Storyplay For The Planet on Zoom!!

2022-08-18T16:01:16+00:00

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! It was so much fun getting to learn and explore together. We got to become experts are recycling and looking after our planet was well as learning about lots of different animals! We saw a shark 🦈 and a wobbly fish 🐠 and some bees 🐝! All of these animals are super important for our environment, each having their own unique role to play! We talked about how we could save them and make sure their world was nice and clean! How could we look after our planet? ♻️ ‘ We could maybe use less plastic,’ – Miracle ♻️ ‘We could stop making lots of smoke,’ – Praise ♻️ ‘ We should plant more trees,’ – Ameerah ♻️ ‘We can recycle,’ – Muhammad We talked about COP26 and how it came to Glasgow. The children were very excited to share all they had learned about plastics in our waters and how we can all work together [...]

Storyplay For The Planet on Zoom!!2022-08-18T16:01:16+00:00

Getting ready for Porridge & Play 2022!

2021-12-15T17:06:34+00:00

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 play the best way! As we all know the worlds play experts are children so we got together with our Storyplay Champion families from Castlemilk & The East End to start preparing for Porridge & Play! Porridge & Play is fun for all the family and we are working hard to bring that fun to you in person in the New Year! Tuesday 16th November We would like to thank all our Storyplay Champion families who managed to make it to their session! It was so fun learning about all the ways we can make people comfortable and ready to play when coming to Porridge & Play 2022. We practiced playing games together like our Flying Balloons Game and Funky Chicken, all of which are crowd favourites and all of which will be appearing in Porridge & Play 2022. Here are some things we saw when playing Flying Balloons! ‘I can see the [...]

Getting ready for Porridge & Play 2022!2021-12-15T17:06:34+00:00

Storyplay For The Planet with Cranhill Primary!!

2021-11-24T16:34:01+00:00

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 teachers at the school that let us come and play with them! In this session we started out by being as BIG as a BEAR! Which meant we got to meet loads of animal friends that live on our planet. Then we got to know the Funky Chicken! All the children and grown ups got to show us their animal. Which included a sleepy elephant 🐘  and a snappy snake 🐍 We got to sing about Grandma and then blow up our balloons and travel all over the WORLD! What a great adventure it was! 'I loved that when I was thinking of things to see below all the ideas were so amazing and I realised we could make up anything at all!' Headteacher Flying Balloons We started off by exploring in our sock and you'll never guess what we found?! Why, we found a balloon! But, not just [...]

Storyplay For The Planet with Cranhill Primary!!2021-11-24T16:34:01+00:00

Storyplay for the Planet

2021-11-09T10:57:08+00:00

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 olds in East Centre Ward. Licketyspit will deliver sessions in schools, nurseries and online for communities across the East Centre Ward to support confidence, parental engagement, relationships and children’s rights. The school groups will receive an introductory Storyplay session, followed by a Have your Say Through Play session to support the children to express their thoughts, feelings & ideas about Climate Change using imaginary play. These sessions will be a chance for families to explore the issue of climate change and share their feelings about it creatively, elevating children's voices and demonstrating the power of imagination to find solutions to the greatest collective challenge of our time! We might encounter melting polar ice, or deforestation in Brazil, put a stop to heavy traffic in Cranhill or plant trees in Barlanark. The adventure will present challenges and as a group we’ll overcome them using the power of our collective imagination! We might end up in a river clogged with rubbish, or slipping [...]

Storyplay for the Planet2021-11-09T10:57:08+00:00

Jelly Catwalks around the World

2021-09-28T12:00:18+00:00

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! The Canada Jelly Catwalk Thursday 23.09.21 After an energetic and very creative round of Funky Chicken we all dressed up with magnificent gusto and displayed the most fabulous skills in becoming characters. We hopped in the Magic Ball and ended up in Canada where Fred With Jelly On His Head was in a bit of a pickle and needed to recruit a team of misfits to attend the world famous Canada Jelly Catwalk with him… ’I drew the Magic Ball cause I like to go in it. It’s a multicolour one, that’s how I imagine it.Today I didn’t have anywhere specific really to go so I’d like to see where other people would like to go’ 'This is about the Magic Ball because I liked it and the dressing up and me and my friend were dressed up as a ninja’ ‘Here I have me, of course and this is my [...]

Jelly Catwalks around the World2021-09-28T12:00:18+00:00

Storyplay City is Back!

