I made my first-ever pop-up in fifth grade, for a Halloween story. The scanner has flattened it out a bit here, but all the little tombstones are bent back over their glue tabs, so the paper still has pretty good memory. I remember prepping everything upright, especially the arms, just before I handed it in. My teacher Mr. Borax was kind and fun, which you can see if you mouseover the image. He also taught me (off the record) how to use a semicolon, but he hadn’t done that yet by Halloween. I know this because there’s not a single semicolon in this entire story.
