I Tried the Hobby that Took Over Japan in 1999 (Hikaru Dorodango) - YouTube
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Dorodango (泥だんご Mud Dumpling) in Japanese are balls just made of dirt and water. It was a children's pastime in Japan but was fading away. In 1999 Professor Fumio Kayo of the Kyoto University of Education was observing a preschool and saw kids making them. One of the teachers then showed him how to make a shiny (Hikaru) one He then developed his own repeatable method so that he could teach more kids how to do it and observe how they play and learn at different ages. NHK, Japan's Public Broadcasting Corporation did a piece on the phenomenon and the hobby took off I really recommend you give…
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