Stick figures are visually effective in words teaching, grammar teaching and texts teaching, which are widely applied in primary teaching. By supplying teaching material a lively and vivid circumstance, teachers can not only organize teaching procedure to gain better effects, but also satisfy children's learning psychology. Stick figures in English teaching have been proved efficient in arousing children' learning motivation and improve learning effects. This paper shows how stick figures work in teaching words, grammar, reading and some class activities in modern English teaching in primary schools.