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Colouring Pens

Maybe

An estimated 0.3% of orders come back. But prices span $1.86–$17.39, mostly outside the sweet spot, so Colouring Pens is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
60
60 / 100
Top 18% of 5,777 Home & Garden niches · +9 vs the category median of 51
Market size
£2.7M/yr3.6M searches / yr
90-day growth
-12.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
44%top-5 click share · 27 brands · 84 sellers

Flapen Score

Colouring Pens against its category

The dotted line is the Home & Garden average. Past it, Colouring Pens is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

60Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Colouring Pens market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Colouring Pens 3.6M times last year and spent an estimated £2.7M. The top 5 brands take 65% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jan–Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 60 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 8.7% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 3.6M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 8.7% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -12.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £2.7M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
3.6M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-12.1%
Conversion, latest week
8.7%
Market size, estimated
£2.7Ma year
Peak month
December3.2× the quietest month
Top search term
colouring pens1.4M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.88.

Listings sell for £8.88 on average, from £1.86 to £17.39. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 250K to 300K a year. The average listing sells 8,000 to 10,000 of them. At £8.88 that is £71K to £89K a year per listing.

Average price
£8.88under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.86–£17.39
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
250K–300K
Units per listing a year
8,000–10,000
Revenue per listing a year
£71K–£89K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

89% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 97% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.9% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #70 within Drawing. It carries 5,199 reviews at 4.50 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
89%
Prime listings
97%
Out of stock, average day
5.9%
Average rank
#70in Drawing
Average rating
4.50 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
5,199per listing
Listings tracked
37

04 · Newcomers

1 of last year's 2 launches cleared the first-year sales bar.

2 products launched here in the last 12 months. 1 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 43 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
2
Successful launches
1Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
43 months

Products

Top Colouring Pens products & what they sell for

The products selling here, as shoppers see them on Amazon. Shelf share and sales are our estimates.

Prices and ratings read from Amazon on Jul 27, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 44% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

£0£137K£275K£412K£550K1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

27 falling

Sellers

84

Est. top-5 brand share

65%

Top 20: 94%

Est. top-5 click share

44%

Top 20: 82%

Open market

32%

  • CRAYOLA39%
  • Tongfushop11%
  • Artecho7%
  • SOL4%
  • Melifluo3%
  • Amazon Basics3%

Demand

Colouring Pens search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

175K125KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jan, Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 3.2×

Search terms

Top Colouring Pens search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with estimated yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • colouring pens1.4M/yr
  • felt tip pens570K/yr
  • markers206K/yr
  • felt tips141K/yr
  • colouring151K/yr
  • colouring pens for adults176K/yr
  • coloring pens92K/yr
  • felt tip pens for adults93K/yr
  • adult colouring pens92K/yr
  • pens for kids62K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Colouring Pens

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

31%of positive reviews mention “Color”
20%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.3%of orders come back
“not all colours as expected”
A buyer, on “Color”20% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

21 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Colouring Pens questions

Answered from the same tracked data.

Figures on this page are estimates modeled from public Amazon pages and third-party keyword data. Amazon does not supply them, and no connected seller's data is used. How we handle Amazon data