[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
Recreation (1–10)
Puzzle solving
A real-life puzzle-solving game where every participant is the protagonist, tackling a series of mysteries to resolve unexpected incidents and reach the goal.
Wouldn’t it be exciting to run this on campus? Let’s boost everyone’s excitement with a slightly unrealistic story that could almost happen at school.
Will anyone be able to solve all the puzzles?
Quiz tournament
Quizzes are a classic form of recreation, aren’t they? Since it’s a school festival, how about reserving a classroom and holding a quiz competition? It would be fun to let visitors participate, and offering a prize to the winner would really liven things up.
This is especially recommended for those who belong to a quiz club.
stamp rally
A stamp rally where you collect stamps by stamping a card at designated locations, and whether you receive a prize depends on how many stamps you’ve gathered.
Even if the prize isn’t luxurious, it’s exciting to get something, isn’t it? To make it more engaging, don’t just collect stamps—turn the locations of the next stamps into a quiz, or require players to clear a game to move on.
That really amps up the fun!
maze
Use classroom or gym space to create a maze out of cardboard.
In addition to cardboard, you can also form paths with desks, or build a maze using plywood and ropes.
This is a recreational activity where you make a maze and then let people play in the finished maze!
Samurai sword-fighting (chambara) battle
Chanbara battles are a recreational activity popular with everyone from kids to adults.
Players wield foam swords and wear a ball on their arm that represents their life.
If your ball falls off, you lose.
Because foam swords are used, there’s no need to worry about injuries, and the rules are simple.
If you set it up as a project for a school or cultural festival, it can become a large-scale main event that attracts participants across a wide range of ages.
Try customizing the rules and putting thought into the costumes—why not have everyone join in and enjoy it together?
Giant Jenga
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Jenga is said to have originated in the UK.
It’s a game where you pull out rectangular pieces while reading your opponent, trying not to topple the tower.
It’s often featured on TV variety shows, so many of you are probably familiar with it.
How about making an oversized version of Jenga using materials like styrofoam or cardboard boxes? Giant Jenga makes an impact with its size alone.
You can color-code the blocks, write point values on them—there are plenty of ways to customize the game!
Recreating Spocha
Recreate Spocha at your school festival, where you can enjoy a variety of attractions and sports! When you think of Spocha, you think of activities like bowling, darts, table tennis, and karaoke.
Let’s try to recreate all of that by hand! With a bit of creativity, you can even make darts and bowling using recycled materials.
Make use of 100-yen shops, too, and build your very own original Spocha!