How to make dumplings with playdough

The steps to make dumplings with playdough are as follows:

Make dumplings rice balls, leaves and colorful threads with playdough, wrap the rice balls into the leaves and tie the colorful threads, and finally make dumplings with playdough in the shape of the dumplings can be completed.

1. Preparation

Preparation tools include colorful playdough, plastic mixing sticks. First of all, the colored playdough will be divided into three parts, respectively kneaded into white, yellow and green balls used to make dumplings rice balls; and then use the playdough bar and cutting knife to cut the white playdough rod into strips, used to make dumpling leaves.

2. Make Rice Dumplings

Knead each of the three colors of playdough into a sphere, and flatten them with a plastic mixing stick.

3. Make Leaves and Colorful Threads

Use a playdough bar to roll strips of white playdough into strips that are a little longer than the rice dumplings, and then use a cutting knife to slice them into rectangles of equal width, and then use your hands to pinch out the shape of the leaves at each end. Use other colored playdough to make colorful threads.

4. Wrap the dumplings

Place the playdough rice balls in the middle of the made leaves, then fold the leaves upwards along the sides, and tie knots with colorful threads around the leaves.

5. Make dumpling shape

Flatten the rice ball and colorful threads with your fingers to make a flat dumpling shape; then make thin strips of playdough and wrap them around the outside of the dumpling to mimic the shape of a dumpling leaf.

6. Knowledge Expansion

The Dragon Boat Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chongwu Festival, Dragon Festival, Zhengyang Festival, Tianzhong Festival, etc., the festival is on the fifth day of the fifth month of the fifth lunar calendar, is a traditional Chinese folk festival. It is known as one of the four major traditional festivals in China, together with the Spring Festival, Qingming Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The Dragon Boat Festival is also the first Chinese festival to be selected as a World Nonheritage. Rowing dragon boats and eating rice dumplings are the two main rituals of the Dragon Boat Festival, which have been handed down in China since ancient times and are still practiced today.

Duanwu Festival, in addition to eating zongzi, some places have the custom of eating salted duck eggs, as the saying goes, "to eat salted eggs zongzi, only to send the cold". Duanwu eat zongzi, sweet and salty is perfect!

Making dumplings is an interesting handmade activity, the playdough made dumplings are not only vivid and realistic, but also can be preserved for a long time.