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Instagram-worthy ideas for a high school cultural festival: photo spots everyone will love

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These days, it’s become normal to find Instagrammable photo spots and foods at school culture festivals.

So this time, we’re sharing ideas for creating Instagrammable moments at a high school culture festival! Along with classics like chalkboard art and balloon art, we’ve collected stylish and easy ideas that will make visitors think, “I have to take a picture!” Still wondering what to do this year? Feel free to use these as inspiration.

Let’s create Instagrammable features full of originality that will make everyone smile!

Instagrammable ideas for a high school cultural festival. Crowd-pleasing photo spots (11–20)

Dried flowers

If you want to create a photo spot that highlights the subject, using dried flowers is also recommended.

Because dried flowers are dehydrated, they are characterized by soft, muted colors.

This means they don’t overpower the scene and make the person standing in front of them look even more radiant.

Another appeal of dried flowers is the wide variety to choose from, making it easy to add originality.

Try selecting them based on color palette, the meanings associated with the flowers, or the motif you want to create.

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Mario World

If you use a famous work as a motif, everyone should be able to enjoy it.

With that in mind, I propose using Mario, the character from a popular game series, as the motif.

To capture the essence of Mario, it’s best to include classic items—for example, question blocks that produce coins and green pipes.

You could also place Goombas to match the theme, and let people wear Mario’s hat.

A notable feature of this idea is that it can be enjoyed across not only age and gender, but also nationality.

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Mosaic art

Using about 500,000 one-centimeter-square colored paper pieces, high school students joined forces to create a giant mosaic in Takamatsu City.

Mosaic art

Mosaic art is created by sticking together lots of small pieces of paper or photos to make one large image.

It’s a classic choice for cultural festival murals, and you often see it being made on TV shows too! While it’s great to simply keep attaching small colored pieces, if possible, it would be wonderful to collect lots of memorable photos of school life from all the students and teachers and use them to create a large mosaic artwork.

Work together with everyone and make a fantastic piece!

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paper fan

Paper fans are a common sight at stylish home and birthday parties.

In various sizes, they add a festive touch to walls, ceilings, and tables.

You can find sets at variety stores, but they can be a bit pricey—so why not gather the materials and make them yourself? If you pick up some cute design paper from a 100-yen shop or a general store, they’re easy to create! They’re adorable not only on walls but also when made small and used as picks to decorate food.

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Cloth on the ceiling

Have you ever seen fabric draped from the ceiling at Asian-style variety shops or at party venues like wedding receptions? Let’s incorporate that into classroom or gym decorations! Using colorful, ethnic-patterned fabrics creates an exotic vibe; using solid pastel pinks or light blues gives a cute feel; and using lace materials adds a whimsical, fairy-tale mood.

Choose based on the atmosphere you want for the venue.

It’s also recommended to hang fabric radiating from a single point on the ceiling like a canopy.

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stained glass

Stained glass captivates people with its beautiful appearance.

How about trying window film inspired by that look—stained-glass-style window film? Window film is a material you can cut into any shape and stick onto your windows.

Using one that mimics stained glass is recommended.

Just like the real thing, it shines beautifully in sunlight.

There are many designs available, so try finding one you like.

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Ideas for Instagrammable moments at a high school cultural festival: crowd-pleasing photo spots (21–30)

Heart wall

Girls just can’t resist anything with hearts, right? If there were a wall this cute, you’d definitely end up taking a photo here.

Plus, since this wall is designed like a math equation, you can’t help but want to step into the empty spot yourself.

It’s like angel wings—walls that are completed by you becoming part of them just make you want to join in.

As for these hearts, you could probably make something lovely with tissues or the thin paper they sell at 100-yen shops.

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Hirakawa Masako (Bōkarisuto: Sakata Mizumako)

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