NATCHEZ — When Delta Charter School kindergarten student Michael James Davis came home with the letter Y for the ABC Fashion Show his mother, Tanisha Evans, didn’t know what to do.

“I freaked out,” she said.

Evans would have to come up with something that starts with the letter Y that Davis could dress up as.

“Could I have gotten any other letter?” she said. “He was either going to be a yo-yo, or a yak.”

But on Friday, the day of the fashion show, Davis was dressed as neither. Among the dinosaur, the astronaut, the octopus and the pirate strutting for the fashion show was Davis starring as a ball of yarn.

Instead of looking at the other children’s costumes and wishing he could be one of them, Davis decided to own his.

He strutted down the red runway with a smile on his face and a skip in his step. His little body made bigger by the stuffed crocheted sack that his mother made with two large sewing needles sticking out of the back like ninja swords.

“It was hot,” he said. “But it was great.”

It is that kind of reaction to the fashion show that validates the work that Brittany Ainsworth put into it with her fellow kindergarten teacher Kim Bass.

“They were all so nervous,” Ainsworth said. “But they got to showcase what they have learned.”

The teachers got the idea from research on Pinterest. Each student, dressed up as something starting with their assigned letter, walked down the runway and spoke to a standing-room-only cafeteria.

“We were just trying to teach the students to make connections between the letters and real life,” Bass said. “We had no idea it was going to be so popular.”

“The show is going to need more space next year,” Ainsworth said. “Everybody wanted to come see it.”