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A French nursery rhyme

“À la claire fontaine” coloring pages to print

The drawings on this site that illustrate this French rhyme, gathered on one page. Variations on the same refrain: each one colors on its own, in any order.

  • 8 pages
  • from age 4
  • A4 PDF ready to print
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Coloring pages for “À la claire fontaine”

Each sheet opens on its own page, with its A4 PDF.

Singing while coloring

Where “À la claire fontaine” comes from, and how it is sung.

A very old French song that the first settlers carried to Quebec, where it is still sung today. Someone bathes in a clear fountain, dries off under an oak tree, and on the highest branch a nightingale sings. It has no hand game: it is hummed slowly while the crayons do their work, and it often brings a quiet moment to the whole table.

These drawings, sorted another way

A song crosses the shelves of the site: here are the ones its sheets are filed under.

The other songs

Each gathers its own drawings.

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