[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
Stage Event (1–10)
chorus
When it comes to stage events, choral singing is a classic choice.
It works in elementary, junior high, and high school—really anywhere—and most people have done it a few times.
You can go orthodox and pick a famous choral piece, or you might choose a pop song that isn’t usually selected for choir.
It’s fun for the performers and surely enjoyable for the audience as well.
And for those who feel shy about being on stage in a small group, singing in a choir with everyone else can make it easier to relax and have fun.
Wotagei Show
Once considered uncommon, wotagei has become popular as a form of dance and performance—so much so that YouTubers now upload videos of themselves doing wotagei to hit songs.
The choreography, featuring large arm swings while holding illuminated sticks like the must-have “king blade” at idol and anime song concerts, is especially striking.
Dim the lights, synchronize the moves with a few people, and it undoubtedly stands on its own as a solid performance.
Nail it with style, and the crowd is guaranteed to get hyped!
Stomp
Stomp is performing music using your body and everyday objects.
In stomp, a sense of rhythm and humor is essential.
Let’s create an entertaining performance with help from members of the wind ensemble or light music club.
DJ
Make the most of this rare chance to get the students hyped by showing off your DJ skills and turning the gym into a club.
For a school festival, it’s important to draw people in by mixing in songs everyone knows.
By including tracks from a variety of genres, it could also become a valuable opportunity to present the music you want everyone to hear.
As a DJ, smooth transitions are a crucial element and an essential part of expressing your style.
Jump Rope Performance
Show off your special skills! Here are some ideas for a jump rope performance.
Many of you probably remember trying forward and backward swings in elementary school PE and having fun with them.
This time, let’s put on a performance that starts with simple tricks and gradually increases in difficulty.
If you choose trending songs or music with an easy-to-follow beat, the audience will likely get into it and cheer you on.
It’s also important to secure enough space so the rope doesn’t hit the audience!
Piano live show
If you’re good at playing the piano and confident, doing a live piano performance could be a lot of fun.
If you can handle an Electone, you could even cover all the parts of a song by yourself, and if you can play duets, bringing a piano or keyboard for a two- or three-person ensemble would make for a stylish performance you don’t usually get to experience!
pro wrestling
Putting on a pro wrestling show as an attraction at a school or college festival can really energize the event.
You might think pro wrestling is mainly for middle-aged men, but once you actually watch it, it’s surprisingly entertaining, and these days it has plenty of young fans too.
Try incorporating a variety of styles—from humor-filled matches to serious, hard-fought bouts.