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Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 4
Castlemilk Blog! A massive circle, love letters, Chefs & a Cake good enough to get a job in a kitchen! What a time we’ve had with our Castlemilk Library friends the last 4 weeks at Porridge & Play. This bunch of grown-ups and children really take play very seriously and with exquisite hilarity. At our last Porridge & Play at Castlemilk Library the circle was huge [...]
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 that it was the last one of this year we all cheered up very quickly with a Dancing Warm up. We decided to send Letters to our Loves! But we kept dropping them! and then [...]
Porridge & Play Govan Week 4
Govan Blog! Celebrating play & friends at Licketyspit’s Porridge & Play! It has been great to meet and play with friends old and new in Govan this year, we have had so much fun! We feel so lucky that you have all shared your incredible ideas with us! After a brilliant dance warm up we were feeling all lovely so…we decided to send Letters to our [...]
Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 3
Castlemilk Blog! Do you know why circles are great? Because when we are all in a circle, you can see everyone and everyone can see you and playing is best when we all do it TOGETHER! We had a great big circle yesterday at Castlemilk Library as there were many of us ready to Storyplay at Porridge & Play! We got our bodies, and our imaginations [...]
Porridge & Play Govan Week 3
Govan Blog! Witches, potions & a Magic Ball adventure!!! The sun was shining in Govan today and our lovely space for Porridge & Play was full of sun rays! Storyplay began with a warmup that is also a story full of action! Have you heard about Joe who works in a buttons factory? He has a wife and three kids, and his boss is very demanding… [...]
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, fanatic creatures, werewolves, vampires, monsters and of course witches! Before we kicked off our Storyplay, Andre told us about Fred, Grace, John and Bella Spears who are all characters in the brilliant song ‘Jelly On [...]
Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 2
Castlemilk Blog! The sun was shining in the windows of Castlemilk Library and because most of us arrived early we had so much time for Storyplay! That's the way we like it! Woo hoo! Everyone is really getting great at imagining they can be anyone, do anything and go anywhere! It’s so fantastic hearing all your great ideas and meeting all your amazing characters in the [...]
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 Dinosaur and Sara's Sad Dog! We all dressed up as Forest Creatures! Sara was a bat, Muhammad was a lion, Katie was a panther, Marie was a special ladybird! Amjad was a tree, Oleg was [...]
Porridge & Play Govan Week 2
Govan Blog! We had a lovely Porridge & Play this week with Sarah, Cami and with Paul Chaal. Paul is a Glaswegian whose Mum and Dad came to Scotland from India when they were teenagers. So although Paul was born here he can speak Urdu, Hindi & Punjabi as well as English, which was very handy for this Govan session! Paul started Porridge & Play today [...]
Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 1
Castlemilk Blog! Big Porridge & Play Castlemilk Is back! We were thrilled to meet eightnew families and to see our old friends Mel, Avery & Freya, Ingrid & jese. So with the Licketyspit actor-pedagogues, Sarah, Andre, Steven & Virginia we were 26 - a good number for a circle where You can see Everyone & Everyone can see you, in Castlemilk Library! Andre led our warm-up [...]
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 Licketyspit actor- pedagogues - Cami, Andre, Steven & Virginia - so we got off to a flying start! And course we had Kevan the Librarian to welcome us all. To warm up we made ourselves [...]
Porridge & Play Govan Week 1
Govan Blog! We had a wonderful start to Govan Porridge & Play 2024! Such a great group of families old and new! 18 children with 9 Mums & a grandmother. Sarah led a Dancing Warm-Up while we waited for everyone to arrive (please try to come by 4pm next week so we can all have as much Storyplay as possible!). Steven led us in the Big [...]
Storyplay Festival 2024!
Find out what we all got up to at the Storyplay Festival 2024 at the Children's Wood! Saturday 13th July Sunshine, Storyplay & a Family of Families! Our second ever Storyplay Festival was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who came. It was a beautiful day and didn’t rain until the festival ended – lucky us! In the morning, the Licketyspit team met [...]
Picnic & Play with the Castlemilk & Whiteinch Hubs!
Find out what the Castlemilk & Whiteinch Group did during our Picnic & Play session at the Children's Wood! Wednesday 10th July Last Picnic & Play of the season with our Castlemilk & Whiteinch Friends! One last Picnic & Play at the Meadow & Children’s Wood with families from Castlemilk and families from Whiteinch before we all meet again at Licketyspit’s Storyplay Festival on [...]
Picnic & Play with the Online & Govan Hubs!
Find out what the Online & Govan Group did during our Picnic & Play session at the Children's Wood! Monday 8th July Making a fire & cooking on it with Andrea & The Online & Govan friends at Meadow & Children’s Wood! Another Picnic & Play, another set of fabulous friends gathering for a Summer day out with Licketyspit. This year we are delighted [...]
Picnic & Play with the Bridgeton Hub!
Find out what the Bridgeton Group did during our Picnic & Play session at the Children's Wood! Saturday 6th July A sunny Picnic & Play for our Bridgeton friends at The Meadow & Children’s Wood! Saturday morning shone dry and bright for our Bridgeton families who came to Picnic & Play with Licketyspit and the Meadow & Children’s Woods looked even more beautiful and [...]
Picnic & Play with the Cranhill Hub!
Find out what the Cranhill Group did during our Picnic & Play session at the Children's Wood! Thursday 4th July Sunny with showers? Not a problem for Licketyspit and our CRANHILL Families! Sarah, Andre, Virginia and Taz got together to put up some tarpaulins to keep off the rain and a gazebo for our picnic to stay dry because we were determined to have [...]
Picnic & Play with the Maryhill Hub!
Find out what the Maryhill Group got up to during our Picnic & Play session at the Community Central Halls! Tuesday 2nd July 2024 What can be more Summery than a picnic?… Licketyspits’ Picnic & Play! Even on a rainy day! We met our Maryhill friends at the Community Central Hall this morning since the rain got a wee bit too heavy to play [...]
Refugee Festival Scotland Event at The Hidden Gardens
Find out what we did at The Hidden Gardens! Saturday 22nd June 2024 Storyplay, a Potato Parade & delicious food A big thank you to everyone who came! We had so much fun. An extra big thank you to our collaborators Kin Kitchen & The Hidden Gardens as well as the Scottish Refugee Council! We arrived at the Hidden Gardens and it was a [...]
Porridge & Play Week 4 at Bridgeton St Francis in the East!
Find out what the Bridgeton Group did during our Porridge & Play Session at St. Francis in the East! Friday 24th May 2024 A great session to finish another great block at Bridgeton! The families arrived with their nicest clothes on - ready for the celebration. Fortunately, everyone remembered to wear their dancing shoes! We got the celebration started with a dancing warm-up and [...]
Porridge & Play Week 4 at Cranhill Development Trust!
Find out what the Cranhill Group did during our Porridge & Play Session at Cranhill Development Trust! Thursday 23rd May Goodbye for now - not forever! We had such a fabulous time at Licketyspit this week! Our adventures took us deep into the forest, where we found a sunny glade full of marvellous creatures! Pela the Rabbit was hiding under a big old oak tree [...]
Porridge & Play Week 4 at the Oakgrove Primary!
Find out what the Maryhill Group got up to during our Porridge & Play Session at Oakgrove Primary! Tuesday 21st May 2024 Celebrate good times! We had so much fun at Oakgrove Primary - as per usual! Time flies when you’re having fun and these weeks have gone so quickly! We started the day by saying hello to all the friendly faces. Then we [...]
Porridge & Play Week 3 at Bridgeton St Francis in the East!
Find out what the Bridgeton Group did during our Porridge & Play Session at St. Francis in the East! Friday 17th May 2024 Another great day in Bridgeton! Another great day in Bridgeton! We arrived with our dancing shoes on and got the party started! There were some amazing moves on the dance floor - great energy all round. Once we were ready and [...]
Porridge & Play Online Week 4
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Goodbye for now - not forever! A fabulous session to finish off our online block of Big Porridge & Play Online! It was a very sunny day in Glasgow and we felt the sunshine through the zoom this week too! The Snowy Leopard, the Jumping Bee, the Curious Ardvark [...]
Porridge & Play Week 3 at Cranhill Development Trust!
Find out what the Cranhill Group did during our Porridge & Play Session at Cranhill Development Trust! Thursday 16th May 2024 Sunshine and good times! We had a marvellous time last week at Cranhill Porridge & Play! It was a beautiful sunny day and we really enjoyed having a good dance together and showing each other all our cool dance moves! We had some [...]
Porridge & Play Week 3 at the Children’s Wood!
Find out what the Maryhill Group got up to during our Porridge & Play Session at Oakgrove Primary! Tuesday 14th May 2024 There's no such thing as bad weather - only bad clothes! Woah! What an amazing day! We had hoped for sunshine but we got rain… but that didn’t stop us from playing! It really was an unforgettable experience! When we arrived at [...]
Porridge & Play Online Week 3
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! A magical cake, Chef Marigold and an onion tower!! What fun and adventure we had in week three of Big Porridge and Play Online! This week’s session was really run by our participants, who chose what we sang and what we played! We kicked off the session with the Funky [...]
Porridge & Play Week 2 at Bridgeton St Francis in the East!
Find out what the Bridgeton Group did during our Porridge & Play Session at St. Francis in the East! Friday 10th May 2024 From Bridgeton to London and back!! What a lovely day! Thanks again to everyone who came - it was so much fun! First we wrote lots of letters to our Loves - which we dropped! And of course, someone must have [...]
Porridge & Play Week 2 at Cranhill Development Trust!
Find out what the Cranhill Group did during our Porridge & Play Session at Cranhill Development Trust! Thursday 9th May 2024 Fabulous characters and hungry sea creatures! What a marvellous time we all had at Cranhill this week! We all had a great dance! Then we wrote love letters to our special people - but we dropped them & someone must have picked them [...]
Porridge & Play Week 2 at Oakgrove Primary!
Find out what the Maryhill Group got up to during our Porridge & Play Session at Oakgrove Primary! Tuesday 7th May 2024 Love letters, Sandwich Island and a big whale! Back again for week 2 of Porridge & Play Maryhill at Oakgrove Primary! We arrived and the sun was shining high in the sky - a sign of good things to come! The families [...]
Porridge & Play Online Week 2
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Porridge & Play Online Week 2!! We had a fabulous Porridge & Play Online session this bank holiday weekend with highlights including a book hunt through the multiverse and ice cream with the Penguin Queen! This week we had a visit from Ruby who was delighted to be invited [...]
Porridge & Play Week 1 at Bridgeton St Francis in the East!
Find out what the Bridgeton Group did during our Porridge & Play Session at St. Francis in the East! Friday 3rd May 2024 We are back in Bridgeton - playing with new and old friends! We had such a lovely time in Bridgeton where we got to see some old friends and play with some new ones! First, we warmed up with Big as [...]
Porridge & Play Week 1 at Cranhill Development Trust!
Find out what the Cranhill Group did during our Porridge & Play Session at Cranhill Development Trust! Thursday 2nd May 2024 Big bears and scary witches! What a marvellous time we had on Thursday at Cranhill! The Funky Chicken had lots of new friends! Ryan introduced us all to the Sly Alligator, Daniel showed us the Angler Crab, Genesis found a Bad Eagle and [...]
Porridge & Play Week 1 at Oakgrove Primary!
Find out what the Maryhill Group got up to during our Porridge & Play Session at Oakgrove Primary! Tuesday 30th April 2024 Flying balloons, witchy parades and underwater adventures! It was our first Maryhill Porridge & Play of 2024! We arrived at the wonderful Oakgrove Primary school, who are very kindly letting us play here because the library was too busy. Oakgrove is surrounded [...]
Porridge & Play Online is BACK for 2024!!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Welcome back to Porridge & Play Online! A Dancing Giant! A Chocolate Cake! Time Land! Dancing Octopus Squishes! What a brilliant first week back at Big Porridge & Play Online! We had Victoria & Gabby, Esther, Glory & Goodness, Khadar, Yahye & Ibrahim, Ope & Olayinka, Ife, Fire, Pemi [...]
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23rd February 2023 Licketyspit is a pioneering children’s rights-based theatre and play organisation, based in Glasgow and a national centre of excellence for Storyplay – a unique approach to children’s rights-based intergenerational engagement through drama-led play. We are seeking new board members to join our highly motivated team – for more information on what this involves and how to apply download our Licketyspit Board Application Pack. We [...]
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 Big As Bear For a right good old warm up For our bodies, our voices and our ideas And to have a right good laugh! A Naughty Fish and an Evil Spider A Spinning Unicorn, [...]
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 faces too! To set the tone for a spooky Storyplay adventure Steven read the Wee Witches poem by our very own Virginia! Sitting in our circle we all paused to listen… “What do you [...]
Bubble Bubble, Toil & Trouble
Find out what the Maryhill Group got up to during our SPOOKTAKULAR final session at Woodside Library! Tuesday 31st October Well! What a spooktastic Halloween party we had at Porridge & Play this week! Woodside Library was host to an array of fabulous and fantastical creatures and witches from far and wide! (And we met a spooky chicken, a very scary cat, a monster [...]
Wee Witches make big red dragons from 4 brains!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Saturday 28th October We had many Halloween treats for our last Porridge & Play Online session to enjoy with our friends! A fabulously monstrous Dance Warm-up, the Spooky Funky Chicken, a creepy Mucky Brew and we did Bookplay with Wee Witches, a play written by our very own Virginia! [...]
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 & Play this week exploring all things foodie… We made a fab MUCKY BREW! We got to make a fantastic mess wearing all sorts of imaginary food... Egg, flour, expired hot dogs for shoes, last [...]
Porridge & Play Bookplay at Woodside Library!
Find out what the Maryhill Group got up to during our BOOKPLAY session at Woodside Library! Tuesday 24th October 2023 Let the Wild Rumpus begin! The Maryhill Families had a spectacular afternoon of adventures again this Tuesday at Woodside Library! It was full of marvellous Wild Things! This week was our first Woodside BOOKPLAY session, Kevan, the Librarian had given us a fabulous book - [...]
Online Bookplay week!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Saturday 21st October Sometimes when you are reading a good story you almost feel like you are in it… And sometimes, if you feel like it, you can ACTUALLY BE IN THE STORY… BOOKPLAY does exactly that… Choose a story, read it with all your pals and then simply [...]
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 are most helpful and welcoming! Aren’t we lucky to have libraries - such fantastic places to visit to read or borrow books, meet friends, discover and explore stories, knowledge and mysteries but also to have [...]
Tree monsters and Grannies!!
Find out what the Maryhill Group got up to during week 3 at Woodside Library! Tuesday 17th October This week we met some amazing Funky Chicken pals of all shapes and sizes! There was Mohammed’s Happy Cat, Daniel’s Silly Giraffe, Brodie’s Angry Dog, a scary Seagull that Maha knew, Lacy and Payton’s Bouncy and Happy Rabbits and a very Silly Lion from Meeshiv. After meeting [...]
Mucky brews and book reviews!
Back again at Woodside Library for Porridge & Play! Friday 13th October What a great time we had with our Maryhill pals last Friday at Woodside Library! This week we were all very excited about food… so excited, we made a Mucky Brew full of weird and wonderful foods! To start off, we got some huge ostrich eggs and cracked them over our [...]
Adventures in the magic ball meeting aliens, fairies and lots of groovey dancing!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Saturday 14th October 2023 Magic Ball, Magic Ball take us where we want to go! Floating in space jumping and cooing with our pal the Alien! Her friend the Fairy also taught us how to play grooving and dancing, floating in space. When we got tired we flew [...]
