32 Unicorn Coloring Pages: Easy to Intricate, Free to Print
Thirty-two unicorn coloring pages, and they are deliberately not thirty-two of the same unicorn. A few have fewer than forty lines on them and can be finished with a fistful of crayons. Others are full forest scenes with printed grayscale shading that will take an adult a whole evening with colored pencils. Sorting them before you print saves paper and saves a child the frustration of a page they cannot get anywhere with.
Each page below says what is actually drawn on it and where the difficulty sits, so you can match the page to the person holding the pencils. They are grouped four ways: easy pages for younger children, unicorns with human characters, winged and celestial designs, and detailed nature scenes, with two pattern-heavy pages for adult colorists at the end.
Horns and crowns pose the same problem — one hard, faceted object sitting on a soft head — so if you want more practice on that, work through the crown coloring pages and their notes on shading metal.
If mythical creatures are the draw more than unicorns specifically, the dragon coloring pages in our collection run from chibi babies to Eastern serpents dense enough to lose an afternoon in, and the animal coloring pages collection covers everything from farmyard animals to wildlife.
Easy Unicorn Coloring Pages for Younger Children
Thick outlines, big open shapes and very little background. These nine are the ones to reach for when the colorist is under seven, or when anyone wants something they can finish in one sitting.
1. Winged Unicorn Flying Through a Star-Filled Sky
The gentlest page in the set. Everything is drawn with one thick, even line: a rounded body, four stubby legs, a single feathered wing, closed eyes and two blush ovals on the cheek. The sky is already filled in behind, so a child only has to handle the unicorn itself and the scattered stars. Four or five crayon colors finish it, which is exactly right for a three- or four-year-old who wants to be done while they are still enjoying it.
2. Chibi Unicorn Beneath a Scatter of Stars
Fewer than forty lines on the whole page. The body is a rounded bean, the legs are little posts with hoof bands, and the mane and tail are three soft curls each. Everything above the unicorn is stars in three sizes, which gives a young colorist somewhere easy to go once the body is done. Because there is no background, this is also the page to hand a child who wants to draw their own scenery around it.
3. Chubby Unicorn With a Daisy at Its Shoulder
The horn on this one is drawn with clean spiral ridges, and it is worth slowing down for: shade each ridge slightly darker on one side and the horn reads as twisted rather than striped. The hooves are already solid black, the eyes are closed with long curved lashes, and one oversized daisy sits where the shoulder meets the neck. Small tufts of grass along the bottom keep the figure from floating.
4. Simple Unicorn Beside a Forest Puddle
Thick outlines, generous white gaps, and a whole scene rather than a single figure: two tree trunks, a couple of cloud-shaped canopies, a few sprigs of grass and a shallow puddle the unicorn is standing at the edge of. That puddle is the one place to teach a small idea, which is that water takes its color from what is above it. Color the sky first, then use the same pencil lightly in the puddle.
5. Cartoon Unicorn Face With Huge Round Eyes
A head-on portrait with nothing behind it, drawn in a loose sketchy line rather than a hard outline. The two enormous eyes each carry a white highlight already, so leave those white and the face keeps its spark. The forelock flops forward between the ears in three soft locks, and the muzzle is broad and rounded. Good for anyone who wants a big flat area to try out a blending technique without worrying about a background.
6. Unicorn Head Portrait With a Long Spiral Horn
The mane is the reason to print this one. It falls from the crest in long parallel strands that fill the bottom two-thirds of the page, and those strands are the perfect place to try a gradient: one color at the roots, a second at the tips, blended where they meet. The eye is large with heavy lashes, and the horn spirals in wide clean bands. Bold line weight throughout, so felt tips will not overrun it.
7. Unicorn on a Rainbow With an Ice Cream Cone
A silly one, and children love it. The unicorn rears on the arc of a rainbow with front hooves lifted, holding a swirled cone in the air. The rainbow bands give you a ready-made color order to follow, and the clouds behind can stay white so the arc stays loud. If this style lands, the ice cream coloring pages go much further with sundaes, cones and popsicles.
8. Unicorn by a Stream in an Open Forest
A full woodland scene drawn without any shading, which is rarer than it sounds. Tree trunks run top to bottom, the canopy is outlined in big rounded clumps, and a stream cuts across the foreground with a rock in it. The unicorn stands in profile, head turned out toward you. Large shapes everywhere means a six-year-old can complete it, but there is enough structure that an adult with markers can build real depth into the trees.
