Tree-House of Halloween!!!

2022-11-04T10:30:26+00:00

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 of trees, and Mujahid saw the moon!   Next we all had great fun dressing up in wonderful and weird ways. Some of us turned into Grannies who helped us play Monster’s Footsteps.   There was Granny Ameen who lived in a treehouse and Granny Asha who lived in great big house. There was also Granny Mohammed who had a flying house with a garden full of bananas, oranges and strawberries. While Hilde and Granny Muhammed were busy making a fruit salad there were all kind of scary Hallowe’en creatures creeping about! But when Hilde and Granny  turned around again, they turned back into trees. They even managed to pick some apples. Thank goodness they all disappeared at the end.   After our carrot and coriander soup and delicious fruit, there was a game of Hello My Name is Joe and quick round of Funky Chicken.    Ameen was very helpful taking photos of our reflective drawings and everyone showed [...]

Tree-House of Halloween!!!2022-11-04T10:30:26+00:00

Fantastical Forest Creatures

2022-11-04T10:27:13+00:00

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 grass and David, the Pirate Wolf who preferred rabbits as a tasty treat! Further into the forest lived Daniel, the lion who dines on  giraffes and Jamie, another wolf, who eats herbivores. Wolf Osman was just quietly munching on cookies and milk minding his own business when right  in the middle of the forest we spied Boatemaa eating some purple fruit and cookies… I wonder if she was given them by Wolf Osman, as the cookies looked just the same.  Maybe Wolf Osman’s a kind Wolf who shares his cookies! How fabulous! Just then we looked up and there, up high in a tree, was the lesser-spotted Emmanuel bird who was enjoying some worms. He was perched above Sean, the gorilla who ate human meat and Mohammed the tiger who just ate everything! The forest creatures, we discovered pretty quickly, were keen to know the time, as not one of them had a watch except the Wolves! And my, what [...]

Fantastical Forest Creatures2022-11-04T10:27:13+00:00

The Whiteinch Witches

2022-11-01T12:47:49+00:00

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 to meet us and Witchy Juliet, who  actually arrived in a flying car that can turn into anything. So exciting! Witchy Sienna’s favourite food turned out to be wriggly worms and Witchy Clare came on a headless horse that can fly and lives in a cloud castle. That was a bit scary! Witchy Annabelle arrived on a horse and cart and said happily, that she likes to eat green slime from frogs. I wonder if green slime is tasty? If Witchy Annabelle likes it, it might be worth a try! After that, we all felt like a wee adventure somewhere else. Zofia thought we might try under the sea. Unicorn land was an idea from Juliet and Aseel thought Fairyland might be a good plan. Frankey suggested Hot Wheel City and Hunter liked the idea of Softland. We all wondered where we might end up and when we arrived, it looked a bit misty to me, so I asked Frankey, [...]

The Whiteinch Witches2022-11-01T12:47:49+00:00

Hungry Wolfies!!!

2022-11-01T12:34:04+00:00

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 TOE!   Next we all dressed up as animals from the forest; there were snakes and foxes and even a zebra. Then we met Wolfie Amir ,Wolfie Abeera and Wolfie Qurrat who helped all the animals tell thetime But then tried to eat them for dinner!   The “Magic Ball” was back this week and it was yellow this time. We travelled to the desert and  followed a monkey to find some water. Ammar and Amran gave us some bananas to eat. Then we went for a swim followed by a dive under the water where we saw clown fish and red fish and even a grey whale.   Then we spotted something - it was a treasure chest filled with jewels! We needed to warm up round the fire after that, so we cooked some very tasty fish and had a wee nap. Ahhh…   Waking up, we had time to sing “Mary Mac” before having our meal.   [...]

Hungry Wolfies!!!2022-11-01T12:34:04+00:00

Stylish Ruchill Grannies

2022-10-25T11:50:06+00:00

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 grandchildren. Then, when we made our way into the forest, to our surprise and delight there was A DJ rock’n’roll star Granny making Rock’n’roll music! This amazing Granny lived in the circus and sang in the circus with Wishy Washy & The Godfather & Abanazzar. He liked to eat burgers and chocolate cake and when he sang and played air guitar, all the trees in the forest began to dance along with him! It was one big old forest disco! Then there was Granny Fares who turned out to not actually be a granny and liked bread. In the forest,Granny Fares grew summer veg & melons and liked cookies and milk for his tea. He was super brave and not afraid of those old Monster Trees at all! Granny Sean liked feet for breakfast inside his house made out of a Hooji potion and Granny Jeffrey enjoyed Pineapple for his tea, but Granny David much preferred to eat strawberry cake [...]

Stylish Ruchill Grannies2022-10-25T11:50:06+00:00

Mermaids, monsters and… grannies!!

