The NCERT Class 6 Kriti I book — the official arts textbook for Class 6 — holds 22 chapters across 172 printed pages, and every chapter’s official PDF from ncert.nic.in is in the table below.
What this page adds beyond the PDF is a map of the book: where each chapter starts and ends, and what each one actually teaches, measured from the textbook itself.
Kriti I is a task-based activity book, with no end-of-chapter exercises to search for answers to, so knowing which chapter does what is the practical guide. This page is maintained for the current academic session, and every other Class 6 title we index sits on the Class 6 hub.
Download the official NCERT Class 6 Kriti I book PDF
| Ch. | Chapter | Pages | Official PDF |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Objects and Still Life | 9 | |
| 2 | Changing the Typical Picture | 10 | |
| 3 | Portraying People | 5 | |
| 4 | Paper Crafts | 4 | |
| 5 | Seals to Prints | 5 | |
| 6 | Music and Your Emotions | 13 | |
| 7 | Musical Instruments | 6 | |
| 8 | Taal or Talam and Raga or Ragam in Indian Music | 8 | |
| 9 | Melodies of Diversity | 9 | |
| 10 | Songwriting | 4 | |
| 11 | Music and Society | 3 | |
| 12 | My Body in Motion | 14 | |
| 13 | Breaking Barriers with Dance | 6 | |
| 14 | Harmony in Motion | 7 | |
| 15 | Dances of Our Land | 8 | |
| 16 | Emotions Unveiled! | 15 | |
| 17 | Let's Design | 14 | |
| 18 | In the Company of Theatre | 4 | |
| 19 | Stories of Shadows and Strings—puppetry | 9 | |
| 20 | The Grand Finale | 3 | |
| 21 | Integration of All Art Forms | 4 | |
| 22 | Assessment | 12 |
The files above are NCERT’s own PDFs, hosted on ncert.nic.in — each chapter is a separate official file, named fekr101.pdf to fekr122.pdf, so you can download only the chapter you need tonight.
If you want to check the format first, the official PDF of Chapter 1 (Objects and Still Life) is the quickest way to see how every chapter is laid out.
The book, measured (publishable figures only)
Three numbers describe the whole volume, and each one is rendered on this page so you can check it against the PDFs:
- 22 chapters — chapter 1 opens on p. 1 and chapter 22 closes on p. 172.
- 172 printed pages across the official chapter PDFs.
- 0 named syllabus sections — NCERT prints no numbered section headings in this book, so the directory records none.
- Longest and shortest chapters: Emotions Unveiled! runs 15 pages (pp. 112–126), My Body in Motion and Let’s Design 14 each, and Music and Your Emotions 13; the shortest are Music and Society and The Grand Finale at 3 pages each.
One structure NCERT does not print: the 22 chapters fall into five art-form groups. This grouping is ours, derived from the chapter titles.
| Art-form group | Chapters | Pages | What the group teaches |
|---|---|---|---|
| Visual arts | 1–5 | 1–33 | Observation, drawing everyday objects, natural colours, portraits, paper craft, seals and printmaking. |
| Music | 6–11 | 34–76 | Emotion in music, instruments, taal/talam and raga, regional folk songs, songwriting, music in society. |
| Dance | 12–15 | 77–111 | Body movement, abhinaya and hand gestures, dance that breaks barriers, group dance (natya), regional dances such as Garba. |
| Theatre | 16–20 | 112–156 | One production arc: emotions, stage design, professional theatre, puppetry, then the staged finale. |
| Integration and Assessment | 21–22 | 157–172 | Combining visual art, music, dance and theatre in one performance; formative and summative assessment. |
What’s inside each chapter of the Kriti I book
| Ch. | Chapter | Sections | Activities | Figures | Questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Objects and Still Life | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Changing the Typical Picture | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Portraying People | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | Paper Crafts | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Seals to Prints | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Music and Your Emotions | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | Musical Instruments | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Taal or Talam and Raga or Ragam in Indian Music | — | — | — | — |
| 9 | Melodies of Diversity | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Songwriting | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Music and Society | — | — | — | — |
| 12 | My Body in Motion | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | Breaking Barriers with Dance | — | — | — | — |
| 14 | Harmony in Motion | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Dances of Our Land | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Emotions Unveiled! | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | Let's Design | — | 1 | — | — |
| 18 | In the Company of Theatre | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | Stories of Shadows and Strings—puppetry | — | 1 | — | — |
| 20 | The Grand Finale | — | — | — | — |
| 21 | Integration of All Art Forms | — | 1 | — | — |
| 22 | Assessment | — | — | — | — |
The directory above is generated from a page-by-page read of the book. A ‘section’ means one of NCERT’s own numbered headings — this book records none — an ‘activity’ is a detected structured activity, and a ‘question’ is an end-of-chapter exercise, of which none are recorded.
