The unicorn with a crown
The unicorn with a crown: a free printable coloring page, from age 4. She rears up on her hind legs, a three-point crown behind her horn.
- Recommended age
- Ages 4 and up · 20 to 40 minutes
- Theme
- Unicorns
Rearing, crown on her head
She rears up: both hind legs on the ground, both front legs folded in the air, the body drawn up the full height of the page. On her head, a crown with three points, each tipped with a ball, tilted back behind the striped horn. The mouth is open in a full smile. The mane comes down the neck in broad waves, crossed by two lines that cut it into locks, and the tail does the same at the back. Each hoof carries its ring. No setting around her: she has the sheet to herself.
A storybook unicorn
The crown makes her a storybook unicorn: the one of princesses, of birthdays, of drawings given as presents. The three ball-tipped points form the most-drawn crown in the world, the one children trace themselves as soon as they can hold a pencil — a zigzag and three circles. Rearing, on the other hand, is not a resting pose: it is how a horse rises to greet, or to show it is proud. Both details say the same thing, and a child understands it without being told.
Large areas, small elbows
The rearing pose fills the sheet on the diagonal, which gives very large surfaces — the body, the mane, the tail — but also two folded front legs, narrow and bent. That is where the outline tightens. The crown itself fits in five centimetres: three points, three balls, a band. A four-year-old manages it with a well-sharpened pencil, not with a broad marker. Around twenty areas in all, four of them genuinely small, and all four gathered at the top of the page.
Gold for the crown
The crown calls for yellow or orange, and it is the only place on the page where a metallic color makes sense: a gold pencil, if one is knocking about in the case, or yellow gone over twice. The inner lines of the mane serve as a guide — one pale lock, one dark lock, alternating, and the mane gains volume without anyone needing to know how to draw. Print in portrait: the unicorn is far taller than she is wide, and that format leaves her all her height.
A word for the grown-up: cut the crown out of a second print and glue it to a paper headband. Your child colors her unicorn, then wears the same crown she does. Five minutes with scissors that stretch the session by a good half hour.
Coloring pages that go with this one
More pages from the same theme, age or season — the ones you print right after.
