Kriti is the textbook which will take you to the world of art, exploring and discovering the vast, and exciting universe of visual and performing arts, aiming to ignite creativity, enhance appreciation for different art forms, and develop the artistic skills of students. Designed for Grade VI, this book has a variety of artistic disciplines, included in visual arts, music, dance and theatre.

Kriti has four sections, which are represented by specific colours, throughout the book;
YELLOW for Visual Arts
BLUE for Music
PINK for Dance and Movements
PURPLE for Theatre
Each of the above sections is uniquely designed to create an enjoyable experience. The ‘Visual Arts’ section is designed to empower students in visualising and expressing their ideas, and emotions from everyday experiences and observations around them. The activities in this unit introduce them to fundamental skills of two-dimensional and three-dimensional techniques and explore different media and materials in the Visual Arts. Across all chapters, students are introduced to a range of materials, surfaces and techniques that have been used in last hundreds of years, whereas, there are plenty of occasions where they are left to explore and discover them on their own.

Structure of the Arts Class
It would be ideal if the classroom is free of any obstruction allowing the child to move around freely for dance, and theatre or sit down in the way they want to make a painting that they have imagined. This element of ‘freeness and openness’ in the physical environment subconsciously translates to ‘freeness and openness in thinking’. The art room should be well-equipped and visually enriching with informative display material. There will have to be a lot of interaction between the teacher and learner as well as among peers.
The Class Timetable
In order to keep a balanced progression of learning all the four art forms together through the academic year, five periods per week for arts may be allotted. They can either be separate periods of 40 minutes each or block periods of two 40 minutes periods combined.