Plants in Art – Class 3 Arts Chapter 2 Notes & NCERT PDF

Class 3ArtsChapter 2NCERT book: Bansuri - Arts Class 3

Notes and a simple summary of Chapter 2 of the NCERT Class 3 Arts book, with the official chapter PDF, flashcards, an MCQ quiz and an AI tutor for your doubts.

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Chapter 2: Plants in Art

Introduction

Chapter 2, Plants in Art, takes children outdoors. The book says they will understand the importance of plants through stories and explore their beauty on nature walks in gardens, parks, fields, farms or any safe wild patch nearby. They observe lines, shapes, colours and patterns in nature and connect them with designs found in clothes. They also make their own designs for dresses, greeting cards, page borders and stencils.

What's in this Chapter

Activity 1 – Nature Walk and Drawing:

- Visit a school garden, park, field or farm with a drawing book and pencil.

- Gently touch and look closely at leaves, flowers, stems, bark, insects, butterflies, branches, fruits, seeds and roots.

- Questions to think about: What kinds of lines, shapes, colours and patterns do you see? How do you feel touching them?

Activity 2 – Draw from Nature:

- Draw and colour three or four leaves, flowers or birds of different shapes.

- Make your own natural colours by crushing and pounding small bits of fruit, vegetable, root, flower or leaves with a little water.

Activity 3 – Juicy Colours!: Colour can come from leaves, fruits and flowers. What colour is your tongue after eating a beetroot, jamun or mango? Paint a picture with natural colours.

Activity 4 – Jali (Grill) in Buildings:

- A grill is also called a jali. Patterns from nature or geometrical shapes are carved in jalis.

- Look at window and door grills, visit a building or monument with a carved jali, draw its patterns, and fill empty spaces with your own jali pattern.

Activity 5 – Make Your Own Jali:

- Fold an old newspaper in many alternating folds.

- Draw two or three leaf shapes, keep the folds aligned, cut out the shapes, open the folds and colour your jali.

- Use it as a stencil to make a design on paper.

- Be very careful with scissors, and help a friend who has difficulty.

Activity 6 – Stories in Pictures:

- Draw a picture telling a story about plants or trees.

- Find plant designs on clothes, textiles and other things at home and draw them.

Activity 7 – Draw with Plant Motifs:

- Make a greeting card or page border using paper, rags, newspaper, thread and natural materials like seeds and fallen petals.

- The book's rule: avoid plucking fresh flowers and leaves from plants.

Key Ideas

Nature is full of lines, shapes, colours and patterns that artists use.

Colours can be made from plants.

A jali is a carved pattern in buildings; a paper jali can be a stencil.

Plant designs (motifs) appear on clothes and cards.

Respect plants: use fallen material only.

Activities from the Book

Nature walk, drawing from nature, making natural colours, observing and making jalis, stencil design, picture stories and plant-motif cards or borders.

Words to Learn

Nature walk (प्रकृति भ्रमण): a walk to observe plants and animals

Pattern (पैटर्न/नमूना): a design that repeats

Bark (छाल): the outer covering of a tree trunk

Jali (जाली): a grill with carved patterns

Stencil (स्टेंसिल): a cut-out used to repeat a design

Motif (अभिप्राय/आकृति): a design, such as a leaf or flower, used again and again

Natural colour (प्राकृतिक रंग): colour made from plants

Border (किनारा): a decorated edge of a page or card

Fold (तह): a bend made in paper

Textile (वस्त्र): cloth

Tips for Parents & Teachers

Take the child around the garden or balcony plants and ask them to find three different leaf shapes.

Make colour at home from a beetroot slice, turmeric or spinach, with an adult handling any knife.

Look at sarees, bedsheets and curtains together for leaf and flower motifs.

Supervise scissors in the jali activity.

Common Mistakes

Plucking fresh flowers or leaves: the book asks us to use only fallen ones.

Folding the paper unevenly, so the jali shapes don't line up.

Cutting away the folded edges completely, which makes the jali fall apart.

Drawing only one kind of leaf: the book asks for different shapes.

💡 Key Learning Points

✓On a nature walk children observe lines, shapes, colours and patterns in leaves, flowers, bark, insects, seeds and roots.
✓Natural colours can be made by crushing fruit, vegetables, roots, flowers or leaves with a little water.
✓A jali is a grill with carved patterns from nature or geometric shapes; a folded-paper jali can be used as a stencil.
✓Plant motifs appear on clothes and textiles and can be used for greeting cards and page borders.
✓We use fallen natural materials and avoid plucking fresh flowers and leaves.

👨‍🏫 Teaching Tips

→Plan a short, safe nature walk around the school campus with clear rules.
→Ask children to touch gently and describe the feel of bark, leaves and petals.
→Demonstrate making colour from beetroot or turmeric before children try.
→Show photos of monument jalis if a real jali is not nearby.
→Pre-fold newspaper for younger children and supervise scissors closely.
→Ask each child to tell a plant or tree story while showing their picture.
→Collect fallen petals and seeds in a class box ahead of the card-making activity.

📋 Assessment Questions

Did the child observe and draw at least three different leaf, flower or bird shapes?
Can the child name a fruit or flower that gives colour and show a painting made with it?
Did the child make a paper jali and use it as a stencil?
Can the child point out a plant motif on cloth or a card?
Did the child follow the rule of not plucking fresh plants?

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