2021-09-22T11:43:03+00:00

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... The Magic Bee Hive 11.09.22 This Bee House, this Bee Hive is magic, you know? Just have a wee taste of this honeycomb delicious and juicy and sweet and sticky just take a wee drop and you might feel so lucky  Buzzzzzz   Buzzzzzzz      Can you hear us?  We are BUZZING! We are now Honey Bees and our flight is so dazzling! We make lovely patterns high up in the air, We explore all the flowers, the trees and the heather! And thanks to the Transformer sweet that we had we are now back to Humans for some sliding fun! Look how huge and high this enormous chute is! If you get stuck …  we will help you up … you will feel so brave … as if you could fly … Now here at the top we must flex and twist get our bodies ready for the exciting WHEEEEEEEEE! Can you [...]

Storyplay City is Back!2021-09-22T11:43:03+00:00

Storyplay Training

2021-06-08T09:24:02+00:00

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, go anywhere! We can adventure! We can be brave! Children are of course the world’s play experts. As adults, we need children and what they show us about humanity as much as children need us. We too need to play! Increasingly, research is showing the value of children playing with adults in bringing added dimensions to children’s play and developing their skills and understanding of ways they can play together – fairly, equally and richly. At Licketyspit, we agree with Vygotsky that there is no reason not to tell or show children things because this assumes a child’s learning is finite. Children are going somewhere we cannot even imagine. So, it’s fine for adults to support children’s play, creating a safe and equal space where they can join in and share their imaginings, skills and ideas. Children will simply take what they want from us. The crucial word here is equal. An equal play space where the adult [...]

Storyplay Training2021-06-08T09:24:02+00:00

Storyplay City Ceilidhs

2021-03-30T12:03:41+00:00

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 forward to celebrating together! A ceilidh is an excellent way to celebrate because it is a kind, lovely and relaxed way to share all things creative and to be our wonderful selves surrounded by friends… just like our Licketyspit Porridge & Play sessions on Zoom! And what better way to say thank you than to celebrate YOU! Below we've shared everyone's fantastic turns... a huge thank you again to everyone who's participated in our sessions, we hope you'll join us again in three weeks time for plenty more fun! In the meantime... KEEP PLAYING! Thursday Thursday 25 March 2021 🖋️ A poem about Licketyspit by Emmanuel Licketyspit is where we have fun, Licketyspit we are never done! Magic Ball, Baking and Flying Balloons too I love playing, how about you? We run, jump and spin now everyone join in! We have fun too when a whole turn people do  Lickety Lickety Licketyspit! Licketyspit Licketyspit! Lickety Lickety Licketyspit LIck-ety-spit! Now my poem is [...]

Storyplay City Ceilidhs2021-03-30T12:03:41+00:00

Storyplay City Week 7

2021-03-17T13:33:22+00:00

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 button and we don't care a fig... WE ARE PIRATES!!! 🎼🏴‍☠️🎵🏴‍☠️🎶 Arrrrrr! We had such a fantastic time in last week's pirate-themed Storyplay session where we dressed up as pirates, sang the Pirate Song, and went on an adventure with the Magic Ball... Catch up on where we ended up in all of our sessions below! ☠️  🗺️  ⚓ Saturday Saturday 13 March 2021 🏴‍☠️ ‘My name is Captain Cold and I like ice cream!’ Anaya 🦜‘Hi, my name is Pirate Lily, I love boats and my favourite adventure is Magic Ball. I love porridge and play!’ Sayeh 🏴‍☠️ ‘Name: Ghost Pirate. My favourite food is Spaghetti and I live in a dark cave!’ Lawand 🦜 ‘My name is Captain Rainbow and I like rainbow and I’m going to hop on my unicorn!’ Ayesha 🏝️ The Pirate Chronicles  🏝️ It was a wet and wild adventure in the Magic Ball this week! We landed aboard a stormy ship ⚓️ and hurriedly ran [...]

Storyplay City Week 72021-03-17T13:33:22+00:00

Storyplay City Week 6

2021-03-15T15:29:58+00:00

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 law the United Nation’s Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC), which will make sure that: ⭐ Children’s rights are as important as grown ups’ rights! ⭐ Children will have to be consulted and asked about their thoughts and opinions! ⭐ Children will be listened to and taken seriously! Great, isn’t it??!! To celebrate it, we thought we'd create a Children's Rights Cake recipe for the Scottish Government, and hopped into the Magic Ball to deliver it to Nicola Sturgeon herself! Thursday Thursday 4 March 2021 We started by becoming fantastic chefs through the power of dressing up and creating a fabulous recipe to bake a rights cake, including rights that are particularly important to our children, such as… ⭐ the right to LOVE that Felicia put in ✨ the right to PLAY suggested by Donald ⭐ the right to EDUCATION as Abdullah and Amir pointed out ✨ the right to be CARED FOR (and some strawberries from Arshiyan [...]

Storyplay City Week 62021-03-15T15:29:58+00:00

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