A French nursery rhyme

“Au clair de la lune” 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.

9 pages
from age 4
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Coloring pages for “Au clair de la lune”

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

Singing while coloring

Where “Au clair de la lune” comes from, and how it is sung.

By the light of the moon, with their candle gone out, someone knocks at Pierrot’s door to borrow his pen; Pierrot, already in bed, sends them next door. The song has a special place in history: in 1860, a French inventor, Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville, recorded a few bars of it on soot-blackened paper, long before the phonograph. It is one of the oldest recorded voices known. It is sung slowly, like a lullaby.

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.

Every song on the site is gathered on the French nursery rhymes page. To see everything at once, there’s the whole catalog.

Coloring pages for “Au clair de la lune”

Singing while coloring

These drawings, sorted another way

The other songs

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