ToonTastic is a storytelling and animation tool that empowers 5-10 year-old children to create their own cartoons and share stories with other kids around the world. Using a multitouch screen, kids can draw characters, objects, and settings and then animate their creations through simple gestures and real-time audio recording. The system is designed to not only scaffold the storytelling process, but to seamlessly capture the visual and narrative nature of play – thereby enabling even the youngest computer users to share ideas, art, and stories with friends and family worldwide on our “Global Storytelling Network – for Kids, by Kids”.