The NCERT Class 7 Kriti book is the official arts textbook for Class 7 — 20 chapters across 208 pages covering theatre, music, dance and visual arts. NCERT publishes it as separate chapter PDFs, and every one of those files is linked in the table below.
Beyond the files, this page does what the PDF alone does not: it reports what each chapter actually contains — the activities, the end-of-chapter questions and the recurring teaching labels — measured from the textbook itself.
The chapter directory further down is built from the book’s own content, so a student can decide which chapters to read, which to practise and which to skim.
NCERT Class 7 Kriti Book PDF — Official Chapter Links
All twenty files in the table below are NCERT’s own PDFs, hosted on the official NCERT textbook portal at ncert.nic.in — one file per chapter, free to open, each with its printed page count.
| Ch. | Chapter | Pages | Official PDF |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theatre | 19 | |
| 2 | Say More without Speech — Mime | 10 | |
| 3 | Let's Design — Stage Technicals 2 | 16 | |
| 4 | Story of India's | 10 | |
| 5 | Music | 10 | |
| 6 | Music, Emotions | 7 | |
| 7 | Ragas and Talas/taal | 13 | |
| 8 | The Music of the People | 12 | |
| 9 | Performance | 8 | |
| 10 | Dance and Movement | 13 | |
| 11 | Dance Vocabulary and Techniques | 14 | |
| 12 | Dance, You | 7 | |
| 13 | Personalities | 3 | |
| 14 | Natya | 9 | |
| 15 | Visual Arts | 14 | |
| 16 | Nature's Palette | 10 | |
| 17 | How You Feel | 10 | |
| 18 | Textiles and Traditions | 8 | |
| 19 | The Art of | 10 | |
| 20 | Integration of All Art Forms | 5 |
The Book, Measured: Kriti in Numbers
These counts come from the NCERT textbook itself, not from the CBSE arts syllabus — the two are different documents.
- 20 chapters — the full Class 7 Kriti textbook, published as 20 official PDFs.
- 208 printed pages across those 20 files.
- 0 numbered section headings — the book works through activity and assessment labels, not theory sections.
- 14 activities indexed from the text.
- 5 end-of-chapter questions, in chapters 7 and 17 only.
- 0 of 20 chapters have a study page yet — all sit at “Not yet built” in the directory below.
The figures and tables inside the book are deliberately not counted on this page: its diagrams print without captions, so there is no verified figure index to inspect.
Chapter by Chapter: What the Kriti Book Teaches
| Ch. | Chapter | Sections | Activities | Figures | Questions |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Theatre | — | — | — | — |
| 2 | Say More without Speech — Mime | — | — | — | — |
| 3 | Let's Design — Stage Technicals 2 | — | 3 | — | — |
| 4 | Story of India's | — | — | — | — |
| 5 | Music | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Music, Emotions | — | 1 | — | — |
| 7 | Ragas and Talas/taal | — | — | — | 3 |
| 8 | The Music of the People | — | 5 | — | — |
| 9 | Performance | — | — | — | — |
| 10 | Dance and Movement | — | — | — | — |
| 11 | Dance Vocabulary and Techniques | — | 3 | — | — |
| 12 | Dance, You | — | 1 | — | — |
| 13 | Personalities | — | 1 | — | — |
| 14 | Natya | — | — | — | — |
| 15 | Visual Arts | — | — | — | — |
| 16 | Nature's Palette | — | — | — | — |
| 17 | How You Feel | — | — | — | 2 |
| 18 | Textiles and Traditions | — | — | — | — |
| 19 | The Art of | — | — | — | — |
| 20 | Integration of All Art Forms | — | — | — | — |
The directory is built from the book’s own content, not guessed from titles. What the columns count: a “section” is one of NCERT’s numbered headings — and this book prints none, so every row reads 0. Instead, the recurring labels are teaching tools such as You Will Learn, Circle Time and Summative Assessment.
A “figure” is a numbered figure indexed from the book; none are listed here because this textbook’s diagrams print without captions. A “question” is an end-of-chapter exercise, and only five exist — in chapters 7 and 17.
Here is what each of the 20 chapters teaches, in one line each:
Chapter 1: Theatre
Theatre opens the book with performance built on understanding emotions — specifically the rasa of Roudra (anger) — and on working at different levels of the performance space, making it the right entry point for a student with no prior theatre experience.
Chapter 2: Say More without Speech — Mime
Mime removes speech and builds wordless performance on three pillars — imagination, exaggeration and costume and make up — and frames mime as a universal language for equality, a good fit for a shy or non-verbal performer who wants to act without dialogue.
Chapter 3: Let’s Design — Stage Technicals 2
Let’s Design covers the production side of theatre — set and properties, costume and make up, music and lighting — plus the discipline of planning, teamwork and time management that runs a show; with three hands-on activities it suits students who would rather build and manage a production than act in one.
