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Colouring Pencils

Maybe

An estimated 0.3% of orders come back. But demand is soft, at -4.2% this quarter, so Colouring Pencils is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
60
60 / 100
Top 5% of 835 Stationery & Office Supplies niches · +13 vs the category median of 47
Market size
£1.6M/yr1.8M searches / yr
90-day growth
-4.2%search demand this quarter
Competition
44%top-5 click share · 20 brands · 103 sellers

Flapen Score

Colouring Pencils against its category

The dotted line is the Stationery & Office Supplies average. Past it, Colouring Pencils 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 Pencils market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United Kingdom searched for Colouring Pencils 1.8M times last year and spent an estimated £1.6M. The top 5 brands take 62% of clicks. Demand peaks in Nov–Dec. Flapen scores it 60 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 11.0% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 1.8M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United Kingdom for this niche's terms. An estimated 11.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -4.2% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated £1.6M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
1.8M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-4.2%
Conversion, latest week
11.0%
Market size, estimated
£1.6Ma year
Peak month
December2.5× the quietest month
Top search term
colouring pencils936K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth £8.15.

Listings sell for £8.15 on average, from £1.85 to £25.59. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 200K to 250K a year. The average listing sells 5,000 to 6,000 of them. At £8.15 that is £41K to £49K a year per listing.

Average price
£8.15under the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
£1.85–£25.59
Amazon United Kingdom median price
£12.12across 27,606 niches
Units sold a year
200K–250K
Units per listing a year
5,000–6,000
Revenue per listing a year
£41K–£49K
Returns
0.3%of orders · Amazon United Kingdom median 0.6%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is reviews.

83% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 5.3% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #15 within Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies. It carries 6,850 reviews at 4.63 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
83%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
5.3%
Average rank
#15in Pens, Pencils & Writing Supplies
Average rating
4.63 starsAmazon United Kingdom average 4.36 stars
Average reviews
6,850per listing
Listings tracked
29

04 · Newcomers

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

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. 0 of them cleared the first-year sales bar, our mark for a successful launch. The brands on the shelf have sold for 47 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
47 months

Products

Top Colouring Pencils 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 29, 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£65K£130K£195K£260K1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

20 falling

Sellers

103

Est. top-5 brand share

62%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

44%

Top 20: 92%

Open market

33%

  • STAEDTLER26%
  • BIC Kids10%
  • CRAYOLA10%
  • Amazon Basics9%
  • KALOUR8%
  • Faber-Castell5%

Demand

Colouring Pencils search demand

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

60K40KSpike '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Nov, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.5×

Search terms

Top Colouring Pencils search terms shoppers use

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

  • colouring pencils936K/yr
  • coloured pencils153K/yr
  • colouring pencils for adults124K/yr
  • colouring pencils for kids90K/yr
  • faber castell colouring pencils86K/yr
  • colour pencils57K/yr
  • coloring pencils49K/yr
  • coloured pencils for adults58K/yr
  • pencil crayons45K/yr
  • adult colouring pencils35K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Colouring Pencils

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

28%of positive reviews mention “Color”
22%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.3%of orders come back
“colours dont match”
A buyer, on “Color”22% 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.

19 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Colouring Pencils 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