The NCERT Class 4 Bansuri book is the official arts textbook for Class 4 — 18 chapters across 180 printed pages, covering visual art, theatre, music and dance. It is an NCERT textbook, published by NCERT, and the official chapter-wise PDFs are on this page, linked straight from ncert.nic.in.
What this page adds is a map drawn from the book itself — chapter lengths, which chapters carry activities, where the music and dance blocks begin, and which chapter to open for a particular topic. Everything below is measured from the official PDFs, not copied from a contents list.
Download the official NCERT Class 4 Bansuri Book PDF
Every file in the table below is NCERT’s own and free to download, hosted on the official ncert.nic.in domain — Chapter 1, Panchatantra, is the first of those files, and the remaining seventeen follow it in the same order as the printed book.
| Ch. | Chapter | Pages | Official PDF |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Panchatantra | 17 | |
| 2 | Textures in Nature | 8 | |
| 3 | Aqua World | 11 | |
| 4 | People in Action | 12 | |
| 5 | Theatre Assessment | 12 | |
| 6 | Imagine | 12 | |
| 7 | Let's Create | 9 | |
| 8 | Look Around | 9 | |
| 9 | Sing and Play | 9 | |
| 10 | Making Music | 8 | |
| 11 | Songs and Stories | 7 | |
| 12 | Think, Feel, Create | 12 | |
| 13 | Sounds and Instruments | 10 | |
| 14 | My Body in Dance | 13 | |
| 15 | My Dance Tells Stories | 7 | |
| 16 | Creating My Dance | 13 | |
| 17 | Emotion and Expression in Dance | 5 | |
| 18 | Dances Around Me | 6 |
The Bansuri book at a glance: 18 chapters, 180 pages
These numbers are rendered on this page, so a reader can count them:
- 18 chapters, opening with Panchatantra and closing with Dances Around Me
- 180 printed pages across the 18 official chapter PDFs
- 18 verified PDF links, all hosted on ncert.nic.in
- 0 numbered section headings — the chapters run on activities and short titled passages instead
- 13 activities across the book, from drawing tasks to instrument-making
- No end-of-chapter question bank — many chapters close with a printed ASSESSMENT block instead
- Chapter study pages: Not yet built — the status block lower on this page shows where each chapter stands
What’s inside each chapter of the Bansuri book
| Ch. | Chapter | Sections | Activities | Figures | Questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Panchatantra | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Textures in Nature | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Aqua World | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | People in Action | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Theatre Assessment | — | 1 | — | — |
| 6 | Imagine | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Let's Create | — | 1 | — | — |
| 8 | Look Around | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Sing and Play | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Making Music | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Songs and Stories | — | 1 | — | — |
| 12 | Think, Feel, Create | — | 2 | — | — |
| 13 | Sounds and Instruments | — | 3 | — | — |
| 14 | My Body in Dance | — | 1 | — | — |
| 15 | My Dance Tells Stories | — | 2 | — | — |
| 16 | Creating My Dance | — | 2 | — | — |
| 17 | Emotion and Expression in Dance | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Dances Around Me | — | — | — | — |
The directory counts four kinds of things. A section is one of NCERT’s own numbered headings; this book prints none, so every row reads 0. An activity is a hands-on task set for the child, adding up to 13 across the book.
A figure is a numbered diagram with a printed caption — this book’s illustrations print without captions, so no figure index appears on this page. A question is an end-of-chapter exercise, and the book prints none, which is why that column stays empty.
Chapter 1: Panchatantra
It frames the whole book: the Panchatantra tale The Hare and the Lion opens the volume and sets out the competencies and learning outcomes for the preparatory stage, then the chapter turns to visual arts with four drawing activities built around arranging, completing and hiding objects — the entry chapter every Class 4 child starts from.
Chapter 2: Textures in Nature
The subject is texture (NCERT, pp. 18-25): a child imagines and sketches a wish-fulfilling tree, learns frottage by rubbing a surface, builds a trunk-and-branches collage and tries leaf printing — natural materials turned into art, ideal for a child who collects leaves and textured things outdoors.
Chapter 3: Aqua World
Water is the subject: a child draws droplets, ripples and waves, studies shells and scales, captures reflections in water, draws underwater professionals and designs kolam floor patterns, ending with the chapter’s printed assessment — a calm starter for a child who draws slowly and carefully.
