Make Your Middle School Culture Festival a Hit! A Collection of Ideas for Popular Exhibits, Games, and Stage Performances
Have you already decided what to do for your junior high school cultural festival?
There are plenty of ideas for exhibits and stage performances, as well as attractions and games that visitors can enjoy.
However, you might be having trouble deciding—perhaps you’re unsure which activities will really liven things up, or you want to create something truly memorable.
In this article, we’ll introduce a wide range of recommended activities for junior high school cultural festivals.
We’ve picked out classic and popular options, so use these suggestions as a reference to help you create a fun and exciting festival!
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Middle School Cultural Festival Gets Lively! A Collection of Ideas for Popular Exhibits, Games, and Stage Performances (41–50)
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.
Middle School Cultural Festival Buzz! A Collection of Ideas for Popular Exhibits, Games, and Stage Performances (51–60)
Handmade Workshop
How about offering a class in a genre you wouldn’t normally do in the classroom—something like handmade crafts? You can lecture on the steps while having participants create their own pieces, so they can discover the fun of handcrafting.
Prepare a variety of colors and decorations, and encourage everyone to pack their individuality into their work; that will make the event even livelier.
It’s also a nice bonus that the memories of the school festival can be preserved in a tangible form.
To make it easy to take home, we recommend choosing small items like accessories.
balloon art
Balloon art is a perfect fit for a lively and festive school culture festival.
Let’s plan together what we want to make with balloons and share our ideas with sketches or drawings.
The location of the decorations will also be an important point! By dividing up the tasks and creating things together, you’ll likely build a stronger sense of teamwork.
Make your own original balloon art pieces, deepen your bonds with your friends, and create a culture festival you’ll always remember! If you start planning and creating a little early, you’ll be able to move forward with plenty of time to spare.
merry-go-round
A merry-go-round is always a hit with kids at amusement parks—and of course, adults love it too.
The nostalgic atmosphere really brings back memories.
Here’s an idea: let’s do a merry-go-round as a cultural festival attraction! The key points are to make it a ride and have it spin around, but it will require a fairly large setup.
For the motion, let’s keep it manual—people will turn it by hand.
To enhance the mood, it might be nice to darken the classroom and get creative with lighting.
LEGO brick art
Let me introduce LEGO brick art that’s perfect for a school culture festival.
With LEGO brick art, you can create all kinds of things—animals, plants, dioramas, even QR codes! Using your fingertips to assemble the parts in three dimensions 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 something moving and memorable.
Abandoned Hospital Maze
If you’re thinking about a maze for your school festival, why not incorporate an “abandoned hospital”? Abandoned hospitals are a common setting for ghostly attractions.
An empty hospital is scary all by itself.
For a school festival, you could place nurses and doctors with obvious blood effects to give people a fright.
Paint the maze walls white and prepare hospital-like props such as beds and medical charts.
The anxiety of getting lost and the fear of the abandoned hospital will surely make it a hit.
Broadcasting same-day footage of the cultural festival straight out of the camera
The student council probably had someone in charge of cameras filming and taking photos of the big, exciting day of the cultural festival.
It would be a shame to just record it and leave it at that, so how about editing the footage and showing it at the closing ceremony or the after-party? Since there were likely many different events on the day, try editing a video that introduces each one so that even those who couldn’t see everything can still get a sense of what it was like.
Looking back on the festival may lead to new insights and ideas you can use in the future!