Leisure time
These illustrations and photographs are free for any kind of educational use - whether you are a teacher creating topic worksheets or looking for ideas to spark creative writing, or a pupil who needs illustrations for a presentation or website.
Just select the collection you are interested in and have a look at the thumbnail images.
Most of the illustrations are available in both full-colour versions and in black and white.
Copyright
You can use these images for educational purposes without worrying about cost or copyright. All we ask is that you don't sell them and you credit LTS when you use them. For full details, please see the copyright statement.
Musical instruments
Handy pictures of musical instruments from flutes, pianos and cellos to bagpipes, accordions and electric guitars, plus more unusual instruments such as ouds and kalimbas.
Musical instruments for young children
Instruments often used in educational settings, such as maracas, tambourine, drum, triangle and recorder.
Toys and playthings
Colour images of toys including teddies, paintbrushes, spinning top and a rubber duck.
Chinese New Year
A couple of illustrations for Chinese New Year - a magnifcent dragon and Chinese lanterns.
Valentine's Day
Illustrations of symbols and objects associated with Valentine's Day including roses, hearts, cards and chocolates.
Halloween
Images of characters and symbols connected with Halloween, including witches, wizards, cauldrons, pumpkins, spiders and ghosts.
Bonfire Night
A typical scenes and items from Bonfire Night, with a child, fireworks and, of course, a bonfire. Also available in black and white.
Still life paintings
Food, flowers and many other items feature in these still life paintings and sculptures from the Royal Scottish Academy. They're available to download and each has more information about the work of art and the artist.
Co-operating and playing together
Nine coloured illustrations showing children playing together, sharing, helping a hurt child and playing together in a group.
Paintings of people and events
These paintings and sculptures show people involved in everyday activities, holidays and scenes from history. Selected from the Royal Scottish Academy to illustrate the artistic technique of figure composition, copies can be downloaded and there are extra details about each work of art.
Leisure time
Colour photos of leisure activities, hobbies and interests from the MFLE image collection.
Shops, hotels and restaurants
Colour photos of foreign shops, restaurants and hotels - from a French tabac to a Hungarian hotel -supplied by the MFLE.
Copyright
These images are the copyright of Learning and Teaching Scotland and are provided as a royalty-free educational resource for educational use in Scotland. By downloading an image you are agreeing to be bound by the terms of this licence.
You may copy, distribute and display an image, and make derivative works based on the image. Learning and Teaching Scotland must be credited as the source of the original image. You may not sell or permit third parties to sell or license an image. If you alter, transform, or build upon an image, you may distribute the resulting image only under a licence identical to this one. For any reuse or distribution, you must make clear to others the licence terms of this work.
Any of these conditions can be waived if you get permission from Learning and Teaching Scotland.