Grade 5Creative Arts

What your child actually learns this year

Every strand and every topic in the Grade 5 Creative Arts curriculum, exactly as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. Written so you can read it in one sitting, without a teaching qualification.

1Creating and ExecutingThe biggest strand: making things, and learning the skills to use them, from instruments to bats to ball skills.6 topics·202 questions

  • Wind Musical Instruments (Drawing)

    5 skills

    Indigenous Kenyan wind instruments, what each part does to the sound, making one, and drawing one by crayon etching.

  • Football

    4 skills

    Kicking, stopping and dribbling, and casting your own marking cones from papier mâché to play on a properly marked field.

  • Rhythm

    5 skills

    Minims, crotchets, quavers and their rests, composing in two-beat patterns, and writing the French rhythm names in calligraphy with a pen you made.

  • Painting and Mosaic

    4 skills

    Primary and secondary colours on the wheel, painting a scene by the wash technique, and building a mosaic.

  • Melody

    4 skills

    The sol-fa syllables d r m f s, by voice and by hand sign, and composing short melodies from them.

  • Rounders

    5 skills

    What a rounders bat is and how it is carved, then batting, fielding, and keeping everybody safe while doing it.

2Performing and DisplayingSeven topics that all end in front of somebody: a race, a dance, a puppet show, a tune, a swim.7 topics·165 questions

  • Athletics

    5 skills

    Improvising batons, plaiting rope, and the visual and non-visual baton changes that win or lose a relay.

  • Fabric Decoration

    4 skills

    The techniques, then decorating fabric by tie and dye and by applique.

  • Kenyan Folk Dance

    5 skills

    Where a dance comes from, what it is made of, what it is for in the community, and performing it with an ornament you made.

  • Puppetry

    3 skills

    A glove puppet, made from recyclable materials, and then a show with songs.

  • Descant Recorder

    4 skills

    The notes B A G C and D, playing a melody built on them, and a repeat pattern printed with a stencil.

  • Swimming

    4 skills

    The front crawl, described and then performed.

  • Indigenous Kenyan Games

    4 skills

    Kenyan counting games, played for skill and then played to a rhythm.

3Appreciation in Creative ArtsOne topic, and the one that makes the rest a subject rather than a set of activities: looking at work, including your own, and saying something useful about it.1 topic·33 questions

  • Analysis of Creative Arts Works

    5 skills

    Showing work in a school gallery for critique, discussing a Kenyan folk dance in the right words, the East African Community Anthem, and taking part in games and athletics.

Why you can take this page at face value

Straight from the KICD design

The strands and topics on this page are the Grade 5 Creative Arts curriculum as the Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development sets it out. We have not chosen them, reordered them or left any out.

Nothing here is a sample

Every topic below is covered in our question bank, not a selection of the easy ones. The numbers beside each strand are the real counts.

Marked by a machine, written by a person

Each question carries its full working and a note on why every wrong answer is wrong, so a child who misses one is told what they were thinking, not just that they were wrong.

See what your child can already do

Twenty questions, free, across any of these topics, with the complete weekly report that tells you which are solid and which are slipping. No card, nothing renews by itself.

Start free — 20 questions 🚀

400 Grade 5 Creative Arts questions in the bank, covering every topic on this page.