The friendly spider and the 100% Spicy Cake!

2023-02-21T12:57:55+00:00

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 Warm-up, a meeting with lots of Funky animals and some very Mucky Brew, we dressed up as lots of wonderful characters. This included the amazing Mrs Silly from Silly-land created by Abdul, who got us to do lots of silly moves that made us feel great. Then suddenly, Ruby spotted the Magic Ball! Of course it was extremely tiny,  so we had to blow it up to fit us all in. Then we stepped inside and zipped ourselves up, ready for a new adventure. We talked of going to Africa, to Birmingham, to Space, to Candy-land and when we did actually arrive, we found ourselves facing a giant spider!  We quickly had to decide what to do next. First we were very afraid and shouted out “Stop annoying us!”, then we considered some bug spray, but the spider did actually seem a bit scared of us, so we couldn’t do that, then Sayeda finally came up with the plan of [...]

The friendly spider and the 100% Spicy Cake!2023-02-21T12:57:55+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

A Celebration of our Hub

2022-10-06T12:06:49+00:00

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 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Blog posts are written by Sarah! Block 3 Week 6 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk Wednesday 24th August What a wonderful Celebration we had to mark the end of our New Scots Integration project in Castlemilk. It was so lovely to see so many of  our Castlemilk crew coming along to join the fun! We even had a special guest, Freya’s friend Lily. Michelle reprised her excellent leading of Big as a Bear and Nicola valiantly stepped in to save the day when the music wasn’t quite ready and got us all warmed up with a fabulously Funky Chicken. There were a lot of awesome dance moves in Andre’s Dance Warm-up and just when we were hoping Abu & Sayeda would join us for their Circle Game, they arrived! So, we luckily got to play it twice and Ameerah & Junior both got to be ‘It’- they were such great [...]

A Celebration of our Hub2022-10-06T12:06:49+00:00

We Are ALLSCOTS!!

2022-09-05T14:14:54+00:00

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 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Blog posts are written by Sarah! Block 3 Week 5 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk Wednesday 17th August It was so exciting to hear The Ice Cream Has All Gone again this week. This rhyme was created by everyone at Porridge & Play Castlemilk and this week we made up the actions. How divine! Hadir had remembered lots of the words and everyone helped with creating the actions to help us all remember it. We all had different animal actions for going to the zoo, we went on a train and Melissa gave us the Choo Choo move. Hadir had us floating after we’d all been rowing in the boat and then we started to sink!  Yahye had us jumping up and down for Bubblegum & Lime ice cream! We played The Circle Game and Khadar was ‘It’- he was so fast at catching! We talked about how we could make the game even [...]

We Are ALLSCOTS!!2022-09-05T14:14:54+00:00

We made our own Rhyme and it was Divine!!

2022-08-22T10:11:34+00:00

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 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Blog posts are written by Sarah! Block 3 Week 4 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk Wednesday 10th August We had so much fun at Porridge & Play Castlemilk this week getting to learn more games for our ALLSCOT Playcards which are launching on Saturday 17th September at our Storyplay Festival! We played a new game shared by Sayeda called the Circle Game! In this game you make a circle out of old clothes or scarves. Everyone but 1 person stands in the circle. You can’t leave the circle and you have to avoid getting tagged by the person outside the circle! The circle gets smaller and smaller the less people that are inside it until everyone is outside the circle! We have taggers and those who are tagged, lots of roles and turn taking and everyone gets to be included! As we all know at Licketyspit, games are best played when [...]

We made our own Rhyme and it was Divine!!2022-08-22T10:11:34+00:00

Eyes, Musical Statues and Tag! What fun we had!

2022-08-10T08:29:19+00:00

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 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Blog posts are written by Sarah! Block 3 Week 2 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk Wednesday 3rd August We enjoyed playing As Big As A House at Porridge & Play Castlemilk today and our Storyplay Champion Michelle said she really liked it! We also discovered that everyone had some fabulous new dance moves in Andre’sDance Warm-up and it felt amazing to give our bodies a good stretch! We were so lucky to find lots of new games as it was the children’s turn to teach us! We were all very excited to play Khadar and Yahey’s ‘Monster’ game, which involved everyone finding a place to hide so they don’t get caught by the monster. Hadir showed us a great circle game called ‘Balls’ where the same amount of balls as participants are placed in the centre on a plate and they all have a number. One by one, each person runs in [...]

