The Zimmer Twins encourages kids (of all ages) to try their hand at creating short animated films. Using pre-designed characters, actions, and backgrounds, budding "directors" fill in movie frames with drawings, speech bubbles, and transitional objects, to create their own custom movie. If you opt to create a free account, you can save your feature flicks for others to watch at a later time.
There are two options for creating animated movies - you can use "story starters", or, you can make a film from scratch. Either way, creating animated movies is easy. Users simply piece together a movie, scene by scene, with clips of the website's characters: Edgar, Eva (the Zimmer twins) and their black cat, 13. You can even control what the actors "say" with typed speech or thought bubbles. This fun approach to movie making lets kids exercise their imagination and practice their storytelling skills.
The Zimmer Twins is a great creative outlet for kids to learn the basics of movie making, it is also a great way to practice logic, event sequencing, and writing skills. While the website will most likely appeal to those homeschoolers in the 10 and under age group, I think it's fun enough for the older kids to check out too.
Zimmer Twins Demo
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