A sixth grade science teacher asked each of her students to draw Mickey Mouse from memory. This poster is full of the results. Click to enlarge.
The Mickey Mouse assignment was part of a lesson about water. It was a brilliantly sneaky way to get kids to remember the shape of H2O molecules.
With so much variance, I couldn’t resist tallying a few morphological statistics on the set. Here’s what I counted:
- Total drawings: 97
- Round face: 97
- Has two ears: 97
- A nose: 82
- Ear canals: 46
- Open mouth: 40
- Solid black ears: 16
- Baring teeth: 13 (one with fangs)
- Expresses doubt or apologizes for drawing ability: 12
- Eyebrows: 9 (including the mickey with just one)
- Depicts a body: 7
- Unhappy mickey: 5
- Eyelids: 4
- Distinct iris and pupil: 4
- Whiskers: 3 (not counting the mustachioed mickey)
- Bowtie: 3
- Eye lashes: 1
- Suspenders: 1
- Mickey shown with never-before-seen child: 1
This is one of my favorites:
