Celebrate National Paper Airplane Day In Your School

National paper airplane day is a casual practice celebrated on May 26 in the United States to commemorate paper airplanes. Paper planes and paper boats are part of 90% of everyone’s childhood. Since the fanciful idea of the paper plane is widely accepted through generations, they invoke memories in every kind of people. As the Times Observer says “What better way to get your kids to run around than chasing after their airplane once it finally flies?”

Paper airplanes are sometimes referred to as Aerogami. Aerogami is originated from Origami, the Japanese visual art form. Aerogami is a beautiful practice which can aid in developing mental strength, tolerance and sharing mentality in children. Celebrating national paper airplane day in your school will the best thing to do this month.

Outdoor activities like this enhance student behavior in a positive way. Games and activities like this help children to explore their living environment, develop physical strength through running and similar activities and gain self-confidence.

Folding paper airplanes is a way to relax; a way to let the day’s tension melt away.

– Origami Resource Center

How to celebrate National Paper Airplane day in your school?

Teach students how to make paper airplanes

What’s more fun than having fun in the classroom? Make use of the junk papers to build beautiful paper planes. Teach your students to make airplanes. Brush up your childhood memories.

Conduct creative paper plane making contests

Contests excite young ones than anything. Conduct a paper plane making contests and give out small rewards. Competitions and contests conducted in schools are not just for participating and winning. Art related competitions nurture and uncover the hidden talents in students.

Design your own paper plane

Design a super cool airplane by yourself and set an example for the students. Encourage them to design their own plane of unique features. Let them explore the horizon of creativity.

Encourage students with dreams

Ask about the long-term goals of each student. Find out who all would love to become a pilot or astronaut. Inspire them by telling about the greatest pilots and astronauts and their achievements.

Narrate your childhood experiences and incidents about paper planes

Who wouldn’t love a good old story? It’s the best way to grab a child’s attention. And this works almost every time. Tell them about your best experiences with airplanes or about how you learned to build an airplane etc.

Educate students about the benefits of outdoor play

That muddy, slimy, adventurous childhood are long gone. Most of our children don’t even know how it is like to play outdoors. Majority of the children are stuck with videos games and other indoor activities. Outdoor games energize their childhood and fill it with precious memories.

It is good to realize that if love and peace can prevail on earth, and if we can teach our children to honor nature’s gifts, the joys and beauties of the outdoors will be here forever.
– Jimmy Carter