PLAY-DOH: Seek and Squish – A Digital Play-Doh Adventure

PLAY-DOH: Seek and Squish is an interactive storybook adventure for iPhone, developed by PlayDate Digital Inc. The application is designed to encourage early and emergent reading skills while learning about animals. The storybook is made entirely of digital Play-Doh and has eight colorful habitats where friendly animals are hiding. The adventure is a squish and seek game where readers explore different habitats, including the Desert, Garden, Ocean, Savannah, Farm, Forest, Arctic, and Jungle. In every habitat, animals change hiding places every time, making it a different adventure every time you revisit.

As readers discover each animal, they receive a new page in their personal Field Guide, which is filled with fascinating facts about each animal, including what it eats and how it sounds. The app also includes instructions on how to make Play-Doh animals at home with the real modeling compound. Readers can snap pictures of their creations to add to their Field Guide. The curriculum has been developed and reviewed by preschool education experts.

Overall, PLAY-DOH: Seek and Squish is a fun and interactive way to nurture children’s emerging literacy and creativity skills by turning digital screens into engaging experiences.