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Art Fun

• ABCya! Animate: Create an animation online with as many as 40 frames and save it to your computer (Requires Flash) Example iPad version available.
• ABCya Paint: Free online painting program for K-5 with lots of cool tools for coloring, drawing and painting.
• Bomomo: Cool abstract art generator. Works only with Firefox and Safari. Click here for a site introduction from Nik's Quick Shout Blog.
• Draw Island: Create simple animation gifs or just draw and paint Animation Example iPhone and iPad version available.
• Draw.to: Draw anything with the simple interface then share, embed or save your art work. You also can publish a drawing to their gallery. Example
• Editor Method: Site offers easy to use tools for drawing and sketching with text, imported images, shapes, and colors. Save as an SVG or export as a PNG. NEW
• Flame Painter: Part of the "I am an artist experimental project, take your choice of color, brush size, opacity, etc. and design an artistic creation. (Requires Flash) Mac, Windows, and iPad/iPhone versions available at a cost.
• Flipanim: Create animated flipbooks with a choice of tools, number of pages, speed, and transparency options and save as animated gifs. Example
• iPaint: An online comparable version to desktop MS Paint using javascript and HTML5. iPad/IPod version at a cost. iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad version available
• Kleki: Paint or edit images in your web browser. Chrome app available
• Picascii: Make photos and pictures into cool ascii art in text or html format
• Queeky Paint: Online painting tools with a full featured list of drawing tools  (Requires Flash)
• Sketchpad 5.1: Drawing/painting application to create art using a variety of drawing tools including text as well as basic drawing utilities. Chrome app available
• Slimber: Online drawing application with a variety of tools to draw, replay and save your work. (Requires Flash)
  
• Toy Theater's Doodle Pad: Simple and easy drawing pad with choice of pencil size and color.

 

Avatar Creators

• BuiLD YourR WiLD SeLF: Create a wild avatar mixing human and animal parts then print your final result or save as desktop picture. (Requires Flash and Java)
• Free Avatar Maker: Upload picture, choose from 14 different sizes, create avatar and save to your computer. Example
  
• Otaku Avatar Maker: Create you avatar from head to toe. Example
• Portrait Illustration Maker: Create and customize a character icon with large number of customization's for all parts of the face. Example
• Shrink Pictures Create Avatar: Upload a picture, decide any size under 200 pixels and site returns top/left cropped picture, centered picture, and bottom/right cropped pictures. Example

 

Cartoon Makers

• Cartoon Maker: Simple to use cartoon maker from Cambridge English Online with 1, 2 or 4 frames, 2 characters, and if choose superhero cartoon maker. ( Requires Flash) Example
• Make Beliefs Comix: Students can create their own comic strips. Example (Requires Flash) iPad version available, no ad version available at a cost. Example
  
• ReadWriteThink Comic Creator
  
• StoryTop Story Maker: Create stories or cartoons with this online digital storytelling tool. Example

 

General

• Crunchzilla :"Code Monster, Code Maven, and Game Maven are interactive tutorials where kids and adults can play with code, experiment, build, and learn."
• DaFont: Locate and download fonts. (careful)
• Flash-Gear: Uses flash for photo effects, creating puzzles, and a variety of other fun activities that can be posted to the web.
  Click here to view a sample Flash-Gear puzzle. (Requires Flash)
  
• Snap (Build Your Own Blocks): A reimplementation of Scratch using visual drag and drop programming language from the University of California at Berkeley

 

Posters

• Automotivator: Make your own motivational posters. Example
• Block Poster: Upload a jpg or gif picture and make a poster as large as you like.
• Quozio: Create beautiful image posters showing a quote and who coined it. Chose from a large number of backgrounds. Example
  
• Recite: Turn a quote into an artistic masterpiece using a large variety of backgrounds. Example
  

 

Sign-Text Generators

• Bart Simpson Chalkboard Generator (from Add Letters) Example
• Cool Text Graphics Generator Example
• EasyStreet: Make your own street sign. Example
• FlashVortex Example
• Glow Text:  Chrome app available Example
• Google Logo: Make you logo look just like Google's Example
• Signbot: Make you own animated scrolling Example
• Supalogo :Create your own logo Example
• Textanim 2.0: Animated text generator Example
• Textcraft: Graphical and text-based logos including minecraft font. Example
  

 

Word Clouds

• ABC-ya! Word Clouds: Easy word cloud creator for grades 2 and up (Requires Flash) Example
• TagCrowd: Simplistic word cloud creator, just add text and click visualize. Offers embed code which, for looks, needs editing - full-screen print, or PDF.  Example - screenshot done in Szoter  Example offsite - PDF
• Tagxedo: Make a tag cloud with style. Use any words, a web site, a letter, etc. and choose your shape, color, orientation and font. (Requires Silverlight) Example
• Word Cloud Generator: Enter URL or paste text, make appearance choices and see instant results then download as png or svg. Example
  
• Wordclouds: Enter URL, copy and paste text, or upload a document and choose your theme, shape, size, font, and direction. Example
  
• Wordle: (Requires Java)
• Wordsift :Visualize text, creating a word cloud from which you can connect images and words and synonyms to deepen understanding

Check out 200 Ways to Use Word Clouds in the Classroom by Michael Gorman

List updated March 2018