Chapter 2 of Class 4 Arts Bansuri (Visual Arts), Textures in Nature, takes students outdoors to feel rough, smooth, bumpy, and soft natural surfaces and create their own wish-fulfilling tree (Kalpavriksha) using three tactile techniques: frottage, collage, and leaf printing.
What Class 4 Art Chapter 2 Covers
Sketching Trees & Frottage Surface Rubbings (Activities 2.1 & 2.2) sketches a favourite tree from observation and practises frottage — placing paper over rough tree bark, coins, stones, or dry leaves and rubbing with crayons or pencils to capture surface textures.
Collage of Trunk/Branches & Leaf Printing for a Kalpavriksha (Activities 2.3 & 2.4) tears and pastes textured paper, dry twigs, and bark pieces to build a tree trunk collage, then paints leaf veins and presses them onto paper (leaf printing) to crown a vibrant Kalpavriksha.
Exercises in Chapter 2
- Hands-on classroom art, theatre, music, and dance activities (Activities & rubrics).
- Cross-art connections with the opening Panchatantra story The Hare and the Lion.
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FAQ
What is ‘frottage’ in Visual Arts (Activity 2.2)?
Frottage is the artistic technique of placing a sheet of paper over a textured surface (such as tree bark, a leaf, or a coin) and rubbing over it with a pencil or crayon to transfer the surface pattern onto the paper.
What are the three art techniques combined in Chapter 2 to make a Kalpavriksha?
The three techniques are Frottage (texture rubbing), Collage (cutting/tearing and pasting paper or natural materials), and Leaf Printing (painting a leaf and pressing it onto paper).