[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
Food and Drink / Festival Booths (1–10)
shaved ice
When it comes to shaved ice, it’s a classic item at school festival food stalls! School festivals are often held in May or June, and also in September or October, and even if it’s not midsummer, it’s still pretty hot outside.
That’s why offering cold shaved ice is sure to be a hit! The traditional style with your favorite syrup is great, but the recently popular Taiwanese shaved ice is also highly recommended.
Taiwanese shaved ice uses flavored ice that’s shaved and topped with fruits and more.
It tastes great and looks fantastic in photos, so it’s likely to become even more popular.
Warabi Mochi Drink
Tapioca drinks were a huge craze for a while, but how about making a warabimochi drink—the perfect way to describe a Japanese-style version of that tapioca drink? All you need are simple ingredients: warabi starch to make the warabimochi, brown sugar, and milk.
Combine the warabi starch, brown sugar, and water, thoroughly dissolving the starch, then heat and knead the mixture well.
Since it burns easily, avoid high heat and keep stirring constantly.
Once it thickens and becomes cohesive, gather it into one mass, transfer it to cold water, drain, and cut into bite-size pieces.
Brush the inside of a cup with kuromitsu (brown sugar syrup) made from brown sugar and water, pour in the milk, add the warabimochi, and it’s ready! We recommend using a wide straw and a cup designed for tapioca drinks.
Pork-Wrapped Rice Ball
With just a little extra effort—simply wrapping the rice ball with meat—you can significantly boost customers’ desire to buy.
It’s an easy dish that doesn’t take much preparation, but since offering a variety can be a bit challenging, it might be a good idea to prepare another item and sell them as a set.
Food and drink / Festival booths (11–20)
maid cafe
Here’s a fun idea if it ever comes to life! Introducing a “Meido” Café—playing on the words “maid” and “afterlife.” This humorous concept is sure to draw attention.
Decorate the classroom with a temple theme and give visitors nicknames styled like posthumous Buddhist names.
For drinks and food, offer a unique service where staff cast a playful spell—“Oishiku nare, nen-nen kyun!”—before serving.
Feel free to use this as inspiration and add your own twist.
Stage Events (11–20)
Main Attraction of the School Festival!! Stage Events
If there’s one more thing that’s indispensable to a school festival besides the food stalls, it has to be the stage events! Inviting celebrities or popular artists for talk shows and live performances is great, and showcasing the performances that clubs and circles practice every day is a classic choice! Because it’s a school festival, let’s put on something a little special! Related articles:Ideas for stage events and attractions that will liven up a school festival
Stage Event (1–10)
band performance
Speaking of school festivals, it’s all about live shows! Not just the light music club—forming a band with volunteers and performing live is something everyone dreams of.
Some people even start learning an instrument for this once-a-year chance, right? It’s an attraction that both performers and the audience can enjoy and get pumped up about.
Live performance by a popular artist
A live performance by a popular artist at a school festival is something everyone can enjoy—and it’s a great chance to hear music by famous bands and artists in person.
Of course, music lovers will be thrilled, but even people who don’t usually listen to much music might become fans or get hooked on live shows once they experience how great it is.
If the artist is extremely famous and mainstream, the budget might be an issue, but up-and-coming bands or artists with ties to the school or local area would likely be happy to take part.
Singing Skills Championship
You see it a lot on TV, don’t you? Karaoke battles where people compete on how well they sing.
There are contestants who sing so well they could put famous singers to shame, and you can’t help but be impressed and get lost in listening.
How about doing that as an event for the school festival? Some people might feel embarrassed about singing in front of others, but who knows—maybe an unexpected dark horse, a real star, will emerge!