Dressing Up with Effie

2021-07-27T12:11:41+00:00

Licketyspit Actor-Pedagogue Effie brings to life one of our Lickety Playcards - DRESSING UP GAMES! 🗝️🧣👒 🕶️ At first it may seem like a pile of old clothes and bits and bobs from around the house, but it's actually EVERYTHING you need to become infinite characters and get lost in different imaginary worlds. What's your favourite dressing up character? Send us a photo if you'd like to share it with the world! Dressing Up Games is one of the Lickety Playcards, a series of 32 colourfully-illustrated A5 cards containing a carefully-selected, tried and tested, new, adapted and traditional collection of games, rhymes, songs and imaginary play activities. Receive a free pack when you join Big Porridge & Play 2021!  Over to You! Maybe you'd like to send us your favourite dressing up character? If so we'd love to see it and share it with everyone else in the Licketyspit Children & Families Network!   Get inspired with other CFN family creations here and here.

Dressing Up with Effie2021-07-27T12:11:41+00:00

Christmas Video Message

2021-07-02T09:48:31+00:00

A 2020 Christmas Message from Licketyspit A Christmas Video! We hope you'll enjoy this Christmas message and demonstration of two great games to play over the hoildays, from Ruby, Iona and Taz. The holidays are a great time to play as a family. We hope you have a lovely Christmas break. The Licketyspit team will be on holiday between December 24th-Janueary 11th so if we don't get your message, we'll reply as soon as we're back. And remember, all we need to play is each other! What's in the video? 🤔 In the Way of the Word 💝 The Present Game! More Holiday Activities! There's lots more to do on our website. Find Playcard Videos in Come & Play. Watch the Lickety Activity films and make your own (like other CFN children have done!) And catch up with all of the Big Porridge & Play Blogs in Happening Now! We'd love to see what creative and playful activities you get up to over the holidays. Stay in touch! Come & Play Activity Videos BPPG BLOGS Licketyspit 2020 News Round-Up Click on the image on the right to read our reflections on a year like no other, and find out what's in store for [...]

Christmas Video Message2021-07-02T09:48:31+00:00

Another chance to join our spooky party – from home!

2021-07-02T09:43:34+00:00

Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. What a fantastic Halloween party we had! Did you join us on Saturday for our 🎃  Halloween Family Party 🎃  with Parent Club? The great news is that you can watch the video again any time you like - joining in with an HOUR of imagination-fuelled fun, from your own house! Halloween may be over for this year but when it's dark and spooky outside you'll still enjoy all our ghostly games and frightening fun... For anyone who didn't join us, we don't want to ruin all the spooky surprises... let's just say you'll meet some funny characters, do some fantastic, silly dressing up, play Lickety Playcard games like MUCKY BREW and SPOOKY CHICKEN, dance along with us to a surprise Halloween song, and so much more! Watch the video to find out for yourself! 👹👻🎉✨ You can also watch it on the Parent Club Facebook page here, if you'd like to leave a comment and see what other parents have said. See below for some of the fantastic drawings and feedback sent in so far! Remember to send your drawings and any feedback to cfn@licketyspit.com [...]

Another chance to join our spooky party – from home!2021-07-02T09:43:34+00:00

Video: Grandma, Grandma

2020-08-03T12:41:17+00:00

Virginia and Iona teach you the Grandma, Grandma song, from the Lickety Playcard Repertoire! Watch the video and join in with us from home - it's easy to learn and lots of fun to do! The video is part of a series of Playcard Videos which Licketyspit are producing for children and families to join in with at home during the coronavirus outbreak. Find out more and watch the other coronavirus videos here. More like this! Licketyspit Family Lockdown Resources

Video: Grandma, Grandma2020-08-03T12:41:17+00:00

Video: Hello My Name is Joe

2022-02-23T17:13:56+00:00

Hello, my name is Joe I've got a wife and 3 kids And I work in the Button Factory One day, my boss says to me He says Joe are you busy I say no! Join actor-pedagogue Effie for this energetic action song, from the Lickety Playcard Repertoire! Part of a series of Play Videos Licketyspit are producing for children & families to join in with at home during the Coronavirus Outbreak. Find out more about Licketyspit's Coronavirus response, here. Find more videos here! Join the Children & Families Network! More like this! Licketyspit Family Lockdown Resources

Video: Hello My Name is Joe2022-02-23T17:13:56+00:00

Video: Ickerickeroo!

