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[School Festival] Ideas for Handmade Coffee Cups
At school festivals, creating attractions like those in amusement and theme parks is really popular.
In this article, we’ll introduce the “teacup ride,” which is right up there with roller coasters and carousels in popularity.
The common approach is to build an axis and cups and spin them manually, but there are also motorized teacup rides.
It doesn’t end with assembly—by painting them cutely and adding creative lighting, you can make them feel even more like a real attraction.
Work together with everyone and try building a popular attraction!
Cultural Festival: Handmade Coffee Cup Ideas (1–10)
Coffee cups you can spin by yourself
Let’s create an attraction that will delight visitors! Here’s an idea for self-spinning teacups.
At school festivals, teacup rides often have the student organizers spinning the cups for the guests.
This time, let’s try a mechanism where visitors turn a handle themselves to spin their own teacup around and around.
The base platform is rotated by the student organizers, while each individual teacup is spun by the visitors—a unique idea.
Give it a try!
Manual coffee cup
A classic coffee cup ride idea: the manual coffee cup.
Assemble single pipes in a cross shape and attach bases to each end.
Put casters on the bottom and rider-friendly cups on top.
As the word “manual” suggests, people push the protruding pipes to power it.
It looks delightfully analog, which actually adds to that school-festival vibe.
If you also put casters on the cups themselves so each can spin independently, it’ll feel even more authentic.
Just be careful not to push too hard in all the excitement!
A coffee cup that uses a chair
A simple coffee cup ride that uses office chairs with casters.
It has a straightforward structure in which office chairs are fixed in four directions around a central axis, and it’s characterized by the smooth motion that comes from using off-the-shelf components.
The rotation of the chairs is also a key point: both the rotation around the central axis and the rotation of the chairs themselves let you fully enjoy the experience, giving it that classic coffee-cup feel.
Because the movement is so smooth, it’s important to consider safety and adjust the rotation speed accordingly.
High-speed coffee cups spun by hand
Recommended for those confident in their strength! Here’s an idea for a high-speed coffee cup ride powered by human force.
The typical coffee cup ride you find at theme parks usually lets you adjust the spinning speed by turning a handle, right? This time, let’s build a high-speed coffee cup that spins using human power.
Place your hands on the cup and apply force, and the cup will whirl around.
It’s a simple structure, but it might be perfect for a class with many strong students.
Give it a try!
Seesaw-Combining Coffee Cup
An unconventional twist that combines a coffee cup ride with a seesaw.
The standard setup uses scaffolding pipes to build the coffee cup ride, but here a seesaw is inserted between them.
Simply adding three-dimensional movement dramatically increases the impact.
Of course, this also introduces the risk of collisions or people falling off.
Be sure to plan solid safety measures, such as installing safety bars where people ride and ensuring ample space around the attraction.
Since it’s manually operated, the key is to design it so the operator can properly control the device.
Coffee cups that everyone rides and spins (teacup ride)
People positioned behind each of the gondolas extending in four directions from the axis work together to rotate the whole structure.
It’s an easy-to-understand setup, and by running alongside the gondolas with their hands on them, the attendants visibly convey their effort.
To adjust the rotation speed, it’s important that the force applied to the gondolas, the running speed, and the timing among the operators mesh well.
The unity of the people turning it likely contributes directly to the attraction’s thrill and enjoyment.
A coffee cup in the dark
It’s a concept that focuses on staging a unique world where coffee cups are spinning.
The gondolas themselves are a simple, manually rotating setup, but spinning in the dark creates a thrilling sense that you might bump into something.
It’s not pitch black—by casting a flickering light, you reveal the approach of other coffee cups, and that moment of surprise really heightens the excitement.
To emphasize the mysterious atmosphere centered on the wavering light, we also recommend carefully selecting the BGM.