Making a sing-along animation?

I know this sounds nuts...

but my mom has a project due for one of her Master's classes and wants to make a sing-along song with the words at the bottom and some sort of bouncing ball, or something running along the bottom.....

I've been racking my brain as to how to accomplish this, but nothing is really coming to me. I assume the easiest thing to do would be to have the words on the screen and just let them change colors instead of a ball...

I have photoshop and imageready, powerpoint, movie-making software, etc.

Any suggestions?

I know you could probably do it frame by frame but it'd take an incredibly long time as i'd imagine a sing-along would have quite a bit of frames.

My friend Robert is a graphic artist and makes a lot of movies, when I speak with him i'll ask him if he knows of anything easier.

:D Thanks Kay...I was already playing with frames and realized it would take me the rest of my life...lol So instead of working on it, I made an avitar! :p

Not sure if this will help, but won't hurt to look around.

You may be able to Download something small :

http://www.cartoonsmart.com/

Also, one of the things used for animation is Dreamweaver Flash - which you can download for a free 30 day trial

http://www.macromedia.com/downloads/

Cheers and good luck
Michelle

That's quite interesting Michelle! Thank you!!! I may look into that info, even if it doesn't work out for this project!! :) We have Flash at work too, so maybe it will help out there!

:D Thanks again!