Gimp and/or Blender tutorials for kids

[Kent Johnson]

Larry Cook wrote:
> My 13 year old daughter would like to add things like dragons to her 
> digital photos.  She would also like to do some animation.  She has no 
> knowledge of what's involved, and neither do I which is why I'm asking. 
>   Is anyone aware of tutorials for Gimp or Blender suitable for her age? 
>   Are there other FOSS apps I should look into?

I was just prompted by this post:
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/01/why_johnny_cant.html

to take a quick look at Alice:
http://alice.org/

It looks like it is specifically targeted at making it easy for 
13-year-old girls to create animations. Mac and Windows only though.

Kent