I’m willing to bet you don’t tell your children or your students, “I want you to create a scene,” very often. After you review some of the sources I am sharing today you may find yourself encouraging your youngsters to create scenes on a daily basis. Here are a few curriculum ideas that might apply…

• Create a scene and write or tell a story
• Use different objects in a scene to create patterns
• Help develop memorization skills. Project a scene you have created and then give students an opportunity to re-create the scene.
• Create a scene and print it; revise the scene and print it again. Use the two printouts to see if students can identify the differences between the two images (compare and contrast skills) You could also project the two images on your SMARTboard so students can work together to identify differences.
• Project these sites on your SMARTboards (interactive white boards) and invite students to take turns coming up to “create a scene.”
• Print images for greeting cards, stationary, and story-starters.
• Older students could use the images to create stop motion animations.
• Use the Images to accompany math word problems (especially the shopping scenes).

I’m sure you will think of many other ways you can use these scene-makers for learning props. Please feel free to share your ideas using the comment link at the bottom of the post. Enjoy these scene-makers as you help students develop digital spatial and detail-oriented literacy skills. None of the resources I am sharing in this post have social elements (no chat rooms, etc.), though they are pretty embedded with advertising.

I have posted an image below to give you an ever so brief tutorial on how to get started using these site generators, as I had a bit of trouble initially locating the appropriate prop buttons. Once you click on the prop button and see images appear, you need to click on the OK button. Then, simply double-click any image you would like to appear in your scene. Once an image is in a scene you can drag it and drop it. If you decide you don’t want the image simply right-click and delete it. You can also right-click an object to bring it to the front.

Here are a list of the scenes that I found most engaging and easy to manipulate…

1. Mini-Hospital.com – build a hospital scene by selecting a size for your scene, a color for your background, kids, furniture, and miscellaneous items for your room. I have included a sample image to give you an idea of how a downloaded image might look.
2. Animal Kingdom Zoo
3. Alice in Wonderland Maker
4. Mini-school Maker
5. Mini-Penguin World Maker
6. Mini Kitchen Maker
7. Luxury Bathroom Maker
8. Mini Camping Maker
9. Merry Christmas Maker
10. Super Hero World Maker
11. Zelda (Castle World) Maker
12. Mini Modern Art Museum
13. Mini Flower Shop
14. Mini-Tales Maker – bring some of your favorite stories to life on the stage
15. Mini Gym Maker
16. Mini Photo Studio- Create TV sets
17. Mini Haunted House
18. Mini Maids – cleaning up can be fun!
19. Mini Supermarket
20. Mini Office Maker
21. Mini Wedding
22. Mini Sleep-over
23. Mini Kinder.com – a nursery/daycare scenemaker
24. Magic Jars Shop
25. Summer Maker- let the summer begin!
26. Mini Hotel Maker
27. Ideas (Birthday) Party Maker- cute teddy
28. Hair Salon Maker
29. Rilakkuma Kingdom
30. Livingroom Maker
31. Hello Kitty Room
32. Pony Castle
33. Mini-mall Maker