The 5 best online resources to download icons and stickers for the class

In classroom materials, presentations or displays, small images such as icons or stickers facilitate understanding and make the content more attractive to students.

🧩 Why These Small Images Change Everything
Whether it's for a reading card, a presentation on a projector or a display on the wall, having a few well-chosen images can really make a difference. A small pictogram, placed in the right place, attracts the eye, helps to better understand and makes everything much more alive. And in elementary or middle school, for example, it plays a lot.

⏱ Save time without sacrificing quality
We're not gonna lie to each other, search for images from right to left, it can quickly become time-consuming. Fortunately, there are plenty of sites that offer ready-to-use icon banks: pretty, tidy, often in PNG or SVG, and perfect for your classroom documents. All without having to spend hours drawing them yourself.

📋 A word on user rights
All the sites that we will see here allow free use, sometimes on condition that the author is mentioned. For classroom use, it is usually worry-free. But if you intend to publish your documents online, it is worth taking a look at the site’s legal notices, just to be sure.

🔎 Small reminder before launching

A previous article has already presented 3 sites to find icons free of charge. It complements it with five other essential resources, free or freemium, where teachers can download quality icons and stickers. The aim is to offer simple and effective tools, suitable for educational use, to enrich your visual media. Here are the five new resources to find free icons for the class.

🖼 The Noun Project – An impressive library of royalty-free icons

The Noun Project, it is a bit like Ali Baba’s cave of icons. With more than 5 million visuals, you will find almost everything you are looking for, from the microscope to the binder. Designers from all over the world share their designs, so there is a lot to choose from.

What is nice is that many icons are very simple, black and white, and super readable for students. Perfect for a deposit or a flashcard. For example, icons "school" (school bus, students, blackboard, etc.) or "subjects" (chemistry flask, globe, mathematical symbol) are available in a few clicks.

Each icon can be downloaded free of charge in PNG or SVG format (after registration), provided the author is credited. The research is in English, but the interface is intuitive (just type a keyword and refine if necessary). For those who want unlimited use without attribution, a Pro subscription exists, but in the context of pedagogical use for the class, the free version is more than enough.

Smaller : there is even an extension to install in Google Slides or PowerPoint to insert the icons directly into your presentations. Pretty practical, isn't it?

🔍 Iconfinder – The icon search engine

The Iconfinder website It too is full of images for your projects in the classroom. No less than 6 million visuals are available.

Here it is a bit like Google, but only for icons. Type a keyword (better in English) and you get thousands of results from the site. You can filter to see only free icons, or choose a particular style (drawing, fine line, color, etc.).

The small added value is the possibility to download matching icon packs. Are you preparing a class rules sheet? Find a consistent set of icons for each set of instructions. The site is in English, but it is still very easy to use. You can filter by category, by style (flat, gradient, line, … hand drawing), by dominant or transparent color, etc.

Again, there is a free version quite sufficient for the school, and everything is well indicated on the licences side.

🎒 Icons8 - High quality free school pictograms

 

This site Icons8 offers more than 1 million icons, which are regularly updated. The interface is available in French, which helps quite a bit. And what we like here is consistency: you can take a whole pack of icons in the same style (for example in flat design or comics), which gives a super clean rendering in your documents.

In free version, just mention the name of the site. Most of the icons are downloadable with transparent background, and you can even change the colors or size directly on the site before saving them. A real time saver.

Cherry on the cake: there is also royalty-free illustrations and music, if you are doing video or podcasting with your students. But his heart remains the search for free icons by keyword.

🧮 Pixabay – A mine of free images, including icons

We know mostly Pixabay for its royalty-free photos, but the site also offers a whole “Vectors” section. By filtering a little, you get your hands on thousands of reusable pictoos and illustrations. Type “maths”, “school” or “science” and hop, you are spoilt for choice.

Everything is free, without even having to quote the source. And everything is available in French, which makes the search even more enjoyable. One tip: tick “transparent background” to avoid icons with unsightly white background.

As a bonus, Pixabay also allows you to recover GIFs, cliparts or funny illustrations, very useful for creative projects with students.

🎨 Freepik – Do you want icon packs?

With the Freepik Platform, we enter the world of graphic designers. But you don’t have to be an expert to take advantage of it! The site is full of visual resources: icons, vectors, drawings of all kinds. Type “school” or “teacher”, and you will find plenty of complete packs to download.

The advantage is that these packs are consistent: the same style, the same … colours are ideal for a slideshow or a homogeneous sheet. And the quality is there.

Free of charge, just mention the author. And for those who want to go further, a paid version exists. But frankly, for classroom use, the free version is more than enough.

💡 Note: Freepik is part of the same band as Flaticon (which we talked about in the previous one). article about free stickers to download), so sometimes you will be redirected to this site. Don’t worry, that’s normal.

🧠 It's Yours to Play

You now have 5 (or even 8 if you count those from the previous article) super resources to enrich your class documents. Variety styles, test filters, find what inspires you the most … and have fun creating visuals that really speak to students. Just think about not mixing styles too much in the same document to keep some harmony. And if you can, mention the authors: it’s a little attention that always makes you happy.