Chapter 4: Story of India’s
This storytelling chapter (the official PDF prints the title truncated) introduces India’s living storytelling traditions — Harikathe, Kaavad Katha and Phad paintings — and ends with the student becoming a storyteller, for anyone who enjoys narrative and oral performance.
Chapter 5: Music
Music lays the foundations — common musical terms, the aadhara shruti (aadhar swar), the elements of voice, instruments, pitch and tempo, and harmony and canon as a form of teamwork — for a beginner with no formal music vocabulary.
Chapter 6: Music, Emotions
Music, Emotions shows music carrying feeling through devotional music and an Urdu song, with creativity and storytelling as the bridge and one guided activity (6.1), for a student who wants to feel why a song moves an audience rather than just sing it.
Chapter 7: Ragas and Talas/taal
Ragas and Talas/taal is the book’s theory chapter — Carnatic music with its talas (Dhruva, Matya, Rupaka) and Hindustani music with the samay chakra time theory and Raga Bhairavi — and with 3 end questions in 23 parts it is the only chapter that doubles as a written self-test.
Chapter 8: The Music of the People
The Music of the People centres folk songs and community — the Assamese Bihu song, a bhajan, women in music who broke stereotypes, and music as social reform — and with five activities, the most in the book, it is the one chapter to schedule extra class time for.
Chapter 9: Performance
Performance explains how a show actually gets made, in two parts — Plan (visualising the performance) and Prepare — using the welcome song Swagatham Shubha Swagatham and an Odia song as material, for a student given a stage date and no idea how to start rehearsals.
Chapter 10: Dance and Movement
Dance and Movement treats the dancing body as the instrument — geometrical shapes, upper-torso postures, arm angles, knee bends and hand gestures, with the dancing body in sculptures as reference — for a student with no dance training who needs body awareness before formal vocabulary.
Chapter 11: Dance Vocabulary and Techniques
Dance Vocabulary and Techniques introduces the formal framework — nritta, nritya and natya — with hasta (hand gestures) used in scripted conversations, step combinations, and jumps and pirouettes (spins), for a student who has done Chapter 10 and is ready for named technique.
Chapter 12: Dance, You
Dance, You makes hip movements (twisting, side to side, back and front) part of dance vocabulary, then follows how dance traditions transform — Bhagavata Mela Natakam, Ankiya Bhaona from Assam, and Rabindranath Tagore‘s role — for a student curious about how a classical form stays alive while changing.
Chapter 13: Personalities
Personalities profiles two masters — Shambhu Maharaj and Kedar Nath Sahu — in the book’s shortest chapter (3 pages): a quick read for a student preparing a short write-up on an artist, and a useful filler to pair with any chapter that ran long.
Chapter 14: Salutation
Salutation builds a salutation performance from four deliberate choices — movement, music, costumes and props — anchored in the meaning of the closing stanza, for a group planning an opening or closing item for a school event.
Chapter 15: Visual Arts
Visual Arts turns everyday objects into icons and symbols through a five-step progression — contour, silhouette, shading, icon and stencil — starting from the object’s outline, so it works even for a student who insists they cannot draw.
Chapter 16: Nature’s Palette
Nature’s Palette teaches colour by doing — build a colour wheel and extend it, then make tints, shades and tones of two chosen colours before a coloured plant study (with a look at colours in miniature paintings) and a pause for caring for art materials — for a student who owns paints but has never mixed them deliberately.
Chapter 17: Activity 17.1: Act and Guess
Activity 17.1: Act and Guess makes students act out expressions for others to guess and model faces in relief using clay, with a math in art link and a field-trip suggestion, so it works best as a whole-class group game — and its 2 end questions give it a quick written check.
Chapter 18: Textiles and Traditions
Textiles and Traditions reads Indian textiles through their motifs — dots and circles, the mango (paisley) — and the idea that fabrics thread stories, kept in a fabric journal and opened by inviting local artists, for a student interested in design and craft or with textiles at home they have never really looked at.
Chapter 19: The Art of
The Art of (the official PDF prints the title truncated) is the lettering chapter — looking at letters as visual forms, the art inside a name, and the way a poster carries information through type and layout — for a student making a poster, chart or title page who has never thought about why some lettering is readable and some is not.
Chapter 20: Integration of All Art Forms
The closing chapter combines all art forms in one performance built from stories in stone, through five named stages — preparation, story creation, incorporating art forms, rehearsal, and presentation and reflection — for a group asked to stage a complete integrated item.
