A ring donut 🍩 with a glazed top and scattered sprinkles, drawn in thick outlines with wide areas to fill. The body of the donut is simple enough for a two-year-old, while the sprinkles give an older child something small and deliberate to work on. Chocolate brown, strawberry pink or plain sugar — the choice is open.
PDF (2 pages: line art and a color sample) and PNG
Why is there a hole in the middle of a donut?
The usual explanation is that a ring cooks evenly: without the hole, the centre of a thick round of dough stays raw while the outside browns. Several colourful stories are told about who first punched the hole, and none of them is settled history.
Where did donuts come from?
Fried sweet dough is old and turns up in many countries, but the direct ancestor of the American donut is usually said to be the Dutch olykoek, carried across the Atlantic by settlers. The ring shape and the name as we know them took hold in the United States.
How many kinds of donuts are there?
More than any list can hold: plain, chocolate, strawberry, matcha, cinnamon sugar, filled, twisted, and shop specialities that appear for one season and vanish. That variety makes the page easy to reuse — print it twice and the same outline becomes a different donut.