2022-10-25T10:16:55+00:00

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 eat ham with chips and enjoyed living in her flat of bricks. Granny Gemma, on the other hand, liked to go to the hills and eat peanut butter sandwiches and Granny Hunter was a big fan of  chips and fish fingers. Sounds yummy, grannies! We also had the pleasure of meeting the intrepid explorer Granny Gemma, who had been to see rainbow coloured dinosaurs And Granny Ellie, who  lived in a house of vines and made Daisy Cakes. Look out for the trees! It wasn’t long though, before we found ourselves in a huge forest where it’s said that sometimes, when grannies aren’t looking, the trees start to turn into Monsters!!! Well, I did manage to chat to a few of those grannies and it turned out that they were very resourceful and brave and not scared of Silly Tree Monsters at all! Granny Ellie told me she could actually  turn trees into flowers, so she was safe. Granny Gemma just [...]

Mermaids, monsters and… grannies!!2022-10-25T10:16:55+00:00

Week 2 in Sunny Govan

2022-10-21T09:43:17+00:00

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 might it take us? Minal suggested we could go to the beach, Amrina suggested going to Paradise which would be beyond anything we’d ever imagined… When we had blown the ball up we all climbed inside and when we unzipped it to climb out, we found ourselves somewhere we had never been before. Inside Mr Bean’s house! We were all very small and Mr Bean’s teddy looked really big. Shams suggested we go to London so we crawled along a long tunnel, with Ameen passing everyone a torch so we could find our way. When we came out we saw the sights of London and Gosia spotted a jumbo jet sitting on the tarmac so we all went up the steps. Once aboard we met Stewie Stew the air flight attendant Stewie asked us for our tickets. Fortunately Gabi had some for everyone. But we had no pilot! So both Abeera and Ameen became our pilots. Qurrat suggested we fly [...]

Week 2 in Sunny Govan2022-10-21T09:43:17+00:00

A Witchy Week 1 in Ruchill

2022-10-19T13:29:27+00:00

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, on the way back, we happened upon a rather weird and definitely wonderful selection of witches. The first one we were introduced to was a fine young witch named Witch David, who had quite a cackle and had come from Witchland. He kindly explained that he  lived in a spooky house and loves to eat….wait for it…. Human’s feet!!! Can you believe it? I wonder what they taste like? I’m sure a Donald flavoured ice-cream might be nicer or even an onion one! Apparently, he came here on a stick! Then there was Witchy Susu from a house and not just any old house, a Pink Palace! Witchy Susu cackled and said she liked to eat blood!!! I have never encountered such a scary cackle  as that of Witchy Susu! It was just spooktacular! Also flying around, was Witchy Mohammed, who came from a monster and lived inside a house tree stick. He had travelled here with the aid of a [...]

A Witchy Week 1 in Ruchill2022-10-19T13:29:27+00:00

The Storyplay Festival 2022

2022-12-13T10:48:58+00:00

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 blue skies all round, and the sun shone down on Dassie Park, Glasgow Green. By 9am the Licketyspit team, with help from brilliant volunteers, were busily getting the park ready. Putting up colourful signposts, spotty tablecloths, Storyplay exhibitions… It was set to be a day full of dance, song, picnicking, crafting and most importantly… PLAY!  By 10.45 the Porridge & Play Hubs started to arrive, Castlemilk, Cranhill and Bridgeton. These groups were here to help host the festival with us and each had a designated area with an exhibition displaying their Storyplay adventures over the past year. At 11.30 everyone had arrived, and we were ready to begin. Virginia, Ruby and our Licketyspit Ambassador, Zainab Adeleye welcomed everyone to the festival and warmed us all up with a great big Grandma Grandma! Then one by one the Lickety hubs stood up on the stage and presented their group! The Castlemilk Hub told us how they like to play! [...]

The Storyplay Festival 20222022-12-13T10:48:58+00:00

Storyplay is back at the Library!

2022-10-14T12:42:40+00:00

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 go flying in the sky with our Balloons... We travelled across the whole world and ended up in the Antarctic where it was so chilly we needed extra jumpers. We actually saw a Fairyland cloud and a castle, a butterfly, ducks, an orange fish, a slide, a unicorn  and dinosaurs including a T Rex. A dragon breathed some fire on the ice castle (I think he was trying to warm us up!) and meanwhile, we found a place where they were giving out ice-creams! Hunter  really enjoyed his strawberry one and Virginia’s tasted of onion! Dressing up as Grannies! We opened up two big bags of fantastic Dressing Up clothes and we all got very excited. So many colours and styles to choose from! Once we dressed up, we changed into a variety of characters and I was lucky enough to interview many of them. So many delightful outfits and among them were Grace the ninja Kemjii who flew in [...]

Storyplay is back at the Library!2022-10-14T12:42:40+00:00

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