A flight to the Seaside and a very cool Beach Party

2023-05-30T11:12:52+00:00

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 a nice beach! Ready and…BLOW! The sea was green and blue and the water was at a perfect temperature! We relaxed in the calm sea and discussed the different creatures we might find, like sharks or even orca whales.  And then a notion…what about an underwater exploration? Three, two, one, TAKE A BIG BREATH! We swam like seahorses and ran around like crabs. We found keys that opened all opened a big treasure chest! ICE CREAM! ICCE CREAM! Come and get yours! This Ice Cream maker was something else. You could ask for any flavour and she would just make it for you there and then! We had fantastic flavours like sausage, mustard, sprinkles, strawberry, vanilla, popcorn soda and raspberry. Hey you lot seem like a really cool bunch! Wanna come to our Dressing Up Beach Party? Guess what we said? Yes please! The Bridgeton pals are experts at dressing up and oh they can dance! We had the grooviest moves [...]

A flight to the Seaside and a very cool Beach Party2023-05-30T11:12:52+00:00

A sunny afternoon calls for outdoor imaginary play!

2023-05-29T12:18:48+00:00

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 than ever. Rainbow Trout Chef meets the Genius Chefs Of Cranhill Rainbow Trout Chef needed some bright new ideas to get a new job! Luckily he was visiting Cranhill, home of The Genius Chefs: Chef Melissa, Chef Amazing, Super Hero Chef, Lazy Chef, Chef Coolio, The 2 Blind Chefs, Chef invisible, Chef disaster, French chef, Ninja Chef, Grandma chef, Gymnast chef and the infamous Chef Johnny Johnson. Together they put their culinary genius to work and came up with the wildest cake recipe!  You’ll need the following ingredients: Love and kindness Strawberries Sprinkles and icing Raspberries Gymnastic food Egg Rainbow Chocolate Amazonian Lemons Rainbow sprinkles Butter icing Vanilla Rainbow drops Weetabix Trout fish Flour Banana Baking powder Orange juice And to decorate get plenty of Rainbow icing, Rainbow chocolate, Chocolate, Rainbow webs and Cream! DELICIOSO!!! But after having a slice they found that inside they had baked in… A MAGIC BALL!! Off they went to explore in the Magic Ball [...]

A sunny afternoon calls for outdoor imaginary play!2023-05-29T12:18:48+00:00

An Afternoon at the Bridgeton Forest

2023-05-25T12:35:43+00:00

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 many of us up for a good time. We love starting with a good boogie The grown ups are always ready for any fantastic shapes the children may throw at them! Alan and Shae are fast with their footwork but Moira, Niamat, Colleen or Arafa have no problem keeping up with that! Make Yourself as Big As A Bear!! The littlest ones like Maab and Emilia know every word to our favourite warm up and Mohammed really loves swooping and gliding like the Bird. This Friday we had some very funky moves playing Funky Chicken… Alan gave us a Wriggly snake  Holly a Naughty elephant   Zainah a Big pig  Sulman a Fast pig Rayna a Fire breathing dragon And Mariam a Barking dog Cami told us about her friend Fred who has Jelly on His Head And then we made ourselves into wonderful trees that turn into funny monsters in the Bridgeton Forest… Did you know that there are Grannies who [...]

An Afternoon at the Bridgeton Forest2023-05-25T12:35:43+00:00

Deep in the Forest of Cranhill…

2023-05-25T12:36:04+00:00

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 breakfast. Miss Granny Smith grows granny smith apples and she puts sweet decorations on her apples - sparkles that you can eat! Her house is made of brick and has a big maple roof. The door is rainbow and the windows are plain black. She has a full farm. She’s got a shed full of cows and foxes and sheep and horses. She feeds her trees apples, cherries, strawberries, and tomatoes! Yes, feeds them! And Grandma Young has a house with clouds for a roof! It has blue doors and rainbow grass. She grows fruit in her garden - her favourite are strawberries! All these glorious Grannies have funny looking trees that when the Grannies are busy turn into naughty monsters! They slowly creep around trying to give the Grannies a wee fright and everyone has wonderful fun. In another part of the forest live the Wee Witches! Their fingers are long and witchy and they love to play chasing [...]

Deep in the Forest of Cranhill…2023-05-25T12:36:04+00:00

The Happy Bridgeton Crew make a very Mucky Brew!

2023-05-22T09:50:33+00:00

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 the same… A Tiger, a Shepard dog A Fast fish, a Naughty penguin  A Small chicken that says quack  A Fast cheetah, a Crazy bunny and a Fast cat! This week they made a really Mucky Brew with a tin of beans, custard and cheeky Monkey, fire, chocolate cake and candy! Mucky Me Mucky You  Mucky Mucky Mucky Brew. They love to dress up!  This week they were Pirates And had Pirate Training  and got bossed about  By Smelly Potato. Pirate Sir! Pirate Holly! Pirate Smelly Nelly! Scary Pirate! Pirate Jacka! Pirate Crusty! And Captain Alan! What a grand afternoon! This bunch of Bridgeton pals truly are a HAPPY CREW! By Taz, Cami, Steven and the Bridgeton Porridge pals! The Licketyspit Art Gallery! In Partnership With Visit the Porridge [...]

