Picnic & Play with the Cranhill Hub!
Getting ready for the Storyplay Festival!
Find out what the Cranhill Group did during our Picnic & Play session at the Children’s Wood!
Thursday 4th July
Sunny with showers? Not a problem for Licketyspit and our CRANHILL Families!
Sarah, Andre, Virginia and Taz got together to put up some tarpaulins to keep off the rain and a gazebo for our picnic to stay dry because we were determined to have fun at the Meadow & Children’s Woods with the brilliant Cranhill families even if it rained!!
Steven went to Cranhill on the CCH Buses to collect everyone to travel to The Children’s Wood – the beautiful natural space where our Storyplay Festival is happening this Summer.
On Saturday 13th of July Licketyspit’s Storyplay Festival will welcome many families from across Glasgow to meet, play and eat together and to share the fun that imaginary Storyplay brings to us all! Families from Govan, Maryhill, Castlemilk, Whiteinch, Cranhill and even families who play with Licketyspit Online are invited to spend a fantastic day together at these beautiful woods.
When our Cranhill friends arrived at the Children’s Woods today the excitement was way bigger than any worry about the rain!
‘We need a fire’ – Joy shouted when she saw our camp, – ‘It reminds me of my country in Africa and how we used to gather in tents like this around a fire to welcome each other, roast corn and be together!’
We made a big circle in a lovely clearing in the Meadow and we had a good old warm up and game of ‘My name is …. and I like …’ which it was perfect for reconnecting with each other. After that we were ready to explore!
Virginia took us into the magical places among the trees, where each of our Porridge & Play groups will have a DEN at the festival to host visitors from all the other groups for some STORYPLAY!
We played Witches Fingers and Monsters Footsteps and sang Grandma, Grandma really loudly and then the Cranhill friends took a vote and decided where exactly their den will be at the Festival.
Each Den at the Storyplay Festival will be decorated with bunting painted with self-portraits of the Licketyspit families so the Cranhill families all drew marvellous drawings of themselves after having a nice picnic in the tent!
We had sunny moments and showers but thanks to the shelters we kept dry and happy.
There was even time for some running around, tree climbing, gallivanting and a big game of ‘I Sent A Letter To My Love’ and also to decide what games the Cranhill Den will share with everyone next Saturday…
It was a fabulous day outdoors we felt like a big brave family playing outside whatever the weather!
Thanks to our lovely Cranhill friends for joining the Licketyspit team today! We can’t wait to see you again on Saturday 13th of July at Licketyspit’s Storyplay Festival!!
Lots of love,
Steven, Andre, Sarah, Virginia, Taz & The Cranhill Families!
