The little unicorn pony
The little unicorn pony: a free printable coloring page, from age 2. A round little pony, a striped horn, a mane in one wave and a curled tail.
- Recommended age
- Ages 2 and up · 10 to 15 minutes
- Theme
- Unicorns
A round little pony, and nothing around it
The pony stands in profile, turned to the left, planted squarely on all four legs. There is nothing around it: no grass, no sky, no frame. Its muzzle is a large oval set on the front of the head, with a comma for a nostril and a smile drawn in a single stroke. The eye is enormous, almost as wide as the cheek, topped with three lashes. The horn is short, striped with four bands. The mane falls in one thick wave along the neck, and the tail comes off the back in one big curl.
A horse with something extra
To a two-year-old, a unicorn is first of all a horse with something extra on its forehead. This one was drawn in that spirit: the body is that of a carousel pony, all round, with short legs, and the horn is the single detail that changes everything. It is often the first imaginary creature the very young recognise on their own, before they can even name it. They reach out toward the page, they say “unicorn”, and they are right. The drawing asks for nothing more than that recognition.
Nothing smaller than a coin
Count what there is to fill: the body, the head, the muzzle, the ear, the mane, the tail, the horn, four hooves. A dozen areas, and nearly all of them wide enough for a fat marker to cover in three passes. The outline is thick, even, with no tight corners: at two, a hand that still goes over the line a lot nevertheless stays inside the drawing. Nothing is smaller than a coin, except the nostril and the lashes, which can be left white without the page looking unfinished.
Three markers are enough
The mane and the tail are the only two long curves on the page: save the bright colors for them, and keep a pale tone for the body, or the pony vanishes under the color. Three markers are enough — a pink, a blue, a yellow — laid from the top of the mane downwards. For the horn, color the four bands alternately, every other one, which gives a crisp result with no precision at all. Print on ordinary paper: at this age the sheet gets used twice, once for the try and once for the real thing.
A word for the grown-up: put the sheet on the floor rather than on the table. At two, a child colors better kneeling with arms outstretched than sitting on a chair that is too high. And take out three markers, not the whole box: choosing among thirty colors takes longer than coloring.
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