Chapter 4: People in Action
People in motion: a child keeps a visual journal, draws body movements mid-action, makes toy people and builds a spinning paper doll on a stick — the first chapter to work in three dimensions, good for children who prefer making things to drawing from memory.
Chapter 5: Theatre Assessment
Theatre starts here, framed as a stage scene: children build individual focus through the ‘Ram says’ listening game, then move into wild walks and animal antics and finish with a Panchatantra exercise — a first theatre session needs a group, so it suits a teacher or a family with siblings.
Chapter 6: Imagine
A deliberate recall chapter (NCERT, pp. 61-72): it returns to the Grade 3 Panchatantra exercise and earlier theatre games so children strengthen imagination by reworking material they already know — best after Grade 3 theatre games.
Chapter 7: Let’s Create
Children create their own theatre here (NCERT, pp. 73-81): a mirror exercise leads into role play with an interactive challenge and a switch challenge that changes a scene partway through — for children ready to improvise in front of others.
Chapter 8: Look Around
The window onto folk performance (NCERT, pp. 82-90): children meet the tiger dance Huli Vesha or Pili Vesha and the animal-mask dance Pasu Nritya or Pashu Mukha, with a theatre-trivia pause on art in the Olympics — for children curious about regional performance.
Chapter 9: Sing and Play
The music strand opens with a letter to the music teacher, then works on voices: vocal warmups such as humming, whistling and lip trills, sargam patterns, a pitch-matching game and the song Aadona Banni — the gentlest entry into music for a new singer.
Chapter 10: Making Music
Two classical schools sit side by side (NCERT, pp. 100-107): Carnatic music with Vande Meenakshi, Sri Gana Natha and the tala, and Hindustani music with Raga Bhupali, Teen Taal and the bandish Naman Kar Chatur — for children who can already hold a tune.
Chapter 11: Songs and Stories
Songs carry stories and occasions: children identify musical genres, hear a Punjabi Baisakhi folk song and the lullaby Ennamma Thozhi, then sing patriotic songs and unity songs including Vande Mataram — for children who connect occasions to song.
Chapter 12: Think, Feel, Create
Listening is the skill: an aural forest and the Four Friends game build active listening, then a child hears a performance, works through a questionnaire and moves from understanding music to interpreting it — for children who fidget through concerts, this is how listening is learned.
Chapter 13: Sounds and Instruments
Sound becomes object in the book’s most activity-heavy chapter, with three activities in all (NCERT, pp. 127-136): children play If You’re Happy and You Know It, classify instruments into families and make their own instrument from listed everyday materials — read this before buying any instrument; the book makes one first.
Chapter 14: My Body in Dance
Dance begins from the body: a child dances to a festival song, notices how everyday movements and rhythm and beats feed dance, then practises head, neck and eye movements and animal movements — for children shy about moving in front of others.
Chapter 15: My Dance Tells Stories
Movement starts telling tales (NCERT, pp. 150-156): animal and bird games such as Guess My Secret Animal lead into the story of the Hunter and the Birds, and children try bird-flight formations together — for children already comfortable moving like animals.
Chapter 16: Creating My Dance
Children compose their own dance here (NCERT, pp. 157-169): rhythmic steps and circular movements build into three levels of difficulty, and a props dance adds paper tubes the child makes — the culmination of the dance block, best attempted after chapters 14 and 15.
Chapter 17: Emotion and Expression in Dance
The shortest chapter in the book at five pages (NCERT, pp. 170-174) puts feeling into movement: children try expressing named emotions and animal emotions through their bodies — for the dancer who moves correctly but without feeling.
Chapter 18: Dances Around Me
The book ends by joining the wider world: a child connects dance to nature and learns a regional dance before the closing summative assessment — a finish that ties the year’s movement work to the child’s own place.
How the 18 chapters group into four art blocks
The chapter numbers are not random — they follow four art blocks, each built on the one before it:
| Art block | Chapters | What the chapters ask children to do | Materials to have ready |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual arts | 1-4 | Draw, arrange objects, rub textures, collage, print leaves, make a paper doll | Paper, pencil, colours, leaves, a stick |
| Theatre | 5-8 | Focus games, mirror exercises, role play, folk performance forms | A group of children, no props |
| Music | 9-13 | Vocal warmups, Carnatic and Hindustani songs, songs for occasions, active listening, instrument making | A voice first; everyday objects for Chapter 13 |
| Dance | 14-18 | Move to rhythm, tell stories with the body, create and express, learn a regional dance | Open space; paper tubes for Chapter 16 |
Within dance, the five chapters progress from body control in chapter 14, through storytelling in chapter 15 and creating a dance in chapter 16, to emotion in chapter 17 — the shortest chapter at five pages — before chapter 18 turns outward to the child’s own region.
