Children work as designers and models for a crazy hat fashion show. Provide paper plates or bowls, plastic containers or shoe boxes as a base for the hats and let the children decorate them with sequins, tissue paper, pom-poms, stickers and ribbons. Punch holes on the sides of the hats and tie a piece of yarn or string through. You can also mold butcher paper into hat shapes using liquid starch and decorate those. The students can parade around school showcasing their fancy caps.
A pajamas fashion show can accompany a pajamas school theme or a unit on "The Polar Express" by Chris Van Allsburg. Plan a pajamas fashion show for a brisk day in fall or winter and serve the audience warm cocoa and cookies made by the students. They can sport their favorite pair of jammies and slippers while strutting down the runway. Students can also bring a favorite stuffed animal to school and dress it with doll or baby clothes.
A fashion show modeling reusable materials teaches children to care for their environment. Students can tailor paper clothing by cutting, folding and taping old newspapers. Children can also use paper grocery bags, cardboard paper towel tubes and lightly used paper plates and foil to make costumes for a futuristic fashion show. After students collage foil pieces onto the plates, bags and tubes, you can cut a hole in the bag for their heads and arms and attach tubes onto the plates. Have the children wear the bags as futuristic suits and the plates as hats.
Most prekindergarten classrooms have dress-up clothes in the dramatic play center. If you don't, ask parents for contributions or browse thrift stores for blazers, dresses, costume jewelry, hats and sunglasses. Host a fancy fashion show in class with children modeling their own elegant creations. Add to the glamorous theme by creating a red carpet with fabric and having teachers and parents flash photos of the pre-k students on the catwalk.