The students kept turning in their completed pop-up card projects.
Ninjas and Halloween characters team up together on this student project.
Coloring character cut out sheets with Crayola Super Tip markers.
A handful of students skipped pool day to practice their drawing skills and complete their cards started on the previous day.
Completed Halloween Pop-Up card.
Coloring the Halloween Pop-Up Castle diorama with Crayola Twistable crayons.
Pop-Up Fairy Castle WIP.
Pretty happy with how well the students tackled their pop-up card projects this afternoon at a Middle School.
First step was to completely color their background cards and selected character sheets.
Background card carefully colored with Crayola markers.
With pop-up flaps ready for the glue stick and attaching the colored character cut outs.
Completed goof-proof pop-up cards on the first day of class.
Making pop-up cards have been quite popular with my Elementary School students these past couple of weeks, so I decided to post these templates in case you might want to give them a try. Simply print them on card stock, colored them with markers or crayons, carefully cut, fold, and glue the pieces together. Take your time and have fun.
Pop-up card template front. Print on white card stock for best results.
Pop-up card template back. After folding sheet in half, cut the solid lines of flap 1,2, and 3 depending on the number of characters to be featured in the card. Then fold each pop-up flap (indicated by the broken line on the template) and gently push them through.
Ninja warriors and traditional Japanese monsters cut out sheet.
For the pop-up characters to stand smoothly, make sure their bases are cut straight.
Trying potential different arrangements of characters within the card before cutting the pop-up flaps.
Making sure the character cut outs are wider than the pop-up flaps.
On this finished sample the Yurei (girl ghost) appear a bit crowded by the Yamabushi and Tengu in front of her. Thus decided to try switching the two characters in the foreground for the columns of a traditional gate structure as shown below.
To complete this diorama, two additional character cut outs (Tengu and ninja) were glued to the front of the card at different angles making sure that they had enough room to be folded flat within the card when it is closed.
Side view. Remember these samples were left unpainted for clarity. They are meant to show students in class the different planes (foreground, middle ground, and background) that can simply be created by attaching the character cut outs and Torii (Traditional Japanese gate) to the pop-up flaps of different length. For you actual project, you would probably want to first color the background card and individual cut out elements before gluing them together.
A buck for 8 Halloween theme pencils seemed like a pretty good deal at Target (also spotted party size bags with 40 pencils on sale for $3.50), quite a reasonable investment for the subject of this blog review.
Made in Vietnam.
The pencils sharpened easily enough with conventional and electrical sharpeners. The Halloween graphics layer yielded long plastic strips that could jam the sharpeners, so take care to remove them as they build up quickly.
As seen around the pumpkin stem, their pencil marks are prone to smudging.
The matching colored erasers in their ferrules are adequate for making corrections while writing, but they tend to leave some color residue in the freshly erased area. When drawing, you should probably rely on your regular white vinyl eraser instead.
While nowhere near as smooth as premium wooden pencils, these novelty pencils perform adequately for writing and some fun doodling. They are most likely HB grade, and can produce fairly dark strokes with heavy pressure.
While they might start drawing smoothly enough, every now and then the "Possessed pencils" can feel a bit scratchy when you run into uneven coarse particles within their cores.
The graphite tips wear down rather quickly after a couple of doodles.
Hmm, guess the Halloween spirit is still affecting my choice of doodles lately. These novelty choice would make a fine treat for the kiddies this coming weekend. Might be worth picking a few more next week for class use when they will probably go on clearance.
Made a couple of pop-up card diorama examples for class. 
The samples were left unpainted on purpose, so students could appreciate the simple geometric structure used to create the environments for the cut out characters and mythological beasts.
With the help of sharp scissors and a glue stick, this band of classic cartoon monsters have taken over the Halloween Castle.
Side view reveals skeleton crouching within the castle.
Other side view with friendly ghost peeking behind the wall.
Simple pop-up base made with two 9" x 12" Bristol sheets joined together: one with the actual pop-up flaps and a second one for added stability.
Used a Sharpie Fine Point marker to add some structural elements and decorations.
Printable sheet with some animals and mythological creatures for making fantasy theme cards.
After adding a few cut out fantastical creatures to inhabit this Greek-styled setting.
Finished pop-up cards by 4-6 grade students.
Halloween was certainly a popular subject with this goup of students.
This student clearly enjoys her time spent at school.
A couple of students made good use of the Pentel Outline metallic markers for some decorative finishing touches.
Completed face drawing assignments.
Depicting Kaiju encounters (Giant Monsters battling) was popular with the boys.
A few students even found the time to color and decorate their customized name plates.
Most 3 graders picked Halloween subjects for their mini comics.
The older students also tackled some Halloween stories, and a few tried for romance comics.
Mini comic unfolded.
Definitely a Shojo mini comic.
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