[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
Show performance (1–10)
hero show
At most school festivals, there’s practically always a slot for stage performances.
How about putting on a classic tokusatsu “sentai” hero show that everyone—young and old—knows and loves? All you need are the performers’ courage and costumes.
For the costumes, it’s safest to stick with the familiar sentai colors like red, blue, and yellow.
Don’t let it end as just a simple hero show—sprinkle in elements unique to your school and get the audience involved, too.
When performing, the key is to forget your embarrassment and fully become the hero!
fashion show
It’s also a great idea to gather people who are interested in fashion and put on a fashion show.
If you’re in junior high or high school, you probably wear uniforms most of the time.
So just wearing something different from your usual outfit can feel fresh and exciting.
I also recommend trying to make your own costumes.
Jump Rope Performance
If you’re confident in your jump rope skills, why not put on a jump rope performance? A jump rope performance showcases tricks like double-unders and triple-unders to music.
They say there are thousands of tricks.
If you usually practice jump rope, try a higher-difficulty routine to wow the crowd.
It’s also great to practice with your whole class for a school or cultural festival and perform together.
There are tricks where everyone jumps in unison, moves their feet sideways while jumping, or crosses their legs.
When a large group moves in sync, it looks beautiful and makes for a fantastic performance.
Calligraphy performance
Calligraphy performances that have become famous in recent years represent a new form of calligraphy—not just “writing,” but showcasing it as a performance by incorporating dance and other elements.
Influenced in part by manga, calligraphy—and especially calligraphy performance—has been steadily gaining momentum, to the point where national competitions are held and TV programs feature it.
The calligraphy is highly artistic, fused with music and lighting, creating performances that are moving and compelling to watch.
Cross-dressing contest
At school festivals, fashion shows and Mr.
and Miss contests are the usual fare, right? But how about doing something different for a change and holding a cross-dressing contest instead—boys in girls’ clothes and girls in boys’ clothes.
You’ll often find, to your surprise, that some people really suit the look, while others don’t at all, which makes it super lively and a crowd-pleasing performance.
We also recommend offering photo ops with the audience.
Juggling
Juggling, with its vivid flair of tossing and catching balls, rings, and batons in midair, is a real feast for the eyes.
It can captivate an audience even as a solo act, and when performed as a team it becomes a dynamic show.
If you’re confident in your dexterity and athletic ability, why not give it a try? And please forgive the occasional slip-up!
Recreation (11–20)
Recreation that everyone—young and old, men and women—can enjoy!
At school festivals, a wide range of people—students’ families, local community members, and visitors of all ages—come to attend! So from here, we’ll introduce ideas that everyone, young and old, can enjoy together. We’ll share age-inclusive ideas like classic festival attractions and hands-on workshops that anyone can enjoy regardless of age. Related articles:A roundup of recreational activities to liven up cultural and school festivals
Recreation (1–10)
Real Escape Game
Escape games have become so popular that there are even hardcore fans.
A “Real Escape Game” takes that concept into the real world.
Participants solve various puzzles to escape from a confined area and reach the goal.
It would be exciting to use several classrooms or the gym for it.
Not being able to get out of a place you usually know well really amps up the thrill!