How to make clay from dirt

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The making of 'dorodango' is a traditional pastime for Japanese schoolchildren, that has grown into an art form in its own right. The dodorango is actually a ball made from mud and dirt, and now people are painstakingly and methodically refining these balls into “hikaru dorodango” (literally: 'shiny dumpling'), perfect, polished spheres that can take days to complete.

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When you talk about bringing clay into a teacher's classroom, you can see the cringe creep across their faces as they imagine the amount of clean up involved in making these clay projects. But after over 10 years of teaching clay in other teachers classrooms, I'm here to tell you that it's possible to do clay projects and not make a huge mess.