Chapter 4 of Class 4 Arts Bansuri (concluding the Visual Arts section), People in Action, teaches students to capture human posture and movement through quick one-minute gesture sketches in a Visual Journal, geometric stick-and-shape figures, and a 3D Spinning Paper Doll.
What Class 4 Art Chapter 4 Covers
Visual Journal & One-Minute Statue Sketches (Activities 4.1 & 4.2) plays the classroom Statue Game where classmates freeze in everyday actions (playing, sweeping, dancing, running) while students capture their body bends and angles in quick 1-minute sketches using circles, triangles, and lines.
Traditional Toy People & Making a Spinning Paper Doll (Activities 4.3 & 4.4) draws inspiration from traditional geometric Indian wooden/clay toys and constructs a 3D cone-and-cylinder Spinning Paper Doll that twirls on a pencil tip or stick.
Exercises in Chapter 4
- Hands-on classroom art, theatre, music, and dance activities (Activities & rubrics).
- Cross-art connections with the opening Panchatantra story The Hare and the Lion.
Read Class 4 Art Chapter 4 Online
More Chapters
- Previous: Chapter 3: Aqua World
- Next: Chapter 5: Explore!
- Hindi medium: Class 4 Arts Chapter 4 PDF in Hindi (Bansuri)
- All Art chapters and the other Class 4 books: Class 4 NCERT books 2026-27
- All Class 1 to 12 NCERT Textbooks: NCERT Books PDF (Class 1–12)
- Every book chapter by chapter: NCERT chapter wise PDF
FAQ
What is a ‘Visual Journal’ in Activity 4.1?
A Visual Journal is a personal sketchbook where an artist regularly records quick drawings, posture studies, everyday observations, and creative ideas.
How do geometric shapes help in drawing ‘People in Action’?
Using simple ovals for the head, triangles or rectangles for the torso, and jointed lines for arms and legs makes it easy to capture any running, jumping, or bending posture quickly before adding details.