Games that rival street festivals and variety shows!? Crowd-pleasers for school cultural festivals

Handmade Mini Bowling

@motoseisakujo

Handmade mini bowling. I'm making a craft game out of cardboard. Check YouTube for how to make it!#CardboardCraftsCardboard craftscardboardCardboardMario#HandmadeGame#HandmadeToys#cardboard#cardboardcrafts#mario#diycrafts#diycraft#MiniBowlingBowling

♬ Mario-style fun 8-bit NES BGM(1122633) – Yukiko Yamamoto

We’d like to introduce a handmade mini bowling game you can make with cardboard.

Using cardboard, a light ball, and pins, it’s an easy game anyone can enjoy.

From kids to adults, everyone will have fun aiming for strikes, so it’s also great as a classroom event at a school festival.

If you keep score, you can make it a team competition for even more excitement.

It’s a booth that will bring smiles to both the makers and the participants.

Be sure to use this as a reference and work together with your class to make your school festival a hit!

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kepiko

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Laputa Shooting Range

@kazuyo_dayo

One year ago, we made a Laputa-themed shooting gallery for our school’s cultural festival.#CardboardCraftsCultural Festival#LaputaKazuyo

♬ Original song – Kazuyo – Kazuyo!

How about incorporating the world of a famous anime into your school festival game? Imagine a shooting gallery that pays homage to a scene from Studio Ghibli’s Castle in the Sky.

Make Pazu’s big cannon out of cardboard and try to hit the targets.

Using Colonel Muska, made from cardboard, as the target could really liven things up.

It seems Colonel Muska is quite the marksman in the story, too.

It could be fun to include his handgun as well.

By the way, his pistol is said to be the military sidearm adopted by the British Army during World War II.

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Nakajima Junko

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Pe-tan Darts

[Craft] We tried playing “Pettan Darts” with sticky tape!

At a school festival, it’s nice to have a game everyone can enjoy together.

How about having fun with a darts game? You can make darts using items like construction paper and straws that you can buy at a 100-yen shop.

If you make darts using straws, prep should be easy.

But straw darts won’t stick into the target, right? In that case, attach a small ball made by rolling up cellophane tape to the tip.

The key is to use slightly larger pieces of cellophane tape.

With homemade darts, everyone’s sure to have a great time.

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Nakajima Junko

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Handmade dartboard

@dartsstadium.ikebukuro

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First Magnitude Star – Diamond Lily

Darts seem like they could be a popular attraction at school festivals and similar events.

Why not try making a handmade dartboard? Here, the board is made by layering two pieces of cardboard, but if you’re concerned about the sharp tips being dangerous, there’s also a method using a magnetic board and magnets.

You can come up with various shapes and designs for the board—circles, squares, hexagons, and more—so it might be fun to design a dartboard that’s uniquely yours.

You can also make the darts themselves safer and more enjoyable by embedding magnets in the tips and shortening the throwing distance.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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True-or-False Quiz

[True-or-False Quiz] If you get it wrong, something outrageous will happen!!!

How about incorporating the true-or-false quiz you often see on variety shows? It sounds fun, but choosing an O or X panel and jumping through it might be a bit difficult.

So let’s add some tweaks to make it suitable for a school festival.

For example, instead of panels, use curtains, and instead of jumping, have participants move to different areas to answer.

Preparing funny penalties or prizes would make it even more exciting.

It’s also important to prepare quizzes with just the right level of difficulty to keep the energy up.

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yamamoto

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What’s inside the box?

School festival: “What’s in the box?” Babasaki-kun

Have you ever seen “What’s in the Box?” It’s a game where a challenger puts their hand through a hole in the side of a box and guesses what’s inside.

Meanwhile, the audience can see the contents and enjoy watching the challenger struggle to figure it out.

Try setting up a stage in the classroom so everyone can watch the challenge.

Also, it’s more exciting if you put items with very different textures inside.

For example, how about konnyaku or nagaimo?

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yamamoto

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Karaoke Contest

Reiwa 2 Hachinohe Technical High School Cultural Festival Karaoke Contest Preliminary Round 1

By the time you’re in middle school, your karaoke repertoire really expands, and I think karaoke contests are a hugely popular event at any school.

Singing normally is fun, but with a little twist to liven things up in the spirit of a cultural or school festival, it can become an even better event! Those karaoke machines that give you a score are fine, but how about inviting teachers or special guests to serve as judges? They can factor in not just singing ability but also performance and how well you engage the audience, which might generate more excitement than a machine-calculated score.

It would also be fun to offer a prize if someone can make it through a song without looking at the lyrics!