Get ready to give wings to your inner bird and pilot as it is National Paper Airplane Day on May 26.
A child or grown-up, flights fascinate everyone. However, it is not possible to experience the flight of an airplane every now and then.
Becoming a pilot or traveler of a real airplane is not the only way to experience the fun. You can keep the excitement kindled up by making your own paper airplane and taking up the challenge to send your flying machine to new heights.
There are two paper plane contests that remain in the spotlight! One is based on the distance that a paper plane covers. Another one is based on time. Try them out and get your happiness to fly around.
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Date of National Paper Airplane Day Observance
26th of May.
History of National Paper Airplane Day
Paper-made Hot-Air Balloons
During the 1700s, the Montgolfier brothers made paper balloons in France. It was the first time when someone used paper to make hot-air balloons.
Paper Balloon Carried the Humans
In 1783, the Montgolfier brothers innovated the paper cloth-lined hot-air balloons. This time, the highlight was their capability of carrying the humans.
Aerodynamics
During the 1930s, Jack Northrop used the paper models of larger airplanes for testing aerodynamics.
The First Longest Flight
In 1998, a paper airplane by Ken Blackburn made the world record of taking the longest flight of 27.6 seconds.
National Paper Airplane Day Celebration Ideas
It’s Obvious!
How come it is National Paper Airplane Day and one celebrates it without making a paper plane?!
It’s neither expensive nor needs any rocket science for creating one. It is easy yet fun to make your own design for a paper airplane.
Let your craft skills shine with markers, watercolors, and glitter. Try to unleash your creative skills as much as you can. The most fun part of this task is — you can introduce your favorite color and style to the plane.
So what are you waiting for? Just grab your tools and get started to make your own flying machine.
Invite More Child-like Souls
It’s not everyone’s cup of tea to enjoy like a child, having a sporty heart and soul. However, this is also true that this world is not short of such people who know how to live life.
Invite such friends or colleagues to your home. Google different types of DIY ideas for making paper planes. Let each one of the participants follow a different design idea. Create your own airplane using colorful papers.
When it is done, take selfies and group photographs flaunting your own creations.
Held a Contest!
Held the paper airplane contests with different categories. Falling short of ideas? Here are some popular ideas for the paper plane-related challenges.
- Organize a paper plane design contest.
- Make participants fly their paper plane to the highest height.
- Let participants make their paper plane reach the longest distance.
- Open the contest of keeping the paper plane in the air for the longest time.
Motivate Someone
Such an activity might seem childish or stupid to perform after an age. Only the one who has given it a try can testify how happening this fantasy is.
Let more and more people make the most of it by getting involved.
You held a contest or just invite your beloved ones to your home for marking the National Paper Airplane Day, don’t forget to share your pics. Let someone get inspired and have the same joyful moments that you live.
Pass on the Art: Preserve It!
You might feel amazed that this simple-looking paper piece contains art. Yes, making paper-crafts is not less than an art. So if you know how to make a paper plane, paper boat, or any flower out of a piece of paper, feel proud that you know this art.
Now, when you know art, it means — you are gifted. And you know what is the rule of being gifted? It is — you have to share your gift with others too. This flow turns you from a gifted one to a blessed one.
You can teach this art of papercraft to any friend or child around. The person might be anyone: your own kids, nieces, nephews, cousins, or neighbor kids.
There can’t be a better day than the National Paper Airplane Day for teaching someone and preserving this art form by passing it on.
Let this going-to-be-lost or live long!
Decorate Your Art-piece!
You might have got many expensive decorative things for embellishing your room but have you ever tried to decorate your shelves with your own creations?
Try it out and see how it fills your lips with a wide smile when someone asks you about it and appreciates your skills.
Why is National Paper Airplane Day Celebrated?
It’s Creative
Whenever we explore our creativity and come up with something great, it gives us enormous joy. Seeing the output of own creative skills is pleasurable and contenting.
Learning, designing, and making a paper plane is a process of encountering new levels of paper-crafting skills. It makes us happy when we see what our own hands have created.
It’s Fun
It’s not just an art but also a fun activity. If we attach it with any challenge or contest, it becomes more engrossing and connecting.
It Allows You to Be You
Your design, your choice of colors, a creation of your own hands, and your name on it! It allows you to be you and shape it whatever way you want.
It Takes You Back to Your Childhood
We all wish that may we could go back to our childhood and feel the same vibe that we used to have when we were free from any responsibility or complexities of this world.
It’s not possible to reverse the time, but we can surely bring that time back to our present by involving ourselves in some old childhood activities.
There are many few tasks and excuses that allow you to be a child and enjoy the fun. The National Paper Airplane Day is one of those opportunities which make it possible for you.
It Unplugs You from Technology
Digitalization can be witnessed everywhere, in every task. It has eased our lives. It has also snatched our peaceful movements.
Gone are the days when we used to sit together and play indoor or outdoor games. Now each one of us takes our own mobiles, tablets, or laptop, detaching from others.
Even if we are sitting in the same room, we can sense the distances.
Observing the National Paper Airplane Day gives you some moments of relaxation where you can give your eyes some rest.
It Reconnects
It’s a great idea to come together and play a game with the challenge of making and flying paper planes.
Witness how this small piece of paper becomes a bridge between the hearts and gives you real happiness!
It Flourishes the Art
If preserved well, art never downgrades; it always goes to the higher levels.
Marking such a day which is dedicated to paper art, boosts one to achieve new heights in polishing and perfecting the skill.