Welcome back to Big Porridge and Play Glasgow online!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! 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 [...]
Week 1 Porridge & Play at Woodside Library!
Find out what the Maryhill Group got up to during our first session at Woodside Library! Munching on Chocolate Croissants in the sky! We had a very exciting first session at Woodside Library on Tuesday and it was so lovely to catch up with old Licketyspit friends and meet all our lovely new families from St Joseph’s and St Charles, Dunnard and Oakgrove primaries & [...]
Sunshine & Sausage Rolls!
Find out what the Cranhill group got up to in their latest Picnic & Play adventure! BALLOCH We had a WONDERFUL trip to BALLOCH with the Cranhill Families! We enjoyed a delicious picnic & throwing PE Shapes which became a GYMNASTICS CHALLENGE with rollie poleys, handstands and more! Feeling energised by the warmth of the sun and a delicious veggie picnic we were all just [...]
Final Porridge & Play Castlemilk!
Porridge & Play Castlemilk is a Licketyspit Storyplay project for families with 3-8 year olds in the area. Find all of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Wednesday 2nd August We had an awesome final session at Castlemilk Library! We turned the music UP and we booogied our way through a dancing warm up teaching each other our favourite moves before declaring ourselves as BIG as [...]
Goblins, Glitter, Fairies & Butterflies!
Porridge & Play Castlemilk is a Licketyspit Storyplay project for families with 3-8 year olds in the area. Find all of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Wednesday 26th July This week Porridge & Play Castlemilk pals got all dressed up & fairy glam to head out to the Forest Fairies and Goblin Trail in Castlemilk Park. Some of us had big swirls on our [...]
Picnic & Play at The Tall Ship!
It wasnae a dark n stormy night for our motley jelly headed crew! Excited our friends gathered below deck on the Tall Ship... We played games & sang some of our favourites songs including Grandma Grandma and then.... WE DRESSED UP AS PIRATES in true licketyspit style fashioning eyepatches from pairs of tights & hooks from an old skirt We got to meet Nabillah's 'Captain Spider' and [...]
Funky Lions! Unicorns & Dancing Dragons
37 play in The Green Green Wood! There were 37 of us to play in The green green North Kelvin Meadow & Children’s Wood last Friday for the Maryhill/Ruchill Licketyspit Families’ Picnic & Play! We started in our lovely circle on the grass and met all the families – one from Troon by the sea and another family had caught 4 buses to get here! [...]
A Worm, a Snow Queen & a Magic Bottle!
Porridge & Play Castlemilk is a Licketyspit Storyplay project for families with 3-8 year olds in the area. Find all of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Wednesday 19th July We had a boogey and groovy started the day led by Freya's worm which got us so up for dancing! Shortly followed by becoming as... Big as bears! & Funky Chickens, Silly lions, funky snakes, [...]
From Bridgeton to Troon – dancing, sea, sand & a big bye to Ruby!
Salsa, Sand, Sea & Send offs TROON We had a WONDERFUL trip to TROON with the Bridgeton Families! Some of us – led by Taz & Andre - had to dance on the sea wall to keep the Naughty Seagulls away from our Picnic – which was especially delicious because Tarika had made us DEELICIOUS chickpea stew & rice that we all LOVED & enjoyed [...]
Treasure Hunts, Witchy fingers & lots of SEA
Curious shells, Sunny spells, Mermaid Grandma, Ice lolly Treasure! Castlemilk group’s latest adventures Week 3 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk 2023 Wednesday 12th June We had a truly wonderful time exploring Troon with our Castlemilk friends. Anita got us in the mood to wriggle like fools by leading ‘Grandma, Grandma’ Then everybody was so keen to explore the beach and dip toes in the water… [...]
International Play Association Conference
Storyplay Champions rock the IPA Conference 8th June 2023 We were so proud of our 13 Storyplay Champion children & mums showing the world what children can do at the International Play Association Conference! Earlier this month they joined Taz, Andre, Ruby and myself and represented the whole Licketyspit Children & Families Network at the IPA conference. The power of play, human connection and creativity improves [...]
A Bog Creature, a Giant and Mucky Brew!
Porridge & Play Castlemilk is a Licketyspit Storyplay project for families with 3-8 year olds in the area. Find all of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Wednesday 5th July The Porridge & Play Castlemilk pals took the library by storm again this Wednesday. We had a rollicking adventure featuring a mucky brew, a giant and some very tasty marshmallows! We danced, dressed up and [...]
Picnic & Play Balloch!
Picnic & Play Balloch, 2023 Friday 7th July It was a beautiful Sunny day for our Online group's Picnic & Play Balloch! We announced ourselves to Balloch Castle as BIG as BEARS and FAST as HARES working hard to keep up with our pals during PE shapes! cartwheels, flying legs... arms... feet... ! football, gymnastics, push ups???? It was so great to have so much space [...]
Govan Picnic & Play Trip to Troon!
Picnic & Play Troon Thursday 6th July Jellyfish friends? Naughty Seagull Feather? Hot sweet chai? Anyone fancy digging a really deep hole?! Our Govan Picnic & play group were out in force on Thursday showing the rain clouds who’s boss… or rather showing them who was big as bears!! Thanks to Taz & her groovy moves we strut our stuff in a new game of: Dance grab! before running [...]
Storyplay at the Library!
Porridge & Play Castlemilk is a Licketyspit Storyplay project for families with 3-8 year olds in the area. Find all of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Wednesday 28th June Storyplay Summer is here! It was fabulous to be back in Castlemilk for the start of our summer 2023 Porridge & Play sessions. We were warmly welcomed into Castlemilk Library where we’ll be meeting every [...]
Potato Parades for Refugee Festival!
Find out what we got up to at our latest Picnic and Play in the Hidden Gardens! Refugee Week! Saturday 17th June We had a wonderful time taking part in Refugee Festival 2023 celebrations earlier this month! We all gathered at the Hidden Gardens alongside our friends from Kin Kitchen and the Hidden Gardens Team. We did lots of playing, dressing up and even went [...]
Cakes & Balloons Galore at the Bridgeton Party
Find out what the Bridgeton group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure! Celebration! Friday 2nd June Well would you believe it, this block of Porridge & Play has come to an end. It just feels like yesterday we were rocking up to St Francis in the East and introducing our new Actor-Pedagogue Steven to our friends in Bridgeton. He's definitely part of the [...]
A Celebration in the Garden!
Find out what the Cranhill group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure! Week 5 of Porridge & Play Cranhill 2023 Thursday 1st June It was a beautiful Sunny day for the final session of this Porridge & Play block at Cranhill So we spent the whole session in the garden! We all danced in our circle - and some of us cartwheeled!! We [...]
A Pizza Marshmallow Celebration Cake!
Celebration Wednesday 31st May Squishy Chocolate? Pineapple pizza? How about some M&Ms? My name is Chef Fanciful and it’s wonderful to be joined by so many friends! For our final session of this block, Porridge & Play Govan got down to some dancing, flying and baking! ‘It’s me baking the cake. I wished I could have a cake and the wish came true. (What did the cake have?) [...]
A flight to the Seaside and a very cool Beach Party
Find out what the Bridgeton group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure! Week 4 Friday 26th May The weather has been so much warmer this week and the Bridgeton pals have been noticing it! It felt like Friday afternoon was the perfect time to gather together with our friends and go for a lovely refreshing flight on our Flying Balloons to look for [...]
Licketyspit’s Annual Report 2022/23
25th May 2023 Presenting Licketyspit's 2022/23 Annual Report! We had a fantastic year working on lots of brilliant projects with wonderful families and partners. This included innovative training & co-delivery with Scottish Women's Aid, establishing new Porridge & Play hubs in Bridgeton, Castlemilk & Cranhill and getting back to in person sessions in some of our other communities. Highlights included: New Scots Porridge & Play Hubs Women's [...]
A sunny afternoon calls for outdoor imaginary play!
Find out what the Cranhill group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure! Week 4 of Porridge & Play Cranhill 2023 Thursday 25th May The sun was beaming on the Cranhill Pals and the Cranhill Development Trust Garden proved the best outdoor space to play! Everyone felt energised by the heat and the sunlight and smiles abounded, so our dance warm up felt bouncier [...]
An Afternoon at the Bridgeton Forest
Find out what the Bridgeton group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure! Week 3 Friday 19th May We had a lovely Friday afternoon with our Bridgeton pals at Porridge & Play! Everyone was very smiley and looking forward to getting their weekend started and there was a very jolly atmosphere at the church! Our circle is really quite big as there are so [...]
Deep in the Forest of Cranhill…
Find out what the Cranhill group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure! Week 3 of Porridge & Play Cranhill 2023 Thursday 18th May Glorious Grannies! Grandma Tippy Tippy Shaylin loves reindeer and the animals in the forest. She feeds the animals carrots that she grows herself. Grandma Amelia lives in a pink house made out of wood. She makes pancakes with syrup for [...]
The Forest Grannies and the Monster Trees!
Week 3 Wednesday 17th May In the deep deep forest of Govan one can enjoy many interesting places and spot fantastic creatures. Have you ever seen a Silly Cat and Scary Cat hang out together? Or a Slithering Snake roaming in the undergrowth? What about a Crazy Dolphin bathing in a pond or a Dying Fly chilling on the ground? There’s a Small Ant over there and Big [...]
The Happy Bridgeton Crew make a very Mucky Brew!
Find out what the Bridgeton group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure! Week 2 Friday 12th May Let me tell you about our happy Bridgeton bunch! This group of pals really really like to dance They groove and turn they hop and jump And together they make cool dance steps up! Funky Chicken is their favourite game They create creatures and they’re never [...]
Weird flamingos and a Horrid Pirate Parade!
Find out what the Cranhill group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure! Week 2 of Porridge & Play Cranhill 2023 Thursday 11th May Our pal the Funky Chicken invited some peculiar animals to Cranhill today! We met: The Cheeky Lion The Dying Fly The Naughty Crocodile The Big Dinosaur The Weird Flamingo The Cheeky Rabbit The Slippery Cat The Scary Lion And The [...]
A Day out with the Pirate Crew after a very Mucky Brew!
Week 2 Wednesday 10th May ‘The sun and that is another sun. The fish. Fish fish fish fish!’ The Govan Pirate Crew lined up ready for inspection. What a collection of misfits! Captain Smelly Beard got everyone working on the ship scrubbing the deck, climbing the rigging and even walking the plank! This week we created fantastic pirates with our dressing up bag of old clothes and we [...]
Can you spot the Armadillo?
Find out what the Bridgeton group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure! Week 1 of Porridge & Play Bridgeton 2023 Friday 5th May It was lovely to be back in Bridgeton again for Porridge & Play 2023! We had a great group of 29 including lots of our old friends and a couple of new families - great to meet you! Some visiting [...]
Up to the Sky and into the Sea!
Find out what the Cranhill group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure! Week 1 of Porridge & Play Cranhill 2023 Thursday 4th May It was phenomenal to be back in Cranhill again for Thursday family Porridge & Play! We saw lots of our friends from last year and plenty new faces too, including children we'd met at our tasters in Cranhill Primary, Lamlash [...]
Can you Dance like a Witch in Pants?
Wednesday 3rd May Ha ha haa, the witchy fingers of Govan! When they dance they whirl and twirl They might trick you with their witchy words! We had a fabulous time back at the Pearce Institute this week with our Porridge & Play pals! The music played and we had a good old boogie around. We dressed up in marvellous clothes, self-expression was the way. And of course, [...]
LET’S PARTY!
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Saturday 25h March 2023 The Saturday pals gathered for the last Storyplay Online of the Winter wearing fabulous outfits and beautiful smiles! Andre, Sarah and Taz announced that they had all been invited to a party by three rather eccentric people called RuRu, Fibi and Gigi! ‘Please dress to impress! [...]
Tomato Pie in a Californian Garden
Porridge & Play Maryhill is a Licketyspit Storyplay project for families with 3-8 year olds in the area. Find all of Porridge & Play Maryhill & Ruchill's adventures here! Blog post written by Sarah! Fabulous Grannies! Wednesday 29th March A truly fabulous time was had by all on our wonderful forest adventure and we met some great new friends! Forest creatures First we saw some [...]
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 Porridge & Play Glasgow will take place in Govan, Maryhill, Whiteinch and online, as well as in Bridgeton, Castlemilk & Cranhill. The east end and Castlemilk groups were started last year as part of the [...]
The Crooked Crew Of Pirate Poets
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Saturday 18th March 2023 Captain One Eye wanted to put together a crew of captains with great skills. Many Pirate Captains got wind of this and decided to form the most crooked crew the Seven Seas had ever seen: Captain Smelly Boots is a phenomenal a cook Captain [...]
Red Bob the Red Blob and the Grumpy Fairy Godmother
Porridge & Play Cranhill is a Licketyspit Storyplay project for families with 3-8 year olds in the area. Find all of Porridge & Play Cranhill's adventures here! Blog post written by Sarah! We saw lots of stars in Cranhill last week! Wednesday 15th March All of us bravely blasted into space in the Magic Ball and together we space walked with Heather in a strange [...]
An Out of This World Variety Show
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Saturday 11th March 2023 Fabulous Producer and her partner in show Top Hat Producer were in need of some fresh, innovative, entertaining and inspiring acts for their Variety Show. Everyone knows that what makes a Variety Show really, really good is to have various different acts that can entertain and [...]
The Incredible Shrinking Forest Animals!
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Saturday 4th March 2023 Herbert The Hedgehog happily strolled through the forest. It was a cold but sunny Saturday morning and on his way he met the world famous Three Craws! - who love nothing better than to perch on a tree branch under the moonshine. The Three Craws introduced [...]
Happy International Women’s Day!
Wednesday 8th March 2023 Fridays are LicketyMums time! We gather to hang out, play, reconnect with our body and mind and to share our news of the week. LicketyMums sessions were first created because lots of Licketyspit Mums asked us for them. Many mums support their children to enjoy Storyplay and generally put their children's needs first. Mums are very eloquent about the [...]
The Wee Penguin who Loved Snowball Fights
Porridge & Play Govan is a Licketyspit Storyplay project for families with 3-8 year olds in the area. Find all of Porridge & Play Govan's adventures here! Blog post written by Sarah! Govan was just delightful and packed full of magical adventures! Wednesday 1st March We danced our socks off in the groovy Dance Warm-Up with some mighty fine moves from Bimbo, Toby, Shadda, Sami [...]
A Mucky Monsters’ Brew!!!
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Messy play makes for hilarious play! Saturday 25th February We concocted a glorious Mucky Brew covering ourselves with eggshells and soil, crumbled unicorn cookies, honey, flour, a bucket of chocolate pudding, raw eggs, honey on our legs & uncooked porridge in our mouths… Beautifully sticky! Fabulously stinky! Incredibly revolting! HILARIOUSLY [...]
Chef Guacamole and the Birthday Pickle
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! ‘We could make the biggest cake in the world!’ Tuesday 21st February Chef Guacamole & side-kick Chef Octopus Jelly were in a bit of a pickle. The biggest celebration in town was about to take place on Saturday and our chef friends were quite unprepared. You see, all the children [...]
The friendly spider and the 100% Spicy Cake!
