Different types of co-curricular activities for students are as follows:
(1) Activities for Physical Development:
Drill, P.T., indoor and outdoor games, sports, exercise, NCC, athletics, etc.
(2) Activities for Intellectual Development:
School magazine, science club, world affairs society, debates, seminars and discussions, essay and story writing competition, poetry recitation, newspaper reading, etc.
(3) Activities for Social Development:
Co-operative society, scouting and guiding, games and sports, school council activities, celebration of special festivals, conducting morning assembly, etc.
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(4) Activities for Psychomotor Development:
Tailoring, carpentry, toy-making, soap-making, candle and incense-stick making, embroidery, knitting, spinning, gardening, sculpture making, leather work, clay work, weaving, book-binding, etc.
(5) Activities for Cultural Development:
Annual day programmes, music and dance, drawing and painting, fancy dress competitions, etc.
(6) Picnics/Excursions/Tours:
Hiking, rock/mountain climbing, visits to museums, zoo, aquarium, planetarium, Nehru science centre, visits to exhibitions, etc. For primary school children, visits to a bank, a post-office, a hospital, a police-station, a garden, LIC office, government offices or mantralaya, an air-port or a sea-port, etc.
(7) Activities for Development of Civic Values:
Celebration of social, religious and national festivals, school parliament election, co-operative stores, cleanliness drive, AIDS awareness programme, drug and liquor/alcohol abuse programmes, World Environment Day celebrations, environmental protection drive, etc.
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It must be noted here that all these activities do not fulfill only one aim but are multipurpose in nature in that they help in developing many facets of an individual’s personality simultaneously.