We’re always happy to see apps that try to spark physical play as well as digital play. Gomma Friends is the latest creative example.

Released for iPad and Android tablets by a company called Gomma Play, it’s partly a dress-up app. Children create outfits for eight animated characters in various scenes, from a beach or a jungle to a magical fairy world.

The twist: in Gomma Friends, every time your child creates a scene, they’ll unlock “gifts” in the app’s album section: paper models that you can print, cut out and set up in the real world.

It’s a great idea, and one we’ve seen before in apps like Foldify. The illustrations and characters in Gomma Friends are well-crafted too, so you’ll be doing plenty of printing.

Gomma Friends costs £0.69 for iPad on Apple’s App Store, and £0.76 for Android on the Google Play store. Free trial versions are also available on both – iPad and Android.

Here’s a video demo: