The hypothesis, proposed by Sakurai (1984) according to Hammer (1965) and Koppitz (1968), that big and small human figure sizes drawn by children indicate low perceived competence while medium human figure sizes indicate high perceived competence was examined. Of the revised Japanese edition of the Perceived Competence and Acceptance Scale for Kindergarteners (Sakurai & Sugihara, 1985), both cognitive and sports subscales were administered to 53 five or six-year-old kindergarteners. In the same month, the subjects drew pictures of their own bodies on "framed" paper. The drawings were assessed on two different measures : body height and body area. The hypothesis was supported for the relationship between body area and perceived cognitive competence. Some problems were discussed and new methods of testing the hypothesis were proposed.