our editorial standards are informed by, but independent of, these organizations.