TOONTASTIC 3D

Toontastic 3D

Toontastic 3D is a playful storytelling app that scaffolds the creative writing process and empowers kids to create their own animated cartoons. Toontastic works on phones, tablets, and select Chromebooks. You can download the app on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store.

While Toontastic was not specifically designed for schools, there are a lot of educators over the years that they love how the app sparks their pupils’ imaginations and uses the Story Arc to help frame their writing. Pupils use the app for creating everything from book reports to news broadcasts and foreign language skills. It is mainly designed to be used by children between 6 to 12. Children can draw their own characters and settings, customize existing Toontastic characters, and even add their faces on characters to themselves in the story. It takes about a minute to make a one-minute scene and you can add up to six scenes per cartoon.

Toontastic can also be used by educators to create tutorials, explain projects, or even do morning reports

Story Arc

A Story Arc is a scaffolding tool that helps you map out a story’s plot. Whether they’re learning Language Arts or Science, children can practice communication skills using story arcs as formulas for convincing arguments.

Short Story (3 parts)

BEGINNING Where you introduce the characters and the setting of your story

MIDDLE Where something happens, like a problem

END Where your story wraps up

Classic Story (5 parts)

SETUP Where you introduce the story setting and characters

CONFLICT Where you create a problem for your characters

CHALLENGE Where you make the problem even more difficult

CLIMAX Where you help the characters solve the problem

RESOLUTION Where you show the problem has been solved

Science Report (5 parts)

QUESTION Start by asking a research question. What do you want to know?

HYPOTHESIS State your hypothesis. What do you think will happen?

EXPERIMENT Explain your experiment. What data are you collecting, and what’s your control?

RESULTS Analyze your results. What observations did you make?

CONCLUSION Make a conclusion. What did you learn, and do you have any more questions?

Privacy&Safety

The cartoons you create in Toontastic can include personal information (photos and voice). This data is saved locally in the app. However, Toontastic does track general usage statistics (like “how many cartoons were created worldwide today”) to help improve the app and inform future development. This data is collected in accordance with Google’s Privacy Policy. Toontastic doesn’t require an account or login. Cartoons are not shared with Google, but saved locally in-app and on device unless you delete or export them to the photos app or library on your device.