Porridge & Play Castlemilk is a Licketyspit Storyplay project for families with 3-8 year olds in the area. Find all of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Blog posts are written by Sarah! Back for a winter family meet up! Wednesday 15th February What fabulous adventures we had at Castlemilk Library with all our friends and their families on Wednesday! After a very groovy Dancing [...]
Mermaid Ice Cream and a Pool Party!
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Tuesday 14th February Kick-abouts, meeting Mr Hand, Mermaid ice cream making techniques & a Pool Party? It must be a Magic Ball Adventure! Saturday morning, still cold outside but look over there there's the sun! Get together online with your pals and find that groove is the heart. People [...]
Grannies and Dragons? We’re back online!
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Tuesday 7th February Full house at the first Storyplay City Online session of 2023!!! Our very keen Saturday lot were beaming with expectation and the Licketyspit team couldn’t stop smiling as more and more friends arrived to Storyplay together! Saturdays are even more exciting with friends and family coming together [...]
A Rollicking time in Ruchill!!
Saturday 19th November 2022 We had an amazing time at our Porridge & Play Ruchill & Online celebration! It was so lovely to see all our families together in one big space and wonderful to join up with our online crew too and have so much fun together! We all started with a brilliant boogie which warmed us up ready for an afternoon adventure. As well as the Funky Chicken, we [...]
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 bird cave, a bear, a bat and a fox and also some unknown animals from unknown places. The Magic Ball was nowhere to be found until luckily Zofia found it and we climbed inside, zipped [...]
An Exciting Celebration at the Pearce!!!!
Tuesday 15th November What an exciting Celebration we had in Govan to mark the final week of Porridge and Play at the Pearce Institute! The Magic Ball took us up into the sky and then we landed at the North Pole!! We met a sad looking penguin and Shadda thought the penguin needed his Mum so we all became penguins to make him feel better and decided to [...]
Pirates of Govan!!!
Tuesday 8th November Pirates of Govan!!! We had some new faces in Govan this week as we said hello to Virginia, Paul and Johnny who came along to join Hilde and the usual Govan Gang. We all showed Paul and Virginia how to be as Big As A Bear and then had a lovely dance. Mira saw a fish swimming in the sea and Azeem saw a fish [...]
A Feast For A Funky Chicken
Saturday 5th November 2022 We had a wonderful time exploring different lands and baking a marvellous cake this week! Interestingly, apart from meeting the usual Funky Chicken, we also met a Dancing Dog, a Singing Snake and an Annoying Ant! Hope we meet them again! Then we flew up high into the sky hanging on tightly to our balloons and we spied with our telescopes a beautiful lake [...]
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 kangaroo, Frankey the Fox, Ellie the Magical Animal, Aseel the bat and Zofia Zebra and they were all so friendly. It turned out, that in this forest, as in many, I suspect, the Wolf is [...]
Tree-House of Halloween!!!
Tuesday 1st November This week’s session was a lively one as always. We started with some moving about and made ourselves As Big as a Bear and as Fast as a …Hare! We went high up into the air with our Flying Balloons. Down below we saw a river. Shadda saw her mum’s friend so we all waved to her. Our new friend Mastura saw lots [...]
Fantastical Forest Creatures
Saturday 29th October 2022 Today at Ruchill we found ourselves deep in the forest and met some quite fantastical creatures including a rainbow coloured bat who lived in a tree. Snakey AJ who showed us his fancy blue house with two stories which was delightful and he just happened to mention too, that he loved to eat rats! Then there was Jeffrey, a smiley donkey who liked to eat [...]
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 frog, Witchy Witch, who came on a broomstick and liked to eat blood - Aaaargh! Scary pumpkin biscuits!!! Then Witchy Frankey who appeared on a Rainbow magic flying carpet, Witchy Eemaan, who came flying in [...]
Hungry Wolfies!!!
Tuesday 25th October 2022 This week at Govan we had great fun singing “Jelly on His Head” and making up new people in the song like Ameen’s skeleton Alan, and Sham’s character who had chocolate on his knees. Ohi knew a girl called Circ with chocolate on her hand, Mira’s character had ice cream on her knees and Toby knew a boy called Joe with jelly on his [...]
Stylish Ruchill Grannies
Saturday 22nd October 2022 Well! It was a wonderful sight this week to see all the fabulous Ruchill Grannies dressed up so stylishly! We met Granny Osman who drank coffee for his tea, and lived in a home and Granny Jamie, who ate bread with only 5 spoons of sugar in his tea, lived in a flat with a cat, an old tv and a picture of his [...]
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 Grannies, who absolutely loved their food! Some Grannies love their food Granny Kouser told us how she loved to go to Ireland to look at scenery and eat chips. Granny Selina said she preferred to [...]
Week 2 in Sunny Govan
Tuesday 18th October 2022 It was lovely to be back at the Pearce Institute for week 2 of Porridge and Play where we welcomed some new people to our group, finished Bimbo's delicious soup and played Witches Fingers.... After which we went on an adventure with a Magic Ball! Ruby found a blue ball that needed blown up so it could take us all somewhere amazing. But where [...]
A Witchy Week 1 in Ruchill
Saturday 15th October 2022 Well! What a super spooky Witchtastic session we had today at Porridge and Play with Licketyspit. After warming up our bodies and minds with a big old boogie and making up some crazy new animals, we went flying off in a bunch of magic, colourful balloons. It was so exciting! We saw Spain and Sudan, ate Donald flavoured ice-cream and found Polar bears. However, [...]
The Storyplay Festival 2022
The Storyplay Festival was part of our New Scots Integration Project 2021/22 Click here to find out more about the Cranhill, Castlemilk & Bridgeton Hubs who hosted the festival with us. On Saturday 17th September Licketyspit friends old and new gathered for a day that we will never forget. It was the first ever Licketyspit Storyplay Festival, and what a day it was! It was [...]
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 new animals too! We met: Eeman’s jumpy kangaroo Ellie’s silly cow Dàire’s T Rex Kouser’s Kangaroo and Kemjii’s lazy cow! Flying Balloons We were having so much fun we thought it might also be good to [...]
We’ve arrived at the PI!
Tuesday 11th October 2022 We had a fantastic time at the first Porridge & Play Govan! We got warmed up with a boogie and then Hilde invited us to make ourselves as Big as a Bear! And as Fast as a Hare! As Strong as an Ox and as Sneaky as a Fox! Once we were all warmed up, Marie Louise introduced us to the Funky Chicken… He [...]
A Big Play Party!
Find all of Porridge & Play Bridgeton's adventures here! Blog posts are written by André! Block 3 Week 4 Porridge & Play Bridgeton Friday 26th August Hello and welcome to the Licketyspit Bridgeton Celebration blog! We had so much fun at the Calton Heritage & Learning Centre playing all kinds of games and rhymes, including 4 of our very *new games*. How fantastic! Everyone was [...]
A year of Storyplay!
Find all of Porridge & Play Cranhill's adventures here! Blog posts are written by Effie! Celebrating Block 3 Thursday 25th August & Thursday 1st September Our last couple of weeks of Porridge & Play Cranhill were wonderful! We learnt so many new games and songs so it was really hard to choose what to share at the Storyplay Festival. Before we even started one session [...]
A Celebration of our Hub
Porridge & Play Castlemilk is back! Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and Stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday September 17th! Find all [...]
The Children show us how it is done!
Porridge & Play Cranhill is back! Find out what the Cranhill group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and Stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday September 17th! Find all [...]
We Are ALLSCOTS!!
Porridge & Play Castlemilk is back! Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and Stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday September 17th! Find all [...]
Porridge & Play Govan is starting!!
Friday 26th August Drumroll please!! We are excited to announce that Porridge & Play is arriving in Govan for autumn 2022! Sessions will run on Tuesday afternoons at the Pearce Institute (4-6.15pm). We will have a 6-week block starting on Tuesday 11th October (4-6.15pm). How can I take part? Families can join our Children & Families Network to get further information and reminders nearer the start [...]
The Grown-Ups take charge of play!
Porridge & Play Cranhill is back! Find out what the Cranhill group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and Stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday September 17th! Find all [...]
Presenting our FAVOURITE GAMES!!
Porridge & Play Bridgeton is back! Find out what the Bridgeton group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday 17th September! Find all [...]
We made our own Rhyme and it was Divine!!
Porridge & Play Castlemilk is back! Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and Stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday September 17th! Find all [...]
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 have a 6-week block starting on Wednesday 12th October (4-6.15pm) How can I take part? Families can join our Children & Families Network to get further information and reminders [...]
It was the week of the Upside Down Trouser Dance!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Friday 22nd July It was the week of the Upside Down Trouser Dance! ‘I’m upside down Trouser Bob and welcome to my silent Disco! All you have to do is place a pair of trousers on your arms, upside down and away you go, DANCE!’ We danced and danced [...]
Storyplay Champions at Making Rights Real Event!
Have Your Say Through Play is a children’s human rights-based, fun way to support children under-twelve to explore and share their thoughts, feelings and ideas through Lickety Playcard Play. This project was first developed with our Children & Families Network in September 2020, as a way to consult children about the Covid-19 pandemic. Everyone's Children invited us to join them and have our Storyplay Champions show just how have Have Your [...]
We visited each others houses in our Flying Balloons!
Porridge & Play Cranhill is back! Find out what the Cranhill group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and Stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday September 17th! Find all [...]
Eyes, Musical Statues and Tag! What fun we had!
Porridge & Play Castlemilk is back! Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and Stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday September 17th! Find all [...]
We played a whooping 18 Games!!
Porridge & Play Bridgeton is back! Find out what the Bridgeton group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday 17th September! Find all [...]
The Castlemilk Mums show us their favourite Games!
Porridge & Play Castlemilk is back! Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and Stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday September 17th! Find all [...]
Welcome to our Jelly Catwalk!!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Friday 24th June The return of the Jelly Catwalk!!! To land on a cloud would be a fine thing, but to land on a jelly would be a dream. What if this Jelly tasted of strawberries? And when you bounced you landed in a giant Jelly Castle?! This is [...]
We became Investigators!!
Porridge & Play Bridgeton is back! Find out what the Bridgeton group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday 17th September! Find all [...]
A Rainbow House and feeding our cats!
Porridge & Play Castlemilk is back! Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and Stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday September 17th! Find all [...]
Porridge & Play Ruchill is back!
Friday 29th July Drumroll please!! We are excited to announce that Porridge & Play will be BACK in Ruchill for autumn 2022! Sessions will run on Saturday afternoons at the Pavilion, in collaboration with North United Communities We will have a 6-week block starting on Saturday 15th October. How can I take part? Families can join our Children & Families Network to get further information and [...]
It’s great to be us because we are all different!!
Porridge & Play Bridgeton is back! Find out what the Bridgeton group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Block 3 is all about YOU! We are getting ready to make our AllScot Playcards which will be inspired by all your games and stories. The AllScot Playcards will be on display at our Storyplay Festival which will be happening on Saturday 17th September! Find all [...]
Picnic & Play at the Tall Ship Glenlee!!
Find out all about our Picnic & Plays with the Bridgeton, Castlemilk and Cranhill Hubs! These blog posts show what we got up to and all the Storyplay-ing we did! Porridge & Play Hubs is running throughout 2022 with this block being the 2nd of our exciting New Scots Integration Project! Thank you to everyone who has partnered with us to provide such amazing experiences for our children & [...]
Picnic & Play on a Canal Boat!!
Find out all about our Picnic & Plays with the Bridgeton, Castlemilk and Cranhill Hubs! These blog posts show what we got up to and all the Storyplay-ing we did! Porridge & Play Hubs is running throughout 2022 with this block being the 2nd of our exciting New Scots Integration Project! Thank you to everyone who has partnered with us to provide such amazing experiences for our children & [...]
Picnic & Play at the Dream Machine
Find out all about our Picnic & Plays with the Bridgeton, Castlemilk and Cranhill Hubs! These blog posts show what we got up to and all the Storyplay-ing we did! Porridge & Play Hubs is running throughout 2022 with this block being the 2nd of our exciting New Scots Integration Project! Thank you to everyone who has partnered with us to provide such amazing experiences for our children & [...]
Picnic & Play at the Riverside Museum!!
Find out all about our Picnic & Plays with the Bridgeton, Castlemilk and Cranhill Hubs! These Blog posts show what we got up to and all the Storyplay-ing we did! Porridge & Play Hubs is running throughout 2022 with this block being the 2nd of our exciting New Scots Integration Project! Thank you to everyone who has partnered with us to provide such amazing experiences for our children & [...]
Picnic & Play at the Science Centre
Find out all about our Picnic & Plays with the Bridgeton, Castlemilk and Cranhill Hubs! These Blog posts show what we got up to and all the Storyplay-ing we did! Porridge & Play Hubs is running throughout 2022 with this block being the 2nd of our exciting New Scots Integration Project! Thank you to everyone who has partnered with us to provide such amazing experiences for our children & [...]
Picnic & Play at The Sensory Hub!!
Find out all about our Picnic & Plays with the Bridgeton, Castlemilk and Cranhill Hubs! These Blog posts show what we got up to and all the Storyplay we did! Porridge & Play Hubs is running throughout 2022 with this block being the 2nd of our exciting New Scots Integration Project! Thank you to everyone who has partnered with us to provide such amazing experiences for our children & families, [...]
Licketyspit at the Refugee Festival Scotland!
We went to the Scottish Refugee Festival!! Saturday 18th June We had a wonderful Licketyspit Picnic & Play to celebrate the Scottish Refugee Festival in Elder Park on Saturday 18th June with 14 families from all over the city – and all over the world! It was a blustery sunny day. The early birds had a hilarious time with Effie singing Old Roger is Dead & inventing millions of [...]
Awoo! The wolves of the Lickety Forest!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Friday 10th June Awoo! This week was all about animals! We met Lindsey the Lion with a dressing gown on her head! (Felicia) Stronger the Bear, the strongest of them all! (Ameen) The fastest cheetah! (Stella) And the biggest and baddest of WOLVES!! Awoo! Being the only animal in [...]
Porridge & Play Danced With Adie!!
As part of our New Scots Integration project, Porridge & Play Hubs, we invited Ghanaian dancer Adie Baako to take us on a family art voyage in Bridgeton, Castlemilk & Cranhill. Read all about them below! Porridge & Play Hubs is running throughout 2022 with this block being the 2nd of our exciting New Scots Integration Project! Thank you to everyone who has partnered with us to provide such amazing [...]
Picnic & Play at Balloch & Troon Beach!
Find out all about our Picnic & Plays with the Bridgeton, Castlemilk and Cranhill Hubs! These Blog posts show what we got up to and all the Storyplay-ing we did! Porridge & Play Hubs is running throughout 2022 with this block being the 2nd of our exciting New Scots Integration Project! Thank you to everyone who has partnered with us to provide such amazing experiences for our children & [...]
Picnic & Play at The Hunterian Museum!!
Find out all about our Picnic & Plays with the Bridgeton, Castlemilk and Cranhill Hubs! These Blog posts show what we got up to and all the Storyplay we did! Porridge & Play Hubs is running throughout 2022 with this block being the 2nd of our exciting New Scots Integration Project! Thank you to everyone who has partnered with us to provide such amazing experiences for our children & families, [...]
A Super Cake & Electricity Bolt!!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Friday 27th May This week was all about… chefs! Football chefs, Zuper chefs and Superhero chefs all joined forces to make a fantastic CAKE!!! And what a cake it was. I will share the recipe with you now. OUR SUPER CAKE RECIPE: INGREDIENTS: For the cake: Runny milk chocolate [...]
A Bookplay at Glasgow Women’s Library!!
