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Saint-Saens Carnival of the Animals Coloring Book and Other Resources

July 4, 2007 by natalie 12 Comments

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 by 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 is 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 comments and praise for the young performers employed for the recording of this performance. Highly recommended!

Lastly (for now!), I’ve spent hours putting together a coloring book that my piano camp students can color while we listen to the recording of each piece in the suite. I’m planning on using one coloring book for each piano camp group and having them work together to color the animal pictures. We’ll see how that goes! The 14-page coloring book is 11×17″ (although it will also print great on 8.5×11″ if you prefer a smaller size) and is designed so that you can put a binding on the left side to hold the pages together. It’s in a pdf file and is ready for printing. Click here or on the picture below to download a copy for your own use. Enjoy!

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  1. Lorey Hallada says

    March 12, 2014 at 5:39 am

    Hi! Thanks for the pics. I am doing a unit on program music with my first graders and we will be listening to much of “Carnival of Animals.” I am doing some other things with them, too. For the elephant we are singing words I wrote to the A section and swinging our trunks. For the cuckoo, we are playing tone bars. For aquarium, we are going to color fish and put them on popsicle sticks to “swim” while the music plays. There is also a great movement to that movement on a John Fierabend dvd. We will start by comparing Kangaroos and the Aviary to determine how the music can suggest an animal. If I feel flush, I may purchase scarves to swish during the swan. I also wrote a swan song- not to the same tune.

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  3. Carol Goff says

    August 7, 2014 at 1:52 pm

    Thank you. I am starting a music enrichment program in a new charter school and need all the help I can get:)

  4. Heidi says

    May 15, 2015 at 9:32 am

    Do you allow the book to be used for classroom use as well?

  5. natalie says

    May 20, 2015 at 7:35 pm

    Sure, Heidi, that’s fine with me!

  6. Sylvia Morris says

    May 27, 2016 at 7:55 pm

    I wish I could download this. Adobe keeps saying something like, Expected a dict object….. 🙁

  7. natalie says

    May 30, 2016 at 2:43 pm

    Hi Sylvia~
    It looks like the file is still working properly, so you might need to check the settings on your end. If you don’t already have it, you can download the free Adobe Reader to view this file. Hope this helps!

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