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NCERT Solutions for Class 4th English Chapter 5 Create a Thank You Card from the Old Stag — Let us Do

Book page 54 Updated on2026-09-19

Q1.
Create a Thank You Card from the Old Stag. Imagine you are the old stag, grateful to the friends who helped you while you were sick. Prepare a thank you card to show your appreciation.
Front of the Card: Draw a picture of the stag surrounded by his friends in the forest.
An idea for the front of the card THANK YOU
One idea for the front of your card: the old stag standing in the grass, the words THANK YOU, and a few forest friends peeping in from the sides. Draw it your own way.
Answer

This is a making activity. Here is how to plan the front of your card.

Steps to follow:

  1. Fold a sheet of paper in half. The outside is the front of your card.
  2. In the middle, draw the old stag. Give him branching antlers, a brown coat and long thin legs.
  3. Draw him standing on the green hillock, with fresh grass under his feet.
  4. All around him, draw the friends from the story — the deer, the elephant, the giraffe, a rabbit, a bear, a parrot.
  5. Write THANK YOU in big, bright letters at the top.
  6. Colour it well. Use green for the forest and brown for the stag.
Why the friends must be around him: The card is a thank you. The picture should show the very thing he is thankful for — that his friends came, stopped eating his grass and brought him fresh leaves.
Tip: Draw the stag a little bigger than the others and put him in the middle. In a picture, the most important person or animal goes in the centre.
Names you can use from the story: the deer who asked “Dear stag! How are you?”, the elephant who praised the tender grass, and the giraffe who had never eaten such juicy green leaves.
Q2.
Inside the Card: Write a kind thank you message to his friends, expressing how their help made him feel better. The card begins “Dear friends,” and ends “from: Stag”.
The blank thank-you card printed on page 54 Dear friends, from: Stag
The empty card the book prints on page 54. It already says “Dear friends,” at the top left and “from: Stag” at the bottom right. Your message goes on the ruled lines.
Answer

You are writing as the old stag. So use I and me, not he.

What a good message must have:

  1. The greeting that is already printed — Dear friends,
  2. A thank you in the very first line.
  3. What they did — they stopped eating the hillock grass and brought fresh leaves.
  4. How it helped — he got enough food again and grew strong.
  5. A warm closing line, and then from: Stag.
Model answer:
Dear friends,

Thank you all so much. When I was ill, I could not even come down the hillock to meet you. You came up to see me, and later you found food elsewhere in the forest so that my grass could grow back. Some of you even carried fresh leaves all the way up to me.

Because of your kindness I had enough to eat again, and slowly I got well. I felt happy and cared for every single day.

I am lucky to have friends like you.

With love,
from: Stag
Why we name what they did: A thank-you note that only says “thank you for everything” feels empty. When you name the exact thing — the fresh leaves, the choice to eat elsewhere — the reader knows you truly noticed.
Tip: Keep your sentences short and warm. Write in pencil first, check your spelling, and then go over it in pen or sketch pen so the card looks neat.
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