Friendships are a necessity for everyone. No one can live without friends. Some people are more social than others but even the introverts have friends to share the good and bad times. Kids at school face all types of social issues, some of you complain about groups, some of you complain about status issues and some of you just don’t know how to make friends. Extracurricular activities provide a solution for many social problems kids face. Extracurricular activities help you in making friends as:

• It provides access to different people belonging to different backgrounds and disciplines.
• It cultivates confidence and positive self-image that helps you to interact with other students better.
• It provides fun activities for students.
• It provides easy access to a lot of students out there who are just like you.
• Gives opportunities to interact with people outside your school.

Extracurricular activities cultivate a lot of traits in you that would help you to be an effective communicator. Interpersonal skills are the most important skills for a person to master in our society, extracurricular activities help you grow in that department. When you take part in different activities and meet different people, you are learning how to interact with people and leave a positive impression; these practices would help you later in your practical life.

Extracurricular activities provide the best way for students who feel left out in school and have few to no friends due to many differences. For instance, one of you likes books and there is no one in your class to support that hobby and you feel out of place. Join a book club in school and you would no more feel as the black sheep. You’d know you fit in with your other reader friends and you’d be given an opportunity to grow your hobby into a profession later on in life.

Fun activities like sports, dancing, drama, music etc are a good source for making friends for extrovert people who are more social and open by nature. They fit in with talkative and expressive people. It is very likely for you to find a group that also follows your hobby thus it helps you make friends that foster similar habits like you, making it all the more fun!