Porridge & Play Whiteinch
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Whiteinch Page!
Porridge & Play Whiteinch is an intergenerational Storyplay project for families with 3-8 year olds in the Whiteinch area of Glasgow.
It is part of our project Big Porridge & Play Glasgow, which is funded by The National Lottery Community Fund.
Porridge & Play Whiteinch started in 2017 and after a hiatus over the course of the pandemic, we are delighted to announce that it came back in autumn 2022 at Whiteinch Library (G14 9RL).
With the help of Whiteinch Library, Storyplay Champions and our friends in Whiteinch, we’ll be back for another block of exciting Storyplay sessions filled with games, rhymes, songs, imaginary play and food!
What previous participants say
“We learned a lot of new games and we keep on playing them during daytime as well and we both enjoy it. We are from Azerbaijan and we have not had chance to go there since long time and whenever we want to go we use this Magic Ball. That was a good idea!”
Mum, 2020
“My children especially like the dressing up and the visit to the Tall Ship”
Mum, 2019
“When is BPPG gonna come again?”
Child, 2019
See you there?
Emma, Taz, Andre, Cami and all at Licketyspit!
Whiteinch Porridge & Play Zine 2023!
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Porridge & Play Whiteinch Blog!
Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 4
Whiteinch Blog! Love letters, Chefs, a massive birthday cake & a feast! Our last session at Whiteinch Library felt like a great big party and although everyone was a bit sad [...]
Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 3
Whiteinch Blog! A Witchy Porridge & Storyplay afternoon at Whiteinch Library! Whiteinch Library felt very witchy today as the brilliant librarians had selected a bunch of books for us about magic, [...]
Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 2
Whiteinch Blog! We did our Dancing Warm-up to start the session and then we met fantastic Funky Chicken animals like Aaliyah's Silly Spider; Katie's Hopping Horse, Nina's Evil Cat, Mohammad's Angry [...]
Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 1
Whiteinch Blog! It was fantastic to be back in the Library again with Porridge & Play Whiteinch. We had a great group of families with 20 children, 13 grownups plus the [...]
A Sea Horse Race is about to start!
Wednesday 15th November 2023 Hello, welcome everybody! Come to play in Whiteinch Library! Porridge & Play is here today! For games and food and friends and cheer - Hooray!! We make ourselves as [...]
A Very Hungry Giant in Witchland!
Wednesday 1st November 2023 We had an incredible time with our Whiteinch Library families at our Spookiest Porridge & Play Whiteinch session yet! And it was great to be joined by some new [...]
Let’s bake a cake with expired hot dog shoes!
Wednesday 25th October 2023 We LOVE food at Whiteinch Library Porridge & Play! We love to EAT it, MAKE it and even WEAR IT! Our Whiteinch friends had a grand time at Porridge [...]
Week one Porridge & Play at Whiteinch Library!
Flying Balloons & a Great Granny Convention! Wednesday 18th October 2023 Have you been to the beautiful Whiteinch Library? It is a lovely building, cozy and warm with lovely librarians who [...]
New film demonstrates the power of Porridge & Play
Monday 27th March Thanks to the National Lottery Community Fund, Licketyspit’s Porridge & Play sessions will be back in 6 Glasgow communities and online for 2023/24. Now in its 7th year, Big [...]
A Week 6 Whiteinch Celebration!
Wednesday 16th November 2022 This week we had our fabulous celebration! It was so much much fun getting dressed up as forest animals! We had lots of birds with one from the [...]
Woodland Creatures in Whiteinch
Wednesday 2nd November 2022 Well, what a fabulous pack of wolves and woodland creatures we encountered today at Whiteinch! As we gathered in the forest, it was delightful to meet Eeman the [...]
The Whiteinch Witches
Wednesday 26th October 2022 Another whirlwind adventure in Whiteinch this week and we got to meet the fabulous Whiteinch Witches! There was Witchy Aseel, who had a great cackle and a magic [...]
Mermaids, monsters and… grannies!!
Wednesday 19th October 2022 What marvellous adventures we had today! After meeting Ambreen’s Angry Lion, Zofia’s Funny Mermaid and Violet’s Angry Crocodile, we found ourselves in the company of some very fashionable [...]
Storyplay is back at the Library!
Wednesday 12th October 2022 Our first session at Whiteinch was super exciting with lots of new faces and a whole load of imaginative adventures. We all played the Funky Chicken and learned some [...]
Porridge & Play Whiteinch is back!
Wednesday 17th August Drumroll please!! We are excited to announce that Porridge & Play will be BACK in Whiteinch for autumn 2022! Sessions will run on Wednesday afternoons at Whiteinch Library. We will [...]
Big Porridge & Play is Going Online!
Licketyspit Press Release 28/04/2020 We may all be at home, but in our imaginations we can go anywhere, be anyone, do anything. All we need to play is each other! Scotland’s pioneering intergenerational imaginary play [...]
Big Porridge & Play is BACK!
We are thrilled to announce that Big Porridge & Play Glasgow is BACK for another 3 years! We're very grateful to the National Lottery Community Fund for continuing to support this innovate project and [...]
Big Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 7
12th June 2019 The last Big Porridge & Play 2019 at the Whiteinch library was the biggest yet - with nearly 60 of us singing, playing and dressing up together, before sitting down for [...]
Big Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 6
5th June 2019 With our sessions drawing to a close we want to make sure our last Big Porridge & Play afternoons together are fantastic! On Wednesday at Whiteinch Library we had exactly that! [...]
Big Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 5
29th May 2019 With the rain tumbling down and the wind blowing, we couldn't have our planned Picnic & Play in Victoria park, but we stayed and had a brilliant session in the Library instead, with a dressing up parade, [...]
Big Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 4
22nd May 2019 Licketyspit travelled from the Whiteinch Library to The Tall Ship at Riverside for a brilliant outreach Picnic & Play session! We began our journey with delighting fellow bus travellers with an [...]
Big Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 3
15th May 2019 Our third BIG Porridge & Play Glasgow at Whiteinch Library was brilliant – a great atmosphere and lots of great game playing! Jack and Ruby were joined by Iona and Asem, [...]
Big Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 2
8th May 2019 We had our second BIG Porridge & Play Glasgow session in Whiteinch and what a session it was, with 14 families and 43 people attending altogether! We travelled around the world [...]
Big Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 1
1st May 2019 Our first Big Porridge & Play session in Whiteinch this year was absolutely packed - with 14 families and 50 people in total! It was great to see some families from [...]
Big Porridge & Play Glasgow Year 3 has launched!
3rd May 2019 BIG Porridge & Play Glasgow Year 3 has launched! We were delighted to welcome over 40 families to Big Porridge & Play in the Gorbals, Whiteinch and Ruchill for the start [...]
Big Porridge & Play Glasgow is Back!
12th April 2019 BIG Porridge & Play is back for the third year from late April in Ruchill, Whiteinch and the Gorbals. BIG Porridge & Play Glasgow is a 7-week block of Licketyspit Playcard [...]
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