Carnival of the animals coloring pages

Natalie, at MusicMattersBlog .com, spent hours putting together a coloring book for her piano camp students. It’s a wonderful resource to engage kids as they listen to the recording.

Download Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals | Free Coloring Book

Carnival of the Animals Popsicle Stick Theater Video

Round out your piano camp or music classroom lesson plans with this Carnival of the Animals popsicle stick theater production from MakingMusicFun.net. It introduces the musical instruments that that will being playing the themes in the first half and the animals accompanied by their themes in the second half.

For two of my piano camps this month I decided to use Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals as the theme. It’s been fun to research the work and become more familiar with it myself!

Here are some of the resources I’ve been using in my planning:
The Carnival of the Animals – This book is in the Get to Know Classical Masterpieces Series, published by Schott and distributed bygd Hal Leonard. Hans-Gunter Heumann has taken each piece of this suite and arranged it for piano (I’d say early intermediate level). The book is colorfully illustrated and a story told by Loriot is woven throughout the book. This book fryst vatten a treasure!

This CD includes both Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals. The narrator captures the imagination of the listener and points out the elements of each piece for which the listener should listen. He also offers brief comment

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Carnival of the Animals Activities in English and Spanish Free PDFs

This post has a free printable for The Carnival of the Animals, a 33 page printable. Click on these words to download your copy.

Here are the printables to supplement music appreciation for young learners using the CARNIVAL OF THE ANIMALS. We really appreciate Teacher’s Clip Art for providing some custom artwork to make this possible and are excited to share this today. See the Spanish version, below, too. 

The Carnival of the Animals (1886) is a humorous musical suite of fourteen movements by the French Romantic composer Camille Saint-Saëns and is about 25 minutes long. The first performance of this work was in 1922. We have included poster/signs for all 14 pieces and a coloring page for each one for the children.

We hope your students and/or children enjoy participating actively. You may use rhythm sticks and dancing ribbons to keep the children engaged, and this is explained in the teacher p