Arrangements of Objects – Class 4 Arts Chapter 1 Notes & NCERT PDF

Class 4ArtsChapter 1NCERT book: Bansuri - Arts Class 4

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Chapter 1: Arrangements of Objects

Introduction

Bansuri is the Class 4 Arts book. It opens with a story that joins together all four art forms in the book: visual arts, theatre, music and dance. The story is The Hare and the Lion from the Panchatantra. After the story, the Visual Arts section begins with Chapter 1, Arrangements of Objects. Here children look closely at everyday things, arrange them in interesting ways and draw them.

What's in this Chapter

The Panchatantra story. The book explains that the Panchatantra is a set of stories written in Sanskrit more than two thousand years ago by the scholar Vishnu Sharma. Pancha means five and Tantra means codes or principles, so the stories are grouped into five parts. They have been translated into all Indian languages and many foreign ones, such as English, German, Arabic and Japanese.

In the story, a fierce lion called Bhasuraka kills more animals than he can eat. The frightened animals promise to send him one animal every day. When it is the hare's turn, he walks slowly and arrives late. He tells the lion that "a stronger lion" stopped him on the way. The angry lion wants to see this rival, so the hare takes him to a well. Bhasuraka sees his own reflection, hears his own roar echo back, attacks, and falls to his death. The hare outwitted the lion and saved the forest. A small symbol in the book reminds children whenever an activity uses this story.

Arranging objects. The chapter says a room or shop looks better when furniture and objects are placed artistically, and that fabric in the background catches our attention. While drawing, children observe the space around objects and compare sizes, shapes, forms and colours.

Key Ideas

The same objects can look dull or beautiful depending on how they are arranged.

Drawing large and using most of the paper makes a picture strong.

Colouring the objects first and then the background space makes them stand out.

Artists such as Nandalal Bose painted people at work with their tools and instruments.

A diorama is a three-dimensional artwork that arranges objects to show a scene.

Activities from the Book

Complete the Picture (1.1): animals have formed a music band. Children draw the missing instruments, colour the picture, add more animals and even write a short poem in any language.

A Picture Gallery (1.2): children look at six paintings by Nandalal Bose and find the tanpura, dhak, ghatam and singa. The book's answers are singa 1, tanpura 4, ghatam 5 and dhak 6.

Arrange and Draw Objects (1.3): children pick a group, such as things for a nature walk, stationery, farming or tailoring tools, clothes and footwear, vessels, or grooming items like toothbrush, comb and soap. They arrange the objects, draw them large and colour the objects before the space around them. A field trip to a market shows how vendors display their goods.

Visual Hide-and-Seek (1.4): draw two or three objects that do not overlap. A squiggly line wanders across the page and cuts them into small shapes. Each object gets a symbol and a colour, for example a red dot for the pot or a blue X for the bucket. The shapes are filled with patterns, then the background is filled too. Can friends find the hidden objects?

Make a Diorama (1.5): design a room on paper, then build it inside a shoe box or old carton. Matchboxes can become furniture and rags can become curtains.

Words to Learn

Arrangement (व्यवस्था): the way things are placed together

Object (वस्तु): a thing you can see and touch

Background (पृष्ठभूमि): the space behind the main objects

Pattern (नमूना/आकृति): a design that repeats

Symbol (चिह्न): a small sign that stands for something

Diorama (डायोरामा/दृश्य मॉडल): a 3-D model scene inside a box

Gallery (कला दीर्घा): a place where pictures are shown

Vendor (विक्रेता): a person who sells things

Outwit (चतुराई से हराना): to defeat someone by being clever

Reflection (प्रतिबिंब): the image you see in water or a mirror

Tips for Parents & Teachers

Retell the Hare and the Lion story aloud; the rest of the book keeps returning to it.

Put three kitchen vessels on a table and let the child rearrange them a few times before drawing.

Keep a shoe box and scraps ready at home for the diorama.

Praise careful looking more than neat finishing. The book asks teachers to discourage copying from photos.

Start a folder, or portfolio, of the child's artworks, as the book suggests.

Common Mistakes

Drawing objects very small in one corner. Use most of the page.

Forgetting to colour the background space.

In hide-and-seek, letting objects overlap at the start, which makes the game confusing.

Thinking the story's second lion was real. It was only Bhasuraka's reflection in the well.

💡 Key Learning Points

✓The Panchatantra, written in Sanskrit by Vishnu Sharma, teaches values through animal stories grouped into five parts.
✓In 'The Hare and the Lion', the clever hare tricks Bhasuraka into attacking his own reflection in a well.
✓Arranging objects thoughtfully, drawing them large and colouring the background improves a picture.
✓Nandalal Bose's paintings show people at work with instruments such as the tanpura, dhak, ghatam and singa.
✓A diorama is a three-dimensional scene made by arranging objects, for example inside a shoe box.

👨‍🏫 Teaching Tips

→Tell the Hare and the Lion story with voices and let children retell it; later chapters use it again.
→Set up a still-life of stationery or vessels on a table and let groups rearrange it before drawing.
→Show the Nandalal Bose paintings and let children point to each instrument before revealing the answers.
→Model the six hide-and-seek steps on the board before children try them.
→Take a short market walk so children see how vendors arrange and display goods.
→Collect shoe boxes, matchboxes and fabric scraps a week in advance for the diorama.
→Keep each child's drawings in a portfolio to track progress, as the book recommends.

📋 Assessment Questions

Can the child arrange and draw a group of everyday objects by observing them?
Does the child use most of the paper and colour both objects and background?
Can the child retell the Hare and the Lion story and explain how the hare won?
Does the child play with placement, size, lines, shapes and patterns imaginatively?
Does the child take part in discussions and share materials with friends?

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