Dorodangos

These are amazing!





https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorodango

They are a hard, shiny ball forumed from soil that are squeezed and polished by hand.  Way cooler than it sounds.

The first two are made with soil from the ground, this next one scientific.

Thanks for finding that! It's hard to believe you can get such a nice article by playing mud pies! I wonder if I have enough clay for them to work with my soil?

Not sure you actually need that much clay specifically. I remember the Mythbusters did this with dung (in their proverb-testing special, while busting the saying "you can't polish a poop") If I recall correctly they at least partially succeeded, suggesting that organic material might to some extent replace clay... It was probably something like 15 years since I watched this, though, so I might be wrong.

I found it