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 brighten up your school festival (1–10)
cotton ball
How about some cotton balls with a cute, round, woven look? Wrap your favorite color thread around an inflated balloon, then brush on a glue mixture.
Once the glue dries, pop the balloon inside and you’re done! It’s easy to adjust the size, so you can make ones that fit the space where you’ll display them.
You can also take advantage of the hollow interior by inserting an LED light to create a simple, indirect lamp.
It makes for a striking decoration that’s perfect for performances where you slightly darken the classroom!
masking tape art
The idea of trying decorations using washi tape.
Recently, decorating with washi tape has become firmly established because it lets you easily create pieces that match your interior.
Let’s bring it into the school festival too and make some art! Even though we’re calling it art, you can steadily build what you want to express by using washi tape like a collage or torn-paper art, or you can try writing messages with it.
A great thing is that even if you make a mistake, you can quickly fix it and start over.
Staircase Art
You often see stairway art around town! If you measure the size and combine sheets of poster paper, you can make any kind of stair art freely by hand.
Use it to promote events, write your school festival slogan, or entertain visitors and students with cute illustrations.
Schools have lots of staircases, so there’s plenty of room to get creative.
Even without hand-drawing designs, just sticking different colored construction paper on each step can create a rainbow effect—an easy, recommended decoration you can enjoy right away!
paper fan
If you want a slightly more grown-up look, paper fans are a great choice.
Their appearance—like an open wagasa (Japanese umbrella)—is elegant yet calm.
Take colored paper folded in an accordion, fasten the center, open it like a fan, then secure the two ends together—that’s it.
Two tips for styling them well: 1) make one large piece the main feature and create a few in different sizes, and 2) don’t space them evenly—place them randomly up, down, left, and right.
Your design sense might be put to the test just a bit.
Chat with your friends and create decorations that feel uniquely yours!
origami garland
A garland is an item that instantly creates a cute look.
There are many ways to make one, but let’s try a very easy garland using origami or colored paper! You might have some extra origami lying around, and even if you don’t, 100-yen shops sell plenty with adorable patterns.
Just cut the paper into triangles and attach them to a string—it’s that simple.
And if you use patterned origami, it alone will quickly add a bright, stylish, and charming atmosphere!
Cardboard art
@imany_miu This is a robot soldier made out of cardboard to display at our local cultural festival♪ After watching Laputa on Friday Road Show, it took about two months to make. "Laputa really did exist!"Laputa: Castle in the Sky Translation Robot Soldier #CardboardCrafts
♬ Innocent – from ‘Castle in the Sky’ – Joe Hisaishi
Cardboard, which is indispensable for logistics, is also a versatile material used for crafts.
Let’s use cardboard to create decorations for the school festival! There are many kinds of art made from cardboard these days, so why not pick an idea you like and give it a try? You could make small decorations and coordinate them with other items, or create a large, eye-catching sculpture.
Who knows—your decoration itself might even become a popular photo spot!
confetti balloon
A confetti balloon is a balloon filled with paper sprinkles known as confetti.
The confetti showing through the balloon adds both festiveness and a sense of dimension.
To make one, cut tissue paper to create confetti, fit a plastic bottle opening into the mouth of a stretched balloon to pack the confetti inside, then inflate the balloon.
If you just put the confetti in, it will clump together, so after inflating, use static electricity to bring the confetti to the outer surface—that’s key.
Be sure to create a festive look by thoughtfully combining the colors of the balloon and the paper.
