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!
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Eye-catching! Interior Decoration Ideas to Jazz Up Your School Festival (11–20)
Paper circle garland
This garland uses softly textured paper cut into circles, creating the look of a wall covered in blooming flowers.
Fold the paper and cut it into circular shapes, then make circles of the same size in different colors.
Once you’ve made the circles, arrange them while adjusting the quantity to create a gradient effect when hung on the wall, and thread a string through the center using a needle.
After threading, fan the paper out to a consistent width, then secure the center with glue so the shape holds—done! For extra dimension, you can also gently curve each circle bit by bit.
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
Eye-Catching! Interior Decoration Ideas to Brighten Up Your School Festival (21–30)
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.
