I'm an artist who is serving as a Ruhi tutor and have found one successful way to begin bringing the Arts into Book 1.  (This is especially effective when the participants groan and say "Oh no.  Not crafts!!" when I tell them we're doing something with the arts next time.)  This is also a good way to begin the skill of confidence in story telling.

We talk about the contemplation of "Beauty".  I ask them to bring in any object next time that they find beautiful and tell us why they feel it is.  It's also an interesting view of the diversity of subjective opinion in relation to the arts, and the beginning of understanding how the message of the Baha'i Faith must be geared to the needs of the seeker.  We do this exercise right at the beginning of class when we have just had Devotions (usually with music.) 

See?  It isn't hard to incorporate the ARTS!!