A roundup of recreational activities to liven up cultural and school festivals
When it comes to school festivals, there are all kinds of attractions like food stalls and stage performances! How about incorporating activities that everyone can enjoy together—what you might call recreational events? In this article, we’ll introduce plenty of recommended recreation ideas for your school festival! We’ve picked activities that visitors of all ages can enjoy, such as lottery-style raffles and workshop-style hands-on experiences.
Try running a recreation event that other classes aren’t doing and make your school festival even more exciting!
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Recreation Ideas to Hype Up Your School Cultural Festival (21–30)
Life-saving experience

Of course, AEDs are installed not only in hospitals but also at train stations, public facilities, and large shopping malls.
I’m sure there aren’t many people who feel confident using them correctly.
Knowing how to use one would be reassuring, right? With that in mind, how about trying a recreation activity where you learn about lifesaving measures such as how to use an AED and perform chest compressions? Even if you’ve attended a lecture, you might still panic when you actually face such a situation.
That’s why it would be valuable to include an experience where you can also learn the right mindset for those moments—turn it into knowledge and nourishment for the future.
Rolling Coin Tower
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♬ Bling-Bang-Bang-Born – Creepy Nuts
Rolling Coin Tower is a signature game from variety shows—a thrilling face-off where players take turns stacking coins.
The rules are simple: stack coins by color in order, and if you topple the tower, you lose.
It’s packed with tension, and the mind games to provoke your opponent’s mistakes are part of the fun.
As the tower grows taller, you’ll be on the edge of your seat, and it’s a great test of teamwork with your friends.
It’s exciting for spectators too.
Give it a try at your school festival!
Recreation ideas that liven up cultural and school festivals (31–40)
Handmade Mini Bowling
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♬ Mario-style fun 8-bit NES BGM(1122633) – Yukiko Yamamoto
We’d like to introduce a handmade mini bowling game you can make with cardboard.
Using cardboard, a light ball, and pins, it’s an easy game anyone can enjoy.
From kids to adults, everyone will have fun aiming for strikes, so it’s also great as a classroom event at a school festival.
If you keep score, you can make it a team competition for even more excitement.
It’s a booth that will bring smiles to both the makers and the participants.
Be sure to use this as a reference and work together with your class to make your school festival a hit!
Sugoroku

Sugoroku is a classic board game, but how about trying it out using an actual classroom as the board? Instead of figurines, you are the game piece.
You move along carrying things like fake currency.
It’s a game that feels like a real-life version of The Game of Life.
From classic spaces like “Go back 1 space” or “Lose a turn,” to squares that incorporate school-life clichés, it seems like it would get everyone excited!
Let’s have fun harmonizing

We’ll split into teams of two or three and present harmonies.
Instead of a musical approach, we’ll break the rules of scales and create harmonies of words and sounds.
Noise is fine, too.
Let’s enjoy it with creativity and novelty.
Please give it a try!
Caricature Game

Sit in a circle with several people.
Draw portraits of others in a way that no one knows who is drawing whom.
When everyone is finished, reveal them all at once.
Then, guess one by one whose face each drawing depicts.
Whether the drawings are good or not, it’s sure to be a hit.
life-sized self-portrait production

Lie down on a large sheet of paper and have your entire outline traced.
Inside the outline, draw yourself.
Exaggerating a bit will probably make it more fun.
Why not use your creativity to draw a life-sized version of yourself?