The Happy Bridgeton Crew make a very Mucky Brew!2023-05-22T09:50:33+00:00

Weird flamingos and a Horrid Pirate Parade!

2023-05-17T08:24:59+00:00

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 Giant Crocodile ‘So this is slippery cat that’s what we were playing and this is a wet cat but slippery and that’s why she’s on the floor because she’s slippery. That’s me when I am cat. My favourite thing was…everything!’ We also got experimental concocting the stinkiest, stickiest Mucky Brew with the Cranhill crew! Here’s our formula… A smelly dinosaur egg, mud from a puddle, feathers, sand, mice, butterflies, a poisoned cat, fire, slime, glitter and smelly fish Mucky Me, Mucky You, Mucky Mucky MUCKY BREW! ‘We’re on the pirate ship and its raining and its sunny and there’s a rainbow.’  ‘This was a pirate! With one eye and a spoon arm!’ They all came! Captain Smelly Foot and Captain Super Potato Pirate Olivia and Super Hero Pirate Fashion Pirate, Captain Queen, Queen Shaylin Captain and lots of other horrid looking pirates Ready to take part in the infamous Horrid Pirate Parade! What will next week bring for the fantastic [...]

Weird flamingos and a Horrid Pirate Parade!2023-05-17T08:24:59+00:00

Can you spot the Armadillo?

2023-05-09T14:08:00+00:00

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 Grannies also joined the group for a dance and dress up! You can see one of them in the picture to the right. Can you remember their song? We flew above Glasgow in our Flying Balloons and William saw the Armadillo which he drew in his Reflective Drawing. The second time we went up in the sky we talked about where we might go - Ireland, Poland, Iraq, Sudan, China, Ukraine…  We ended up high above a rainforest full of fairies and snappy crocodiles! Spotting a cool blue lake, we flew down for a refreshing dip with the colourful fish. Being in the water was exciting and relaxing and we worked up an apetite swimming around.  So it was time to fly back to Bridgeton for our picnic of melon and strawberries, soup and bread and all sorts of fruits! Thanks for joining us, see you next time! Thanks for joining us, see you next time! Sarah, Taz, Steven, Ruby [...]

Can you spot the Armadillo?2023-05-09T14:08:00+00:00

Up to the Sky and into the Sea!

2023-05-09T10:17:54+00:00

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 Nursery and Bellrock Nursery. There were a whopping 80 people! Plus, we were joined by CDT's very own Kayla who will be with us for these sessions, and our new Licketyspit Actor Pedagogue, Steven. We played Funky Chicken and met the.... Cheeky Lion Funny Cat Funky Giraffe Funny Giraffe Crazy Lion and many more animals with groovy some moves! We flew high in the sky in our Flying Balloons and saw a rocket ship! A gingerbread house! A sunset, a dinosaur and a flamingo! Then we swooped down for a dip in the bluest of seas, whoosh, splash, float on your back... We also had some excellent energetic dancing and some very special singing, including Ellie teaching us her fave, Grandma Grandma! And there was a giant Lickety Art Gallery including Shiva's brilliant fold out drawing of a magical balloon that got popped! I wonder what we'll play next? See you all again next time for more Storyplay games & adventures. Bye for [...]

Up to the Sky and into the Sea!2023-05-09T10:17:54+00:00

Tomato Pie in a Californian Garden

2023-04-03T09:18:35+00:00

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 huge bears who were actually quite gentle, some very sneaky foxes and a lot of beautiful swooping and gliding birds. Funnily enough, that Funky Chicken also had some amazing pals to introduce us to and I don’t think we’ll ever forget Rita’s Just a Dog who was so bouncy and Ameerah’s Fat Lion, who was very strong, Jdile’s T Rex Dino, who was very tall and Mohammed’s Crazy Owl, who flew super fast.  The Catwalk After all this animal excitement, we decided to get dressed up and show everyone our fine costumes on the Catwalk - there were so many colourful characters and styles, it was just spectacular! Tomato Pie We decided with glee that we all looked like incredibly glamorous grannies and in that second, we were mysteriously transported to the wild forests of California where we found ourselves smack, bang in the middle of Granny Ameerah’s garden which was covered in tomato plants. She was the most friendly [...]

Tomato Pie in a Californian Garden2023-04-03T09:18:35+00:00

New film demonstrates the power of Porridge & Play

2023-06-20T14:43:42+00:00

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 Scottish Government’s New Scots Integration Strategy, and the Lottery have stepped up to fund their continuation. Children and parents highlight the positive impact the sessions have on their confidence, mental health and wellbeing, relationships and sense of belonging, as well as children’s learning and development. “When I come here I feel like you can be you and feel free and you can laugh.” 6 year old, Porridge & Play Castlemilk Scroll down to watch the new film! “First week we came they were very shy but now very good. We all really enjoy this. I have met new friends, our language is better because of this” “Like nothing else we do. Great early drama/improvisation. Lots of imagination. Inclusive and child led!” “You won’t be alone here. I’ll be your friend” “Don’t know where we’d be without this. No-ones judging, there’s lots of acceptance, feel like we’re being brought into the community.” We [...]

New film demonstrates the power of Porridge & Play2023-06-20T14:43:42+00:00

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