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Cute deco uchiwa ideas for school culture festivals

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Uchiwa fans are a must-have among high school girls, and they really shine at events like sports festivals.

They’re also indispensable at school festivals—making them with friends or clubmates boosts the vibe and brings everyone together as one.

In this article, we’ll share decoration ideas for uchiwa that are perfect for cultural and school festivals.

Brainstorming with friends—going back and forth with ideas—and making them together is fun, and it’ll become a memorable experience.

We’d love to help you create flashy, eye-catching uchiwa so you can make amazing memories!

Cute deco uchiwa ideas for school cultural festivals (21–30)

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Softly spreading, gentle hues are the hallmark here! Let us introduce some watercolor illustration ideas.

Watercolors are captivating for their delicate, fleeting tones.

With their translucent light colors, you can also create natural gradients.

In the video, a girl wearing a cute outfit with frills is being drawn.

You can really see the attention to detail in the color of her hair and eyes.

It also seems there are techniques to get closer to the image you have in mind by combining colored pencils and white ink pens.

Give it a try!

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Let’s try creating designs using an app! Here are some ideas for Canva’s AI.

In recent years, AI technology has been a hot topic.

It seems that AI can generate not only text but also illustrations and designs.

This time, let’s make use of the Canva app.

One of the app’s features is a service that can generate graphics.

Just enter a clear description of the image you want to create and choose an illustration style, and you can finish it easily! Among the styles, there are a variety such as hand-drawn and stamp-like looks.

Be sure to give it a try.

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Cute decorative uchiwa ideas for school culture festivals (31–40)

Outline with glittery tinsel garland

If you want to make your uchiwa fan look more glamorous, I recommend trimming the edge with sparkly tinsel garland.

Tinsel garland—formally called “tinsel garland”—is often used to decorate Christmas trees.

Using it to outline your fan will give it more presence and make the colors pop.

Matching colors with your friends is fun, but using different colors to create a gradient is also lovely.

Choose the garland while considering the color of the fan itself.

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Name fan

How about making a name uchiwa fan? It’s similar to a personalized name fan in that it includes your name, but the goal is to give it a more stylish finish.

First, attach paper printed with gradients or patterns to the fan.

It’s recommended to choose something as intricate or colorful as possible.

Next, stick on paper cutouts or stickers of your name.

Finally, decorate around the name with beads, and you’re done.

It can also be fun to pick a theme and match the vibe with your friends.

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Try making myself look like a character

Using a photo or avatar is great, but if you want originality, I recommend designing a character-like version of yourself.

By “character-like,” I mean, for example, drawing yourself in the style of a famous manga.

Try discussing with your friends which work to use as your motif and give it a shot.

It’s also fine to add extra touches, like writing your name in a font that appears in the work.

Pour your love for the work into it!

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Peel-and-flip cue fan

[Johnny’s Fan] How to Make a Cue Uchiwa ❤︎

Peel-and-flip cue fan

Some of you may be struggling because there are so many designs you want to create.

In that case, let me introduce the cue-card fan.

This involves attaching a binder ring to the fan itself so that you can flip through sheets of paper.

For example, you can flip pages with letter designs to form sentences, or even make it like a flipbook.

The area with the punched hole tears easily, so don’t forget to add reinforcement patches! You can buy them at 100-yen shops and the like.

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Shaker uchiwa (shaker fan)

I tried making a skeleton uchiwa! [PreRanger TV] [Neo] [Ena Nakano]

Shaker uchiwa (shaker fan)

Do you know what a shaker is? Here, a shaker refers to an item with oil and beads inside a clear container, where you can see the contents move when you shake it.

You often see them as keychains.

Let’s recreate that vibe with a hand fan.

Cut out film to match the outer frame of the fan, sandwich something inside, and combine the pieces—that’s all you need.

Try sealing in photos, beads, or stickers.

If you decorate the film itself, you can create a wide variety of designs.

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