Find out all about our Picnic & Plays with the Bridgeton, Castlemilk and Cranhill Hubs! These blog posts show what we got up to and all the Storyplay-ing we did! Porridge & Play Hubs is running throughout 2022 with this block being the 2nd of our exciting New Scots Integration Project! Thank you to everyone who has partnered with us to provide such amazing experiences for our children & [...]
Picnic & Play at Castlemilk & Tollcross Park!!
Find out all about our Picnic & Plays with the Bridgeton, Castlemilk and Cranhill Hubs! These Blog posts show what we got up to and all the Storyplay-ing we did! Porridge & Play Hubs is running throughout 2022 with this block being the 2nd of our exciting New Scots Integration Project! Thank you to everyone who has partnered with us to provide such amazing experiences for our children & [...]
Welcome back to Big Porridge and Play Glasgow online!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Friday 13th May Hello and welcome to Big Porridge and Play Glasgow online 2022! We had so much fun coming together again to play from all over Glasgow! We played Miss Mary Mac, Big as a Bear, Funky Chicken, Dressing Up, and Magic Ball! It was so much fun [...]
A celebration of Porridge & Play Bridgeton!!
Find out what the Bridgeton group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by André! Week 6 of Bridgeton Porridge & Play Friday 29th April This week André made a vlog (a video blog) about our amazing [...]
Our Celebration of Porridge & Play Cranhill!!
Find out what the Cranhill group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by Effie! Week 6 of Porridge & Play Cranhill!! Thursday 28th April CELEBRATION WEEK! What a fantastic time we had. Huge thank you to [...]
Our Castlemilk Porridge & Play Celebration!!
Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 6 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 27th April Potato parathas! By Amina Chicken mince kebabs & Chicken spring rolls [...]
Ickerickeroo and a Volcano!
Find out what the Bridgeton group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by André! Week 5 of Bridgeton Porridge & Play Friday 22nd April Hello and welcome back to Bridgeton Porridge & Play! It was lovely [...]
Meet our fascinating Witches
Find out what the Cranhill group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by Effie! Week 5 of Cranhill Porridge & Play!! Thursday 21st April It was so great to see everyone back after the break. We [...]
Our Pirate Crew and the Gold Cup!
Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 5 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 20th April We are the pirates BOLD! We don’t give a monkeys if it’s [...]
Volunteer with Licketyspit!
22nd April 2022 We are looking for volunteers to take part in our intergenerational Storyplay sessions across a range of projects. Our play sessions mainly take place on Wednesdays (2.30-6.30), Thursdays (3-7), Fridays (3-7), Saturdays (10-4). Dates for induction training are - 24th May (6-7.30) - 25th May (11-1) drop in for 1-to-1 chats - 21st June (4-5.30) You must attend at least 1 training session. If [...]
We are like one big family!!
Find out what the Bridgeton group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by André! Week 4 of Bridgeton Porridge & Play Friday 1st April There was lots of excitement on Friday 1st April at Church House [...]
Dinosaurland and a hotel made of sweeties!!
Find out what the Cranhill group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by Effie! Week 4 of Cranhill Porridge & Play!! Thursday 31st March What a great session to take us into the Easter holidays! We [...]
Our Witches Have Some Mucky Brew!!
Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 4 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 30th March Licketyspit & our Castlemilk pals got together once again at Castlemilk Community [...]
Playing some of our favourite Games!!
Find out what the Bridgeton group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by André! Week 3 of Bridgeton Porridge & Play Friday 25th March We loved seeing everyone once again for our Bridgeton Porridge and Play [...]
Welcome to Granny Academy!
Find out what the Cranhill group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by Effie! Week 3 of Cranhill Porridge & Play!! Thursday 24th March What an exciting session! After our usual warm up we decided it [...]
Licketyspit’s Castlemilk Sunny Day Cake!
Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 3 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 23rd March Licketyspit's Castlemilk Sunny Day Cake Recipe INGREDIENTS: 3 Licketyspit actors 7 families [...]
Grannies and Monsters in the deep deep forest!!
Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 2 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 16th March In a Haunted House with cobwebs, and maybe even some spiders but [...]
Can you hear the Monster’s Footsteps?!!
Find out what the Cranhill group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by Effie! Week 2 of Cranhill Porridge & Play!! Thursday 17th March What a wonderful second session! Our carrot & coriander soup was very [...]
Week 2 of Porridge & Play Bridgeton!!
Find out what the Bridgeton group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by André! Week 2 of Bridgeton Porridge & Play!! Friday 18th March We had an amazing time on Friday 18th March with our lovely [...]
Storyplay for the Planet Zine
Welcome to the Storyplay For The Planet blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. Saturday 12th March 2022 Our celebration & zine launch on Saturday was a brilliant way to finish our Storyplay for the Planet project. We have had a truly fantastic time over the last few months meetings [...]
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Bridgeton Hub!!
Find out what the Bridgeton group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by André! Week 1 of Bridgeton Porridge & Play!! Friday 11th March We have had so much fun at our first Porridge and Play [...]
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Cranhill Hub!!
Find out what the Cranhill group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by Effie! Week 1 of Cranhill Porridge & Play!! Thursday 10th March Porridge and Play is back!!! We had a fantastic first session [...]
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Castlemilk Hub!!
Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 1 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 9th March The cheers were so loud I bet you everyone could hear it [...]
In Storyplay City I sent a Letter to my Love!
Welcome to the Storyplay Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. Storyplay City is back It was wonderful to see lots of our Storyplay Champions back again for more imaginary play adventures! We also met some new friends who recently joined our Children & Families Network - welcome to the family! These online sessions have [...]
Bakers, Minions & Angry Armadillos!
Welcome to the Storyplay Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. Storyplay City is back It was wonderful to see lots of our Storyplay Champions back again for more imaginary play adventures! We also met some new friends who recently joined our Children & Families Network - welcome to the family! These online sessions are [...]
Storyplay City 2022
Welcome to the Storyplay Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. Storyplay City is back It was wonderful to see lots of our Storyplay Champions back again for more imaginary play adventures! We also met some new friends who recently joined our Children & Families Network - welcome to the family! These online sessions are [...]
Porridge & Play Bridgeton has started!
find out about the brilliant time we had launching Porridge & Play in Bridgeton!! Porridge & Play Bridgeton launch! ‘I liked all of the games!’ was what Storyplay Champion Adesayo said when asked about her favourite part of our Porridge & Play Bridgeton Launch. On Thursday 11th February we were at Church House to launch Porridge & Play Bridgeton! ‘When you arrive and you don’t know [...]
Porridge & Play Castlemilk has started!
find out about the brilliant time we had launching Porridge & Play Castlemilk! Porridge & Play Castlemilk launch! ‘I loved playing and meeting new friends!’ was what one of our Castlemilk children had to say about our launch on Tuesday 8th February. Licketyspit got together with our local Storyplay Champions at Castlemilk Parish Church to host the launch of Porridge & Play Castlemilk. It was so much fun [...]
Porridge & Play Cranhill has started!
Find out about the brilliant time we had launching Porridge & Play in Cranhill Porridge & Play Cranhill launch! "Amazing interaction with the kids, loved the imaginative play!! Thank you :)" - Mum, Porridge & Play Cranhill On Thursday 3rd February we launched Porridge & Play Cranhill at Cranhill Development Trust. It was so lovely to come together in person and meet so many wonderful [...]
Storyplay for the Planet is back!
Welcome to the Storyplay For The Planet blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. We were back on the 20th January for our second Storyplay for the Planet online session! These sessions are supported by Glasgow Life & Bloomberg as part of Licketyspit's East Centre Ward Residency and the Create4Glasgow project, supporting [...]
Tasters Week 1 – Porridge & Play Hubs
Welcome to the Porridge & Play blog where we'll be sharing news of our preparations to launch our family imaginary play project in Castlemilk, Bridgeton & Cranhill! We've been very busy getting ready to launch Porridge & Play, here's a taste of what we've been up to! Cranhill Online Taster! We loved our online Porridge & Play taster on Tuesday 18th January 2022, where we played [...]
Bellrock Nursery session 2
Welcome to the Storyplay For The Planet blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. We were back at Bellrock Nursery on Friday 10th December for our second Storyplay for the Planet session! It was a glorious session once again at Bellrock primary school with lots of [...]
Training Women’s Aid workers in Storyplay
17th December 2021 In 2020, Scottish Women’s Aid (SWA) approached Licketyspit to explore a collaboration: ‘When I heard more about Licketyspit all I could think about was how few tools we’ve had (in WA) based on joy and play and love and excitement and art and music and all of the thing to allow us to express emotions and not only get them out but also [...]
Storyplay For The Planet with Bellrock Nursery
Welcome to the Storyplay For The Planet blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. We went to Bellrock Nursery on Friday 3rd December for the first session of our Storyplay for the Planet! Everyone was ready to get stuck in and play all the games with us, many having learnt some of [...]
Session 2 Cranhill Primary
Welcome to the Storyplay For The Planet blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. We were back at Cranhill Primary on Friday 26th November for our second Storyplay for the Planet! We played Big as a Bear and Funky Chicken, where we met the Cheeky Monkey, Snapping Alligator and Funky Flamingo. It was [...]
Licketyspit’s Xmas Dress-Up!
All you need is your imagination for a Magical Christmas! Some of our fantastic families won’t be getting a present this Christmas so we would like to be able to give them a some presents from US ALL! We invite YOU to join our Dressing-Up Challenge to make a fantastic & hilarious costume out of anything you can find around the house or office! Then if you can, donate [...]
Monster-Making & Illustration with Catherine
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Did you know that you can make a monster out of just about anything? A bottle cap can make a teeny tiny monster! A wooden spoon can make a super [...]
National Lottery Birthday Film
26th November 2021 This month we had a fantastic Porridge & Play session at our home in Community Central Halls - CCH, with families who've been playing with us online since last year! We were also joined by Sanjeev Kholi and our funder the National Lottery who wanted to make a short film about Porridge & Play. The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland has funded Big Porridge & Play Glasgow since [...]
Storyplay For The Planet on Zoom!!
Welcome to the Storyplay For The Planet blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. We met together on the 19th of November on zoom to have your say through play about our planet! We hosted a Storyplay session on zoom to talk all about our planet with some new and old friends! [...]
Getting ready for Porridge & Play 2022!
Welcome to the Storyplay Champion blog where we'll be sharing news of our preparations to launch Porridge & Play Castlemilk and Porridge & Play East End in 2022! Our Storyplay Champion Families prepare for the two new Hubs coming to Porridge & Play in 2022! When you come to play with us it is important that we've got the opinion of families and professionals so we can [...]
Hamish & The Hoolit
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. We flew with the Hawk over the whole world! We met the peacock, the robin and the golden bird! We told wee Hoolet just to be himself! [...]
Storyplay For The Planet with Cranhill Primary!!
Welcome to the Storyplay For The Planet blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. We went to Cranhill Primary on Friday 12th November for the first session of our Storyplay for the Planet! We got to meet loads of wonderful children and their grown ups! As well as some of the fantastic [...]
Storyplay for the Planet
Licketyspit wants to spark a children’s rights-based play revolution! Storyplay for the Planet is part of our wider work in Glasgow, the first Storyplay City! See Big Porridge & Play and Storyplay City to find out what else we're doing nearby. What is Storyplay for the Planet? A series of Storyplay & Have Your Say Through Play sessions for families with 3-12 year [...]
Coffee Painting with Jaz!
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. What you need for coffee painting: Paper 1 teaspoon of instant coffee Two cups for mixing the paint Cold water 1 paintbrush or cotton earbud for painting 1 candle [...]
Mini Worlds With Ali
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. 19th, 20th and 21st October We had a fantastic third week of Family Art Voyage with our guest artist Ali Maclaurin who taught us how to make our own mini worlds using whatever [...]
Stories of Resilience
25th October 2021 This autumn, we were delighted to make a film about Porridge & Play Online as one of 13 Stories of Resilience commissioned by Refugee Action. Working on Zoom has produced a wealth of wonderful video clips of Porridge & Play Online throughout the Pandemic. Lead Actor-pedagogue, Iona Zajac, was able to cherry-pick from these in order to edit together a 5-minute film to provide a window into the [...]
Musical Theatre with Caitlin
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. 6th, 7th, 9th October We had a fantastic second week of Family Art Voyage with our guest artist Caitlin Forbes who joined us on zoom from Caithness, in the north [...]
Dancing & Drumming with Adie & Thomas
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. I love my ice-cream I love my ice-cubes (Injeela) sugar and butter! I love my school, I love my life and I love everyone at Licketyspit! (Emmanuel) sugar and butter! [...]
Women’s Aid Storyplay Scotland
29th September 2021 Licketyspit and Scottish Women’s Aid are excited to offer a free place on to our upcoming Storyplay training course to member Women’s Aid groups across Scotland. Following a very successful introductory session in February, Women’s Aid Storyplay Scotland will provide in-depth Storyplay training to Women’s Aid Workers to use Storyplay as an additional approach in their work with mothers, children and young people recovering from [...]
Jelly Catwalks around the World
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Jelly Catwalks around the world With a cast of characters to behold! Meet them all and don't be shy Or you might get donuts in your eyes! [...]
Storyplay City is Back!
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Magic Brews at Witches Convention Wolves, Mermaids, Sharks more than I can mention! Read on to find out what where we've been The tales we've heard and the things we've seen... [...]
New Porridge & Play Hubs!
7th September 2021 We are thrilled to announce that Licketyspit has been funded by the New Scots Integration Fund to set up two new Porridge & Play Hubs in Glasgow! Porridge & Play Hubs - Castlemilk & East End will be delivered in partnership with Storyplay Champion partners, parents/carers and children from these communities, with open sessions starting in the new year. The project has been designed in consultation [...]
Unfearties for Play!
Play Day Blog August 2021 We always say our shows are for everyone from 3-103, because we believe that when it comes down to it, we all need what children need, and when we meet the needs of children, we meet the needs of society. Being an Unfeartie is about levelling up children and grown-ups, fostering intergenerational equity – like we do at our Porridge & [...]
Family Art Voyage
30th July 2021 Exciting opportunity for Artists to deliver workshops for Licketyspit Children & Families Network Licketyspit children’s theatre & play organisation seeks 6 artists to deliver 3 online workshops for 3-12 year olds and their parents/carers. Developed in close consultation with our Children & Families Network (CFN), Family Art Voyage seeks to take families on a shared voyage of creative discovery, in the familiar, supportive setting [...]
Margaret & Magnus at the Museum!
Watch the film and join Margaret and Magnus on an adventure round the National Museum of Scotland!They are joined by intrepid adventurers Mahek, Franky, Zofia, Shullamite, Simon, Jessica and Lily Rose. What animals will they find? What places will they discover? Will they travel back in time?These Storyplay champions helped us make the film via Zoom.Watch it now and remember to play along at home! [...]
Wild Adventures of the Wednesday Crew
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. We have spoken the language of seagulls, And eaten our way out of jelly, We’ve rocked our way out of the teacup house, And soared on the back of [...]
Porridge & Play in Kelvingrove Park!
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Saturday 26th June Do you know what to do if you ever find yourself stuck inside a dinosaur’s belly? Tickling it until it burps you out usually works a treat! And [...]
Porridge & Play in Elder Park!
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Saturday 19th June Larks in the park! Outing number 3 was at Elder Park! Elder Park is a park in Govan, just a short walk away from the River Clyde which [...]
Porridge & Play Children Say Hey!
