[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
Recommended videos (1–10)
Ridiculously cool video
It’s a piece composed of short clips showing everyday actions carried out in a stylish way.
The structure repeatedly presents moments that seem almost miraculous, like tossing trash into a bin without looking or tidying up by juggling items with your feet.
If you frame it as “a day in the life of a high school student,” layering these miracles onto the events of a single day, the added sense of story could make it an even more polished work.
It would also be great to include moments that prompt playful quips—like “You don’t have to make even that move stylish!”—that make viewers chuckle.
Ending with just a string of miraculous moments is fine, but if you play a making-of segment after the main feature that shows the path to achieving those shots, you can also convey the effort and relatability behind them.
Toshin Parody
This is a video where people imitate the distinctive looks and speaking styles of prominent TOSHIN prep school instructors—like Mr.
Osamu Hayashi, who became a celebrity with his “Imadesho!” catchphrase, and Ms.
Hagino, the ‘Madonna of Classical Literature’—to make humorous, entertaining claims.
It could also be a fun idea to include promotions for your class’s booth at events like school festivals.
short film
When you hear “making a movie,” it might sound grand, but how about producing and screening a short film? You could shoot something with friends using familiar places or themes.
These days, you can handle everything from filming to editing on a smartphone.
It takes a bit of technique, but video editing and the like can be so fun you might just get hooked.
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!
Recommended videos (11–20)
A parody of Itte Q
This is a parody-style video of the variety show “Itte Q! to the Ends of the World,” popular across generations.
It’s packed with all the Itte Q flair—parodies of quizzes and commercials, prank videos, and more! Rather than just recreating the original, adding arrangements that highlight your school’s unique character could make it enjoyable for even more people.
Including a blooper reel at the end would also make it a fun watch.
It’s sure to liven up the opening ceremony of a school or culture festival, so be sure to use it as a reference!
Exhibitions & Art (11–20)
If you prepare by the day before, on the day it’s just the exhibition!
Among classroom-based project ideas, the appeal of exhibition-style displays is that they can be run by a small team on the day. They’re perfect for students who want to check out lots of food stalls and stage events at the festival! Just keep in mind that you’ll be very busy leading up to the day, so be sure to work together as a class. Of course, another charm of exhibition-style projects is that what everyone creates can be kept as a memento. Related articles:Ideas for exhibits recommended for school culture festivals. Film screenings, too.
Exhibitions & Art (1–10)
Mosaic art
It’s that project they do every year on the 24-Hour TV program—arranging lots of photos to create one large image! Using pictures from school events before the festival and from the preparation period will make it even more dramatic.
Instead of just displaying something made in advance, incorporating photos taken on the day of the festival and assembling the piece improv-style in real time would make it exciting and fun for both the creators and the audience.
Let’s add a performance element to the art to keep guests engaged and entertained.
Trick Art Exhibition
If you’re looking for an exhibition that visitors can actively experience, I recommend a trick art exhibition.
Trick art has become popular at interactive museums recently, and the number of fans is growing.
It’s visually striking and Instagrammable, and photos could help attract more visitors.
Creating a corner where guests can take photos together will also make for a nice memento.
