The idea of a Play-Doh app sounds completely counter-intuitive. What is Play-Doh if it’s not something squishy and squidgy in the palm of your children’s hands?

Turning it into a digital app sounds as redundant as a digital Rubik’s Cube (which, by the way, has also been A Thing). But developer PlayDate Digital is giving it a go with Play-Doh, including new release Play-Doh: Seek and Squish.

This one’s all about storytelling. “An original storybook made entirely of digital Play-Doh,” as the App Store listing puts it.

“This interactive storybook adventure has eight colorful habitats where animals are ready to play hide-and-go-seek with you. Animals pop up everywhere in Play-Doh land, including the Ocean, the Desert, and the Arctic, but some are hiding in places you’d least expect them.”

So, the app is about finding animals, and then receiving pages in a “personal field guide” with educational stuff about that animal, its diet and the noises it makes. But – and this is where my scepticism comes to an end about a Play-Doh app – it will also teach you to make that animal from actual Play-Doh in the real world.

Essentially, I want to pay £1.99 for this app, not let my children know, then astound them with my ability to make Play-Doh monkeys and giraffes. But I guess I’d better let them see it eventually!

Play-Doh: Seek and Squish costs £1.99 for iPhone and iPad from Apple’s App Store.