Stress Airport

Activity description

A creative fusion of freestyle art and paper planes to help students vent pre-test jitters.

Activity highlight

With the Uniform Tests (UT) just around the corner, the atmosphere on campus has been a bit "tense," to say the least! To break the gloom, the committee members gathered and organised a wellness activity for their peers during lunchtime, the activity attracted 35 student participants.

The session kicked off with checking in on everyone’s recent vibes. Armed with boxes of crayons and coloured pencils, students were then invited to ditch the textbooks and let their emotions do the talking on paper. There were no grades here—just pure, messy, beautiful self-expression!

Total concentration: "sealing" those feelings into a paper aircraft. Will this design actually manage to "take off"?

The highlight of the day? Turning those masterpieces into paper planes. After sharing the stories behind their sketches, students gathered to launch their planes into the air. It was a symbolic "clearance" of negative energy, watching those worries glide away. The committee collected the "fleet" to be sent for recycling, ensuring mental wellness doesn't come at the cost of the planet!

Purpose behind this activity

The committee hopes that by externalising internal stress through art and the physical act of throwing a paper plane, students experienced a tangible sense of relief.