Song “Dansons la capucine” · the coloring pages on this refrain
The round dance in the garden
In front of the tiled-roof house, three children, a mother, a princess and the unicorn hold hands and dance in a ring.
- Recommended age
- Ages 6 and up · an hour, often over two days
- Themes
- Storybook scenes, Unicorns, Nature
- Season
- Spring
The unicorn in the ring
Here, the unicorn is not watching: it is dancing. Standing on its hind legs, it holds the hand of a girl with pigtails, and the ring goes around with a boy, a mother with a bun, a princess with a crown and a second boy in the foreground. Everyone is laughing, eyes squeezed shut. Behind them, a house with a scalloped tile roof, a chimney, a rounded door and a dormer window, a tree, flowers, a winding path, and a sun smiling between the clouds.
A ring everyone can join
A round dance has no reserved places: you take hands, and the circle grows. “Dansons la capucine”, the French playground song, is sung “chez nous” — at our house — and “chez la voisine”, at the neighbor’s, like a neighborhood song. On this page, a mother, a princess and a unicorn go around with the children, and that mix is what makes people smile. At six, you can ask: who else would you like to bring into the ring?
Tiles one by one
The roof is covered in scalloped tiles, dozens of small rounded areas lined up in rows: it is the precision challenge of the page, just right for a six-year-old’s hand. The ring in the foreground is tighter than it looks: six characters whose arms meet, hands touching, interlocking areas that need to be told apart before coloring.
A two-tone roof
For the roof, alternating two shades from one row to the next — a red and an orange, for example — instantly gives it the look of a real roof. The path is colored beige, the grass a soft green, and the sun a strong yellow. One main color per dancer, never repeated on their neighbor, and the ring reads at a glance.
A word for the grown-up: start by counting the dancers in the ring together, unicorn included. Six: that is how many colors to pick before starting, and your child can line them up in the order of the ring.
Coloring pages that go with this one
More pages from the same theme, age or season — the ones you print right after.
