Recommended crafts for cultural festival exhibits. Ideas that are also perfect for venue decorations.

Gemstone Encyclopedia Interior

Junior high school teaching materials, culture festival display, science craft, gemstone encyclopedia interior

This is a collection exhibit of so-called minerals, such as quartz and amethyst.

While the video presents it as a project suitable for free craftwork, I believe that if you refine it with more detailed information—such as main production locations and composition—and present it more beautifully, it would be impressive enough for a school festival.

Stick Domino

[Experiment] A New Kind of Domino! Tried 300 Stick Bombs!

How about trying stick dominoes using items like ice cream sticks? This activity started becoming popular in the United States around 2000.

By assembling the sticks in a specific pattern and then letting go at the end, the sticks chain-react and burst apart as if by magic.

The motion is dynamic, like a moving snake or dragon.

Because it collapses in a single go, when exhibiting it, it’s helpful to record videos of the building process and the bursting chain reaction, and display those alongside the actual assembled piece.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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Giant magic hand made of cardboard

[Cardboard DIY] Making a Giant Grabber Arm Using Cardboard [Cardboard Craft]

A toy grabber arm—usually about 1 meter long, right? This project is about making one by hand out of cardboard, and not just any grabber, but a giant one! There are many steps, but once you have the materials and cut the cardboard to shape, it’s just a matter of steadily gluing the parts together with a hot glue gun or wood glue.

The moving parts are made by threading cable ties through holes.

You can get everything at a 100-yen shop.

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giant paper airplane

A giant paper airplane takes to the sky! (Fukuyama University Festival)

Hasn’t everyone, at least once in their life, wanted to fly a gigantic paper airplane? Since we have the chance, let’s make the most of the school festival—an ideal opportunity to fulfill that big ambition.

If you’re not careful, it can end up disappointingly underwhelming, so why not pay attention to the frame and even build a launching device to help it fly?

Handmade musical instruments

I tried making a trombone! Part 2

How about a groundbreaking activity: making your own instrument? When you think of handmade instruments, you might picture drums or maracas.

But here we’re taking on something a bit more challenging—we’re making a trombone by hand! By cleverly combining PVC pipes and joints, we’ve even managed to create the slide section.

The fact that it actually produces a trombone-like sound is just fantastic (lol).

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permanent sesame

Fun Electricity/Electronics Workshop 2015: Perpetual Spinning Top Prototype 3

A top that spins forever—the Eternal Top.

There are commercial versions, but you can actually make one yourself! It’s a niche reference, but for those who get it, the idea of a top spinning endlessly in a dream, like in the movie Inception, really hits home.

Entrance decoration

Cultural Festival Entrance Decorations Installation

When it comes to school festivals and cultural festivals, you usually make some kind of entrance decoration to put on display, right? Some people might have even brought bold, original ideas to life on a grand scale.

Elaborate entrance decorations really catch the eye.

If you have the capacity, by all means team up and give it a try.