By DePaul Healthy Trailblazer Journal cub reporters | Ms. Williams’ third-grade cub reporters learned from the website KidsHealth that stress can happen “anytime your brain detects a possible danger.”

Some stress is OK because stress can also keep you safe or help you face a big moment, the website says. But too much stress can be unhealthy for you.

Experts say that one way to help reduce stress is to participate in creative arts. The following is a list of creative arts ideas the the cub reporters came up with:

• Singing
• Doing origami
• Cooking
• Sculpting
• Acting
• Decorating
• Writing
• Making music
• Making art
• Dancing
• Crafting

Illustration by Maribel, ninth grade, Girls High, 2022.