Figures have no index here because the book’s diagrams print without captions; for the artwork itself, open the chapter PDF. Since every chapter shows 0 sections and 0 questions, revising from Kriti I means doing the tasks rather than answering question banks.
Where a named interest lives: Indian classical music fundamentals sit in Chapter 8 (pp. 53–60), regional folk songs in Chapter 9, regional dances in Chapter 15, stage design in Chapter 17, puppetry in Chapter 19, and assessment methods in Chapter 22.
Chapter 1: Objects and Still Life (pp. 1–9)
The opening chapter launches the visual arts leg of the book: students explore everyday objects from their surroundings and draw them as still life, while the opening note tells the teacher to gather the classroom resources first.
Chapter 2: Changing the Typical Picture (pp. 10–19)
After a nature walk, students make their own natural colours from leaves and soil, practise with them, and map tints and shades in the Nature’s Palette extension.
Chapter 3: Portraying People (pp. 20–24)
In one of the book’s shorter chapters, students draw portraits of people from observation, then sit together to discuss what the drawings show.
Chapter 4: Paper Crafts (pp. 25–28)
The simplest craft lesson in the book: paper folding, where a single sheet becomes three-dimensional forms entirely by hand.
Chapter 5: Seals to Prints (pp. 29–33)
Students first examine existing seals, then work through four steps — test found objects, design a seal, make it, test it — to finish with their own printmaking.
Chapter 6: Music and Your Emotions (pp. 34–46)
The longest music chapter: students listen to songs and notice how music carries emotion, moving through three scenes into pitch, dynamics and the swara song.
Chapter 7: Musical Instruments (pp. 47–52)
Students listen for the role of instruments within a musical piece, then step into the range of musical instruments that music uses.
Chapter 8: Taal or Talam and Raga or Ragam in Indian Music (pp. 53–60)
The fundamentals of Indian classical music: Hindustani taal forms such as Keharva, Teen and Dadra, Carnatic talam, then raga, the notation scheme and jaatis, closing with the Raga Bhoop task — the chapter that answers ‘what is a raga?’.
Chapter 9: Melodies of Diversity (pp. 61–69)
A songbook tour of India: students learn folk songs from Manipur, Kerala (Kuttanadan Punchayile), Gujarat (Taari Baanki Re), Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, and round off with O Jind Mahe Bajare — regional music you learn by singing.
Chapter 10: Songwriting (pp. 70–73)
With the Solar System Song as a model of verse and chorus, students use descriptive writing and rhyme to write a song of their own.
Chapter 11: Music and Society (pp. 74–76)
The book’s shortest chapter: listening to Uthishtha Jaagrata and responding to it, to see how music and society connect — music as something that unites people.
Chapter 12: My Body in Motion (pp. 77–90)
The longest dance chapter: students learn routine body movement, map dance forms to their places of origin, and practise abhinaya plus single-hand and joint hastamudras.
Chapter 13: Breaking Barriers with Dance (pp. 91–96)
Dance that breaks barriers: the Bhakti movement, Gotipua, the Ardhanareeshwara dance and Yakshagana, with a look at how dance shapes fit a tala.
Chapter 14: Harmony in Motion (pp. 97–103)
A group chapter: students perform a traditional dance together and see how dance drama (natya) depends on collaboration among performers.
Chapter 15: Dances of Our Land (pp. 104–111)
One regional dance studied deeply — Garba, through its introduction, characteristics, accompaniments and costumes — then a comparison chart of other Indian regional dance forms.
Chapter 16: Emotions Unveiled! (pp. 112–126)
The longest chapter in the book: theatre for the middle stage begins from emotions, with teacher guidance on keeping theatre creative, positive and collaborative.
Chapter 17: Let’s Design (pp. 127–140)
Students learn the proscenium and the parts of the stage, design costume and sets, then write the script in the ‘Write, Right’ scene — fourteen pages of stage design.
Chapter 18: In the Company of Theatre (pp. 141–144)
A four-page window into professional theatre in India: popular theatre companies, shows and stories, and the present situation of the stage.
Chapter 19: Stories of Shadows and Strings—puppetry (pp. 145–153)
Students build sock puppets, glove, stick puppets and shadow puppets — and meet the Indian hand-puppet and shadow traditions behind them.
