How to Add Festival Effects to Your Shopify?

Adding a festival effect is now a trend online — be it snowfall for Christmas, pumpkins for Halloween, or hearts during Valentine’s Day.

You must have seen such snowfall effects during Christmas: 

While Shopify doesn’t offer any built-in feature to add these seasonal effects, you have options here: 

• Using a code snippet
• Use a Shopify app

In this blog, learn how to add any festival effect to your Shopify store, going beyond the internal limitations. 

Use Code to Add Festive Decor Effect to Shopify

In this method, you will have to customize your theme file and add a code to show a specific theme effect in your store.

The limitation here is you will need to create a code for every festival effect carefully to avoid the chances of it affecting your core file.

For example, if you are looking to add a snowfall effect, you can use this solution we have mentioned here: Code snippet to add a snowfall effect to Shopify

To give you an overview of the process, you will have to copy the code and customize it in your theme editor. 

Use MIT Festival Effects & Decor to Add Effects 

The Meetanshi Festival Effects & Decor is one of the best seasonal effects apps for Shopify, as you can add more than one festival decor with additional elements without any coding. 

Add popular festival effects like Snowflakes, Snowfall, Raining, Sakura, Cherry Blossom, Love, Stars, Valentine, Halloween, Autumn, Meteor, Fireworks for Diwali, Confetti, Pumpkin, Lightning & Thunder, and Water Bubbles. 

Let’s look at the steps to add the festival effect. 

Step 1: Install and Enable the Shopify App 

Install the MIT Festival Effects & Decor app from the Shopify app. 

Now, to enable the app, head to Online Store > Themes > Customize. On the left menu, select the third app icon, enable the app and click Save.  

Step 2: Add the Needed Festival Effect 

Now, from the app dashboard, select Effects from the different available options. 

Then, click on the Create New button to add a festive effect of your choice. You will have 25+ options to select an effect to display on your store. 

After you select the effect, you will have to configure a few settings to manage the visibility of your effect.

• Effect Name: Enter a name for the effect
• Status: Add the effect status to active or inactive.
• Page Settings: You have the option to add the effect to the entire theme, homepage, specific product, product tag, collection, and pages
• Select Countries: Select countries to show the effect only specific visitors  
• Show On: Option to show on mobile, desktop, or both.

Click Save, and your effect will be visible on the targeted pages. 

Step 3: Schedule Your Festival Effect 

If you want to avoid the back and forth of showing and hiding the effect, you can simply schedule it for it to run at a particular time. 

Add the following setting to schedule your effect:

• Title: Add a title for the scheduled effect
• Start Date and End Date: Use the calendar to set the start and end date with time

Lastly, select the status between Active or Inactive and hit Apply. 

That’s it. You can simply add festival decorations to your Shopify store without disturbing any theme files. 

Additional Festival Customization For Your Shopify Store 

The MIT Festival Effects & Decor not only allows you to add effects to your store, you can other festival decorations like:

• Festival-based header decorations
• Customize the mouse cursor with a falling trial
• Display a popup with customized text 

Example of a Halloween-based header 

You can easily play around with elements and add the ones that seem more appropriate based on the festivity — if you want to activate all the elements, you can do that as well. Also, we have listed Shopify apps for Halloween effects that help you easily customize your store with spooky designs, themed promotions, and festive features to boost customer engagement and seasonal sales.

While the coding method comes with cost benefits, it increases your manual efforts of adding code for each festival. Adding a festival effect without impacting any of your theme files is made easy using the Shopify app.