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Children take the lead! Last Saturday we were delighted to take part in the Refugee Festival. 10 of our Lickety Storyplay Champion Children led a Porridge & Play Taster session online [...]
Porridge & Play in Linn Park!
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. What a day for outdoor play! Our second Saturday outing this year was to the 3rd largest park in Glasgow: Linn Park. 🌳 With beautiful woodland and river walks, it also [...]
Playing together outside is back!
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Park Life! Do you know how sometimes when we play we tele transport ourselves places on the Magic Ball? Or sometimes we jump into paintings or video games? Or we slide [...]
Big Porridge & Play Week 5
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. We are the experts! Are you really very good at tying your laces? Or, maybe it's making sandwiches? Or, maybe you're great at jumping to the moon and back?! This week [...]
Big Porridge & Play Week 4
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Do you know Margaret & Margaret? Bold Margaret and Worried Margaret are the two main characters of our play – Licketyleap! Licketyleap is a Licketyspit show where the children leap into [...]
Big Porridge & Play Week 3
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Welcome to the Olympic Games...of Games!! We will WIGGLE, RACE and MIME! Place an egg on your spoon and see if you can reach the finish LINE! Team Licketyspit warmed up [...]
Storyplay Training
More and more Children’s services are recognising the importance of play for learning and wellbeing, especially as we begin to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic. Play is how we learn and grow and build strong relationships. When we are in touch with our playful self we can be relaxed and at our most open - to other people, to new experiences and to new ideas. We can be anyone, do anything, [...]
Big Porridge & Play Week 2
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Selkie Broth, Selkie Broth, Steam and Bubble and Froth! 🧜♀️ Shirley the Selkie needed a rhyming recipe for her Selkie Broth and all of the wonderful Sea Creatures came to the [...]
Big Porridge & Play 2021
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Wednesday 21 April 2021 We are back back back we saw Lily, Brown and Osak and met Adesayo’s Jealous Cat! Wohoo! We met new friends, Mighty [...]
Lickety Mums Blog 3!
Monday 26th April 2021 The 4th Lickety Mums session last Monday was all about digital safety and creating awareness about how to protect our online presence. Dr Soumi Dey of the University of Glasgow was the guest facilitator for this session. Soumi is an adult educator and teaches courses in Education and Social Sciences. She has a PhD in Children’s Literature and is [...]
Lickety Mums Blog 2!
Tuesday 6th April 2021 The 2nd and 3rd Lickety Mums sessions covered a wide range of topics, including word processing, podcasts and knowing what's real and what's fake, on the internet. There was also plenty of time for discussion about things to do in Glasgow and the trials and tribulations of being moved house during the pandemic. Find links to all the websites [...]
Dressing Up with Effie
Licketyspit Actor-Pedagogue Effie brings to life one of our Lickety Playcards - DRESSING UP GAMES! 🗝️🧣👒 🕶️ At first it may seem like a pile of old clothes and bits and bobs from around the house, but it's actually EVERYTHING you need to become infinite characters and get lost in different imaginary worlds. What's your favourite dressing up character? Send us a photo [...]
Storyplay City Ceilidhs
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Turns! turns! turns! What a line-up we had for our fabulous final sessions! After 9 weeks playing together, singing together, exploring together, rhyming together and laughing together we were all looking [...]
Storyplay City Week 7
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. 🎼🏴☠️🎵🏴☠️🎶 We are the PIRATES BOLD, We don't give a monkey if it's cold We are not AFRAID if the world is BIG We don't care a [...]
Storyplay City Week 6
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. This week at our Big Porridge & Play Online session our play was inspired by some excellent news for the children of Scotland! Scotland is incorporating into [...]
Play In A Time Of Crisis Webinar
At the start of February 2021, we were thrilled to be invited to present our work at the International Play Association’s Play in a Time of Crisis Award webinar series, which showcased projects all over the world that have supported children’s right to play during the pandemic. What we shared During the webinar, we spoke about the generosity, joy and limitless creativity we witnessed during Big Porridge [...]
Lickety Mums!
Wednesday 10th March 2021 The first first block of Lickety Mums sessions started on International Women’s Day! 💃 It was a joy to come together with some of the Mums we see at our Porridge & Play sessions for a Mum-centred hour of discussion, skill sharing and good vibes! We started off stretching to I am Woman by Helen Reddy and danced our way [...]
Andre’s Turn
In Porridge & Play we've been talking about Ceilidhs. Ceilidh is a Scottish word - in the Gaelic language - which is mostly used now to describe a Dance - with a Scottish band with maybe fiddle and accordion, where people do Scottish country dancing in big groups. BUT Ceilidhs have happened in Scotland for hundreds of years and the word Ceilidh really [...]
Storyplay City Week 5
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. How do we move when we’re stuck in mud? Or, if the ground is covered in ice? How do we move if our legs turn to jelly? [...]
Storyplay City Week 4
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. What brilliant Rhyming Writers you all are! This week’s session was all about RHYME, and with inspiration from our rhyming Mary Mac, Three Craws and the Big [...]
Storyplay City Week 3
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. With Lobster McLobster & Flippity the Clownfish! Welcome to the 2021 Sea Creatures & Monsters Convention! This year we have the most exciting mix of misfits and characters you [...]
Storyplay City Week 2 – Amy & Adie
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Scots Song & Kpanlogo Rhythms! What an exciting second week...Singing in Scots and Ga, making kitchen drum-kits and dancing!! Burns Night celebrations are known all around the world and [...]
Storyplay City Week 1 – New Years Cake Recipe
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog Storyplay City edition, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Welcome back!! Porridge & Play Online is back but from Jan-March 2021 it's running as part of Storyplay City - a new project funded by Glasgow Council, with support [...]
Storyplay City Launch
Licketyspit wants to spark a children’s rights-based play revolution! The Glasgow Community and National Lottery Community Funds have let us make a start. This is just the beginning! Everyone can join. There is a big imaginary play train going round Glasgow and everyone can jump on board! What is Storyplay City? Everyone, of all ages, loves to play! We need to play! Play [...]
Christmas Video Message
A 2020 Christmas Message from Licketyspit A Christmas Video! We hope you'll enjoy this Christmas message and demonstration of two great games to play over the hoildays, from Ruby, Iona and Taz. The holidays are a great time to play as a family. We hope you have a lovely Christmas break. The Licketyspit team will be on holiday between December 24th-Janueary 11th so [...]
Happy Holidays! A Festive Final Week
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. Saturday 🎁 What a brilliant final session! We played the PRESENT GAME where one present can transform into lots of wonderful things!! Kamila & Saif turned their present into a Christmas tree and gave it to [...]
Feeling the love as Big Porridge & Play 2020 draws to a close
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. Saturday What a brilliant session we had on Saturday with 30 families!! The sessions are so full of excitement and generosity and feels like one big family! We began with BIG AS [...]
An EXTRA BIG adventure as BPPG 2020 draws to a close!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. We love Saturday Porridge & Play sessions! 37 families attended our Saturday session last week, and what a brilliant session it was. We stomped like Latifa’s Grumpy Elephant! [...]
Dancing and singing with Adie Baako!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. What an exciting week! 🎵 ‘Everybody! Bring your calabash! Bring your calabash!’ 🎶 At this week’s Big Porridge & Play Online sessions, [...]
Andre and Taz share this week’s BPPG highlights!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. For this week's blog, Licketyspit actor-pedagogues Taz and Andre share some of their highlights from the action-packed Big Porridge & Play sessions. Wednesday 👨 Our action-packed [...]
Aye aye, Captain! All aboard our Pirate Ship!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. Saturday 7 November This week's Saturday session We enjoyed another ENORMOUS play session on Saturday - with 28 families joining us! 🐶 🐅🦋 After an [...]
Another chance to join our spooky party – from home!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. What a fantastic Halloween party we had! Did you join us on Saturday for our 🎃 Halloween Family Party 🎃 with Parent Club? The great news [...]
Cakes, castles and Carrot & Cheese World!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. Saturday 24 October 2020 What a happy, energetic and exuberant session we had on Saturday! [...]
Celebrating our many languages in The Hello Game!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. Saturday 17 October 2020 It was great to get back to Big Porridge & Play this Saturday after a week’s break - and we have [...]
Glasgow, one year on: a Storyplay explosion!
It’s been a year since we moved the Licketyspit office to Glasgow - and what a year it’s been. None of us could have predicted the tumultuous events that would affect everything and everyone; for the past six months, like all other arts organisations, the activities and goals we set out have been forced to shift and morph to fit our new reality. So, we were delighted when one [...]
Our latest play session – with 37 FAMILIES!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. 3 October 2020 Saturday! We thought it was last week... but this Saturday really was our BIGGEST SESSION EVER! 37 families joined us for a [...]
Witchy brews, fruit fairies and ghost trains!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. Wednesday! 23 September 2020 Thank you to the 12 families in Ruchill and Milton who joined us for our final Wednesday session of the month! [...]
All the things we can still do while we’re at home!
As the restrictions around coronavirus continue, we know that many families may be feeling frustrated, stressed, or worried. We know it's a difficult time, so we wanted to remind you of all the things we CAN still do at the moment, even when we might not be able to play with all of our friends or family. There are so many ways to keep using our imagination and creativity [...]
Spooky woods, a Wolf Queen, and a rainbow lake!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. WOW!!! We had the biggest Saturday session EVER this week, with 27 families and 81 participants! And what a brilliant session it was - featuring [...]
Chocolate fountains, angry animals, and letters to our loves!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. Wednesday! 9 September 2020 We had a lovely, relaxed and cheery session [...]
How YOU can help shape a revolution in children’s rights!
Why are we so excited? Last week, something happened which made us very happy here at Licketyspit! In a big document outlining their plans for the next year the Scottish Government promised to deliver “a revolution in children’s rights” - how exciting does that sound?! They plan to do this by incorporating a major international law protecting the rights of children into Scottish law. [...]
UNCRC Incorporation Scotland Bill
Wednesday 9th September, 2020 Incorporating the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child into Scottish law is a big step towards ensuring every child in Scotland grows up happy, healthy and safe. This “rights revolution” means our government is committed to building a society where children are seen, heard, included and valued as equal human beings with their own views, thoughts, feelings and ideas. It means children’s [...]
A whole WEEK of BPPG adventures! Phew!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. This week, we started two new sessions after school on Wednesdays and Thursdays, alongside our usual Saturday morning adventures. These smaller sessions are for invited [...]
Introducing Andre & Sanjay!
Meet our new team members and hear about their training experience in Andre's blog! Friday 4th September 2020 Working for Licketyspit is never easy but fun, never simple but relaxed, and never formulaic but planned. Hello, my name is Andre and I am one of your new Actor Pedagogue (AP) Trainees for Licketyspit; a children’s early years theatre and play company [...]
Happy birthdays, baking cakes, and dancing on the moon!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play blog, where we share the stories of the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom. If you'd like to join our online weekend sessions (every Saturday, from 10.30am), all you need to do is email us at cfn@licketyspit.com or text us on 07413 800 342. We'll let you know all the details, and which dates we're welcoming new families [...]
Another (very big) Big Porridge & Play adventure!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play blog, where we share the stories of the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom. If you'd like to join our online weekend sessions (every Saturday, from 10.30am), all you need to do is email us at cfn@licketyspit.com or text us on 07413 800 342. We'll let you know all the details, and which dates we're welcoming new families [...]
Providing digital tablets to families who need them
Have you heard the news?! A few months ago, we were overjoyed to receive funding which enabled us to buy tablets and SIM cards with mobile data for families in our network and beyond, who would struggle to buy these themselves. This meant that they could join in with our Big Porridge & Play Online sessions! We can now tell you that we've received further funding from Migration Exchange and [...]
Big Porridge and Play Saturday Sessions are back!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play blog, where we share the stories of the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom. If you'd like to join our online weekend sessions (every Saturday, from 10.30am), all you need to do is email us at cfn@licketyspit.com or text us on 07413 800 342. We'll let you know all the details, and which dates we're welcoming new families [...]
Ruchill & Milton Online Sessions
JOIN 17th August 2020 Big Porridge & Play Online community sessions are starting next month for families in Ruchill & Milton! These sessions are delivered via Zoom for families with 3-12 year olds. Participants will receive Lickety Drawing Pads and Crayons and new families will receive sets of Lickety Playcards so you can keep playing the Porridge & Play games at home! BPPG has been running in Ruchill since [...]
A message for everyone going back to school…
If your children are going back to school this week, we want to remind you of something very important: you are BRILLIANT! You've been learning, caring, creating, imagining, playing and supporting each other during lockdown! Everyone has missed school, so please try not to worry about getting behind or needing to catch up. Schools, and your children's teachers, will be there to help the transition back to normal [...]
Over To You #4: Exploring and Making!
We've loved seeing all the imaginative things you've been up to over the summer holidays. We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has sent us their drawings, poems, stories, videos and photos so far. What amazing things you've created from your own imaginations! We've had families making their own cookery videos, so they can teach others delicious recipes from their culture. We've gone on exciting adventures to some far-away places [...]
Video: Grandma, Grandma
Virginia and Iona teach you the Grandma, Grandma song, from the Lickety Playcard Repertoire! Watch the video and join in with us from home - it's easy to learn and lots of fun to do! The video is part of a series of Playcard Videos which Licketyspit are producing for children and families to join in with at home during the coronavirus outbreak. Find out more [...]
Over To You #3: Cooking!
For the next few weeks, we're handing things over to you! As many of you will know, after our Zoom play sessions, and at the end of our Activity Films, we always ask people to share drawings, poems, stories, videos and photos of their creations. Well - the response so far has been incredible! We've been overjoyed by the photos and videos we've received from children and families in our network over the past few [...]
Over To You #2: Poetry and performance!
For the next few weeks, we're handing things over to you! As many of you will know, after our Zoom play sessions, and at the end of our Activity Films, we always ask people to share drawings, poems, stories, videos and photos of their creations. Well - the response so far has been incredible! We've been overjoyed by the photos and videos we've received from children and families in our network over the past few [...]
Ensuring access to digital tablets for families in need
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the ensuing lockdown, Licketyspit worked quickly to respond to the needs of families in our Children & Families Network and provide creative, joyful activities that would help families feel less isolated, inspire children to play and imagine at home, and connect people up with financial and food support during this difficult time. This included making videos for children explaining coronavirus and the [...]
Over to you #1
Over the next few weeks, we're handing things over to you! As many of you will know, after our Zoom play sessions, and at the end of our Activity Films, we always ask people to share drawings, poems, stories, videos and photos of their creations. Well - the response so far has been incredible! We've been overjoyed by the photos and videos we've received from children and families in our network over the past few weeks, [...]
Week 7: Sticky honey, speaking in Bee, and dancing on TV!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play blog, where we share the stories of the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom. If you'd like to join in with our open session on Saturday mornings at 10am, all you need to do is either email us at cfn@licketyspit.com, text us at 07413 800 342, or sign up using this form. Everyone's welcome, and we'd love to [...]
Week 6: A big Lickety goodbye to our wonderful new pals
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play blog, where we share the stories of the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom. If you'd like to join in with our open session on Saturday mornings at 10am, all you need to do is either email us at cfn@licketyspit.com, text us at 07413 800 342, or sign up using this form. Everyone's welcome, and we'd love to [...]