Chapter 20: The Grand Finale (pp. 154–156)
The class stages its production: script, make-up and costume, stage design, or the option to switch the whole show to puppetry — three pages, one of the book’s two shortest chapters.
Chapter 21: Integration of All Art Forms (pp. 157–160)
A story example shows how visual art, music, dance and theatre combine in one performance — integrated art — followed by individual and group teamwork tasks.
Chapter 22: Assessment (pp. 161–172)
The closing chapter sets out the book’s methods of assessment, separating formative assessment from summative assessment — the pages teachers and parents need to judge the work.
Which chapters have a dedicated study page
Some chapters of Kriti I already have an in-depth page on this site; the list below shows which ones and the state each page is in.
| Ch. | Chapter page |
|---|---|
| 1 | Objects and Still Life |
| 2 | Changing the Typical Picture |
| 3 | Portraying People |
| 4 | Paper Crafts |
| 5 | Seals to Prints |
| 6 | Music and Your Emotions |
| 7 | Musical Instruments |
| 8 | Taal or Talam and Raga or Ragam in Indian Music |
| 9 | Melodies of Diversity |
| 10 | Songwriting |
| 11 | Music and Society |
| 12 | My Body in Motion (coming soon) |
| 13 | Breaking Barriers with Dance (coming soon) |
| 14 | Harmony in Motion |
| 15 | Dances of Our Land |
| 16 | Emotions Unveiled! |
| 17 | Let's Design |
| 18 | In the Company of Theatre |
| 19 | Stories of Shadows and Strings—puppetry |
| 20 | The Grand Finale |
| 21 | Integration of All Art Forms |
| 22 | Assessment |
How to use the Kriti I book
This is an activity book, so the order below follows the art forms, not the page numbers:
- Download only the chapter you need — each chapter is its own official PDF (fekr101.pdf to fekr122.pdf), so there is no need to pull the whole book tonight.
- If an adult is helping at home, read the Note to the Teachers blocks first — chapters 1, 6, 7, 9 and 12 each print one, and they state what materials the classroom needs before the tasks start.
- Work in the art-form order: visual arts (1–5) first, because observation and hand skills feed the theatre chapters later; music (6–11) is independent of the rest; dance (12–15) needs open space; theatre (16–20) is genuinely cumulative and ends in the staged finale of Chapter 20.
- Use Chapter 22’s formative and summative assessment methods to judge whether the work is done.
Chapters 21 and 22 are the wrap-up: integration of all art forms, then assessment. One caveat: textbook contents and the examinable syllabus are not always identical — check the current official syllabus before planning an exam-year project.
Related resources
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.
Kriti I sits inside the wider NCERT shelf: browse the full NCERT books directory, or jump straight to the Class 6 hub for every Class 6 title we index.
Sources and data verification
- The figures shown on this page are from the official NCERT Class 6 Kriti I (Arts) textbook.
- This page covers 22 chapters and 172 printed pages. It carries no numbered figure index because the book’s diagrams print without captions, and it records no end-of-chapter exercise questions.
- The listing is maintained for the current academic session using the NCERT information available to us.
- NCERT settles textbooks, editions and PDFs; CBSE settles curriculum, syllabus and examinations.
Reference: NCERT Class 6 Kriti I textbook, official edition on ncert.nic.in. Figure captions and section titles quoted from the textbook; page references are to the official PDF.
Questions students ask about the Kriti I book
How many chapters are in the NCERT Class 6 Kriti I book?
22 chapters across 172 printed pages. Chapter 1 (Objects and Still Life) starts on p. 1, and chapter 22 (Assessment) runs from pp. 161–172.
Is the Class 6 Kriti I book PDF free and official?
Yes — the files are NCERT’s own, hosted on ncert.nic.in, one official PDF per chapter (fekr101.pdf to fekr122.pdf). You can download just the chapter you need.
Which chapter covers taal and raga in Indian music?
Chapter 8, Taal or Talam and Raga or Ragam in Indian Music (pp. 53–60). It covers Hindustani taals such as Keharva, Teen and Dadra, then Carnatic talam, raga, the notation scheme and jaatis.
Where can I find answers for the Kriti I book?
There is no separate answer key because this book records no end-of-chapter exercises. The chapters are task-based, the teachers’ notes sit inside the chapters, and chapter 22 explains how the work is assessed.
Which chapters cover dance and theatre in the Kriti I book?
Dance is chapters 12–15, from My Body in Motion to Dances of Our Land, and theatre is chapters 16–20, ending in The Grand Finale. Chapters 21 and 22 then integrate the art forms and explain assessment.