Donut Coloring Pages

A donut coloring page is one of the easiest drawings in the world to start and one of the hardest to stop. It is a circle with a hole in it. That is the whole shape. Everything that makes it interesting sits on top: the glaze, the sprinkles, the drizzle, the bite somebody already took. These 15 free printable donut coloring pages run from a single plain ring a toddler can finish in two minutes to a tray of thirty five donuts that will hold an adult for an hour. Every sheet downloads as a free PDF sized for US Letter paper, so you can print one at the kitchen table or a class set on Monday morning.

The simple sheets come first, because that is what most people arrive looking for. Donut With Sprinkles is the plainest page here: one ring on a round board, seen from straight above, with about twenty sprinkles drawn as open outlines rather than solid dashes. Kawaii Donut turns the same shape into a character with arms, legs and a wide open grin, and it is the one to print if you came looking for cute donut coloring pages. Donut With Drizzle Stripes runs a dozen wide wavy channels of icing across the glaze, each one outlined so you can fill it separately. Heart Shaped Donut repeats the heart in the hole as well as the outline, which makes it the Valentine's sheet of the set. Donut On A Plate keeps a clean ring of paper all the way around the food, which gives small hands somewhere safe to overshoot.

Five sheets in the middle put the donut into a scene. Stacked Donuts piles three of them into a column, with the top one tilted so you can see down into its hole. Donut And Coffee Mug sets a plate beside a tall mug with a band of dots around its middle and two curls of steam above the rim. Donut With A Bite Taken Out draws the torn edge as a row of small scallops, which exposes the cake inside and gives you a second color to use. Donut On A Fork stands the whole thing upright on a stem, four prongs at the top and a long handle running to the bottom of the page. Giant Donut With A Child blows one up to the height of a person and puts a child in front of it with both arms in the air, seen from behind so there is no face to worry about.

The last five are the donut coloring pages for adults and older children. Patterned Glazed Donut covers one large ring with more than sixty pointed petal shapes radiating out from the hole, and it colors up as a mandala rather than as food. Box Of Assorted Donuts packs around fifteen donuts into an open bakery box and gives every one a different topping. Donut Shop Window is a building rather than a snack, with a striped awning, brick courses on both sides and five shelves of donuts behind the glass. Donut Tower On A Cake Stand stacks four on a fluted stand with a ribbon bow tied around the stem, which makes it the birthday sheet. Donuts On A Bakery Tray is the densest page in the collection, around thirty five donuts in six rows with no two decorated the same way.

One habit is worth passing on, because it is what separates a flat donut from one that looks glazed. Color the cake part and the icing in two clearly different values, not two different colors at the same strength. Real glaze sits on top of the donut as a separate layer, and the eye reads that layer through contrast. A pale ring of cake under a deep pink glaze looks right. A medium brown under a medium pink looks like a sticker. This works with crayons as easily as with pencils, and it costs nothing but a moment of planning before the first stroke.

Sprinkles reward the opposite approach. Every sprinkle on these sheets is drawn as a small open outline, so each one is its own shape rather than a mark to color around. Give them three or four colors and repeat those in no particular order, and the finished page looks like a real donut. Give every sprinkle its own color and it looks like confetti, which children usually prefer. Neither is wrong. If your colorist finishes the set and wants more sweet things to work on, the ice cream coloring pages run to the same range of difficulty, and the pizza coloring pages cover the savory side with the same mix of simple and detailed sheets.