List of attractions you can safely hold at a school festival even during the COVID-19 pandemic
When COVID spread, cultural festivals and school festivals had to implement infection-prevention measures.
Even so, many students strongly wanted to make memories of their youth.
So here, we’ll introduce festival attractions you can safely enjoy even during the pandemic.
We’ve gathered ideas like shows, exhibits, and games or recreational activities suitable for small groups.
Plan a fun event while keeping in mind ways to reduce times when people crowd together.
Let’s work together to create a wonderful cultural festival that will stay in everyone’s hearts!
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A roundup of booths and activities that can be held safely at a cultural festival even during the COVID-19 pandemic (1–10)
LEGO brick art
Let me introduce LEGO brick art that’s perfect for a high school cultural festival.
With LEGO brick art, you can create all kinds of things—animals and plants, dioramas, even QR codes! Putting the pieces together in three dimensions using your fingertips requires concentration, but by planning with your teammates and dividing up the work by parts, you can create something wonderful.
By sharing what everyone wants to make and setting a goal together, you might end up with a moving, unforgettable creation.
Magic Show
Magic shows are popular no matter where you hold them.
Everyone wants to see mysterious things happen right before their eyes.
In this magic show, only the performer’s hands are projected on a large screen to make them easier to see.
That way, even in a large venue, the audience can clearly follow what’s happening.
It’s a good idea for the magician to practice a few times to figure out how to best present on the big screen.
In the second half, the show includes short skits and more characters, creating a lively atmosphere.
It’s also important to structure the show so the audience never gets bored.
Photo spot (e.g., balloon arch)
Photo spots at school festivals are among the most popular places.
If you create a great photo spot and have people take turns so it doesn’t get crowded, you can capture memorable festival photos.
In this video, they use balloons to create a chic, glamorous setting, but with a bit of creativity you could make all kinds of photo spots.
You could even use this as inspiration to build the festival gate.
It might be interesting to have the art club handle it—they could come up with something really cool.
Attractions you can safely hold at a school festival during COVID (11–20)
Class T-shirt Contest
When it comes to school culture festivals, nothing brings a class together like a shared goal—and a must-have item to boost that team spirit is the class T-shirt, right? Making class T-shirts by pooling everyone’s ideas is so much fun, and haven’t you ever looked at other classes’ or upper- and underclassmen’s shirts and thought, “That’s awesome!” or “They got us!”? Here’s an idea: turn those class T-shirts into an event—let’s hold a Class T-Shirt Contest! Fairly judge clever brand-logo parodies and highly elaborate, well-thought-out designs, and compete to crown the number one!
Quiz show
Who’s the most knowledgeable in school?! How about a heated head-to-head quiz show? It’s a stage event where two teams compete in a fast-buzzer format.
Questions are projected on a screen and read aloud by a host—think of it like the TV show “All Japan High School Quiz Championship.” You could pull questions from the internet, but why not enlist your teachers to help create them? It’s both educational and exciting—perfect two birds with one stone for a school festival attraction!
Trick Art Exhibition
Trick art lets you have fun by playing with optical illusions, right? You can find it in many tourist spots, so a lot of people have probably experienced it.
How about featuring trick art as an exhibit at your school festival? For example, a trick art piece of a person peeking through a hole in a wall can be drawn without requiring much technique! The key when drawing is to make the contrast between the lit areas and the shadows clear.
Instead of just displaying the art, setting up a photo spot where visitors can take pictures with the trick art could help everyone get excited together.
hero show
How about putting on a hero show popular with young children at your school’s cultural festival? Assigning roles—for example, the drama club handling the voices and the sports teams doing the performances—can boost the quality.
Preparing original costumes and a script will also add to the sense of accomplishment.
During rehearsals, be mindful of masks and keeping distance between performers, and on the day, ensure space between audience seats; with these considerations, you should be able to hold the event safely even during the COVID-19 pandemic.