Stick People

Did you draw stick people when you were but a wee tiny person?
Did you use a thick pencil or those fat crayons that contain 8 in a box and never wear out? Did you feel suicidal when one broke in half? Then exchange it for a whole one from the person who sat next to you when they weren’t looking? No? Neither did I. Never ever.

Do you still draw stick people?
Whenever I assigned my students to illustrate a picture to depict a story, they would ask if they were allowed to draw stick people. “Stick people are fine if you put some clothes on them.” I only had three rules in my class:

1. Be kind to others.
2. Put forth your best effort.
3. No naked stick people.

I have a forest full of sticks, baskets of yarn, boxes of cloth, containers of beads and apparently too much time on my hands.


Which one do you like the best?

What am I going to do with them?
Plant them and hope they grow into tree people, of course.