Letter O Coloring Pages

The letter is drawn properly

Every O on these pages is set from a real typeface and outlined exactly, not sketched. It is the easiest letter in the alphabet to draw badly — a hand-drawn O wobbles — and the easiest of all to colour, which makes it a good first page for a very young child.

Twelve things beginning with O

Octopus, owl, orange, ostrich, otter, onion, oven, olive, oak, omelette, orchid and ox. Each is drawn large below the letter, so the sound and the shape are learned together. There is a thirteenth page setting all twelve out in a grid, and a doodle sheet of twenty small O things — with an oar, an oyster, an ornament, overalls, oatmeal and an oil lamp joining them.

Nothing arrives filled in

An octopus is normally drawn with rows of solid dark suckers, an owl with two huge black eyes, an olive as a solid dark fruit and an oven with a black glass door. None of them are here — every sucker is an open ring, the owl's eyes are wide circles with one small pupil each, and the oven door is shut on a tray of buns so there is nothing dark behind the glass.

Which page to start with

The big uppercase O and the big lowercase o are the simplest — one huge ring each. The bubble letter and the sheet of mixed letters to hunt through come next. The patterned O, divided into bands of lattice, scallops and rings, will hold an older child or an adult.

Printing

Print at 100% scale rather than “fit to page”, and match the file to your paper — Letter or A4. The button at the top bundles all twenty into a single download.