Week 5: Funky chickens, magic balls, and wolves with watches!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play blog, where we share the stories of the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom. If you'd like to join in with our open session on Saturday mornings at 10am, all you need to do is either email us at cfn@licketyspit.com, text us at 07413 800 342, or sign up using this form. Everyone's welcome, and we'd love to [...]
Week 4: Love letters, marshmallow monsters & a seahorse picnic!
Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play blog, where we share the stories of the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom. If you'd like to join in, all you need to do is either email us at cfn@licketyspit.com, text us at 07413 800 342, or sign up using this form. We'd love to see you soon! [...]
Week 3: Pirate Captains & Magic Ball!
Big Porridge & Play Blog 8th June 2020 Govan - Tuesday 2nd June 2020 The Govan posse got together yesterday for a bit of hang out and a lot of PLAY! We talked about how much everyone likes dressing up with just any old stuff or ordinary things we may have around...I tied a t-shirt around my head and a scarf around my forehead and just [...]
Week 2: Freezing Monster Trees & Grandmas!
Big Porridge & Play Blog 1st June 2020 Govan – Tuesday 26th May 2020 FUN FUN FUN!!! Great play session last week!! We had a wee chat about our weekends while we were getting all connected to Zoom and Bob told us about his garden and his plants and we discovered that Ethan, Erin and Leah spent their weekend doing Discos at home! Funky Chicken was full [...]
Saturday Sessions Starting!
Big Porridge & Play Open Sessions start this week! 27th May 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! Families across Scotland are invited to join Porridge & Play Online - imaginary play sessions, games, rhymes, songs and story making! Every Saturday @ 10am on Zoom! Join the Children & [...]
Week 1: Meeting & Flying Balloons across the Sky!
Big Porridge & Play Blog 22nd May 2020 Govan - Tuesday 19th May 2020 Hiya everyone! What fun we had yesterday, right? Jack, Iona, Ruby & myself were so excited to welcome all our new families from Govan. And it was so great to have so many of yous joining our play session! It was a fun to work out everyone's names and trying to organise [...]
Govan, Milton, Easterhouse Online Sessions
Community sessions have started online! 21st May 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! Families in Govan, Milton and Easterhouse are invited to community specific sessions of Porridge & Play Online! Families also receive sets of Lickety Playcards, a fantastic repertoire of 16 colourfully illustrated cards to support ongoing play [...]
Hare & Tortoise Audio-Show
Hare & Tortoise Audio-Show Online Sunday 10th May 2020 “Hare will be there! Yeah, yeah, yeah!” “Go Tortoise go! Don’t be slow!" We're very excited to be sharing the audio-show version of Hare & Tortoise in 9 Episodes on our website! 🕖 EVERY NIGHT @ 7pm from 10th-18th May on our Facebook Page. Tortoise challenges boastful Hare to a race, but who will win this famous contest? Adapted from Aesop’s [...]
The Story of Mr Hedgehog & Mrs McFroggy
Thursday 30th April 2020 Molly was thrilled to get some help with her story from P4 at Oakwood! In this video from Molly's Den, she reads the endings of the story written by Ava and Darryn. If anyone else has written an ending to the story or drawn any pictures we would love to see them too! (Iona's pretending to be Molly Whuppie - hehehe!) Big [...]
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 specialists Licketyspit have received funding from the National Lottery Community Fund to adapt their popular family project Big Porridge & Play Glasgow to tackle social isolation and support families during the Coronavirus lockdown. The charity will bring groups of families [...]
Video: Hello My Name is Joe
Hello, my name is Joe I've got a wife and 3 kids And I work in the Button Factory One day, my boss says to me He says Joe are you busy I say no! Join actor-pedagogue Effie for this energetic action song, from the Lickety Playcard Repertoire! Part of a series of Play Videos Licketyspit are producing for children & families to join in with at home during [...]
Licketyspit Digital Access Survey
Loading… Lickety Online! Throughout April, we're doing trial online Zoom play sessions every Wednesday. Email Ruby at cfn@licketyspit.com if you'd like to come! Community Resources Molly Whuppie Audio-Show (From Licketyspit!) You can listen to the audio-show of Molly Whuppie with actors and live music on harp and fiddle here! We are releasing a new episode every night [...]
Lickety Online Play Sessions!
We were very excited to try out our first Lickety Online Play Session last week! We used the platform Zoom to play with families all over Glasgow - in their living rooms! It was great fun. We flew up and off round the world in our Balloons. We saw a volcano, a dinosaur planet, trees that looked like broccoli and so much more. We sang Grandma Grandma and wriggled [...]
Video: Ickerickeroo!
As I touch myself, what have I hear? This is my BRAINBOXER my mother dear! Brainboxer, Brainboxer Ickerickeroo! That's what they told me when I went to school! Join in with Iona to sing Ickerickeroo, one of the Licketyspit Playcards! Part of a series of Play Videos Licketyspit are producing for children & families to join in with at home during the Coronavirus Outbreak. Graphic design: Wrench and Franks [...]
Molly Whuppie Audio-Show
Molly Whuppie Audio-Show Online Tuesday 7th April 2020 We're very excited to be sharing the audio-show version of Molly Whuppie in 12 Episodes on our website! 🕖 EVERY NIGHT @ 7pm from 7th-18th April on the Molly Whuppie Page! There are some pictures to accompany the story, but you can just listen to it too without watching the screen - perfect at bedtime as a #lockdown Easter break treat! Look [...]
A Letter from Molly Whuppie
Easter Holidays Monday 6th April 2020 Molly Whuppie has written a letter to Primary 4! You can read it below and watch the video of her reading it to you! (Iona's pretending to be Molly Whuppie - maybe you could do that too!) As you'll find out, Molly needs some ideas for her story. If you have an idea, grown ups can send it to cfn@licketyspit.com, via Facebook or [...]
Video: The Funky Chicken
Do you know the Funky Chicken? "What did you say?!" Taz and Jack lead a game of Funky Chicken, one of the Licketyspit Playcards! Part of a series of Play Videos Licketyspit are producing for children & families to join in with at home during the Coronavirus Outbreak. MANY THANKS to the children at St Martha's Primary School and Miltonbank Primary School whose drawings and animals appear in the [...]
Children’s Guide to Coronavirus 2: Lockdown
👀🎥 An update on the Coronavirus lockdown for children and families, from Virginia at Licketyspit. Also includes lots of hilarious ideas for things to play and do with everyday household objects - from our actor-pedagogue, Iona! This was prompted by Mrs Thomson at Oakwood Primary - one of our Storyplay Schools! Our first video had really helped lots of children there. We hope this one does too! [...]
Big as a Bear – Lickety Rhyming Warm Ups
Try out our Lickety Rhyming Wake Up Warm Ups! Join in with the videos below. A fun and energising way to start the day for young and old. Or why not do it in between school activities to break up your morning? These warm ups are imaginative and interactive - and only 3 minutes long! BIG as a BEAR! BIG as a HOUSE! [...]
Video explaining Coronavirus to children in English, Arabic & Spanish
We know lots of children are wondering what on earth is going on with this Coronavirus, so we made this video to help parents, carers, teachers and other adults explain what's going on. Then our Lickety Volunteer Asim made an Arabic version and our Actor-Pedagogue Taz made a Spanish version! Watch the videos below: English عربى Español You [...]
P6/5 Session 2 – Miltonbank
Monday 16th March 2020 We had a wonderful session of outdoor Storyplay with the bubbly and energetic P6/5’s at Miltonbank in their last session. The whole class remembered how to warm up by making yourself as Big as Bear! And as Fast as a Hare! You can do the Warm Up at home with this video. We had some brilliant bird like running as well! We loved warming up [...]
P2 Session 2 – Miltonbank
Monday 16th March 2020 We had our second Storyplay session with Miltonbank’s P2’s outside! When we got cold we went into the hall. At the end of the session we found words to describe how we felt playing these games together today and people said - Good and Happy, some people felt a bit tired and out of sorts because of everything that's been going on but we also [...]
P1 Session 2
Monday 16th March 2020 This week it was sunny so we played outside in the playground which was lovely because we could run! We had a double warm-up this week to keep us warm while we were outside! We made ourselves as Big as a Bear and as Big as a House! Can you remember how each warm-up rhyme goes? We played ‘Do you know the…’ (Maybe you could [...]
Licketyspit & the Coronavirus Outbreak
We are sad to announce that all of our family sessions - including Big Porridge & Play Glasgow and Picnic & Play - are now postponed until further notice ☹️ 👨👩👦👦Our play sessions are social gatherings with shared food, dressing up & group play with families from across different communities. Given the current situation, we cannot bring people together in this way. We will be in touch when we [...]
Miltonbank P1
Monday 9th March 2020 We had an incredible first session of STORYPLAY with Primary One this week! P1 families are warmly invited to come and learn these games too at Porridge & Play next week! (18th March 9.15-11.30am) There was so much enthusiasm and focus from everyone in the room. We started with our warm up and then we introduced P1 to the Funky Chicken and they introduced us [...]
Miltonbank P6/5 Playcard Play
Monday 9th March 2020 It was great to meet Primary 6/5 at Miltonbank for our first STORYPLAY session this week! We had such a great time playing and imagining together! We made ourselves as Big as a Bear and as Fast as Hare. Can you remember all the different steps in our warm-up? Jack and Virginia welcomed some new animal friends to the group as well. We met the [...]
Oakwood P4 Storyplay Session 5
Session 5 Wednesday 11th March 2020 We had a fantastically exciting day with the Primary 4 class at Oakwood Primary on Wednesday. After a couple of games (warm up, funky chicken) to warm up our minds and bodies - led by the children - we revisited the stories we had all created in the previous session. Miss Piggy and the Magic Book of Spells The Friendly Painting Tiger Momaka [...]
Miltonbank P2 Playcard Play
Wednesday 11th March 2020 A lovely session of Playcard Play was had with Primary 2 at Miltonbank this week. After their fantastical adventure with Margaret & Margaret, everyone played the Lickety Playcard games with such great energy and enthusiasm. You can come and learn them too at Porridge & Play next week! (18th March 1-3pm) Everyone quickly learnt the warm up, so many brilliant bears, hares, birds and foxes! [...]
St Martha’s P3/2 Session 2
Tuesday 10th March 2020 Today we had our second Playcard session with P3.2 and it was lots of fun! We met even more animals at the start of our session and everyone had the chance to draw and make up their own animal for The Funky Chicken - there were so many excellent ideas! In our balloons we flew all the way to Nigera and we saw a volcano [...]
St Martha’s P1 Session 3
Tuesday 10th March 2020 In our third session with Primary One we all created Funky Chicken Animals and got a ride on a Dragon's back to a nearby lake where we went for a swim! We met the Running Zebra, Nice Tiger, Happy Cat, Silly Giraffe, Friendly Shark and so many other animals - everyone created one! We flew off in our balloons - with suggestions we might see [...]
Miltonbank P3 – Session 2
Wednesday 11th March 2020 Blog by Taz: I met the P3 class this morning for the first time. A lively lovely bunch! Even though they hadn’t met me before they were kind and welcoming. We had a good warm-up that everyone seem to enjoy and we got on with playing! Funky Chicken was a fun surprise as many of the children offered fantastic animals: a cheeky cat, a nice [...]
Miltonbank P4 – Session 2
Monday 2nd March 2020 We had another brilliant session of STORYPLAY with the Primary 4's this week at Miltonbank! Everyone was full of energy, excitement and creativity which was reflected in fantastic dressing up and the amazing drawings that followed! Everyone remembered lots of the warm up and joined in loudly, which really got our bodies and minds ready to go! Lots of great animals were thought of in [...]
St Martha’s P4/3 Session 2
Tuesday 10th March 2020 We had our second STORYPLAY session with the creative and energetic P4/3 class at St Martha’s on Tuesday, which was our first session with Mrs McAuley! The class were buzzing with new animal creations in the Funky Chicken! Arran showed us his Crazy Turtle! Ciaran told us about the Nosey Dog who had a great sense of smell… Sniff Sniff Sniff and Feras delighted us [...]
Miltonbank P7/6 – Session 2
Wednesday 11th March 2020 Primary 7 did the BIG as a HOUSE warm-up and then invented their own! We did Hello my name is Joe! And a hilarious Miss Mary Mac, which got faster & faster! Most people really love the dressing up & created more sensational characters! You’re never too old to enjoy dressing-up but most of us hadn’t done it since P2 or nursery or at all! [...]
Licketyspit seeks Volunteers!
Big Porridge & Play Glasgow is BACK for another 3 years and we are looking for new Lickety Volunteers to support our actor pedagogues to deliver these sessions! In our 3 existing communities... Ruchill The Gorbals Whiteinch And 3 NEW communities! Easterhouse Govan Milton The project will run for 5 week [...]
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 we are delighted to be taking BPPG to *3 new communities!* Volunteering - We'll be recruiting more volunteers! Click on the link to find out more and please get in touch if you're interested in [...]
Picnic & Play at the Dream Machine
29th Feb 2020 We had an incredibly busy Picnic & Play at the Dream Machine with 58 people!* However, it was wonderful to introduce so many new families to Lickety Play and have so many people from different backgrounds (over 5 different languages!) meeting and playing confidently and enthusiastically together. In Funky Chicken we met the Quacking Duck Duck, the Cheeky Cheetah, the Meowing Cat and the Cheaty Minecraft! We saw princesses [...]
LicketyLeap Session 2 – Revisiting & sharing with families!
4th March 2020 It was great to meet again and talk and remember our journey through the BOG over the SEA into the CAVE and up the MOUNTAIN to find our HEART’S DESIRE! We talked about our Heart’s Desire – whether there was something we’d like most in the world that would make us very happy? You can see the children's answers below. We did the whole LicketyLeap [...]
St Martha’s P2 Session 2
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 We had a fantastic second session with P2 at St Martha’s today! After our fantastic warm up we met the Funky Chicken and Eldana introduced us to the Angry Cat, with Kristian we met the Roaring Dragon, Shapina introduced us to the Happy Unicorn and Brayden showed us all the Rainbow Zebra. We went flying in our balloons and then we learnt some new names [...]
St Martha’s P1 Session 2
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 We had a wonderful second session of STORYPLAY with Primary 1 where we went to Jamaica in the Magic Ball, Sent a Letter to our loves and learned some unusual new names for the body! In Ickerickeroo we learned some Scots inspired names of the body - our Brain Boxer, Knee Knockers, Bread Basket and more! We met the Shy dragon unicorn, Silly Dog, Gentle [...]
St Martha’s P4/3 Session 1
Tuesday 3rd March 2020 Today we had our first STORYPLAY session with an excitable and wonderfully creative P4/3 class at St Martha’s! What a session Ruby and Jack had with the group! We met some of the Funky Chicken’s newest friends. Desire introduced us to the Funky Giraffe and Myia said hello to the Funny Swan who had a great dance to go with it! I think there were [...]
Miltonbank P3 – Session 1
Monday 2nd March 2020 P3 had their first STORYPLAY session with us on Monday with Mr Lindsay, Jack, & Virginia. We were BIG as a BEAR and FAST as a HARE! We did the FUNKY CHICKEN and the NICE CAT and lots of great funny animals! We flew high in our Balloons over Glasgow and the world! We did Grandma Grandma sick in bed and then we dressed up – [...]
Miltonbank P4 – Session 1
Monday 2nd March 2020 It was great to meet Primary 4 at Miltonbank for our first STORYPLAY session this week! We had such a great time playing and imagining together! As we introduced the class to the Funky Chicken we realised several members of the class had already met our animal friends and they were quick to welcome some exciting new animals to us! James excitedly told us about the [...]
