Items to make your sports festival more fun! Ideas for eye-catching decorated tambourines
Tambourines are gaining popularity among students as photogenic items for sports festivals.
Rather than using them as instruments, many students decorate tambourines to create “decorated tambourines,” using them to make lasting memories of the festival.
In this article, we’ll showcase a variety of decorated tambourines!
If you’re thinking of making one for your next sports festival, be sure to use this as a reference.
You can easily buy both the tambourines themselves and the decoration supplies at 100-yen shops and similar stores.
Make a cute decorated tambourine and create lots of great memories at your sports festival!
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Items to Make Sports Day More Fun! Ideas for Eye-Catching Decorated Tambourines (11–20)
Ribbon Deco Tambourine

If you want to make a super flashy and cute item, this is our recommendation! Introducing the ribbon-decorated tambourine.
This one is made by wrapping a thick ribbon around the frame of a tambourine.
Use your favorite color, your idol’s color, or your team color to show your personality and boost your mood! It also sounds fun to experiment with different ways of wrapping the ribbon and choosing parts that match it.
Go all out with the cuteness to lift your spirits and enjoy the sports festival to the fullest.
Glowing Deco Tambourine

For those who want to stand out from the crowd, here’s a glowing, decorated tambourine we recommend! You can make it using LED-light tambourines sold on online shops.
The colorful lights shine brightly, so just looking at it will lift your spirits.
It’s eye-catching even from far away, so it’s sure to boost the energy of the team you’re cheering for! If you decorate it with glitter stickers or holographic sheets, it will reflect sunlight and sparkle even more.
It’s the perfect item to hype up your sports festival—give it a try!
Tambourine with flowers
Let’s make a tambourine filled with flowers using artificial blooms! Even on a small budget, you can create a one-of-a-kind decorated tambourine that looks glamorous and elegant.
All you have to do is pack the flowers inside the tambourine, so anyone can make it easily.
If you’re not confident with DIY, just unify the colors of the floral materials for a neat finish.
Then simply decorate with lace, rhinestones, or pearls.
Try incorporating your favorite colors or your class colors, and have fun making it!
Sailor Moon Tambourine
A girl’s dream, Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, is a TV anime that has enjoyed popularity across generations.
It’s also well-known for its cast of beautiful, strong characters modeled after the planets! How about livening up your sports festival with these characters, who are not only cute but powerful as well? Each character has an image color, so it should be easy to design decorated tambourines to match.
It would look great to coordinate lace, heart-shaped cone cushions, rhinestone stickers, and other items in each character’s color, too!
Disney tambourine
Disney characters are beloved classics across all ages! That’s why they’re perfect for decorating tambourines, too.
You can have your group pick one favorite character to share, or let everyone use their own favorite—either way works.
When decorating, try to match the design to the character’s world and vibe.
For example, use red and yellow for Mickey Mouse, pink for Minnie Mouse, and blue for Donald Duck—incorporating each character’s signature colors is a great idea!
Pretty Cure Tambourine
Although it’s an anime aimed at young girls, the Pretty Cure series captivates adults as well.
How about a decorated tambourine featuring Pretty Cure designs, which are also very popular among middle and high school students? Choose the imagery of your favorite series or character and incorporate it into your design.
The sparkly, girly vibe pairs perfectly with materials like lace, rhinestones, and pearls.
You could also use your favorite character’s image color.
Once it’s finished, it might be fun to show them off with friends who love Pretty Cure and get everyone excited.
Items that make the sports festival more fun! Ideas for eye-catching decorated tambourines (21–30)
yume-kawa tambourine
A yume-kawaii tambourine—meaning “dreamily cute”—is sure to be a hit at the sports festival! Let’s decorate the tambourine with ribbons and lace to make it adorable.
Using pastel-colored stars and hearts will create an even more yume-kawaii vibe.
It’s also recommended to use colors and chains inspired by your favorite character.
Adding a chain makes it easy to hook onto your wrist, too.
Definitely give it a try!