9. Small Unicorn in a Bamboo Clearing
The unicorn is deliberately tiny, tucked into the lower third of a page dominated by bamboo stalks and broad leaves. That scale is the whole idea: the plants are the work, and the unicorn is the reward at the end. Use three or four different greens rather than one, and vary which leaves get the darkest of them, or the foliage flattens into a wall. A calm page to work through slowly.
Unicorns With Girls, Princesses and Elves
Add a human character and the page stops being an animal study and becomes a scene with a relationship in it. All four of these are detailed, and two carry printed grayscale shading that rewards colored pencils over markers.
10. Girl in a Flower Crown Riding Through a Meadow
A full storybook page. The girl sits astride with both hands at the unicorn’s neck, a rainbow arcs behind her, three winged fairies hover near the tree branch overhead, and the ground is a solid mass of small blossoms. The difficulty is the flower bed at the bottom, where hundreds of tiny closed shapes sit side by side. Pick three colors for it and repeat them in a loose rhythm instead of trying to make every bloom different.
11. Woman in a Trailing Gown Beside Her Unicorn
Drawn with real anatomy: you can see the shoulder and hindquarter muscles under the unicorn’s coat, and its near foreleg is lifted mid-step. The gown falls in long vertical folds beside it, and the woman’s hair reaches her waist in loose waves. Fabric folds and horse muscle want the same treatment, which is a light base color everywhere first, then a darker pass only inside the creases. This is a slow evening’s work, not a ten-minute page.
12. Girl Resting Her Cheek Against a Unicorn’s Muzzle
Grayscale shading is already printed into this one, so treat it as a tinting exercise rather than a coloring page. Colored pencils layered lightly over the existing gray will read as soft and lifelike; heavy marker will bury it. Her eyes are closed, a flower crown sits over loose waves, and she is holding a bunch of blossoms at her chest while the unicorn lowers its head to meet her. One of the quieter pages here.
13. Elf and Unicorn Forehead to Forehead
The most detailed portrait in the collection. Her pointed ear and long straight hair fill the right side, one hand cups the unicorn’s muzzle, and a jewelled browband with flowers threaded through it sits under the base of the horn. The unicorn’s eye is drawn with a full reflection in it. Leave that reflection white and the whole face comes alive. Everything else here is small, patient work at a sharp pencil point. If human characters are the draw, the princess coloring pages and the baby princess coloring pages are built the same way.
Winged Unicorns, Moons and Star Fields
Wings and night skies pull a unicorn away from the horse it is built on. These six range from a solid-black moonlit sky that does the contrast work for you to a light-lined fairy-winged design that barely takes any color at all.
14. Winged Unicorn Rearing Under a Full Moon
High contrast, and it does the hard part for you: the sky is already solid black, so anything pale you put on the wings will glow against it. The unicorn rears with both forelegs off the ground, wings spread from the shoulder in long overlapping feathers, and the full moon sits at the top left with its craters drawn in. Work the feathers in rows, darkest nearest the body, palest at the tips.
15. Winged Unicorn Rearing in a Daisy Meadow
The same rearing pose as the moonlit page but with the values flipped: white sky, a soft cloud bank behind, and a dense daisy meadow underneath. Because nothing is pre-blacked, you decide where the contrast goes. The usual answer is to keep the unicorn light and push the meadow dark, which throws the figure forward. A small flower crown sits between the ears, and the wing is drawn feather by feather.
16. Unicorn With Fairy Wings Standing in Shallow Water
Not feathers this time but translucent insect wings, veined like a dragonfly’s, with fairies of the same build fluttering around the unicorn’s head and hooves. The line weight is the lightest of any page here, which makes it a poor fit for markers and a lovely fit for colored pencil. Leave the wings almost bare, just a wash of one color at the leading edge, and they will read as see-through.
17. Unicorn Profile Against a Star Field
A cosmic portrait with the background already inked solid, stars scattered through it. The mane cascades down the left side of the page with flowers braided into it, and the neck and jaw carry printed shading. Deep blues, violets and silver do the most here; a metallic gel pen over the black sky is the trick that makes this page look finished. Pairs naturally with the moon coloring pages if you want more night skies.
18. Unicorn Walking on Clouds Under a Crescent Moon
Stars in three sizes fill the sky, a crescent moon hangs top left, and a bank of scalloped clouds forms the ground. Small stars are also drawn across the unicorn’s hindquarters, which invites a starry-coat treatment: a deep color on the body with the stars left white. The line is clean and the shapes are large, so this one works for children and adults alike, just at different levels of ambition.
