This study analyzes illustration of practical arts textbook and surveys recognition of teachers as well as students concerning the illustration of practical arts textbook to highlight the illustration's functions and values again and to present the directions of the illustration.The results of this study were as follows:1. There was much difference of the number of the illustration of the 5th year practical arts textbook depending upon each unit. 2. The distribution ratio based on kinds of illustration varied depending upon each unit because of characteristics of units.3. The illustration at the stage of "Problem analysis and investigation" occupied the highest ratio among all of the units. 4. The teachers were presented current practical arts textbook' illustrations to make use of them for practice model, and thought that characters (icons) as well as the illustration of table of contents of units were effective to understand characteristics of units and to show text development so that a lot of illustrations were used. 5. The elementary school students preferred simple and concise drawing to complicated drawing and liked interesting drawing, the drawing by which they could know what to learn by watching it, and the one made consecutively like cartoons.
