A French nursery rhyme
“Frère Jacques” 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.
- 10 pages
- from age 4
- A4 PDF ready to print
- No signup
Coloring pages for “Frère Jacques”
Each sheet opens on its own page, with its A4 PDF.
Singing while coloring
Where “Frère Jacques” comes from, and how it is sung.
One of the best-known French songs in the world, sung in dozens of languages — in English, “Are You Sleeping, Brother John?”. Brother Jacques is still asleep when he should be ringing the morning bells. It is sung as a round: one voice starts, the second comes in when the first reaches the second line, and soon all the bells ring together. Gustav Mahler even turned it into a slow, solemn march in his First Symphony.
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.
- À la claire fontaine8 pages
- Ah ! les crocodiles8 pages
- Ainsi font, font, font6 pages
- Alouette, gentille alouette9 pages
- Au clair de la lune9 pages
- Dans la forêt lointaine3 pages
- Dansons la capucine7 pages
- Fais dodo, Colas mon p’tit frère6 pages
- Il était un petit homme4 pages
- Il était un petit navire6 pages
- Il était une bergère3 pages
- L’araignée Gipsy4 pages
- La famille Tortue6 pages
- La mère Michel4 pages
- Le bon roi Dagobert4 pages
- Le fermier dans son pré2 pages
- Maman, les petits bateaux5 pages
- Meunier, tu dors6 pages
- Mon âne2 pages
- Pirouette, cacahuète6 pages
- Pomme de reinette et pomme d’api6 pages
- Promenons-nous dans les bois4 pages
- Savez-vous planter les choux ?10 pages
- Sur le pont d’Avignon11 pages
- Un éléphant qui se balançait2 pages
- Une poule sur un mur4 pages
Every song on the site is gathered on the French nursery rhymes page. To see everything at once, there’s the whole catalog.