A roundup of recreational activities to liven up cultural and school festivals

Making slime

Fun Science Experiment: A Foolproof Way to Make Slime [How to Make Slime]

At a cultural festival where local young children gather, a slime-making activity is highly recommended.

Slime is popular on platforms like YouTube and is easy to make, making it perfect for hands-on recreation.

Plus, they can take it home, so I’m sure they’ll be delighted.

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Hyakunin Isshu

Best Reader in the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu Karuta Division, 2019 Saga Inter-High Cultural Festival

It’s a classic game that you’ve probably tried at least once: Hyakunin Isshu.

Recently, perhaps thanks to the influence of the manga Chihayafuru, competitive karuta has been steadily gaining popularity.

Competitive karuta is blazingly fast and a bit intimidating, but how about taking your time and giving karuta as a game a try?

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utatane

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If you laugh, you lose.

Who will burst out laughing first!? The absolutely no-laughing showdown! ~Hold water in your mouth—spit it out and you lose!~

It’s a game where if you laugh, you lose.

Players are split into performers and audience.

One by one, performers present their bits, and anyone who laughs is eliminated on the spot.

When all the bits are done, the person who didn’t laugh until the end wins.

If everyone ends up laughing, the performers’ side wins.

You can also have fun by changing the rules to your own original version.

Balloon Early-Burst Game

[Akizato] Balloon Early-Burst Game [Event Rental]

A slightly nerve-wracking game: the Balloon Burst Race.

As the name suggests, the aim is to see who can pop their balloon first.

It’s definitely more exciting with balloons larger than the usual size.

Prepare a pump and big balloons, have everyone line up, and start inflating at the starting signal.

Whoever pops theirs first wins—but you’ll be flinching at the shock when it bursts, and even jumping at the sound of other people’s balloons popping.

It’s a bit rough on the heart (lol).

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Gesture Telephone Game

[Legendary Episode] We had way too much fun playing the gesture telephone game [MelPuchi × Naenano × Roi × Serishun × Kaiga Baba]

An absolutely hilarious gesture-based telephone game! It’s the classic telephone game, but without using your mouth—no speaking—just gestures.

It’s simple, but guaranteed to get everyone excited.

What makes it so funny is that it almost never gets passed along correctly! At the end you compare answers, and it gets even more lively as you go step by step asking, “Where did it go wrong?” When the prompts are full sentences, the difficulty spikes and that makes it even more entertaining.

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Strikeout

How to assemble the strikeout game

How about a recreation where you make a strikeout game and give a perfect, wonderful prize? If you use store-bought materials, it’s relatively easy to put together.

Also, since there’s a chance some overenthusiastic boys might break parts on the day, it’s a good idea to prepare spares just in case.

Wheelchair Experience

Let's watch para table tennis live!

How about trying a wheelchair experience? Simply having people sit in a wheelchair and move around is of course fine, but if you let them actually try parasports like wheelchair table tennis, it might attract more participants and make things more exciting!