19. Unicorn Prancing Inside a Star-Framed Border
A printed frame changes how a page feels once it is on a wall, and this one comes with a full decorative border: a rounded arch, corner ornaments and a scatter of stars inside it. The unicorn prances with one foreleg raised, mane and tail in long curls. Color the border in a single accent shade rather than several, so it stays a frame and does not compete with the figure inside it.
Detailed Unicorn Scenes: Meadows, Forests and Streams
The longest section, and where the intricate work sits. Every page here places the unicorn inside a real setting, so the flowers, leaves and water are as much of the job as the animal is.
20. Unicorn Standing in a Wildflower Bank
A classic full-body standing pose, side on, with the head turned toward you and a thin sun disc outlined behind the shoulders. The wildflower bank runs the full width of the bottom of the page and up the left edge. The neck and chest carry light printed hatching that tells you where the muscle sits, so follow those marks with your shading rather than inventing your own and the body will hold its shape.
21. Unicorn Rising From a Field of Dandelions
Seed-heads and open daisies fill the lower half, drawn at several distances, and small blossoms are woven into the forelock. The trick with dandelion clocks is to leave them almost white and let a single pale gray or blue define the sphere; color them fully and they turn into lollipops. The unicorn itself rises out of the meadow with its chest and forelegs visible and the rest lost in the flowers.
22. Rearing Unicorn With a Halo of Light
A thin circle is drawn behind the head and shoulders like a halo, and it is the single most useful feature on the page: color inside it light and outside it dark, and the unicorn appears backlit with almost no effort. A swallowtail butterfly sits at the top left with its wing pattern fully drawn, so it repays a careful hand. The butterfly coloring pages here use that same level of wing detail across a whole set.
23. Unicorn Peeking Over a Field of Daisies
Only the head and neck are visible, lifted above a wall of daisies, cosmos and grass heads, with three butterflies in the white space overhead. The flowers overlap each other several layers deep, which is where the interest is. Color the blooms at the front brightest and let the ones behind go paler and grayer, and the field gains real depth. Our flower coloring pages are worth a look if this part is the fun part.
24. Unicorn Emerging From Tropical Leaves
Big leaves in the foreground, smaller ones receding behind, and the unicorn’s head pushing through the middle of them. The foliage takes up perhaps three-quarters of the page. Give yourself at least four greens and assign them by distance rather than at random, warm and yellow-green at the front, cool and blue-green behind. The mane is drawn in long ribbon-like sweeps that contrast nicely with all those leaf points.
25. Unicorn Before a Rainbow and Sunburst
Straight rays fan out behind the head, a rainbow curves across the lower corners, and large open blooms sit at the unicorn’s chest. Flowers are braided along the crest of the mane. The rays are the thing to plan first: alternate two tones around the circle rather than coloring them all the same, or the sunburst disappears into the background. Bold and busy, and it prints well as a poster.
26. Unicorn Rearing in a Moonless Forest
The sky and the gaps between the trees are already solid black, so the unicorn is lit from nowhere in particular and simply glows. It rears with the near foreleg tucked and the far one extended, a garland of flowers running through the mane. Because the darks are decided for you, the whole job is deciding how warm to make the light on the body. Amber and cream read as firelight; pale blue reads as moonlight.
27. Unicorn Rearing Between Black Tree Trunks
The most dramatic pose in the set. Both forelegs are up near the height of the head, the body twists as it rises, and tall black trunks frame it on both sides. The hip and shoulder lines pull apart in opposite directions here, and that separation is where the power in the pose comes from, so shade along it rather than across it. Heavy black surrounds mean even a modest color choice will look striking.
28. Unicorn Stepping Into a Rocky Stream
One hoof breaks the surface of the water and the ripples spread from it in printed rings, with a reflection sketched underneath. Three fairies fly near the head and shoulder. Reflections work best when they are the same colors as the object, a shade lighter and slightly blurred, so use the side of the pencil rather than the point for that lower section. The rocks along the bank give you somewhere to put your greys.
29. Unicorn in a Sunlit Forest Stream
The deepest scene here. Light comes down between the trunks at the back, a small waterfall spills in from the left, and water lilies float in the foreground pool where the unicorn is standing. Depth is already built into the drawing through line weight, heavy at the front and faint at the back, so match it with your pressure: press hard on the lilies, barely touch the far trees, and the forest will recede on its own.
