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Eye-catching! Interior decoration ideas to brighten up your school festival

A school festival that gets the whole school buzzing like a celebration.

In addition to preparing your attractions and stage performances, you also need to think about interior decorations that match each theme.

In this article, we’ll introduce decoration ideas that are perfect for a school festival!

We’ve gathered ideas not only for each classroom hosting an attraction, but also for hallways, staircases, and other school spaces.

Be sure to incorporate them to match the mood of your attraction.

Let’s create interiors that make everyone feel giddy with excitement just by entering the space or walking down the corridor!

Eye-catching! Interior Decoration Ideas to Jazz Up Your School Festival (11–20)

Optical illusion art

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Optical illusion art

As part of the decorations, how about incorporating some trick art? Trick art refers to artworks that use optical illusions.

For example, you can make a flat painting appear to pop out, or make a flat area look indented—there are many possible expressions.

If you prepare plenty of such trick art, people are sure to enjoy it.

Another appeal of trick art is that it can serve as a photo spot.

Start by setting a theme to decide what kind of pieces to create!

Chalkboard Art

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Chalkboard Art

Chalkboard art first sparked a boom as a moving feature of graduation ceremonies, where people draw pictures and messages on the board, and recently it has become a mainstream art form beyond just graduations.

You often see it outside restaurants and cafes, too.

Why not make chalkboard art the star attraction and use it as a decoration for your school festival? Filling a large chalkboard with drawings takes patience, but divide the work among a few people and chip away at it steadily.

It’s great for photos, and it’s sure to become a memorable piece for everyone!

stained-glass style sticker

If you try giving the glass a stained-glass look, it can transform a familiar room into a magical space—highly recommended.

For things like running a classroom café at a school festival, it can add a touch of luxury and calm.

These days, you can even find various stained-glass-style stickers at 100-yen shops, so it’s nice that you can start inexpensively.

Plus, when the event is over, you can simply peel them off and the classroom returns to normal, making this an easy interior option even from a cleanup standpoint.

mirror ball

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mirror ball

It doesn’t get better than a spinning mirror ball! Rainbow-colored lights look even more striking and beautiful in dark spaces.

Making one by hand is tricky, but these days you can find good-quality ones online at reasonable prices.

Some are super simple—you just screw them into an existing light socket—so definitely check them out.

They’re great for events with a stage, too.

It’s also fun to turn down the lights and enjoy music in a club-like vibe.

If you want to amp up the energy, a mirror ball is a sure bet!

balloon art

Balloon art that we often see as street performances or shows—here’s an idea to use it as decoration.

You can find long balloons and dedicated pumps at variety stores and 100-yen shops.

Besides decorating walls with easy-to-make shapes like flowers and hearts, connecting small flowers or ribbons into an arch looks fantastic and is highly recommended! It would be great to decorate the classroom entrance with an arch, too.

It could even become a photo spot!

Photo spot

Photo spots have become increasingly common in recent years.

Rather than just providing a place where nice photos can be taken, let’s create spaces with playful elements that make people want to take pictures there.

For example, shape paper flowers into a crescent moon so visitors can sit “on the moon,” or draw large wings on a chalkboard so that when someone stands in front of it, it looks like wings are growing from their back.

Think of ideas that make customers say, “I want to take a photo here!” You can find plenty of photogenic photo spot ideas by searching on Instagram.

Try preparing a photo spot as one of your eye-catching decorations, such as on a wall.

Eye-Catching! Interior Decoration Ideas to Brighten Up Your School Festival (21–30)

Great for photo spots too! How to make a balloon tower

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Great for photo spots too! How to make a balloon tower

Why not try making a balloon tower that works as an entrance gate or an Instagrammable spot? Use a banner-flag stand for the base; if you don’t have one, you can sandwich a tension rod between two 2-liter water bottles instead.

Inflate the balloons and tie them in pairs.

Then twist and wrap the pairs around the pole.

Place a decorative balloon on top to finish.

Making two towers gives a more luxurious look.

Using two colors alternately makes it especially beautiful.

Give it a try!