[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
Attractions you can enjoy with peace of mind even during the COVID-19 pandemic (1–10)
Escape Game
Real escape games, which are also popular as city events, involve gathering in various places—such as a room in an apartment building or a school—solving puzzles, and escaping within a time limit.
They can be enjoyed solo or in groups, and since the setting can make use of a school, it’s an ideal attraction.
Because many different people come to school festivals, you’ll need to prepare puzzles that are easy for anyone to understand.
It’s an activity that lets everyone have fun while keeping some distance across a large campus.
Definitely give it a try.
LEGO brick art
Let me introduce LEGO brick art that’s perfect for a high school cultural festival.
With LEGO brick art, you can create all kinds of things—animals and plants, dioramas, even QR codes! Putting the pieces together in three dimensions using your fingertips requires concentration, but by planning with your teammates and dividing up the work by parts, you can create something wonderful.
By sharing what everyone wants to make and setting a goal together, you might end up with a moving, unforgettable creation.
stamp rally
Stamp rallies can be enjoyed by people of all ages, and there’s little risk of creating crowds.
There are various types of stamp rallies.
A common one has participants visit different spots and collect stamps; completing the set may finish an illustration or earn a prize.
In other cases, you get a stamp by winning a game.
Equally important is the theme of the stamp rally.
Presenting a story or a distinct world setting will make it even more enjoyable.
Perfectly copying a music video
Videos that perfectly recreate music videos are popular and become engaging works with elements of humor.
A key tip is to place a small version of the original video on the screen.
The direction will differ depending on whether you aim for a truly identical remake or a parody, but enjoying the differences from the original will also be part of the fun.
It’s exciting enough just to see someone you know appear in it.
It’s also great that you can continue to enjoy it as a memory long after the school festival is over.
short movie
When it comes to school festivals, plays are one of the most popular attractions, but since they draw large crowds and get packed, it can be hard to decide whether to stage one.
In times like that, turn it into a short movie and make something people can enjoy anywhere.
Of course, the more interesting the content the better, but it seems like it would be a big hit just to see familiar teachers and friends appear on screen.
A school festival is best when everyone shares the atmosphere in the same place, of course, but I feel like having an option to enjoy it from afar wouldn’t be a bad idea either.
fashion show
This looks like a fashion show that would likely be popular as a performance.
It would be more fun if the outfits worn in the show were designed by someone.
Please make sure the choreography and walking style allow for sufficient distancing.
In addition to the clothing designs themselves, if your school normally requires uniforms, people will probably be especially curious to see everyone out of their usual uniforms.
To avoid crowding, you could also dress mannequins in the designed outfits or recommended coordinates, or print out photos of them and put those on display.
Magic Show
Magic shows are popular no matter where you hold them.
Everyone wants to see mysterious things happen right before their eyes.
In this magic show, only the performer’s hands are projected on a large screen to make them easier to see.
That way, even in a large venue, the audience can clearly follow what’s happening.
It’s a good idea for the magician to practice a few times to figure out how to best present on the big screen.
In the second half, the show includes short skits and more characters, creating a lively atmosphere.
It’s also important to structure the show so the audience never gets bored.