Miltonbank P7/6 – Session 1
Monday 2nd March 2020 On Monday afternoon we welcomed the P7/6s to their first STORYPLAY session with us! Virginia told the class all about the importance of play and how beneficial it is to let yourself go and throw yourself into the session and we certainly had that from this class. We all made ourselves as thin as a pin and as strong as a giant and we felt [...]
LicketyLeap at Miltonbank – Group 2
25th February 2020 Miltonbank’s Storyplay Residency started with LicketyLeap for Primary Two. 19 children in two groups leaped into the story with Margaret & Margaret! We journeyed through the BOG over the SEA into the CAVE and up the MOUNTAIN to find our HEART’S DESIRES! It was an amazing adventure! At the end Margaret & Margaret flew away in their balloon and a bundle of postcards fell down [...]
LicketyLeap at Miltonbank – Group 1
25th February 2020 Miltonbank’s Storyplay Residency started with LicketyLeap for Primary Two. 19 children in two groups leaped into the story with Margaret & Margaret! We journeyed through the BOG over the SEA into the CAVE and up the MOUNTAIN to find our HEART’S DESIRES! It was an amazing adventure! At the end Margaret & Margaret flew away in their balloon and a bundle of postcards fell down from [...]
St Martha’s P3/2 Session 1
Tuesday 25th February 2020 We had a fantastic first session of STORYPLAY with Primary 3/2 at St Martha's Primary this week! We introduced our playcard games to a very enthusiastic class! Lots of the children made up their own Funky Chicken animals including and Angry Sheep, a Snapping Dog and a Happy Cow. When we flew high in our balloons we flew so far we could see volcanoes, tigers, [...]
St Martha’s P2 Session 1
Tuesday 25th February 2020 What an exciting day we had at St Martha’s STORYPLAY on Tuesday! We met the P2’s for the very first time and introduced a brilliant and creative class to our Playcard Play sessions! We made ourselves as Big as a Bear and as Fast as a Hare! Can you remember any of the animals we pretended to be?! We got to know the Funky Chicken [...]
St Martha’s P1 Session 1
Tuesday 25th February 2020 We had a fantastic first session of STORYPLAY with Primary 1 at St Martha's Primary this week! Primary One and Mrs Reid all threw themselves into the start of the Storyplay residency on Tuesday! We were all as BIG as a BEAR and as FAST as a HARE! We did the Flying Allacorn, the Scary Lion, the Silly Crocodile, the Angry Bee & the Funky [...]
Oakwood P4 Storyplay Session 4
Session 4 24th February 2020 We had another wonderful day on Monday with Primary 4! We started with the warm-up to get our minds and bodies working and created lots of our own rhymes and similes with actions. The whole class then had ten minutes to go and write down pairs of rhyming similes. Here are some fantastic examples: As boingy as a kangaroo that went [...]
Oakwood P4 Storyplay Session 3
Session 3 19th February 2020 We had another great day with Oakwood’s P4s! We started with Storyplay games and our ‘Big as a Bear’ warm-up grew into a new group poem of similes and actions like 'Make yourself as... ‘Smiley as a person!’ ‘as Spikey as a hedgehog!’, 'as Rolly as a ball!’, and ‘as Slow as a Sloth!’ We flew off in our Magic Balloons again high over [...]
Oakwood P4 Storyplay Sessions 1 & 2
17th February 2020 This Spring at Oakwood we are working with Primary 4 on a Storyplay literacy residency. All of the children's written & artwork can be looked at on our Facebook page - a selection of pics are below. Session 1 In our first session on Monday, we played a selection of Lickety Playcard games and did reflective drawing and writing. Everyone came up with a Funky Chicken [...]
Storyplay is Starting at Miltonbank & St Martha’s!
18th February 2020 We are very excited to be starting STORYPLAY at Miltonbank Primary later this month and St Martha's Primary at the start of March! Virginia has already met the teachers and delivered Storyplay CPD. We'll be doing LicketyLeap and Porridge & Play with families at Miltonbank and Playcard Play at both schools, with Celebration Assemblies planned for the last week of March. Visit the Miltonbank and St [...]
Picnic & Play at the CCH
9th Feb 2020 We had a very friendly, relaxed Picnic & Play at the CCH with 42 people (14 families) on Sunday, to mark #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek. Newcomers to Lickety Play took to the session brilliantly and everyone was very supportive and warm towards one another. It was also great to see some families from St Mary's Storyplay, and from our sessions with the Scottish Refugee Council. Highlights included the focused [...]
CFN Trips to Celtic Connections 2020
CFN Trip to Danny Kyle Stage, Celtic Connections 20th January 2020 We've had a couple of great CFN Trips to Celtic Connections this week! On Monday, 38 of us went to the Danny Kyle Open Stage at the The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall. We saw some great bands like the Flying Penguins and singers like Lisa Kowalski. We heard fiddle, whistle, guitar, and clarsach! There even a song [...]
Picnic & Play Spring 2020
16th January 2020Catch up on the Spring 2020 Picnic & Play sessions here! With sessions at the Dream Machine,Hidden Gardens, Museum of Scotland and more, we had so much fun with imaginary playand exploration in some of the most exciting arts and culture venues in Edinburgh and Glasgow This spring we are playing at: Community Central Halls Dream Machine, Glasgow See pics from our [...]
Licketyspit Xmas Round-up 2019
20th December Merry Christmas from Licketyspit! Read & download the whole 2019 round-up here! Scroll down to see our 2019 timeline. Timeline 2019 January New Website Launch Virginia to Philadelphia for IPAY Conference Storyplay Residency Part 2 at Riverside Primary, Govan February-March Storyplay Taster Residency at Ibrox Primary, Govan Storyplay Residency Year 3, Part 2 at Oakwood Primary, [...]
Take 2: CFN Festive Trips!
CFN Trip to Rosemount Development Trust 30th Anniversary Celebrations 01st December 2019 It was great to join the Royston community for an afternoon of Christmassy fun for Rosemount Development Trust's 30th anniversary. Ruby, our Children and Families Network producer, went along with a couple of CFN families from Maryhill and the Gorbals and a few of their friends. It was great to meet lots of new families and join [...]
Licketyspit’s Book Week Scotland Competition
3rd December 2019 Congratulations to Licketyspit's Book Week Scotland Competition Winners! To celebrate Book Week Scotland 2019, we invited CFN members to send us a photo of a drawing/painting their child had done, inspired by their favourite book or story. The prizes were copies of our Wee Witches and Molly Whuppie books! You can explore and buy these here. The books are based on our shows - you can [...]
CFN Festive Trips!
23rd November 2019 Mary Poppins Cinema Trip with the Caravan Project We had a FAB first ever Children & Families Network trip to the Glasgow Film Theatre (GFT) on Saturday to watch Mary Poppins! 22 families from St Marys Primary Storyplay and Wyndford Nursery Storyplay in Maryhill, and from Ruchill Big Porridge & Play and Whiteinch Big Porridge & Play joined us. 🎬BIG thanks to the Caravan Project and [...]
FILM: BIG Porridge & Play Glasgow 2019
What happened in BIG Porridge & Play Glasgow 2019? A video introduction to BPPG 2019 from Artistic Director & CEO of Licketyspit, Virginia Radcliffe. With support from Jennifer at Whiteinch! Film credit: Jonathan Ley. Look out for more clips coming soon!
Picnic & Play Autumn 2019
6th November 2019 Catch up on all of our Picnic & Play sessions so far this autumn! Click on the pictures to see more! Picnic & Play at the Riverside Museum 12th October 2019 Picnic & Play at North Edinburgh Arts 17th October 2019 Picnic & Play at the Tall Ship 20th October 2019 [...]
P1b Porridge & Play at St Marys
02 October 2019 Last month, Primary 1b shared some of the Lickety Playcard games they had learnt with lots of their families! - We played Big as a Bear, Funky Chicken (where we met a Feathery Peacock and a Funny Elephant!), Witches Fingers and Pirates! It was great to get to play outside in the blustery sunshine. Here are some things the children said about their Reflective Drawings in [...]
P1a Porridge & Play at St Marys
02 October 2019 It was wonderful to welcome so many parents and carers to the school last month for Porridge & Play! The children shared some of the Lickety Playcard games they had learnt with their families - from Funky Chicken (and the Silly Lion!) to Witches Fingers, and especially Dressing Up! Here are some things the children said about their Reflective Drawings in the Gallery... M - Me [...]
Letters to Margaret & Margaret – P1A & P1B
21st October 2019 Primary 1a and Primary 1b were thrilled to get a letter from Margaret & Margaret last week. Since they went up the Mountain with the children, Margaret & Margaret have been off flying around the world in their balloon. High in the sky! In the letter, they said it was a bit cold in the balloon, but they had their cosy coats and a flask of [...]
LicketyLeap at St Mary’s – Group 5
13th & 19th September 2019 The final LicketyLeap group (P1a) was the biggest yet (10 children) and you could tell there was already a buzz about Margaret and Margaret in the classroom! By the time we were with the Oogly Boogly Lady everyone had bought into the story, with M saying "She's gone into the mountain!" when Bold Margaret disappeared. They all told the Fishy Lady the colour of [...]
LicketyLeap at St Mary’s – Group 4
12th & 18th September 2019 St Marys Storyplay We had a lovely LicketyLeap with 9 children from Group 4 (P1a & P1b) and Miss Carty. They were particularly tickled by the Margaret & Margaret Peekaboo entrance. They loved the Oogly Boogly Lady's mini-worlds and were all actively involved. The children independently found lots of things under the Sea. On the Boat we had a lovely sleep - suggested by [...]
LicketyLeap at St Mary’s – Group 3
12th & 18th September 2019 The third LicketyLeap group (P1b) couldn't wait to get stuck in and were falling over themselves to tell us what was going on in the postcards at the start. It was great to find out that some of their big brothers and sisters have shared the story of Margaret and Margaret at home! A and others immediately spotted the sound of the sea and [...]
LicketyLeap at St Mary’s – Group 2
11th & 17th September 2019 We had a fantastic LicketyLeap with 9 children in group 2 (P1b). Every child contributed in the conversation at the start, C was especially chatty! After our mudfight, M suggested we go into the Sea to wash it off. In the Sea, L showed Worried Margaret how to swim on her back and R saw a boat. Everyone loved finding and sharing treasure. On [...]
LicketyLeap at St Mary’s – Group 1
11th & 17th September 2019 We had a brilliant first session of LicketyLeap with group one (P1a). 8 children joined Margaret and Margaret on their adventure through the Bog, over the Sea, into the Cave and up the Mountain! The were very engaged and chatty from the start, with every child giving appropriate answers about what M & M were doing in the postcards. The children helped get Worried [...]
Picnic & Play is Back!
25th September 2019 We are delighted to announce that Picnic & Play is back! Licketyspit's Picnic & Play sessions are free inter-generational drama-led play sessions for families with 3-8 year olds, in cultural centres around Glasgow and Edinburgh. Sessions include a delicious, healthy picnic and reflective drawing, where participants can share their thoughts and opinions about the games, rhymes, songs and imaginary play activities. Picnic & Play is [...]
LicketyLeap Week 1 at St Mary’s
16th September 2019 We had a fantastic first week of LicketyLeap at St Mary's. It was great to meet everyone in Primary 1a and Primary 1b - thank you for coming on the adventure with Margaret & Margaret! Have they told you anything about it? You can find out more about the story in Come & Play - here! Virginia, Taz, Ruby and Rita are really looking forward to [...]
We’ve moved!
Licketyspit has moved to Glasgow! 30th August Earlier this month, Licketyspit moved into a new office at Community Central Hall, 292-316 Maryhill Road, Glasgow. This is a very exciting move, with the company now based a stone's throw away from one of our Storyplay Schools, St Mary's R.C. Primary, Maryhill, and one of our Big Porridge & Play communities, Ruchill! With the majority of our work now being delivered [...]
Storyplay is Back at St Mary’s Primary!
26th August 2019 We are very excited to be coming back to St Mary's R.C. Primary in Maryhill next month for another Storyplay Schools residency! Ruby, one of our lead actor-pedagogues, will be in this week to meet with the Primary One teachers ahead of LicketyLeap starting on September 11th, with our artistic director Virginia, and lead actor-pedagogue Taz. Every child in Primary One will take part in LicketyLeap [...]
Storyplay is Back at St Mary’s Primary
26th August 2019 We are very excited to be coming back to St Mary's R.C. Primary in Maryhill next month for another Storyplay Schools residency! Our Lead Actor-Pedagogue Ruby will be in this week to meet with the Primary One teachers ahead of LicketyLeap starting on September 11th, with Virginia and Taz. Every child in Primary One will take part in LicketyLeap - our unique immersive theatre experience for [...]
Holiday Play – Week 6
Final few days of the Summer Holidays…!! A good chance to play a few more games, craft a few more artworks and enjoy family play time together before you go back to school! To kick you back into action, this week we are singing our funny action song - Jelly on His Head, making puppets from old socks and turning & twisting our heads with some very fun word [...]
Holiday Play – Week 5
A week and a half left until the school term starts??! How did it come around so quick??! Not to worry, Licketyspit is here to keep the summer spirit going! And so this week we are DRESSING UP!! Have you been somewhere new this summer – park, gallery? Made new friends? Read a new book? Anything can be used as an inspiration when dressing up & creating characters! We [...]
Holiday Play – Week 4
For the fourth week of joyful Summer Holidays, we have decided to play The Bear & The Honeypot! Can you sneakily creep up on the Bear and steal the Honey Pot without being caught??! This week we are also very excited to be sharing crafts & activities kindly suggested by some of our Children & Families Network families! Read further to find out more. Tell us HOW YOU GET ON with [...]
Holiday Play – Week 3
Pirate Joke: Why pirates are awesome? Because they just AAARRR! (he he he!) This week we are playing PIRATES! And showing how to build your own SELLOTAPE WORLD & make a musical INSTRUMENT out of JUNK! (LICKETY TIP! If you can find an old box and keep it under a table or somewhere out of the way, you can collect junk for making things like models or collages with [...]
Holiday Play – Week 2
This week we have some special recommendations for all ages! We are reminding you of how to play the Duck, Duck, Goose Lickety PlayCard game, showing you how to build a WORLD from paper scraps and make FUNNY ANIMALS from picnic food to make it even more delicious! Please tell us HOW YOU GET ON with these games and crafts and SEND US PHOTOS & DRAWINGS of your family play time & creations [...]
Holiday Play – Week 1
We start our holiday play programme with one of children's favourites - The Funky Chicken! Do you know the Funky Chicken? Tell us HOW YOU GET ON with these games and crafts, and SEND US PHOTOS & DRAWINGS of your family play time & creations! We can’t wait to hear from you! Email us at CFN@licketyspit.com or send it through social media - Facebook or Twitter! Lickety Play [...]
Big Porridge & Play Ruchill Week 7
15th June 2019 The final session in Ruchill was the last Big Porridge and Play 2019 and we were really moved and delighted to have so many people join us to send the project off in style. We had to add and extra table to fit all 44 people - plus Virginia, Rita, Jack and Ruby round the table when it came to the meal, and it was lovely [...]
Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Week 7
13th June 2019 Our last session at the St Francis Centre was a wonderful celebration of what Porridge & Play can be, with families bringing countless delicious things to share in the meal, guests dressing up with the same gusto as everyone else, and big, collective games together in the circle. We started with Big as a Bear, during which we could hear several people joining in with the whole thing word for [...]
