Here's another wonderful place where kids can have fun while creating and practising literacy skills. The UK Disney Comic Creator, once loaded, offers a range of templates with varying layouts of between one and six panels. Choose a background, choose characters, props, speech bubbles. Add text and special effects and you're on the way to telling a story with images and words. I think the UK Disney Comic Creator will appeal to kids who know the characters (I'm sure I recognised Mickey as the Sorcerer's Apprentice from Fantasia!) The controls seemed a bit touchy. Re-sizing the background for instance meant I took a while to make it behave. That could be frustrating for younger kids. It's why I chose a white background instead. Each of the elements is editable, with corner handles etc. The speech balloons are editable too. Because of time constraints, I chose a one x one panel layout. But as I said before, kids can have multiple panels, plus they can add extra pages to their work. Once done, you can print, or save your comic as a pdf file to your desktop. There are a couple of other activities under the Create heading at Disney UK - eg Paintbrush is a great little art editor, with lots of stamps and colourful effects for kids to play with. You can also link to many games. Some other comic makers I've written about: Comic Master, Stripcreator, Beanotown, Creaza's Cartoonist, Story Maker, StoryJumper, Make Beliefs Comix, Myths and Legends, Quickly Write at Write Comics, Charlotte's Web Comic Maker, Toon Books Comic Maker, Make a Comic at Amulet, Creating Comics with Professor Garfield, LEGO Comic Builder, more LEGO and Literacy (Using Comic Life and Minimizer to tell a story), Creative Prompt - Start with a Hero (Using Skitch, CBP Hero factory and Comic Life to tell a story), Make a Comic at Digger and the Gang,

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