text: My third and final reason is that extracurricular activities allow students to focus on something besides schoolwork. A lot of people just go to school, come home, do homework, and then just sit around doing nothing. It's get boring but activities let students do something fun. Schoolwork can become stressful if that's all that someone does. Sometimes focusing on something else can help take their mind off of it. Extracurricular activities can be relaxing. For example, some people do yoga or paint to forget about their stress. Those things can help people not stress as much. Activities allow kids to work on something non-school related.