50 Fun Ideas for Crazy Hat Day at School

January 26, 2025

In school, Crazy Hat Day is a fun spirit day where students and teachers wear the wacky and unique hats they normally wouldn’t wear. This is one of the most popular spirit week themes, along with pajama day and anything but a backpack day. The point of spirit week is to give students an opportunity to have fun and be creative while having a memorable day at school.

There is a lot of freedom when it comes to crazy hat day, which can make choosing the perfect hat difficult. For that reason, we’ve put together a list of 50 crazy hat day ideas for you to make and wear at your school’s spirit week.

What is Crazy Hat Day?

Crazy hat day is a school spirit day where students are encouraged to wear ridiculous hats to school. Most students choose to make their own unique and creative hats to wear. Some students might already own a crazy hat and choose to wear that instead of making a new one. A lot of school dress codes don’t allow students to wear hats, so this is a fun exception to the rules!

Crazy Hat Day Ideas

1. Inside-out Hat: This is a classic and easy crazy hat that anyone can do. Simply take a baseball cap or bucket hat and flip it inside out and put it on your head.
2. Hat Tower: Grab a bunch of hats and stack them on top of each other. You’ll have to be a bit strategic with your stacking to make sure it stays on your head.
3. Stuffed Animal Hat: Attach your favorite stuffed animals to a hat or headband. You can use tape or velcro make sure the stuffed animal stays on your hat.
4. Food-Themed Hat: Create hats shaped like pizza slices, tacos, donuts, or ice cream. You can print these out and simply tape or glue them to your hat. This crazy hat is a great way to also express your creativity and taste.
5. Under the Sea Hat: Add toy fish, fake seaweed, and blue streamers for an ocean vibe. You can use a bucket hat as the base, as those are often used for fishing.
6. Rainbow Hat: Use colorful paper or fabric to create a rainbow with clouds on the sides.
   
   
7. Feather Hat: Cover your hat in feathers for a fluffy and bold look.
8. Cupcake Hat: Design a hat that looks like a giant cupcake, complete with “sprinkles.” Don’t use actual cupcake decorating materials, since you might leave a mess at school.
9. Flower Garden Hat: Glue fake flowers, butterflies, and grass to your hat to make a garden-inspired crazy hat. You can cut green construction paper to make it look like grass
10. Bubble Wrap Hat: Wrap your hat in bubble wrap for a bouncy, textured look. This is a great way to recycle bubble wrap that you may have gotten from a package.
11. Lamp Shade Hat: Wear a lamp shade as a hat!
12. Literal Bucket Hat: Wear a bucket as a hat
13. Cereal Box Hat: Make yourself a hat from an empty cereal box.
14. Cardboard Box Hat: Cut and decorate a box with wacky patterns.
15. Flower Pot Hat: Use a clean flower pot put it upside down to wear it as a hat
16. Beach Bucket Hat: Use a small beach bucket, and add toy shovels or seashells.
17. Colander Hat: Wear a kitchen colander, and add pasta or kitchen utensils.
    
    
18. Bicycle Helmet Hat: Grab your bike helmet and wear it to school! If you want, you can also decorate it by taping things to your helmet
19. Disco Ball Hat: Make your hat sparkle with shiny paper or mini mirrors.
20. Light-Up Hat: Add battery-powered fairy lights to a cap or headband.
21. Solar System Hat: Create a hat with planets, stars, and a glowing “sun.”
22. Tinfoil Hat: This hat is great for conspiracy theorists! Just grab some tinfoil and fold it in the shape of a hat.
23. Spinning Hat: Add a small pinwheel or spinning object on top.
24. Circuit Board Hat: Attach old computer parts for a tech-inspired design.
25. Space Alien Hat: Add antennas and glowing “alien eyes” using LED lights. Tinfoil is a great way to get that metallic look.
26. Book Hat: Open a book, and wear it like a bonnet or tape books together.
27. Superhero Hat: Design a hat inspired by your favorite superhero.
28. Holiday Hat: Add Easter eggs, Christmas ornaments, or shamrocks.
29. Candy Hat: Attach candy wrappers or fake candy for a sweet look.
30. Tall Hat: Use cardboard to create a hat that’s ridiculously tall.
31. Balloon Hat: Attach colorful balloons to a hat or headband.
32. Cloud Hat: Create a fluffy cloud with cotton balls or stuffing.
33. Tree Hat: Make a tree with fake leaves, branches, or even Christmas lights.
34. Breakfast Hat: Add fake eggs, bacon, toast, or a frying pan to your hat.
35. Soda Can Hat: Attach empty soda cans for a silly, jingling effect.
36. Emoji Hat: Stick emoji faces all over your hat for a funny theme. You can print pictures of emojis from your home printer.
37. Crazy Hair Hat: Add wigs or yarn to create wild “hair” coming out of your hat.
38. Traffic Cone Hat: If you have an orange cone at home, you can wear that as a hat
39. Mini Garden Hat: Add fake grass, flowers, and mini garden gnomes.
40. Frisbee Hat: Wear a frisbee with extra decorations for a sporty look.
41. Puzzle Hat: Attach puzzle pieces to your hat. Just make sure not to lose any pieces.
42. Game Hat: Add mini board game pieces like Monopoly houses or dice.
43. Bubble Machine Hat: Attach a small bubble machine for a hat that blows bubbles.
44. Pillowcase Hat: Wear a pillowcase on your heat to make a quick and easy hat.
45. Large Bowl: Get a large bowl from your kitchen and put it on your head!
46. Party Hat: Make a classic cone hat out of construction paper. Or you might already have a leftover party hat from a birthday party!
    
47. Burger King: Wear a crown from burger king to school!
48. Homemade crown: If you don’t have a burger king crown, you can make your own with paper and scissors.
49. Cat Hat: Take a regular hat and put some cat ears on it to make your own cat hat.
50. Chef’s Hat: Use white paper to make a cylinder that looks like a chef’s hat.

Get Creative on Crazy Hat Day

Don’t stress too much about making a hat for crazy hat day. It is supposed to be a fun and relaxed spirit week theme. If your hat doesn’t turn out the way you had hoped, that’s okay. Nobody is going to judge you for the imperfections. The important part is that you have fun wearing your crazy hat and looking at all of the hats that your classmates made!