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 a meal. It was very characteristic of the project as a whole, with a lot going on but a wonderful, vibrant energy - just like a big family party! It was great to introduce our [...]
Big Porridge & Play Ruchill Week 6
8th June 2019 We had a really fab sixth session at the Ruchill Community Centre. You could really see how everyone has got to know each other over the last six weeks, with the group chatting away at the start of the afternoon and during the meal, and other parents supporting those with the youngest children. We all put on jam trousers and custard in Mucky Brew, which was [...]
Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Week 6
6th June 2019 Week 6 at the Gorbals was a day for Pirate captains keeping things ship-shape on the open sea, storytelling and a surprise from poor Old Rodger. Everyone really at ease playing together today. We had some extremely committed Pirates, wearing fantastic costumes and really feeling like we were on a huge ship, drinking our grog and swimming away from sharks. Everyone over 5 volunteered to read some of the story we wrote together last [...]
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! We had such an enjoyable afternoon of play together! Ruby and Jack were joined by Iona as again everyone braved the horrible weather outside to make it to the library. We had the best Big [...]
Big Porridge & Play Ruchill Week 4
18th May 2019 We are missing next week’s session not taking place because of the Bank Holiday so we wanted to make sure we had an excellent session of Porridge & Play today - and we did! –Jack, Iona and our General Manager, Shona were here for our 4th Ruchill BIG Porridge & Play 2019! We started the session with our infamous Big as a Bear - everyone was [...]
Big Porridge & Play Ruchill Week 5
1st June 2019 We had a really wonderful Picnic & Play on The Tall Ship with the Ruchill Porridge & Play group last week. Ruby met some of the group to get the bus to Partick after a quick game of Big as a Bear and Funky Chicken at the bus stop. When we got there, we met the rest of the group, as well as Jack, Rita, Boatemaa [...]
Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Week 5
30th May 2019 Travelling from the St Francis Centre in several taxi’s, we all managed to avoid the wind and the rain arriving at the wonderful and exciting Dream Machine on the London Road! As we warmed up and danced like Funky Chicken’s we could tell we were in for a great session and we were not disappointed! There was a special birthday in the group this week so [...]
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, another Balloon adventure and lots of songs. Jack read us a Letter to his Love - his lovely love that he loves, loves, loves! On his way to send the letter, he dropped it, only to find that [...]
Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Week 4
23rd May 2019 This week the BIG Porridge & Play Gorbals families set off from the St Francis Centre through the Gorbals and over the Suspension Bridge to play on Glasgow Green. We had a brilliant session! The Funky Chicken arrived with lots of funny animals - like the cheeky dog, the roaring t-rex, the angry cheetah, the happy lion and the cheeky spider and we had a great [...]
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 excellent rendition of Jelly on His Head! We wanted to share the Lickety songbook with the rest of Glasgow! Once we boarded the Tall Ship, the group met our friends Old Rodger and the Old [...]
Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Week 3
16th May 2019 Our third session of BIG Porridge & Play Glasgow at the St Francis Centre in the Gorbals was very enjoyable indeed! Jack and Ruby were joined by Iona, our Lickety volunteer Saliha and 35 participants as we played, sang and ate together on Thursday afternoon. We flew high above the St Francis Centre and high above Glasgow, travelling around the world holding on to our multi-coloured [...]
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, Lickety volunteer! We had over 40 participants attending the session as we all took shelter from a very hot and sunny Wednesday afternoon. We played lots of Lickety Playcard games including some new ones that [...]
Big Porridge & Play Ruchill Week 3
11th May 2019 Our 3rd BIG Porridge & Play Glasgow session in Ruchill was a really great one! We played some great games, sang new songs and ate delicious lentil and carrot soup. You can find more about our Lickety food in here! Ruby introduced us to her friend Joe this week. We found out just how busy he is and how hard he works in his Button Factory. [...]
Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Week 2
9th May 2019 We returned to the St Francis Community Centre for our second BIG Porridge and Play Glasgow session in the Gorbals where we visited the tropical forests of India, met people with some strange bed-time habits and were chased by a scary witch. With 13 families made up of new and returning members of the Children and Families Network, we had a fantastic session with all participating [...]
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 to the coasts of Portugal in the magic ball, we danced the Ickerickeroo and met some very scary witches! We played Witches Fingers for the first time and the group really loved this game! We [...]
Big Porridge & Play Ruchill Week 2
4th May 2019 Our second Big Porridge & Play session at Ruchill saw us travel around the world, meet a shy sheep and got us to know some old Scots words for the different parts of our body. With our families getting to know us and each other better, not to mention the Licketyspit songs and games, we had a fantastic session playing and eating together. Our sweet potato [...]
Oakwood Storyplay Rhymes
We had a brilliant time creating warm-up action rhymes with P6 at Oakwood Primary School. See their creative work below! Make yourself as SHINEY as a UNICORN, And as SPIKEY as a THORN, As HARD as a ROCK, And as SMELLY as a SOCK, As COOL as a KITSOON, And as ROUND as a MOON! Like a SPOON from TROON! Make yourself as BRIGHT as [...]
Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Week 1
2nd May 2019 Our first Big Porridge & Play session in the Gorbals was a lovely coming-together of new and familiar faces in the St Francis Community Centre. 35 participants joined us, with several families from St Francis Nursery where we did a taster session the day before, and lots of local families from our Children & Families Network. We played lots of Lickety Playcard games and met the [...]
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 last year, as well as a few families we had met at the Whiteinch Nursery Spring Tea the week before - and lots more new local families. Virginia, Ruby, Jack and Hilde were joined by [...]
Big Porridge & Play Ruchill Week 1
27th April 2019 Our first Big Porridge & Play session at Ruchill was wonderful - with a really buzzing atmosphere! We had a group of over 50 participants made up of current Children & Families Network families and new families at the Ruchill Community Centre. Lots of people came early, with one parent saying they couldn't wait "because they were just so excited!" We played lots of Lickety Playcard [...]
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 of Big Porridge & Play Glasgow 2019. Launching in Ruchill first last Saturday, April 27th and in Whiteinch and the Gorbals on Wednesday 1st and Thursday 2nd May, we had a brilliant time meeting new [...]
CPD with Licketyspit
Licketyspit CPD "Out of my comfort zone...a new comfort zone begins!" Licketyspit Continuing Professional Development training offers those working with children a fantastic resource and renewed understanding of their unique creative capacity to support children’s development through play. CPD sessions are delivered by Licketyspit Artistic Director/CEO Virginia Radcliffe and can be arranged by contacting the company. Click here to find out more or visit our Professionals homepage to read [...]
Storyplay Schools
Storyplay Schools Storyplay Schools is a unique project designed to support the development of children’s literacy, language and confidence through the introduction of shared stories and inclusive play across the whole school community – children, families teachers and PSA’s. Current Licketyspit Storyplay Schools include: Canal View Primary, Westerhailes, Edinburgh. Oakwood Primary, Easterhouse, Glasgow. St Mary’s RC Primary, Maryhill, Glasgow. Riverside Primary, Govan, Glasgow. Ibrox Primary, Ibrox, Glasgow. Wyndford Nursery, Maryhill, Glasgow. For the [...]
Licketyspit at Playworks
15th April 2019 Licketyspit at Play Works - A Scottish Conference on Play Broxburn Family Centre, Saturday 18th May Virginia is really looking forward to running a workshop on Storyplay at the Broxburn Family Centre Play conference next month, which is sold out! Everyone is creative! The story is just the beginning...! https://www.fcdwl.org/our-projects/play-works/
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 Play & food sessions for families with children under 12. This year for the very first time we will be going out for sessions 4 and 5 to have Picnic & Play sessions in cultural [...]
Storyplay is Starting at Ibrox Primary
15th January 2019 We are very excited to be starting STORYPLAY at Ibrox Primary School in Govan. Virginia and Shona will be meeting teachers in January to introduce the project and it won’t be long until our actor-pedagogues go on a Storyplay adventure with the whole school… To find out more about Storyplay, click here and visit the Ibrox page soon for more details of what we’re doing at Ibrox. [...]
Oakwood LicketyLeap
In Autumn Term 2018/19, 30 more children from Oakwood P1, P2 and P3 took part in LicketyLeap (The Story of Margaret & Margaret). In Session One, they travelled through the bog, over the sea, into the cave and up the mountain with Worried Margaret and Bold Margaret, to find their Heart's Desires! In Session Two, the children reenacted the whole story with the actor-pedagogues, using only a blanket. It's [...]
Letters to Margaret & Margaret
Lots of children at Oakwood Primary have travelled through the bog, over the sea, into the cave and up the mountain with Margaret & Margaret. They sometimes get letters from their friends the two Margarets asking for advice or to find out what they have been doing and the children like to write back with a picture. Sometimes they write a bit themselves, otherwise they tell their teacher what [...]
P6 Play Champions Assembly
Term 2 Celebration Assembly - P6 Story Performances 22nd March The intense creative work of the P6A and P6B Playground Play Champions over the last few weeks paid off on Friday. when they shared their wonderful stories at the Storyplay Term 2 Celebration Assembly. These stories were created by the pupils with Ruby, Effie and Amy from Licketyspit. They then turned them into short performances, and after a few [...]
Active Grannies – Playground Play
'In the Way of the Word' - Active Grannies! 31st Jan We had a great time returning to our Granny characters this week with P6. We created these characters in the first term and introduced them to the whole school at the Celebration Assembly in November 2018. This week, we played 'In the Way of the Word' - dressed up as our Granny characters! Then everyone drew and wrote [...]
Bookplay at Canal View Nursery
We had a great time catching up with Canal View Nursery families and playing the Licketyspit games again at Bookplay this term. We also explored the wonderful story of "Angelo" and his family of circus performers - and created some circus acts of our own! It was great to hear that so many families have been playing the Lickety Playcard games at home and to have so many parents [...]
Ibrox Storyplay Celebration Assembly
We rounded off a fantastic five-week Storyplay Residency at Ibrox Primary and Nursery with a joyous whole-school assembly. 10 parents and carers joined us and joined in with all the pupils and teachers in Big as a Bear led by Taz, Funky Chicken led by Primary 3, Grandma Grandma led by Primary 5, In the Way of the Word led by Primary 7 and Miss Mary Mac led by [...]
Exploring Angelo – Bookplay at St Mary’s
We had a brilliant time playing the Licketyspit games again and exploring "Angelo" last week at St Mary's with Primary 1A and Primary 1B. It was great to hear that so many families have been playing the Lickety Playcard games at home, and you could see how popular they are! Then, we created some fab circus acts after reading Angelo together. Here are some of the children's comments during [...]
Upcoming Ibrox Storyplay Celebration Assembly
Families of children from Nursery to P7 are invited to the first ever Storyplay Schools Celebration Assembly at Ibrox Primary. Every child at Ibrox has been working with Licketyspit over the last few weeks to learn some of the Licketyspit Playcard games, rhymes, songs and imaginary play activities. Join us next Tuesday 12th March at 1pm for a Celebration Assembly where the children will share some of the games [...]
Riverside Storyplay Freeze Frames
Monday 4th March Storyplay Freeze Frames This week we started to put our stories in action by getting into character and creating freeze frames of some of the key moments. After practising leading some Lickety Playcard games including a quickfire round of What Are You Doing, everyone got into pairs and worked together to bring each other's stories to life. It was great to see how everyone's books are [...]
Ibrox Storyplay Week 3
Week 3 Storyplay Residency at Ibrox Primary It was great to be back at Ibrox Primary for a third round of Storyplay! We worked with the Nursery for the first time, as well as Primary 7 who dressed up to play a marvellous Wink Murder. Taz popped into several classes for a Session 2 catch up. We played a few more games and it was brilliant to see how [...]
Ibrox Storyplay Week 2
Week 2 Storyplay Residency at Ibrox Primary We had a brilliant time Lickety-playing with Primary 1, Primary 1/2, Primary 4 and Primary 6 on our second day at Ibrox. As well as our Storyplay Play Sessions, Virginia also visited several classes to do Reflective Drawing and the Licketyspit Gallery. Everyone did fantastically imaginative drawings about the places we went in Magic Ball, what we saw from our Balloons, and [...]
BookPlay with P1 Families at St Mary’s
As part of Licketyspit's Storyplay Schools programme at St Mary's Primary, we would love to invite you to join your child for BookPlay on Tuesday 5th March at 9am (P1a) or 1pm (P1b). Like Porridge & Play, BookPlay is a relaxed drama-led play session of games, rhymes & songs for you, your children, and school staff - followed by a delicious picnic! We will also read aloud the wonderful [...]
Ibrox P1 Reflective Drawing
P1 Playcard Play - Reflective Drawings Ibrox Primary, 19th February 2019 After their first Licketyspit Storyplay Playcard Play session with Taz and Effie, Primary 1 did some fantastic Reflective Drawings which they shared in class in the Licketyspit Art Gallery.
Ibrox Storyplay Week 1
Week 1 Storyplay Residency at Ibrox Primary We had a fantastic time working with Primary 5, Primary 3 and Primary 2 on our first day of the Ibrox Storyplay Residency!
Ibrox P6 Reflective Drawing
P6 Playcard Play - Reflective Drawings Ibrox Primary, 19th February 2019 After their first Licketyspit Storyplay Playcard Play session, Primary 6 did some fantastic Reflective Drawings which they shared in class in the Licketyspit Art Gallery.
Storymaking featuring our Detectives
Wednesday 30th January Ickerickeroo and Wink Murder visited by a number of very interesting Detectives...
Storymaking featuring our Detectives
Friday 15th February Storywriting After a physical warm-up where we talked about stretching, slow-motion and the different ways we can use our bodies, we made a very unusual cake, and then did some quick thinking improvisation games to warm up our imaginations. Then, after break, everyone got their Detective Character out, picked a Place and an Object from the Licketyspit cups, and created some truly fantastic stories! Before we started, the class gave [...]
Wink Murder in the Enchanted Forest
20th February 2019 Wink Murder, What Are You Doing, and how to explain the Licketyspit games. We were visited by several Detectives from far away places in Wink Murder today. Detective Scott came all the way from America, and Detective Carmen came from Japan! One of our dinner parties was in an Enchanted Forest, where an owl flew in and dropped a Magic Ring that made us sing when [...]
IPAY Talk in Philadelphia
Licketyspit goes to Philadelphia! On 15th January 2019, Virginia was part of a Scottish Children’s Theatre delegation to the IPAY International Showcase. International Performing Arts for Youth (IPAY) brings together specialist children’s theatre companies and venues from around the world. Licketyspit was supported by Imaginate and Creative Scotland to participate in the conference and explore possibilities for touring our shows in America. Our featured show was Hare & Tortoise, Virginia Radcliffe [...]
Learning to communicate with words empowers children!
I spent the early years of Licketyspit writing, directing and producing big, complex shows for children and families (and acting in them too!). Licketyspit is rooted in theatre, and we continue to produce full scale productions, like Molly Whuppie at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2016. We want to fire children’s imaginations and we can see that theatre is a fantastic tool to do this. But more than this, [...]
Virginias Diary Entry 2
Licketyspit is committed to joined-up thinking and exploring new ways that the widest possible range of children’s services can collaborate in achieving our shared goals. That’s why we work with Glasgow City Council, Scottish Adoption, The Scottish Refugee Council, and of course, all of our Storyplay Schools. It’s also why we hold regular CPD sessions, to share our learning and practice with children’s professionals working in a range of [...]
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