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 and made by very smiley and excited people. We had a great Dancing Warm Up with everyone throwing very cool shapes! Have you played ‘Letter to my Love’ before? Andre showed us all how to play this fun game that you could play with as many people as you like! It’s about guessing and tricking and also about singing and skipping! We dressed up as very special Chefs who had different cooking specialities! Virginia became Chef Baloney who cooks the best macaroni! Claire was Chef Ratatouille, and she makes bread baguettes! Ibrahim became Italian Ibrahim Chef and he cooks pizza Mamma Mia! Darragh was Mystery Chef who makes secret recipes! Frasier became Chef Frasier and he bakes the best cookies! Aimee was Cheeky Chop Chef who makes fabulous sausages! David became Small Shirt Chef and he cooks chips! Zara was Farrow Chef and she cooks noodles! Danyal became Chef Albert who bakes cupcakes! Brian was Chef Giuseppe and he cooks [...]

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 warmed up with ‘Hello My Name is Joe’, a fun rhyme that makes you move your body in ways you may not have done before! And as our cool librarians had selected some spooky themed books for us to take out this week we decided to have a game of Dressing Up that fitted the theme… so…we became WITCHES at a Witches Convention! A couple of journalist Witches were there reporting on the Witchy World so we got to find out many things like witches’ names, their means of transport and their favourite food from the Witchy Buffet at the Convention: Witchy Maria arrived on top of someone’s car and likes pizza! Whichy White Coat came on a broom and likes chocolate cake! Susanna was the Wicked Witch of The Milk and likes squashed frogs and came on a mop! Abu was Spider Witch, came on a rainbow flying carpet and likes frogs! Mystery Witch likes lizards! Witchy Fraser came [...]

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 games! Andre led a wonderful Dancing Warm-Up before we met the Extraordinary Elephant, the Happy Cow, the Furry Dog, the Happy Butterfly, the Happy Monkey, the Happy Giraffe, the Angry Tiger, the Happy Dog, the Cute Kitten, the Angry Gorilla and of course - uh oh! The Dying Fly! Then we dressed up as Forest Creatures! Poppy was Dotty The Cheetah, Ingrid a White Eagle, Jese became a Lion and Avery was a Squirrel. There was Mel's Green Dragonfly, Susie's Green Snake, Jessica introduced us to Moffat the butterfly and Claire was a Fox (with a big foxy tail!). We discovered that Fraser had turned into a Rabbit and Max had become an Armadillo! Maria was a Wildcat and Abu was a Flying Monster! - to name a few!! Now in this forest we discovered there were lots of Wolves! There was Fraser Wolf living in dark cave eating slugs. Wolf Abu who lived inside a working machine - he [...]

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 we were: To warm up we made ourselves as - Big as a Bear & as Fast as a Hare. As strong as an Ox & as Sneaky as a Fox, As soft as a Cat & As Nibbly as a Rat! Fly high as a Bird, Flying Up, Flying Down, Swooping, Gliding, Round & Round, Till you land on your Nest! have a little Rest! what’s this I have found? It’s hard & it’s round… it’s an EGG! An Egg I have found! An egg, an egg, so BIG and so ROUND! it Wibbles, it Wobbles and suddenly CRACK! A Beak, two wings? well fancy that! Out pops a bird with a Quack, quack, quack! Then we got to know The Funky Chicken & the Naughty Seagull & we met some surprising guests like Frazers Crazy Gorilla, Jessica’s Crazt sausage dog. max’s Swimming TRex. Lynne’s Naughty Elephant. Poppys Dancing puppy, Ingrids Hungry Lion & Jackie’s Crazy Giraffe -to name [...]

