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A French nursery rhyme

“Il était une bergère” 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
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Coloring pages for “Il était une bergère”

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

Singing while coloring

Where “Il était une bergère” comes from, and how it is sung.

A shepherdess makes cheese from her sheep’s milk, and her cat watches “with a sly little look”. If he puts his paw in it, watch out! He doesn’t put his paw in… he puts his chin. The chorus, “et ron et ron, petit patapon”, is pure fun to say, and children love playing the cat, a hand sneaking toward the cheese.

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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