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Colored Pencils

Maybe

Shoppers spend an estimated $11.0M a year here. But the products selling today already average 4.7★, so Colored Pencils is a Maybe.

Flapen Score
58
58 / 100
Top 6% of 4,656 Arts, Crafts & Sewing niches · +12 vs the category median of 46
Market size
$11.0M/yr10.1M searches / yr
90-day growth
-5.1%search demand this quarter
Competition
54%top-5 click share · 16 brands · 232 sellers

Flapen Score

Colored Pencils against its category

The dotted line is the Arts, Crafts & Sewing average. Past it, Colored Pencils is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

58Maybe
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Colored Pencils market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Colored Pencils 10.1M times last year and spent an estimated $11.0M. The top 5 brands take 76% of clicks. Demand peaks in Jul–Aug–Dec. Flapen scores it 58 out of 100, a Maybe.

01 · Demand

An estimated 7.3% of those searches ended in a purchase.

Shoppers searched for this 10.1M times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. An estimated 7.3% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -5.1% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $11.0M a year.

Searches, last 12 months
10.1M
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-5.1%
Conversion, latest week
7.3%
Market size, estimated
$11.0Ma year
Peak month
August2.3× the quietest month
Top search term
colored pencils5.7M searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $15.04.

Listings sell for $15.04 on average, from $5.13 to $37.99. Amazon reports units sold in ranges, and this niche reaches the top one: 1,000,000 units or more a year. The average listing sells 40,000 to 50,000 of them. At $15.04 that is $602K to $752K a year per listing.

Average price
$15.04inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$5.13–$37.99
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
1,000,000 or moreAmazon's top range
Units per listing a year
40,000–50,000
Revenue per listing a year
$602K–$752K
Returns
0.7%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is ads and reviews.

93% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #8 within Drawing. It carries 12,750 reviews at 4.71 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
93%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#8in Drawing
Average rating
4.71 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
12,750per listing
Listings tracked
27

04 · Newcomers

Brands here are settling in.

The brands on the shelf have sold for 53 months on average, so the names here are settling in.

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

Products

Top Colored 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 10, 2026. The live listing can differ.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take an estimated 54% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$552K$1.1M$1.7M$2.2M1001K10K100K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

16 falling

Sellers

232

Est. top-5 brand share

76%

Top 20: 100%

Est. top-5 click share

54%

Top 20: 93%

Open market

21%

  • Crayola31%
  • KALOUR21%
  • Soucolor12%
  • PRINA6%
  • finenolo5%
  • Shuttle Art4%

Demand

Colored Pencils search demand

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

400K300KPrime Day '24Holiday '24Prime Day '25Spike '25Black Friday '25Holiday '25Spike '26SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

Peak months: Jul, Aug, Dec · busiest ÷ quietest = 2.3×

Search terms

Top Colored Pencils search terms shoppers use

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

  • colored pencils5.7M/yr
  • colored pencils for adults811K/yr
  • color pencils526K/yr
  • crayola colored pencils530K/yr
  • coloring pencils487K/yr
  • color pencil set352K/yr
  • coloring pencils for adults252K/yr
  • colored pencils for kids195K/yr
  • color pencils for adult coloring book160K/yr
  • color pencil114K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Colored Pencils

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

42%of positive reviews mention “Color”
26%of negative reviews mention “Color”
0.7%of orders come back
“Colors dont match”
A buyer, on “Color”26% 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.

20 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Colored 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