Objects in Art – Class 3 Arts Chapter 1 Notes & NCERT PDF

Class 3ArtsChapter 1NCERT book: Bansuri - Arts Class 3

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Chapter 1: Objects in Art

Introduction

Bansuri–I is the Class 3 Arts book, and it opens with Visual Arts. Chapter 1, Objects in Art, starts with the things children see and use every day at home and at school, for cooking, working, studying, sleeping and playing. The book says these objects "have unique designs and are made of different materials". By the end of the chapter children should be able to draw and colour objects and do clay work. Along the way they learn to notice shapes, forms, colours and materials.

What's in this Chapter

Activity 1 – Play with Lines: Children scribble and let their lines "wander". Some lines are drawn quickly and some slowly. Pressing a little gives thick and dark lines, and drawing gently gives thin and light lines. The book names eight kinds of lines: wavy, zigzag, dotted, dashed, standing, sleeping, sloping and swirling.

Activity 2 – Draw and Colour Objects Found Around You: Touch and look at objects. Observe their lines, shapes and colours, then draw any three objects with different shapes. At home, children find objects used for cooking, working, studying, sleeping and playing, draw them, and share the drawings with classmates.

Activity 3 – Trace, Cut and Overlap:

- Draw three objects, trace their outlines, and cut out the tracings.

- Place the cut-outs one over another with some overlap, drawing each outline. "Wow! You have made a new shape!"

- Colour the three shapes red, yellow and blue with water colours. New colours appear where the shapes overlap.

- The Teacher's Note explains that tracing develops arm movement and pencil grip, and overlapping creates new shapes and colours.

Activity 4 – Draw a Bottle and Play with its Shape: A bottle cap has "lost my bottle" and asks the child to draw a bottle for it. The bottle should be different from ordinary bottles, "or, I will not know which is mine!"

Activity 5 – Play with Clay:

- Draw basic shapes of objects, add "magical features" and make them with clay.

- Add designs, dots and lines with a stick, then give the objects names.

- Wash your hands and clean your space afterwards.

- Do You Know: a specially made clay pot, the ghatam, is used as a musical instrument in Indian music.

Activity 6 – Making Pots: Look at pictures of pots, talk about their sizes and shapes and what the people are doing, then decorate a pot.

Key Ideas

Every object has lines, shapes, colours and a material.

The way we hold and press a pencil changes the line.

Overlapping shapes makes new shapes. Overlapping the colours red, yellow and blue makes new colours.

Clay can be shaped into objects, and art also means cleaning up afterwards.

Activities from the Book

Line play, drawing objects at home, trace–cut–overlap, designing a new bottle, clay modelling, and decorating a pot. The book also suggests visiting a local museum, a crafts mela or a potter to see clay objects.

Words to Learn

Line (रेखा): a mark made by a moving pencil

Zigzag (टेढ़ी-मेढ़ी): a line that goes up and down in sharp turns

Wavy (लहरदार): a line like waves

Dotted (बिंदुदार): a line made of dots

Shape (आकार): the outline of an object

Trace (अनुरेखण): copy an outline through thin paper

Overlap (एक के ऊपर एक): one shape partly covering another

Clay (मिट्टी): soft earth that can be shaped

Potter (कुम्हार): a person who makes pots

Ghatam (घटम): a clay pot played as a musical instrument

Tips for Parents & Teachers

Let the child draw eight kinds of lines on old newspaper with a crayon, quickly and slowly.

Go on a "shape hunt" in the kitchen: a round plate, a rectangular box, a cylinder-shaped glass.

Use atta dough if clay is not available.

Praise original ideas. The book asks teachers to let children's own imagination show in their work.

Common Mistakes

Pressing hard all the time: thin, light lines need a gentle hand.

Putting the cut-outs side by side: they must overlap to make new shapes and colours.

Copying an ordinary bottle in Activity 4: the bottle cap wants a different bottle.

Forgetting to clean up after clay work.

💡 Key Learning Points

✓Children can draw eight kinds of lines named in the book: wavy, zigzag, dotted, dashed, standing, sleeping, sloping and swirling.
✓Children observe the lines, shapes and colours of objects at home and in school and draw them.
✓Tracing and overlapping cut-outs creates new shapes, and overlapping red, yellow and blue creates new colours.
✓Clay can be shaped into objects decorated with dots and lines; the ghatam is a clay pot used in Indian music.
✓Good art habits include cleaning up and caring for materials.

👨‍🏫 Teaching Tips

→Start with free scribbling to loosen the hand before asking for specific lines.
→Show the difference between pressing hard and drawing gently side by side on the board.
→Bring real objects (bottle, cup, box) to the class so children observe before drawing.
→For Activity 3, show one completed overlap sample so children understand where new colours appear.
→Keep water, cloth and newspaper ready for clay work and make clean-up part of the activity.
→Put finished work on a display board and change it regularly, as the book's teacher note advises.
→Invite a local potter, or show pictures of a ghatam, to link clay with music.

📋 Assessment Questions

Can the child draw and name at least six kinds of lines?
Does the drawing of objects show different shapes and some attention to colour?
Did the child overlap the cut-outs correctly and notice the new colours?
Did the clay object show the child's own idea (a 'magical feature') and some surface design?
Does the child clean up and put materials back without being reminded?

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