A French nursery rhyme
“Il était un petit homme” 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.
- 4 pages
- from age 4
- A4 PDF ready to print
- No signup
Coloring pages for “Il était un petit homme”
Each sheet opens on its own page, with its A4 PDF.
Singing while coloring
Where “Il était un petit homme” comes from, and how it is sung.
Old Guilleri goes hunting for partridges, climbs a tree to watch his dogs run, and the branch breaks: down he falls, and the ladies of the hospital rush to bandage him up. The chorus is a game of sounds — “Carabi, titi Carabi, toto Carabo” — that makes children laugh before they even follow the story. A very old song, not to be confused with “Pirouette, cacahuète”, which starts with the very same words.
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
- Frère Jacques10 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.