Kawaii gnome holding a crown beside a smiling unicorn in a meadow with mushrooms, flowers, clouds, and stars

Smiling Gnome Offers a Crown to a Unicorn

A cheerful gnome presents a tiny crown to a seated unicorn while butterflies, mushrooms, flowers, and puffy clouds fill the meadow.

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🎨 How to color it

Give the gnome’s tall patterned hat ruby red and teal bands, the unicorn a pearly white coat with a lavender mane, and the little crown a bright gold. Use sharp colored pencils for the hat zigzags, crown points, flower centers, and mushroom spots, then switch to broader strokes for the rounded hills and clouds. Try making the scattered stars silver and yellow, as if the crown has made daytime sparkle around the meadow.

The story behind this coloring page

Pipkin’s Waiting Crown — Every afternoon, when the clover smelled peppery and warm, Pipkin polished a bent tin crown with his sleeve and waited by the snortberry bush. Read the full story →

Every afternoon, when the clover smelled peppery and warm, Pipkin polished a bent tin crown with his sleeve and waited by the snortberry bush. He wanted to crown the secret Snortberry Queen, who was supposed to appear after the thirteenth butterfly sneeze. Twelve sneezes came quickly: pfft, pffft, PFFT! The thirteenth did not.

Then a unicorn trotted over, nosed the crown, and sneezed so hard that three mushroom caps wobbled. “Not yet,” Pipkin whispered, though his fingers itched to plop the crown on somebody. Because he waited, the unicorn began scraping the grass in a slow circle. Because of that, fireflies blinked awake under the leaves, spelling: QUEEN LATE. SEND SUBSTITUTE.

At last Pipkin bowed to the unicorn, who held very still, except for one proud ear twitch. The crown fit between mane and horn with a tiny clink. If you listen to the butterflies next time, maybe you’ll hear the thirteenth sneeze that started it all.