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A French nursery rhyme

“Dans la forêt lointaine” 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.

  • 3 pages
  • from age 4
  • A4 PDF ready to print
  • No signup

Coloring pages for “Dans la forêt lointaine”

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

Singing while coloring

Where “Dans la forêt lointaine” comes from, and how it is sung.

A song for two voices: deep in a faraway forest, the cuckoo, high in its great oak, answers the owl. Share the parts — one sings “coucou”, the other “hibou” (owl) — and it can also be sung as a round, each voice starting a little after the other. The cuckoo, the owl and the big tree in the drawings come straight from the song.

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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