The book is not arranged in exam order: it moves from two-dimensional drawing to three-dimensional making, then outward from the child’s own body through music and the wider world.
Chapter study pages for the Bansuri book
Study pages that explain individual chapters are being built one chapter at a time; the block below shows where each of the 18 stands.
| Ch. | Chapter page |
|---|---|
| 1 | Panchatantra |
| 2 | Textures in Nature |
| 3 | Aqua World |
| 4 | People in Action |
| 5 | Theatre Assessment |
| 6 | Imagine |
| 7 | Let's Create |
| 8 | Look Around |
| 9 | Sing and Play |
| 10 | Making Music |
| 11 | Songs and Stories |
| 12 | Think, Feel, Create |
| 13 | Sounds and Instruments |
| 14 | My Body in Dance |
| 15 | My Dance Tells Stories |
| 16 | Creating My Dance |
| 17 | Emotion and Expression in Dance |
| 18 | Dances Around Me |
The best order to work through the Bansuri book
This order follows the book’s own logic — each block assumes the one before it:
- Visual arts block, chapters 1-4 — needs only paper, pencil, colours and leaves, and it builds the observation habit the later blocks draw on.
- Music block, chapters 9-13 — singing needs no instrument, and chapter 13 makes one from household materials.
- Theatre block, chapters 5-8 — needs two or more children and no props, so it suits a classroom or a family.
- Dance block, chapters 14-18 — last, because it draws on the music of chapters 9-13 and the body games of chapters 5-8.
Three practical rules once the order is set:
- Treating the book as a reading book is the common mistake — work one activity per session rather than one chapter, because the book teaches by doing.
- Use a chapter’s printed ASSESSMENT block as the checkpoint before moving on.
- With little time, chapters 9, 13 and 17 give the quickest wins: a new singer, a homemade instrument, and emotion in movement.
One caution: textbook contents and the examinable syllabus are not always identical — check the current official syllabus for what is assessable. For the rest of the class’s books, the Class 4 hub collects them in one place.
Related NCERT book pages
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Sources and data verification
This listing is maintained for the 2026-27 academic session using the NCERT textbook information available to us. NCERT remains the authority for confirming the latest edition.
About the book. Bansuri is the NCERT Arts textbook for Class 4, published as 18 separate chapter PDFs on ncert.nic.in — Chapter 1 is debu101.pdf, Chapter 2 is debu102.pdf, and so on through Chapter 18, debu118.pdf.
What this page covers, and what it does not. Chapters, verified page spans, activities and printed assessment blocks are indexed. There is no figure index because this book’s illustrations print without captions, and no exercise-question count because the book prints none.
The book has 18 chapters.
Academic session. This listing is maintained for the current academic session, using the NCERT textbook editions currently available on ncert.nic.in.
Who settles what. NCERT settles textbooks, editions and PDFs. CBSE settles curriculum, syllabus and examinations — so for questions about a textbook edition, NCERT is the authority to check.
Reference: NCERT Class 4 Arts (Bansuri) textbook, official edition on ncert.nic.in. Section titles quoted from the textbook; page references are to the official PDF.
Frequently asked questions about the Bansuri book
How many chapters does the Class 4 Bansuri arts book have?
18 chapters across 180 printed pages, opening with Panchatantra and closing with Dances Around Me. They group into four art blocks: visual arts, theatre, music and dance.
Is the Bansuri book PDF official and free?
Yes — the links in the download table go straight to NCERT’s own files on ncert.nic.in, and the files are free to download.
Which chapters of the Bansuri book cover music?
Chapters 9 to 13: vocal warmups, Carnatic and Hindustani songs, songs for occasions, active listening, and instrument making. Chapter 13, Sounds and Instruments, is where a child builds an instrument from everyday materials.
Which chapter teaches the tiger dance and animal masks?
Chapter 8, Look Around — the tiger dance Huli Vesha or Pili Vesha and the animal-mask dance Pasu Nritya or Pashu Mukha appear there. The chapter also pauses on theatre trivia about art in the Olympics.
Does the Bansuri book have end-of-chapter exercises?
No. The book sets hands-on activities instead of an end-of-chapter question bank, and many chapters close with a printed ASSESSMENT block — so there are no exercise solutions to look up.