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10 Best Extra Activities for Students at Home and School

Extra activities help the students to succeed in more than just their academic activities. They help them to strengthen their mind and learn better time management. Extra activities improve the student’s abilities to learn things practically than just by reading books. Hence, in the article below I am going to introduce 10 best extra activities for students at home and school to keep them on their toes and energetic.

10 Best Extra Activities for Students at Home and School
10 Best Extra Activities for Students at Home and School

10 Best Extra Activities for Students at Home and School

5 Best Extra Activities for Students at Home

1. Crafting

Crafting is one of the best activity for students. There are several types of crafting like knitting, paper crafting etc. Students can learn making crafts from Pinterest. Crafting has a number of benefits; relaxation, a sense of accomplishment, enhanced confidence as well as increased happiness. Moreover, it increases creativity in the students. According to the new pattern of education, Students are given projects which helps them in their professional lives, too. So, crafting improves your ability to make new things without any boundary and show your creativity.

2. Sketching and Painting

Sketching and painting are the favorite hobbies of students with artistic minds. not only refresh the mind but also enhances the creativity of the students. Students can learn these two arts just by practicing or if they want to be professional artist, then they can join any art academy or they can learn these arts by staying at home by online art academies. The more you practice the more you improve.

3. Gardening

Gardening is the practice of growing plants and cultivating. It is also one of the most interesting outdoor activities. It is very refreshing, popular and profitable. Gardening makes you able to grow your own fruits and vegetables at home. These vegetables and fruits are edible and their flowers can be used for ornamental purposes. It is not very expensive activity. So, students can do it easily by staying at home. Gardening is very beneficial to health. It reduces depression and anxiety and increases happiness according to the study published in preventive medicine reports.

10 Best Extra Activities for Students at Home and School

4. Blogging

Blogging is a popular and great hobby, especially in this modern era. It’s an amazing approach to set down difficulties and take some responsibility. You can easily share your ideas sand opinions about anything that you are interested in. All you need for blogging is writing skills, a PC or laptop and a fresh environment. It improves the writing skill, too. WordPress is one of the well-known alternative for blogging.

5. Learn a new Language

The best way to spend your time is by learning something. Learning a language is also one of the best activities to do in your spare time. Learning new languages helps you gain more knowledge by the articles, books or magazines written in that language. Studies prove that people who know more than one language have improved memory, problem-solving and critical thinking skills, ability to multi-task and better listening skills.

10 Best Extra Activities for Students at Home and School

5 Best Extra Curricular Activities For Students

Students get bored when they have to study the common subject books. For the refreshment of their mind, they want some interesting activities. Teachers and the school management should work on the extra curricular activities of the students to improve their skills.

1. Debate Competitions

Teachers always talk and the students listen. Teacher should give chance to the students to talk and share their knowledge regarding a particular topic. School management should arrange competitions like Debate competitions and give students a chance to show their skills. It improves the students’ skills as well as enhance their capabilities. Debates help the students to enhance their critical-thinking skills. They increase students’ confidence level, poise and self-esteem.

2. Sports Week

Sports week is the best activity to engage the students in the extra curricular activities like football, cricket, badminton, tennis and baseball etc. They help the students to keep in shape. School administration should arrange a sports week for the students at least once in two months to refresh their mind and body. If the students want to be more competitive, empathetic and responsible, they should participate in the sports week. Physically engaging curricular activities like sports week make the students physically more active and efficient. Sports actually teaches leadership to the students. They learn to take decisions on behalf of their whole team. Moreover, Sports bring people together and enhances unity in them.


3. Spelling Competition

Spelling competitions are very beneficial for the learning of the students. They can learn numerous words and can boost up their vocabulary power. Students have to spell the words. So, it enhances their confidence, self-esteem and spelling quality. The administration should arrange such programs apart from studies. So, the students can learn more with fun.

4. Art Competition

Art competitions are very interesting and refreshing for the students. They love to participate in such competitions. Furthermore, there are some students who have very artistic mind, they have that hidden talent in them. So, Art competitions are an excellent opportunity to develop the artistic career of the students. Students tend to learn more in a competitive environment.

5. Cooking Competition

Cooking competitions are rarely arranged in schools. They are very useful for students as they can learn new things to cook and improve their cooking. They are full of suspense and wonders of what might food taste like. There are some students who are interested in cooking. In future, these students may become capable of opening their own restaurants and introducing their recipes.

Conclusion: This is the first and a cooperative article from Sheeza Butt. And This was honored appreciated by the CEO of the website and learn ESL members. Please feel free to write your feedback too about the article using the comment section below.

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3 comments

Esha Khalil January 23, 2019 at 8:08 pm

Outstanding work.. You’ve done a great job!!

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Shah January 26, 2019 at 8:29 am

Just outstanding as usual. Keep it up✌✌

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BISMO January 28, 2019 at 7:57 pm

Thank you, Kamran for appreciation.

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