Recommended crafts for cultural festival exhibits. Ideas that are also perfect for venue decorations.
At school festivals, many classes probably display crafts that everyone made together, right?
There may also be classes that sell handmade goods they created themselves!
In this article, we’ll introduce plenty of ideas for crafts and DIY projects that are perfect for a school festival.
We’ve gathered lots of projects you can make with familiar materials like cardboard and plastic bottles.
Handmade goods and DIY projects are trending, so let’s create something that will amaze everyone in your class!
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Recommended crafts for cultural festival exhibits: Perfect ideas for venue decorations (41–50)
Peel art
Have you ever heard the term “peel art”? As the name suggests, peel art refers to artworks made using peels.
The peels are from vegetables and fruits—materials that would normally be thrown away as trash.
For citrus fruits like mandarins, you make cuts while the peel is still soft, shape your piece, and then let it dry for a few days.
If you make many and hang them up, they become a very beautiful art display, and everyone will be amazed to learn it used to be “garbage.” You could also try making items like lampshades using vegetable peels.
Cardboard Air Hockey
Air hockey is a popular game in arcades.
Kids love it, but adults also can’t help getting serious and fired up about it.
How about making a small version of that air hockey game and playing it together? You can easily make one using items from a 100-yen shop, like a whiteboard, cardboard, and empty snack boxes.
Even if it’s not the main activity, just leaving it in the corner of the classroom could secretly turn a quick time-killer into something super exciting (lol).
Target shooting
How about making a shooting gallery like the ones you often see at festival stalls, using cardboard and other scrap materials? And of course, the targets are treats that everyone would be happy to win! It’s exciting when you can snag one, and it gets kids—and even adults—totally pumped (lol).
You could make a few in regular cardboard-box size, or go the extra mile and build a big target and stand to really liven things up.
You can use toy guns, but making the guns by hand out of cardboard and the like is also an option.
Character made of cardboard
It might be a good idea to make and display robots or mecha from manga and anime out of cardboard.
The harder they seem to recreate, the more surprising they’ll be, and they’re sure to attract attention.
Even if they’re not anime characters, things like sports cars or heavy machinery used at construction sites would probably be a hit too.
Fishing showdown
Draw your favorite fish on cardboard and have a fishing showdown.
Everything you need is easy to prepare, so you can start right away.
The more unique the fish, the more fun it is, right? And who knows—if you draw not just fish but all kinds of things, it might get even more exciting!
Mask making
The masks you often see at festival stalls.
Those masks could probably be made using paper as a base, but how about trying to create a stone-like mask using clay? I have a feeling it would look more artistic than making it with plain paper.
You could use air-dry paper clay that hardens after it dries, but these days there are many types of modeling clays available, and you can easily buy stone powder clay and wood powder clay at 100-yen shops.
Wood powder clay in particular becomes wood-like once it dries, and you can carve and shave it with chisels.
It also sounds fun to try making one freehand without using molds.
scratch art
Scratch art features drawings made with white lines on pitch-black paper, and when you trace those white lines with a stick or special pen, vibrant colors emerge.
Rather than drawing, you’re actually scraping the lines to reveal the colors underneath—that’s the mechanism of scratch art.
It really feels like you’re creating the artwork yourself, making it super fun and quite addictive.
These days, you can even find kits at 100-yen shops, so it’s easy to get started.