[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 (1–10)
Jungle Cruise
A jungle in a school! Jungle Cruise is a booth that’s sure to be a hit with kids.
Create a route in the classroom wide enough for a cart to pass through, and decorate the surroundings to look like a jungle.
Guests ride in a dedicated vehicle and simply follow the course! Place models of plants and animals you’d find in a real jungle here and there, and have a guide walk along and give commentary as you pass each spot to make it feel even more authentic.
Think of the attraction at Tokyo Disneyland as the reference image.
bouldering
Bouldering is gaining popularity, especially among women, as a new sport.
Because it’s popular with young people, it’s also a great option for a cultural festival or school festival attraction.
If you’re going to offer it as an attraction, how about building your own climbing wall? The preparation is quite demanding, but if you can pull it off, I think you can expect a large turnout.
Virtual roller coaster
You might want to try a roller coaster, but it can be difficult due to space or rules.
In such cases, we recommend trying a virtual roller coaster.
A virtual roller coaster is an attraction where you sit in a moving seat and watch point-of-view footage as if you were riding a real coaster.
You’re not actually moving, but you can experience the sensation of speeding along at high velocity.
Try adding touches that engage the senses—like setting up a fan for wind—to make it even more immersive.
Rotating seesaw
Want to turn your classroom into a place as fun as an amusement park? If so, how about planning a rotating seesaw? This idea is a full-fledged attraction built by combining pipes, lumber, and more.
It moves up and down while rotating, and with tires used as cushions, it really feels like riding a seesaw.
Since it’s human-powered, you can adjust the speed and intensity, making it an attraction that kids and adults alike can enjoy.
Be sure to give it a try while keeping safety in mind.
Viking
This is an impressive masterpiece.
They hand-built the amusement park attraction known as the “Viking” (pirate ship ride).
The rocking is powered manually by pulling on ropes.
It might seem dangerous, but it was designed in collaboration with a construction company, and they say it’s made to avoid breaking or collapsing.
Incidentally, more high schools have been building homemade roller coasters for their culture festivals, and when you see the serious look in the students’ eyes, you can’t help but think that projects like this might be a good thing.
Mini-games (11–20)
A mini-game corner where you can enjoy various games
How about preparing a few small games that wouldn’t stand alone as full attractions, and turning them into a mini-game corner where everyone can play to their heart’s content? Feel free to mix and match the ideas introduced below, and let visitors enjoy a mini-game corner unique to your class! It’s packed with easy, fun ideas perfect for a classroom exhibit at the class level. Related articles:Games that rival street festivals and variety shows!? Crowd-pleasers for school cultural festivals
Mini-game (1–10)
Cardboard Maze
If you use the entire classroom to build it, you’ll end up with a maze that both adults and kids can enjoy! So how about making a maze out of cardboard? Since the main material is cardboard, you can use scrap materials.
Planning the course and assembling it are fun parts of the process, too.
Plastic Bottle Bowling
A classic handmade game and recreation activity: plastic bottle bowling.
Making a straight lane like regular bowling and rolling a ball works well, but how about adding a twist and creating a U-shaped lane? It’s like the Bank Bowling game from the TV show “VS Arashi”! You can make it even more fun by designing the lane with bright colors and decorating the plastic bottles to look cute.
It’s enjoyable to create and just as fun to play!
