[By Genre] Cultural Festival / School Festival Booth Catalog [2026]
Food stalls, class exhibits, and stage events are essential for cultural and school festivals, but once preparations start, it’s easy to get stuck on what to do! You definitely want to avoid choosing a standard attraction that ends up overlapping with other classes, and ideally, you want something that visitors will enjoy and that will become a lasting memory for your group—but once you start thinking about it, the possibilities seem endless.
In this article, we’ll introduce recommended ideas for cultural festival attractions, organized by genre.
If you already have a general direction, try jumping to the headings that interest you from the table of contents.
If you haven’t decided anything yet, we recommend going through the ideas listed at the top of each section in order—you’ll likely find them helpful!
- Cultural Festival: Ranking of Popular Booth Ideas
- Unusual attractions you can do in a classroom for a cultural or school festival
- [For High School Students] A roundup of recommended attractions for the school festival
- Games that rival street festivals and variety shows!? Crowd-pleasers for school cultural festivals
- [Non-food] Cultural festival attractions: from classroom exhibits to stage events
- Festival booth menu items that can be served without cooking and without using fire
- Ideas for stage events and attractions that will liven up a school festival
- Attraction Ideas for School Festivals That Only High Schoolers Can Pull Off?
- A catalog of recommended festival booths for school culture festivals, with ideas that will shine on social media.
- A roundup of recreational activities to liven up cultural and school festivals
- Stage performance ideas to excite a cultural or school festival
- Ideas for exhibits recommended for school culture festivals. Film screenings, too.
- Better than a theme park! Attractions perfect for school cultural festivals
Exhibitions & Art (1–10)
Umbrella Sky
An umbrella sky, which can create a fantastical atmosphere, is also recommended.
An “umbrella sky” is a feature of an arts festival that originated in Portugal.
It involves filling the sky with colorful umbrellas.
The appeal is that it can be displayed anywhere with a ceiling that isn’t too high, such as classrooms or hallways.
There’s also a version that uses decorated umbrellas.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if everyone made an umbrella with their own thoughts in mind, brought them together, and turned them into an umbrella sky?
Exhibitions & Art (11–20)
Cultural Festival Leaflet
@kansaiarts Please take a look at the making-of for the cultural festival leaflet cover ✨Kansai Culture and Arts High School#fyp#MakingCultural FestivalHigh school student#IllustrationTranslation#CapCut
My Cutest Part – FRUITS ZIPPER
A school festival leaflet with a design that grabs attention the moment it’s handed out.
Center the characters on students in school uniforms, using cheerful smiles and poses to convey the excitement of the festival.
Add the school building and a stage in the background, and use bright, lively colors to express energy.
Sprinkling in small elements like stars, musical notes, and balloons will make the entire page feel more festive.
Using anime-style frames around headings and adding hand-drawn lettering can create a handmade, friendly vibe.
By carefully placing highlights around the characters’ eyes and hair, you can add realism and a lively impression to their expressions.
Blue and Summer
@daiki1240 [School Festival] Class Video “Blue and Summer 3-2 ver.” Watch the full version from the comments ✨Blue and SummeryouthClass videoCultural Festival @Mrs. GREEN APPLE
♬ Original track – Ryu – 07ryu_
This is a video project produced as a class video, themed around Mrs.
GREEN APPLE’s hugely popular song “Ao to Natsu.” It depicts students earnestly dedicating themselves to their club activities, resulting in a piece that truly captures the essence of youth.
Even if it’s not about clubs, it would be great to film the preparation time for cultural festivals or school festivals.
Both the time spent making the video and the finished work itself become dazzling memories.
Be sure to preserve those unforgettable moments with your classmates as a work of art.
Show Performances (11–20)
Captivate your audience with a wonderful stage!
When it comes to must-haves for a school festival, performances like dance, music, and acting are at the top of the list! It’s the perfect chance to showcase your regular activities to lots of people and let them have fun. If you show off an unexpected talent, you might even become popular around campus! In addition to classic options like dance routines and band performances, we’ll also introduce ideas like “XX contests”! Related articles:Stage performance ideas to excite a cultural or school festival
Show performance (1–10)
musical
If you’re looking for stage events or shows, how about a musical? These days, many films have a musical vibe as well, and I’m sure many people remember La La Land winning the Academy Award.
When you put on a musical on stage, it draws a large crowd, so the performers are likely to enjoy it too.
dance
A classic performance choice: dance.
Even when we say “dance,” there are so many types—group numbers and solo acts, routines with a strong comedy element, and dances meant to get laughs.
If you already dance regularly, you’ll be fine, but if you feel shy about performing in front of people, I recommend a group dance.
If you have a lot of participants, dancing to songs by idols like AKB is a great option.
Paying attention to costumes really boosts the visual impact, so go the extra mile and prepare something special!
band performance
When you think of school festivals, a classic highlight has to be band performances.
For those in the light music club, and for anyone in a band, school festivals are the perfect chance to show off your playing! Most student bands might be cover bands, but performing original songs is great too.
It’s a chance to put your daily practice to the test, and it’ll definitely get your heart racing with excitement.
It’s not about being good or bad—what matters most is the experience of performing in front of people.
It becomes a valuable lesson and a lasting memory.
wotagei
Wotagei is a type of intense dance performed while holding glowing sticks called cyalumes.
You often see it at anison (anime song) events! In bright places it might just look like people thrashing around, but if you watch it in the dark…
the light trails from the cyalumes are stunning and incredibly beautiful! Dim the venue and have a group perform, and it becomes a full-fledged show!
