Teacher asks her middle schoolers to draw her cat after winter break exams; the results are pawsitively uplifting and wholesomely whimsical

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Jan 28, 2026 1:00 PM EST

Who would have thought that some hissterical drawings of a cat would be the thing that made us laugh until our stomachs hurt today?

We've all heard the saying "laughter is the best medicine", and there's an element of truth in there. A good joke can purrfectly change your mood to something more pawsitive, but in a world where everything around us seems dark and grim, a good joke is getting harder and harder to find. The problem, in our eyes, is that most of the jokes lack a sense of authenticity. They're trying too hard to be funny, which, ironically, makes them not funny at all.

This is why we love cats, they're funny without even trying to be so. Watching them trip over their own feet, knock things off of tables just because, or become pawsitively entranced by the squirrels outside the window just makes us giggle because it's real. That's why this post is so absurdly uplifting and wholesomely whimsical - it's open and honest about what it is, which is some hilarious drawings of a teacher's cute cat. She asked her students to draw her cat after their winter break exams, and the results were so heartwarmingly silly we couldn't not share them.

Some of the purrtraits are quite good for a middle school artist, and some, well, some went a more artistic route. Why are you going to giggle as soon as you see them? It's like what we said above - they're authentically funny without trying to be so. Honest. Unashamed. Each one gets better as you go (or worse, depending on your opinion), so make sure you get all the way to the end before moving on. 

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  • “Please let the artist of image # 3 know that it is immaculate”, said ghostNToki. 

    We're also big fans of this drawing, and we think that someone should contact the MoMA immediately to alert them of a young artist on the rise. The simplicity of it reveals the cat's inner thoughts, which amount to a whopping amount of nothing. It represents the desire to detach oneself from the meowdern world.

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    This is usually before major breaks (winter break, spring break) where I know any new curriculum will go over their heads. They always have a ton of fun with it, even the kids who don't like to draw!
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  • Sampai91 commented: “6 is absolutely one of those cat drawing from a medieval manuscript", which we provided an example above for you to make your own judgments. We think that they're pawsitively spot on with their adorable assessment. Whoever the artist was, they were born in the wrong century. They would have been doing purrtraits of kings and all their cats, living the good life.

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