[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)
Giant Pop-up Pirate: Blackbeard Crisis
How about supersizing the classic toy “Pop-Up Pirate” and playing with a giant version? The bigger it is, the more thrilling and exciting it’s likely to be.
And if you can’t get a giant Pop-Up Pirate, it could be fun to do a real-life version with an actual person inside!
Recommended videos (11–20)
You can create high-quality videos using just your smartphone!
From here, I’ll introduce ideas specifically for video projects to be shown at the school festival! These days, thanks to improved smartphone cameras and a variety of editing apps, you can create great videos without expensive equipment or specialized knowledge. Use the ideas introduced below as inspiration to make a fun video. It’s also a good idea to create a digest version for social media posts to promote your class’s attraction! Related article:[Short Movie] A collection of video project ideas you can use for cultural and school festivals
Recommended videos (1–10)
GANTZ parody
Let’s try filming in familiar locations! Here are some ideas for a parody of GANTZ.
Parody videos of well-known works might be more likely to get reactions from students and teachers, right? This time, let’s take on the challenge of creating a parody video of GANTZ, a work beloved in manga, anime, and film.
Although the work in the video may differ from the actual GANTZ in terms of its setting and story, it’s also great to create something that incorporates fun elements and is filmed in familiar places.
toi toi toi！
Here’s an idea for a parody piece, “toi toi toi!”, memorable for its cute animation and song.
Some of you may have had the experience of spending so much time on structuring your video that you can’t see when it will be finished.
For those people, we recommend making a parody.
A parody is a work that humorously or satirically imitates an already completed piece.
In the video, they try their hand at parodying a show that’s broadcast on TV.
Give it a try yourself!
Friends for life.
Let’s create an epic masterpiece that will become a lifelong memory! Here are some ideas for “Lifelong Friends.” Many of you probably have a strong desire to get serious about making videos.
This work was reportedly created over about two months after being planned by the class.
Not only will it remain memorable as a finished piece, but the time you spent dedicating yourselves to video production with your cherished friends—time that is truly valuable—will also stay in your heart, without a doubt.
Give it a try!
AI video creation
AI is being used in various fields, and some even say the day when artificial intelligence surpasses humans isn’t far off—so there’s no reason not to bring this technology into your school festival! People often think AI requires special knowledge or skills to use, but when it comes to video production, there are plenty of excellent tools that let you create with just simple prompts and tasks, making it easy even for beginners.
If you use them well, you can produce stylish, movie-like videos—so give it a try!
Stylish text video
If you want to wow viewers with your video editing prowess, stylish text-only videos are the way to go! Editing filmed footage is great, but going all-in on typography lets you showcase your core technical skills even more.
The timing of when text appears, the speed at which it fades, the sync between the music and the motion—there’s no end to the details you can obsess over.
Pouring your heart into every tenth of a second and every millimeter as you create something together will become an unforgettable, youthful memory.
Miniature-style video
A miniature-style video is one that narrows the focus range and blurs the surrounding areas widely, creating footage that looks like a miniature model world.
You can maximize the effect by choosing source material shot from a high vantage point or scenes of landscapes.
For example, try filming the schoolyard from the rooftop during preparations for the school festival, or filming students gathered in the gym from the stage, and then processing the footage to achieve the miniature look.
It’s also a great option to use as part of your opening or ending sequence—why not give it a try?