Our Favorite Printed Sheets for 2025
Why they’re great
You don’t have to spend a lot of money to get cute, upbeat prints for a kid’s bed. A twin set of Target’s affordable Pillowfort Cotton Sheet Sets costs less than $30 (and often goes on sale for much less), and although the fabric is rougher than that of the Pottery Barn Kids sheets (some Target shoppers give these sheets low marks for softness), the prints are bright and eye-catching, and my sensory-sensitive kiddo hasn’t complained about sleeping on them.
Target’s Pillowfort line for kids launched in 2016, and originally the sheets were all microfiber before Target added 100% cotton options. The company still sells more prints in microfiber (for about $20 a set) than cotton, but microfiber use contributes to water pollution, and those sheets have felt much cheaper and unpleasant to parents on staff who have bought them (although our kids haven’t seemed to care as much).
I would get the all-cotton sets whenever possible, but we know a fun design sometimes wins out over a fabric choice with kids. The microfiber sets I’ve bought are definitely the softer of the two Pillowfort fabrics, but they have also faded a little and thinned a lot over a few years of use.
Flaws but not dealbreakers
On its website, Target currently has over a dozen designs for the cotton Pillowfort sheets, including city cars, unicorns, and stars. These sheets can be frustrating to shop for because each design is on a separate page, and because the Pillowfort line has sheets in microfiber and cotton blends, too, so it’s easy to click on the wrong fabric when you’re scrolling through all the Pillowfort sheets. If you want cotton, make sure it says so in the product name.