Kriti Chapter Study Pages
Each chapter above is slated for its own study page, and the block below shows which are live today.
| Ch. | Chapter page |
|---|---|
| 1 | Theatre |
| 2 | Say More without Speech — Mime |
| 3 | Let's Design — Stage Technicals 2 |
| 4 | Story of India's |
| 5 | Music |
| 6 | Music, Emotions |
| 7 | Ragas and Talas/taal |
| 8 | The Music of the People |
| 9 | Performance |
| 10 | Dance and Movement |
| 11 | Dance Vocabulary and Techniques |
| 12 | Dance, You |
| 13 | Personalities |
| 14 | Natya |
| 15 | Visual Arts |
| 16 | Nature's Palette |
| 17 | How You Feel |
| 18 | Textiles and Traditions |
| 19 | The Art of |
| 20 | Integration of All Art Forms |
How to Read the Kriti Book: A Working Order
Kriti is an activity book rather than a theory reader — fourteen activities and five end-of-chapter questions across 208 pages — so the order in which you work through it matters more than in a text-heavy subject. The book prints no part labels of its own; the five-point order below is our editorial reading map.
- Follow the book’s own arc — theatre (chapters 1–4), music (5–9), dance (10–14), visual arts (15–19), then integration (20).
- Do the activities rather than reading for theory — 14 are indexed across the book, and the load is uneven: Chapter 8 carries five activities, the most of any chapter, six of the fourteen sit in the music chapters (5–9), and chapters 3 and 11 come next with three each.
- Use the only question chapters as self-tests — Chapter 7 (3 questions in 23 parts) and Chapter 17 (2 questions) are the only chapters you can check yourself against in writing.
- Read chapters 10 and 11 together — body work first, formal vocabulary second; Chapter 11’s nritta–nritya–natya terminology only makes sense after Chapter 10 has built body awareness.
- Treat Chapter 13 (3 pages) as a quick filler read — it can be finished in one sitting and pairs well with any chapter that ran long.
| Part | Chapters | What it teaches | End-of-chapter questions |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theatre | 1–4 | Acting, mime, stage design, storytelling | None |
| Music | 5–9 | Musical terms, shruti, raga–tala, folk song, performance planning | Chapter 7 only |
| Dance | 10–14 | Body shapes, nritta–nritya–natya, hip movement, masters, salutation | None |
| Visual arts | 15–19 | Icons, colour, clay relief, textiles, lettering | None |
| Integration | 20 | One combined art-form performance | None |
One caveat: textbook contents and the examinable syllabus are not always identical — check the current official CBSE syllabus.
Related NCERT Books for Class 7
This page covers one of the NCERT books on this page for Class 7.
- Class 7 NCERT books — the NCERT subjects on this page for Class 7.
- NCERT books by class — the root listing for every class the site covers.
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.
- Where the figures come from — the NCERT Class 7 Kriti (arts) textbook edition on this page, chapters gekr101 to gekr120 as published on ncert.nic.in.
- What this page covers — for each of the 20 chapters of the NCERT Class 7 Kriti textbook, its title, page count, activities, and end-of-chapter questions as printed in the book.
- What it does not cover — no figure index, because the book’s diagrams print without captions, and no table totals.
- A note on activity totals — the 14 reflect what the index extracted; several chapters embed prompts under names like Activity 15.1 that are not counted separately, and all 20 chapters are flagged for review.
- The academic session — this listing is maintained for the current academic session using the NCERT information available to us.
- Which authority settles what — NCERT settles textbooks, editions and PDFs; CBSE settles curriculum, syllabus and examinations. To confirm a textbook edition, check NCERT, not CBSE.
Reference: NCERT Class 7 Kriti textbook, official edition on ncert.nic.in. Section titles and internal labels quoted from the textbook.
Common Questions About the Kriti Book
How many chapters are in the NCERT Class 7 Kriti book?
Twenty. The Kriti textbook runs to 20 chapters across 208 printed pages, published as 20 separate official PDFs — every link is in the download table above.
Is the Class 7 Kriti PDF free and official?
Yes. NCERT publishes the Class 7 Kriti book free on ncert.nic.in, and every link in the download table above points to those official files. There is no charge and no registration.
Which Kriti chapter teaches ragas and talas?
Chapter 7, “Ragas and Talas/taal”. It covers Carnatic talas such as Dhruva, Matya and Rupaka, the Hindustani samay chakra (time theory) and Raga Bhairavi — and it is the only chapter with a substantial set of end questions (3 questions in 23 parts).
Which chapters of Kriti have exercise questions, and where do the solutions live?
Only two chapters close with questions: Chapter 7 (3 questions in 23 parts) and Chapter 17 (2 questions). They are open-ended self-tests rather than numerical problems, so NCERT provides no separate solved key; when the chapter study pages below are built, they will carry guidance for these questions.
Is the Kriti textbook the same as the CBSE Class 7 arts syllabus?
No. The Kriti textbook is an NCERT publication, while the syllabus is set by CBSE, and the two are not always identical. Check the current official CBSE syllabus to see what is examinable this session.