People Around Us – Class 3 Arts Chapter 4 Notes & NCERT PDF

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Chapter 4: People Around Us

Introduction

Chapter 4, People Around Us, is about how "everyone around us is unique": family members, teachers and friends. Their noses, eyes, hair, skin and faces all look different, and they wear different clothes made of different materials for different purposes. In this chapter children observe and draw the details of people's features and design clothes for themselves, using patterns, colours and materials.

What's in this Chapter

Activity 1 – Let's Dress Up!:

- Do you wear the same clothes all the time? What types of clothes do you wear, and what patterns are on them?

- Draw yourself wearing a dress you like, with colours and patterns of your choice, using dots, lines and shapes.

- Fun Fact: "When shapes are repeated again and again, they create a pattern."

Activity 2 – What to Wear and When? Choose one occasion and draw your clothes for it:

- going to a mela;

- a cousin's wedding, imagining yourself in a traditional dress;

- your next birthday party.

Activity 3 – Draw a Face:

- Draw a face with eyes, ears, hair, nose and lips, in any style and with any material.

- Then draw other parts of the body, or the whole body, with hands, fingers, feet and toes, or something imaginative.

Activity 4 – Draw Hands: Draw your own hand and an adult's hand, and compare them.

Key Ideas

Every person looks different, and art can show these details.

Clothes change with the occasion and are made of different materials.

A repeated shape makes a pattern.

Faces and hands can be drawn by observing carefully, for example a child's hand compared with an adult's hand.

Activities from the Book

Self-portrait in a favourite dress, drawing clothes for a mela, wedding or birthday, drawing a face and body, and drawing your own hand and an adult's hand.

Words to Learn

Unique (अनोखा): different from everyone else

Features (नैन-नक्श): parts of the face like eyes, nose, lips

Pattern (पैटर्न): a design made by repeating shapes

Traditional dress (पारंपरिक पोशाक): clothes worn in a region for special occasions

Mela (मेला): a fair

Occasion (अवसर): a special event

Material (सामग्री/कपड़ा): what something is made of, like cotton or wool

Portrait (चित्र/व्यक्ति-चित्र): a picture of a person

Toes (पैर की उंगलियाँ): the fingers of the feet

Compare (तुलना करना): see how two things are alike or different

Tips for Parents & Teachers

Let the child trace their hand next to an adult's hand on paper and talk about size.

Look at family photos and talk about how each face is different.

Lay out clothes and ask which ones are for school, a wedding or play.

Encourage bold patterns, such as dots on a kurta or stripes on a frock.

Common Mistakes

Drawing everyone with the same face: the chapter is about noticing differences.

Leaving clothes plain: the book asks for patterns with dots, lines and shapes.

Forgetting ears or hair when drawing a face.

Drawing both hands the same size: an adult's hand is bigger.

💡 Key Learning Points

✓Every person is unique; faces, hair, skin and features differ.
✓People wear different clothes of different materials for different occasions.
✓Repeating a shape again and again creates a pattern.
✓Children can draw a face with eyes, ears, hair, nose and lips, and then the whole body.
✓Drawing their own hand and an adult's hand teaches observation and comparison.

👨‍🏫 Teaching Tips

→Use a mirror so children observe their own features before drawing.
→Collect pictures of traditional dresses from different regions for discussion.
→Show how a single dot or line repeated becomes a pattern on cloth.
→Let children choose any material for the face: crayons, torn paper or thread.
→Pair children to trace each other's hands, then compare with an adult's hand.
→Display self-portraits with the child's name to celebrate uniqueness.

📋 Assessment Questions

Did the child draw themselves in a dress with a visible pattern?
Could the child choose suitable clothes for an occasion (mela, wedding or birthday)?
Does the face drawing include eyes, ears, hair, nose and lips?
Did the child notice and show the difference between their hand and an adult's hand?

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