🎯 Learning outcomes
- Make craft items using paper cutting, quilling, origami, clay modelling and weaving
- Plan, measure and decorate craft work
- Learn about traditional crafts like pottery, toy-making and bamboo work
Before you start: Simple paper and clay craft.
📖 Explanation
Origami folds paper into shapes without cutting; quilling rolls paper strips into coils to make designs; paper weaving makes mats from strips.
Clay modelling uses pinch, coil and slab methods to make pots and figures; air-dry clay can be painted. Planning means drawing a sketch, choosing materials and measuring.
India has famous toy and craft traditions: Channapatna wooden toys (Karnataka), Kondapalli toys (Andhra Pradesh), bamboo crafts of the north-east, and terracotta of West Bengal.
Channapatna toys are made from wood and coloured with natural dyes, and are known as 'toy town' crafts of Karnataka.
✗ Traditional crafts are disappearing and have no future
✓ Many crafts are thriving with GI tags, online markets and new designs.
🧪 Try this activity
Make a pinch pot from clay and decorate it with a simple pattern from your region.
✍️ Question bank with answers
Tap an option to check multiple-choice answers. Open “Answer” or “Marking points” for the others.
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Channapatna is famous for
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A. wooden toys
Channapatna toys are lacquered wooden toys.
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Rolling paper strips into coils is
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D. quilling
Quilling uses coiled strips.
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A pot made from clay ropes uses the
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B. coil method
Coils are stacked and smoothed.
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Name one craft from your state.
Answer
any correct craft
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What is origami?
Answer
the art of folding paper into shapes
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Write the steps to make a pinch pot.
Marking points
- Roll a clay ball
- Press thumb in the middle and pinch the walls evenly
- Smooth and dry
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Plan a craft gift for a family member: sketch, materials, steps and decoration.
Marking points
- Sketch
- Materials listed
- Steps in order
- Decoration idea
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Your quilled flower keeps unrolling. How can you fix it?
Answer
- Glue the end of each coil
- Press gently until dry
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Draw a map marking three craft traditions of India.
Answer
Three crafts placed in correct states
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