[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
Photo spots (1–10)
face-in-the-hole panel
The face-in-the-hole boards, which could be called the ancestors of photo spots you always see at tourist destinations, have been around forever.
You often come across them, but few people have actually made one.
For many, once a face-in-the-hole panel is there, you just can’t resist sticking your face in and snapping a photo—so it’s guaranteed to become a popular photo spot! Once you’ve cut a face-sized hole in a plywood board, all that’s left is to draw the illustration.
Use various examples of face-in-the-hole panels for inspiration and finish yours with a touch of humor!
Performances you can enjoy with peace of mind even during the COVID-19 pandemic (11–20)
Not only for COVID-19 but also for infectious disease prevention
After the COVID-19 pandemic, people’s awareness around infection control has changed significantly—avoiding crowds, paying attention to hygiene, and so on. It feels like these changes in awareness have continued even after the pandemic eased. With that in mind, from here we’ll introduce activities that avoid crowding and can be done with peace of mind from a hygiene standpoint. If you’re thinking, “We want to offer activities that participants can join with confidence!” please use this as a reference. Related articles:List of attractions you can safely hold at a school festival even during the COVID-19 pandemic
Attractions you can enjoy with peace of mind even during the COVID-19 pandemic (1–10)
Where’s Wally?
Many of you were probably obsessed with the Where’s Wally? books.
This is an attempt to bring that experience to life inside the school building.
To keep the crowd manageable, we plan to limit entry as we go.
In this real-life version, you can earn hints—such as who Wally is and where he might be—by answering quiz questions.
Put your answers into the submission box on the wall to receive clues.
You’re probably curious not only about where he is, but also about what the real, non-picture-book Wally is like, right?
Photo spot (e.g., balloon arch)
Photo spots at school festivals are among the most popular places.
If you create a great photo spot and have people take turns so it doesn’t get crowded, you can capture memorable festival photos.
In this video, they use balloons to create a chic, glamorous setting, but with a bit of creativity you could make all kinds of photo spots.
You could even use this as inspiration to build the festival gate.
It might be interesting to have the art club handle it—they could come up with something really cool.
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.