Eyes, Musical Statues and Tag! What fun we had!2022-08-10T08:29:19+00:00

The Castlemilk Mums show us their favourite Games!

2022-08-08T08:49:45+00:00

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 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Blog posts are written by Sarah! Block 3 Week 2 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk Wednesday 27th July Such an inspiring and playful session this week! We started off with a funky Dance Warm Up and showed Andre all our cool moves and then we played The Funky Chicken, Arwa showed us how the Weird Dolphin spins round and round! Freya did the Crazy Koala who likes to side-cuddle her Mum! Avery showed us the Dancing Zebra! This week we found out about all the fabulous games the Castlemilk mums played when they were kids. Sayeda taught us a great game that she’d played in Pakistan with her friends. She said we needed to draw a circle with chalk and all of us had to stay in it with one leader protecting everyone, while outside the circle, another player had to try to catch us all. If you are caught, you have to [...]

The Castlemilk Mums show us their favourite Games!2022-08-08T08:49:45+00:00

A Rainbow House and feeding our cats!

2022-08-01T07:48:03+00:00

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 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk's adventures here! Blog posts are written by Sarah! Block 3 Week 1 of Porridge & Play Castlemilk Wednesday 20th July What a lovely afternoon we had for our first session back at Porridge & Play Castlemilk!! Arwa and Hadir are experts in play and showed us by making themselves as BIG as a BEAR!!! We think we could have some future actor pedagogues! We had a lovely session with some wonderful families and we found out all about each of them! Amira told us how hot it was in Egypt and that she had studied Chemistry at University in Cairo and enjoys cooking a traditional dish called Dolma which has cabbage and rice and lots of herbs. And as a family they love to sing. She said, “We like to go out together as a family, picnics and sing together. It is great to be us because we love to be together.” [...]

A Rainbow House and feeding our cats!2022-08-01T07:48:03+00:00

Picnic & Play at the Riverside Museum!!

2022-07-19T11:47:08+00:00

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 & families, and to all our Storyplay Champions! We went back to one of our favourite places to Storyplay, which is the Riverside Museum! The Riverside Museum is the first purpose-built museum created by Glasgow Life in the 21st century. Located at the junction of the Rivers Kelvin and Clyde, it houses the city’s fabulous transport and technology collections, which have been gathered over the centuries and which reflect the important part Glasgow has played in the world through its contributions to heavy industries like shipbuilding, train manufacturing and engineering. The museum was designed by internationally renowned architect, Dame Zaha Hadid. It opened in 2011 after a four-year build, with over 3,000 objects from the city's world-famous collections displayed inside. Check out our other adventures at the Riverside Museum! Porridge & Play Cranhill at the Riverside Museum! Saturday 11th June ‘It's a paradise when we went on an adventure. I liked seeing cars and the [...]

Picnic & Play at the Riverside Museum!!2022-07-19T11:47:08+00:00

Picnic & Play at the Science Centre

2022-07-14T09:08:51+00:00

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 & families, and to all our Storyplay Champions! The Glasgow Science Centre is a fun attraction for all the family!! Filled with lots to discover and explore we thought it was a perfect place for Storyplay to happen. The Science Centre is made of three floors filled with hands on activities and discovery. From the Whacky Salon to Flight Simulations there is so much to explore and learn. You can also bring a picnic to enjoy! Sally and Sheena work at the Science Centre and help families gain access. There are lots of ways you can go to the Science Centre one being you can pay with tickets costs £12.50 for an adult or £10.50 for a child. You can also get a Passport to Science by speaking with the Science Centre which gets you access lots of times! Families participating in Licketyspit projects can also speak to Rhianne on rhianne@licketyspit.com about arranging a free group trip for [...]

Picnic & Play at the Science Centre2022-07-14T09:08:51+00:00

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