1. Understand the elements and principles of art.
2. Have knowledge of the principles of housing.
3. Acquire skills to do house planning on paper with special emphasis
on the activity areas like kitchen, living room, laundry, ironing area,
dining area etc.
4. Acquire skills of floor decoration (Rangoli) and flower arrangement
(Ikebana).
5. Have knowledge of care and maintenance of clothes and household
equipments.
6. Make some trendy paintings and lighting fixures.
7. Understand furniture and furnishing selection and planning.
8. Acquire skills of landscaping.
9. Inculcate skills of computer aided designing in higher classes (if
possible).
10. Have concept development about various styles of interiors.
11. Learn techniques to clean and polish articles made out of different
metals.
DETAILS OF ACTIVITIES (CLASS IX- XII )
Class IX
1. Survey and visits to explore household equipments, decorative
accessories, furniture and furnishings with their arrangement (only
pictures). Maintain a proper record.
2. Understand the Colour Wheel – Primary, Secondary, Tertiary
colours. Dimensions of colour – hue, value, intensity.
3. Preparing any one painting for Drawing room (which is in trend).
4. Understand the steps of laundry (only theory).
clothes.
5. Planning of study centre / dining area / hobby centre (dimensions of
furniture, arrangement of goods in the form of a rough paper plan).
6. Making artificial flowers using duplex or crepe paper, velvet or satin
cloth or any thing else.
7. Preparation of a glass painting work (on window pane, mirror /
crockery / bulbs etc).
8. Table setting and manners.
9 Cleaning and polishing of silverware.
10. Visit to a restaurant / any catering unit.
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Starching of cotton