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 Bears & meeting a whole HOST of funky chickens. We clucked & squawked and jumped like jumpy frogs, sneaked like sneaky cats, got all mixed up as confused octopuses do, roared like angry lions, HISSED like angry snakes until finally we were BARKING like angry dogs. AND then someone said... "Joe? Are you busy?" We all said "NO!" Pushed all the buttons till each and every limb was occupied ready to burst... or rather we were really ready to... DRESS UP AS PIRATES! And enter the magic ball. Through the magic ball we found a pirate crew...we didn't have a ship but we did make it to pirate island. On pirate island we saw PREHISTORIC ANIMALS & ran away from cannibals. Suddenly a blue whale appeared. It was a relief that Harris could speak Whale! Harris told us that the whale was desperately hungry. All hands were brought on deck to feed the whale (although still..no pirate ship)..but we did [...]

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 faces and lots of glitter. Some of us wore tops & trouser fairy wings striking poses by the library and together we funky marched up the road to Castlemilk park. A quick climb in the play park before getting our MAPS & entering the woods suddenly...a Fairy appeared on the Bridge! the Fairy told Jared she had drank a potion to make herself grow so she could talk to us and that we needed to help her FIND GORDON THE GOBLIN! Glug glug glug... we followed the smell of goblin grub! Chitter chatter, sun was shining, stopping not to wonder why, finding lots of butterflies! Round the woods we went searching for Gordon. It was a relief to find out a few of our pals could speak Goblin and that they could teach the rest of us. All the way to Castlemilk Stables where people were doing lots of fun things like throwing coconuts, printmaking on tote bags getting [...]

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, angry dinosaurs, angry snakes ENTER INSIDE.... the Magic ball  The Magic ball which took us to a castle where we found Ameerah the snow queen who had the powers to freeze & un freeze us.  Suddenly a creature appeared in the woods wanting us to feed them ice lollies.  Nicole then made a cake ato give to the snow queen then that made us dance Sarah could smell the sea We had a swim, cooled down but then got shooed away by a giant octopus.  Ameera brought out the magic bottle. We all had to get into the magic bottle which took us back to Castlemilk Library. What a day! Thanks everyone! Sarah, Camille, & Emma xxx The Lickety Art Gallery ‘I spotted Saturn!’ ‘I drew the mucky brew with all the disgusting stuff.  What was your favourite thing?  ‘The cat walk’   ‘I drew us doing the fashion catwalk and meeting the [...]

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 met, among others, the Funny Camel, the Hungry Hippo, the Happy Crocodile and the Funky Unicorn. The Magic Ball took us to Spaghetti Land where we had to suck up enough spaghetti to create a path. In amongst the tomatoey strands, Maryam spotted some gummy sweeties - yum! Then a Bog Creature appeared and invited us to join in their favourite activity - getting mucky! Slugs and flies, syrup and smashed up strawberries, we were soon as mucky as could be. We poured on some melted chocolate to top it all off! Mucky me mucky you mucky mucky mucky brew! Then we danced a dance in a long long line, and to our surprise, whoosh! A wave came along to wash us clean. Kevin saw a shark so we pretended to be seaweed, then when it was safe we floated on our backs, relaxing in the waves. Safe at the shore, Desire lit a fire and we toasted marshmallows with [...]

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 Wednesday for Storyplay imaginings, food and friendship. With a mix of old faces and new, we got to know each other with our Dancing Warm up! Then our favourite Funky Chicken joined the fun with his crew - the Laughing Hyena, the Angry Elephant, the Angry Lion, the Happy Giraffe and the Happy Cat. We flew high in the sky in our colourful Flying Balloons. We saw the sea and the mountains, the sky and the moon! A zoo full of animals, squawking and merry and flowers that smelled like strawberries! We dressed up to the nines and pulled our scariest grins. Till some witches appeared with a cackle and giggle! I’m going to drink a bottle of p-p-p-p-p-POISON!! With a narrow escape we arrived at our p-p-p-p-p-PICNIC and enjoyed a feast of bread, watermelon, cheese, boiled eggs and cucumber sticks. The day was complete with an excellent Cake - made with chips and sausages in the Storyplay way! Thank [...]