Unicorn Diamond Painting Kit for Kids

Preorder, four to six weeks from the day you order to the day it ships. The trade for that wait is a rainbow craft that stays on the table where you put it, with no loose glitter turning up in the carpet on Thursday.

The unicorn is drawn round and soft rather than realistic, and the mane does most of the color work: rainbow bands laid side by side across a dreamy, pale backdrop. Rainbow sections are the friendliest part of any diamond painting kit, because each band is one color held long enough for a child to find a rhythm with it before the symbol changes. The whole scene is a 15 cm square, framed in white on arrival.

That rhythm is the reason to start a beginner here. A design that gives long runs of a single color before switching is a design a beginner finishes, and finishing is the only thing that reliably produces a request for a second kit.

The details

• Framed canvas, approx. 15 x 15 cm (6 x 6 in)
• Pre-printed adhesive canvas set in a white display frame
• Sparkling resin diamond gems in rainbow mane colors
• Diamond applicator pen, tray and wax included
• Step-by-step and mess-free; finished art is ready to hang or stand

Straight talk

Roughly three to five hours. It is genuinely small at 15 cm square, so the mane bands are narrow and a child who wants big obvious progress may be happier on a larger canvas. Gems are tiny and loose in the packet, which makes this a supervised table craft. Kit only, not a finished piece, and the preorder ships four to six weeks after ordering.

The mane gets built one color at a time, and the rainbow is the last thing to arrive.