I remember when I first started learning to type, in Word Perfect we used to create pictures by typing.?

I was curious if there were any directions using MS Word to do the same thing. I find many websites on how to use MS Word, take and image, and turn it into Word Art but I'm looking for instructions on how to key the word art. Like I remember it was you type so many spaces, then so many characters, then so many spaces, then you return and so on and so forth. Anyone know of any websites with instruction like that with age appropriate pictures? This is something I want to do with my 4th and 5th grade classes in elementary school computer lab.