30. Unicorn on a Forest Path
The lightest line weight of any page in the collection, closer to a pencil sketch than a coloring outline. A path runs between banks of undergrowth, and a mountain sits faintly behind the trees. That faintness is a gift for anyone who wants to work with watercolor pencils or a light wash, since there are no heavy black lines to fight. Keep everything pale and this becomes one of the prettiest of the set.
Pattern-Heavy Unicorn Pages for Adult Colorists
Two pages with no scene at all, just line and pattern. Both are harder than they look, because you are making color decisions rather than filling in shapes someone else has already separated for you.
31. Two Unicorns Leaping Across a Swirling Black Ground
Negative space does the work here. The background is solid black with white spirals cut through it, and the two unicorns leap across it in opposite directions, manes streaming into the swirls until you cannot tell where one ends and the other begins. That ambiguity is the point, so pick out just a few of the spirals in color and leave the rest black and white. A striking page and a genuinely difficult one.
32. All-Over Pattern of Unicorn Heads and Manes
No background, no ground line, no single subject. Unicorn heads surface out of a continuous field of curls, paisleys and scallops that runs edge to edge. Approach it the way you would any tangle: choose four colors, use them in a repeating order across the whole page, and let the pattern rather than the drawing hold it together. If this is your kind of page, our zentangle coloring page is built entirely on that idea.
How to Get More Out of a Unicorn Page
A unicorn is one of the few subjects where nobody can tell you the colors are wrong, which is exactly why it is worth being deliberate about them. Five things that make a noticeable difference:
- Pick three colors for the mane, not seven. A rainbow mane looks best when the colors run in order and blend where they meet. Seven separate blocks of color read as stripes; three blended ones read as light moving through hair.
- Leave the highlights white. The eye reflection, the ridge of the horn, the top of the muzzle. Every white shape you protect is one your colors get to push against.
- Shade the horn ridge by ridge. Darker on one side of each spiral band, lighter on the other, and a flat cone turns into a twisted horn in about a minute.
- Decide the background value before you start. Light figure on a dark ground, or dark figure on a light one. Pages where both end up mid-toned are the ones that look unfinished.
- Save metallics and glitter pens for last. They sit on top of pencil and marker but nothing sits on top of them, so any color laid over glitter will skid.
Making the Finished Pages Worth Keeping
Finished pages do not have to go in a drawer. Trim the border off a page with a strong single figure and it mounts well on colored card. The bordered page in this set is already framed by its own drawn arch, so it needs nothing but a mat. Scanned or photographed, a favourite page becomes a birthday card, a bookmark or a set of gift tags.
For a group, print a mix of difficulty levels rather than the same page for everyone, put the pencils in the middle of the table instead of in front of individual children, and let people trade pages halfway through. Coloring the same outline two different ways at the same table teaches more about color than any explanation does.
Frequently Asked Questions
Which unicorn coloring pages work best for a four-year-old?
The first four in this list. Thick lines, few enclosed areas and no fine detail mean a child working with a fat crayon can stay roughly inside the shapes and still get a result they are proud of. The chibi unicorn under the stars is the simplest page here; the winged cartoon unicorn comes with its sky already filled in, which cuts the work in half again.
What paper should I print unicorn coloring pages on?
Standard copy paper is fine for crayons and colored pencils. If you plan to use markers, print on something heavier, around 120gsm or cardstock, or the ink will bleed through and ghost onto whatever is underneath. For the grayscale-shaded pages, heavier paper also lets you layer several passes of pencil without the surface going shiny and refusing more color.
Can markers be used on the detailed forest pages?
They can, but alcohol markers bleed slightly past the line, and on pages where leaves and petals sit a millimetre apart that bleed closes the gaps and muddies everything. Fine-nib pens or colored pencils hold those edges much better. Save markers for the large-shape pages and the black-background designs, where a little bleed does not matter.
What colors actually suit a unicorn?
Any of them, which is the problem. A useful constraint is to choose one dominant family and one accent: pastel pinks and lilacs with a gold horn, or deep blues and violets with a silver horn for the celestial pages. Unicorns that go wrong usually went wrong because every color in the tin got a turn.
Print two or three at a time, keep a mix of easy and detailed in the stack, and there is a unicorn page here for a restless six-year-old on a wet afternoon and one for an adult who wants two quiet hours and a sharp pencil.
