[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
Mini-game (1–10)
Kick Target
It’s a soccer version of strikeout.
You kick a soccer ball at a large target.
Limit the number of kicks, and the number of panels you hit becomes your score.
Preparing prizes based on the score will make it even more exciting.
Strikeout
It’s a game where you throw several balls at nine targets and compete to see how many you can hit.
It’s fun to play as-is, but you can make it even more enjoyable by getting creative with the balls or assigning different points to each target.
It’s an easy, casual game that everyone can enjoy, from small children to adults!
Wobbly Ball Carrying Game
It’s a game where there’s a ball rolling along a narrow path inside a box, and you guide the path to keep the ball from falling.
The path isn’t a simple straight line—its shape is complex—so move the ball carefully while paying attention to curves and other features.
The steeper the angle, the faster the ball goes and the harder it is to control, so once you get used to it, trying patterns that change the angle is recommended.
Another key point is that by changing the shape of the path, you can create a wide variety of course variations.
darts
Let’s try darts, a cool grown-up game, at the school festival! Since real darts can be dangerous because of the sharp tips, it’s a good idea to prepare versions where the tips are magnets or tape, or come up with other ways to make them safe.
Unlike shooting games or strikeout games, with darts it’s not enough just to hit the target—you need the dart to actually stick to that spot.
After all the throws, add up the points for the sections where the darts are firmly attached, and prepare prizes based on the score.
It’s also a good idea to make several targets at different heights so you can adjust the height according to participants’ height and age!
mini-golf
It looks like you can have all kinds of fun depending on your ideas—using a mini-golf toy set, making your own course, and more! It’s great that anyone can enjoy it, regardless of gender or experience, whether as a competitive scoring game or like an interactive activity corner.
Highly recommended!
Homemade crane game
The crane game that’s hugely popular at arcades—you can actually make one yourself! That said, the high schoolers who are really building them tend to be in the natural science club that works on robots.
It’s a challenging project without basic knowledge and know-how, but if you can pull it off, it’s sure to be a hit attraction.
Posting videos of people playing it on social media would likely generate a lot of excitement, too.
For prizes, you could use snacks, or have classmates bring in unwanted dolls from home.
Whac-A-Mole
How about making your own whack-a-mole and giving it a try? You can glue pieces of cardboard together, cut holes in it, and pop the moles in and out of the holes.
It doesn’t have to be moles—you could create your own original characters.
Of course, it’s all manual! The person doing the whacking will probably find it pretty stress-relieving!