2022-02-24T17:25:56+00:00

As I touch myself, what have I hear? This is my BRAINBOXER my mother dear! Brainboxer, Brainboxer Ickerickeroo! That's what they told me when I went to school! Join in with Iona to sing Ickerickeroo, one of the Licketyspit Playcards! Part of a series of Play Videos Licketyspit are producing for children & families to join in with at home during the Coronavirus Outbreak. Graphic design: Wrench and Franks Find more videos... Community Resources EVOC Guide to Coronavirus Support in Edinburgh Useful directory of all the services provided by organisations, community groups and charities in Edinburgh, so we can all help each other through the Coronavirus outbreak. Access it here. GCVS Guide to Coronavirus Support in Glasgow Useful directory of all the services provided by organisations, community groups and charities in Glasgow, so we can all help each other through the Coronavirus outbreak. You can read the Glasgow Council for Voluntary Service (GCVS) March 30th Newsletter here. David Walliams Free Audio-Book recordings (20min stories) David Walliams is releasing an audio recording of his children's books every day. You can find a new one every day here. You can catch up with the last week here. Find more on Twitter @davidwalliams and #AudioElevenses Penguins, Pandas, Tigers...Edinburgh Zoo Live Webcams Edinburgh Zoo have live webcams of some [...]

Video: Ickerickeroo!2022-02-24T17:25:56+00:00

Video: The Funky Chicken

2022-02-23T17:14:47+00:00

Do you know the Funky Chicken? "What did you say?!" Taz and Jack lead a game of Funky Chicken, one of the Licketyspit Playcards! Part of a series of Play Videos Licketyspit are producing for children & families to join in with at home during the Coronavirus Outbreak. MANY THANKS to the children at St Martha's Primary School and Miltonbank Primary School whose drawings and animals appear in the video! Graphic design: Wrench and Franks Find more videos... Join the Children & Families Network! Pumpkin Face...Raisin Face! You may remember this game from our first warm up video. Enter...the Pumpkin Face...Raisin Face Challenge! 😀Upload 2 photos of you + your family making a PUMPKIN face & a RAISIN face! (to Facebook or Twitter - or send to us at cfn@licketyspit.com) Use the hashtag #pumpkinraisinface + Tag 5 friends! Let's make each other laugh - play helps us relax and realise how funny we can all be. We need this now more than ever! Community Resources EVOC Guide to Coronavirus Support in Edinburgh Useful directory of all the services provided by organisations, community groups and charities in Edinburgh, so we can all help each other through the Coronavirus outbreak. Access it here. GCVS Guide to Coronavirus Support in Glasgow Useful directory of all the services [...]

Video: The Funky Chicken2022-02-23T17:14:47+00:00

Big as a Bear – Lickety Rhyming Warm Ups

2022-02-23T17:16:22+00:00

Try out our Lickety Rhyming Wake Up Warm Ups! Join in with the videos below. A fun and energising way to start the day for young and old. Or why not do it in between school activities to break up your morning? These warm ups are imaginative and interactive - and only 3 minutes long! BIG as a BEAR! BIG as a HOUSE! Pumpkin Face...Raisin Face! You may remember this game from our first warm up video. It's been quite a week so we thought everyone could do with a laugh! Enter...the Pumpkin Face...Raisin Face Challenge! 😀Upload 2 photos of you + your family making a PUMPKIN face & a RAISIN face! (to Facebook or Twitter - or send to us at cfn@licketyspit.com) Use the hashtag #pumpkinraisinface + Tag 5 friends! Let's make each other laugh - play helps us relax and realise how funny we can all be. We need this now more than ever! Community Resources GCVS Guide to Coronavirus Support in Glasgow Useful directory of all the services provided by organisations, community groups and charities in Glasgow, so we can all help each other through the Coronavirus outbreak. You can read the Glasgow Council for Voluntary Service (GCVS) March 25th Newsletter here. Refuweegee support for EVERYONE who [...]

Big as a Bear – Lickety Rhyming Warm Ups2022-02-23T17:16:22+00:00

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