Chapter 1 of Class 5 Arts Bansuri (Section 1: Visual Arts), Objects on the Move, trains young artists to observe moving vehicles and machines in everyday life, break complex structures into geometric shapes, repeat component patterns, invent an imaginative dream vehicle, and sketch bustling halting places like bus stops and railway stations.
What Class 5 Art Chapter 1 Covers
Observing Moving Vehicles (Activity 1.1) — Bicycles, rickshaws, tractors, buses, trains, boats, and aeroplanes have distinct wheels, wings, windows, and chassis proportions that can be sketched by first blocking in basic circles, rectangles, and triangles.
Creating Patterns from Parts & Visual Puzzles (Activities 1.2 & 1.3) — Individual parts of vehicles — spokes, gears, headlights, tyre treads, and windows — can be arranged into rhythmic decorative borders and pattern grids.
Designing My Dream Vehicle (Activity 1.4) — Combines imagination with function to design a futuristic or eco-friendly vehicle (for example, a solar-winged amphibious bus or a library-on-wheels).
Halting Places Composition (Activity 1.5) — Composes a full scene showing a place where vehicles pause — a bus stand, metro station, harbour, or village crossroads — complete with passengers, vendors, and signboards.
Exercises in Chapter 1
- Activities 1.1 to 1.3 — Vehicle Sketching & Pattern Making: Draw a vehicle you see daily from observation, create a repeating pattern using its parts, and solve the visual matching puzzle.
- Activities 1.4 & 1.5 — Dream Vehicle & Halting Place Scene: Draw and colour your ‘Dream Vehicle’ with special features, then compose a busy ‘Halting Place’ scene showing vehicles and people in action.
Read Class 5 Art Chapter 1 Online
More Chapters
- Next: Chapter 2: Peeping Out of the Window
- Hindi medium: Class 5 Arts Chapter 1 PDF in Hindi (Bansuri)
- All Art chapters and the other Class 5 books: Class 5 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 are the four main sections of the Class 5 Arts textbook Bansuri?
Bansuri for Class 5 integrates four art forms across 19 chapters: Visual Arts (Chapters 1–5), Theatre (Chapters 6–9), Music (Chapters 10–14), and Dance (Chapters 15–19).
What does Activity 1.5 ‘Halting Places’ ask students to draw?
It asks students to observe and draw a scene where moving vehicles stop — such as a railway station, bus depot, boat jetty, or traffic junction — capturing both the vehicles and the people around them.