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Play Dough Mooncakes (A Lunar New Year Activity)

A Lunar New Year activity pressing Play Dough into a mooncake mold
Prep Time5 minutes
Cook Time20 minutes
Total Time25 minutes
Keyword: lunar new year, play dough
Servings: 10 mooncakes
Cost: $10

Equipment

  • 1 Mooncake press mold

Ingredients

  • play dough

Instructions

  • Use the mooncake press patterns to choose which pattern your kid would like to press into a mooncake.
  • Roll a ball of play dough about 1.2″ big and set the mooncake press over the top of it on a tabletop or hard surface.
    Press down with the mooncake press handle until it stops and then lift up slightly and keep pressing so the formed mooncake will come out the bottom of the press.
  • You can mix colors together to create marbled mooncakes by twisting “snakes” of colors together before rolling into a ball.

Notes

  • Try and make your rolled ball of dough small enough to fit inside the mooncake press—that will give you the best looking mooncake!
  • Smaller kids can either try to roll a ball of dough or just stick amounts of dough into the press opening until you have enough and then help them press down to create their mooncake.
  • Try giving your kid a dull-edged butter spreader to cut their little cakes into pieces to pretend eat or serve to their little stuffy friends for a Lunar New Year party!