Search & Find Cartoons are a new way to use Bedtime Bond. Instead of a story, you get a single dense hidden-object poster starring the same characters you already use for bedtime. Pick a few characters, describe a scene, choose a difficulty, and we generate one printable cartoon where your child has to find the heroes hidden in a busy crowd. It is the same characters, a brand new activity, and a different kind of calm — the quiet, focused kind, not the sleepy kind. What It Is. A Search & Find Cartoon is one poster image, not a story and not a coloring page. You see the whole scene at once. Somewhere in that scene, the characters you chose are hiding among dozens of other little people, props, and visual jokes. The fun is in the looking. You pick the cast from the same place you pick story characters: your saved characters in your library, or our featured characters. You write a short scene idea — a moonlit bakery, a rocket station, a busy market — and choose a difficulty: easy keeps everyone findable, hard buries them in a dense crowd. You also pick an orientation, landscape or portrait, depending on how you want to print or display the poster. Each cartoon uses one credit, the same as a story. Free users get one creation per month that they can spend on either format. How to Make One. The flow is short on purpose. Most families finish their first cartoon in under a minute of clicking. Start at Create → Search & Find Cartoon. Pick one to five characters depending on your plan. You can mix saved characters with featured ones — they appear in two grids side by side, and you can pick from either. Write a short scene idea. A few words is enough: "the Moon Market," "a busy beach at sunset," "a rocket station full of sleepy astronauts." The clearer the location, the more cohesive the poster. Pick a difficulty. Easy works well for younger children — the cast is visible with light camouflage. Medium is good for most family groups. Hard fits older children, family game nights, and printed challenges you want to last more than five minutes. Pick an orientation. Landscape looks great on a tablet, a desk, or a wide print. Portrait is the right choice if you plan to print it on regular letter or A4 paper and hand it to a child during a long meal. Press Create Cartoon. We generate one poster image in about a minute, save it to your library, and open it for you. From there you can view it full-size, print it, or delete it if it didn't land the way you wanted. Print and Play. Search & Find Cartoons were built to print. The viewer has a Print button that opens your browser's print dialog with the orientation set to match the cartoon, so the image fills the page edge to edge. A few small tips that help the print look good: Pick portrait orientation if you plan to print on standard paper. Most home printers and most family routines work better with portrait pages, and the image will use the page more fully. Print on the highest quality your printer offers. The cartoon has lots of small details and tiny visual jokes; standard draft quality can wash them out. Keep the print near the dinner table, in the car kit, or in the activity drawer. A printed Search & Find sheet works well as a quiet-time tool when you need fifteen minutes for cooking, a long car ride, or a restaurant meal. If you don't want to print, the cartoon also works on a tablet or laptop. Open it from your library, zoom in, and let the child scroll around the image to find each character. Ideas to Try. The most useful Search & Find cartoons are the ones tied to real moments in your family's week. A few starting points: A child's birthday party. Save the birthday kid and a few friends as characters in your library, then generate a "Find Lily, Max and Theo in the carnival" poster as a printable favor. A long trip. Generate three cartoons before a road trip or flight and print them. One per child, or one per leg of the journey, depending on the chaos level. A classroom theme. Teachers and small home-school groups can generate scene-based cartoons that match a week's lesson — a search and find inside a coral reef, a forest, a planet, or a museum. A holiday tradition. Search and find posters age well as keepsakes. A poster of the family characters at "the holiday market" or "Grandma's living room on Christmas morning" reads differently every year. A restless evening. When a story isn't the right speed but bedtime is still an hour away, a printed Search & Find gives a child something to focus on quietly. How It Fits With Stories. Search & Find Cartoons are not a replacement for personalized bedtime stories. They are the same characters in a different format. A family that uses Bedtime Bond mainly for stories can use cartoons for quiet-time activities, classroom prints, party favors, and travel kits. A family new to the product can start with either format and grow into the other. The connective tissue is the cast. Once you've saved a child, a pet, or a beloved imaginary friend in your character library, every story and every cartoon you make from then on can star them. The characters become a small reusable cast for your family's media life. FAQ. Below are the questions families ask first.