This summer is heating up and it’s not just the festival line ups! When you are spending 2-5 days/nights outside it is essential to stay as cool as possible. You can’t control the weather, but you can control everything that you bring and do to help you stay cool at a music festival.
1) The Spray Fan
This old school classic is guaranteed to cool you down even during the hottest times of the day. The trick is to make sure you put in brand new batteries at the beginning of the festival. Nothing is worse than a spray bottle without the cooling fan. This item will also make you one of the more popular people at the festival and is a great way to interact with other festival goers.
2) Jump Into A Fountain
Every festival has a fountain, hose, lake, river or even a water spigot. It is vital that you take time out of your festival day and go jump in. Get your hair, face and entire body soaking wet. Bonnarooo is famous for its giant fountain. Where thousands of festival goers go multiple times a day to cool off. When it comes to music festivals wetter is always better.
3) Umbrella Hats
If you are looking to kill two birds with one stone, best dressed while staying cool at festival than we recommend investing in one there. These are guaranteed are not only guaranteed to keep the sun out of your eye, but they will also garner more compliments than you could imagine. Don’t believe us? Just as this girl.
4) Cool Off In Your Car
Waking up in a tent with a puddle of sweat is all part of the festival experience. Some times you just need a break from it all and a couple hours of extra sleep. If you came prepared with a full tank of gas go inside your car and burn a little fuel. Blast the air conditioning, close your eyes and enjoy the cold.
5) Find The Promotional Tent
Almost every single major festival has a corporate sponsor hosting a tent full of gimmicks, promotions and AC. Yup that’s right AC. Sometimes it is more than worth it to take the bait and jump into the air blasting tent, relax and cool off.
6) Dancing Fan Veil
The best way to dance and stay cool at the same time is to use one of these. Not only will you be one of the happiest people at the festival, you will be one of the coolest (coolest in both senses). The dancing veil doesn’t just keep you cool, but has the power to fan down any person within 5 feet of you.
7) Super Soakers
Similar to the piaget theory of play, release your inner child and stay cool all at the same time. Everyone likes playing with water guns, and there is no better time to blast people in the face than at a music festival.There will always be a couple of lame nay says, but when the temperatures are pushing 100 degrees getting shot in the face with water gun puts a smile on almost everyone’s face.
8) Slip and Slides
Talk about awesome! You can have it all if you come to your festival camp grounds with a slip and slide. You are guaranteed to make friends, have a blast, be the life of the festival and most importantly stay cool. Any time the sun begins to shine a little too bright you can simply slip and slide away from the heat.
9) Don’t Wear Anything
Sometimes in the summer heat less is more. One of the most acceptable places to dress down are music festivals. In the heat of the day, simply take off layers and join the festival madness.
