A French nursery rhyme
“Un éléphant qui se balançait” 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.
- 2 pages
- from age 4
- A4 PDF ready to print
- No signup
Coloring pages for “Un éléphant qui se balançait”
Each sheet opens on its own page, with its A4 PDF.
Singing while coloring
Where “Un éléphant qui se balançait” comes from, and how it is sung.
One elephant was swinging on a spider’s web; it was such fun that he went to fetch a second elephant… then a third. Each verse adds an elephant, and you count as you sing. Children can line up, a hand on the shoulder in front, and sway together: one more at every verse.
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 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
- 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.

