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Welcome back to Porridge & Play Online!
We love these sessions because even though we are all at home we still can play together on the Zoom!
Everyone was happy, smiling, full of energy and very glad to see each other again after the Summer and ready to use our imaginations to have a great time together!
We kicked our play off with a groovy dance to celebrate each other and Andre led us all through our warmup rhyme Big As A Bear…have you noticed that Big As A Bear is really a short story?
Stories are all around us to entertain us, teach us and show us all sorts of fascinating things. If you have a wee think about it right now I bet you know many great stories! Maybe someone told you this one, maybe you made that other one up, maybe you read that one in a book!. We know so many stories already and there are so many more for us to CREATE!
And so on our first Saturday play session we baked a Stories Cake together. What are the main flavours of your story? Is it a spooky story or a story about adventures? And what about the main ingredients of your story? Is it about a person or an animal?
Esther’s story was ‘The Snowman who lost his carrot nose’ and Nusaibah, Nabilah & Aisha added a story called’ The Giraffe With A Short Neck’. Ope added the story ‘Fruit Party’ about fruits not getting along together and Victoria’s story – called ‘Pizza Happy’ – was about a pizza that changed mood! Fire told us about a story she’s reading right now called ‘Smile’ about a girl and her smile and Sarah told us about a book called ‘The Strange Case Of The Dragon’!
What a delicious mix for a stunning cake! And we built our Stories Cake in the shape of…A LIBRARY!!! How fetching! And DELICIOUS!
See you next Saturday!!
Taz, Sarah, Andre & The Saturday Pals
Some of our drawings from Week 1……
‘This is a Happy Cake I baked with my Mum’
Gabi‘This is the cake surrounded by love…Oh and I didn’t tell you but I saw flowers in that bit of the forest, there was a gardener!’
Boatemma, Your Content Goes Here‘A library! People coming to the library…’
Glory, Your Content Goes Here‘This is the library and that’s ME!’
Goodness, Your Content Goes Here‘ I drew all the stories in a giant Story Cake’
OpeYour Content Goes Here
Aisha, Your Content Goes Here‘I drew a magic potion too and a snowman and the giraffe that didn’t have the neck’
Nabilah, Your Content Goes Here
As we all know people from refugee backgrounds make a huge contribution to life in Scotland. We believe that’s worth celebrating!
The Refugee Festival brings people together to meet, mix and get to know each other better.
On Saturday 18th June we will be at the Refugee Festival with a Storyplay Session filled with games that let us use our imaginations! Maybe we will go on an adventure in our Magic Ball? I wonder how many Funky Chicken animals we will meet?! Let’s not forget to take our Flying Balloons and travel to wherever our imaginations take us! Remember in Storyplay we can be anyone, do anything and go anywhere!
This year the Festival is all based on Storytelling! Which is perfect for Storyplay. We can’t wait to explore all your wonderful stories!
We will be running a Storyplay session at 11.30 and we will be having a lovely free Picnic! We love playing and eating together at Licketyspit and especially now that we can play with you in person!
Spaces are limited so If we are oversubscribed we’ll do a ballot to allocate places!
