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Why I started Licketyspit

March 19th, 2025|Virginias Diary|

I started working with early years children when I had my own children – Ruby & Iona. Having children reminded me how much I love to play, sing, dance, dress-up, read, explore and make [...]

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Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 4

September 27th, 2024|

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 [...]

Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 4

September 27th, 2024|

Whiteinch Blog! Love letters, Chefs, a massive birthday cake & a feast! Our last session at Whiteinch Library felt like a great big party and although everyone was a bit sad that it was the last one of this year we all cheered up very quickly [...]

Porridge & Play Govan Week 4

September 27th, 2024|

Govan Blog! Celebrating play & friends at Licketyspit’s Porridge & Play! It has been great to meet and play with friends old and new in Govan this year, we have had so much fun! We feel so lucky that you have all shared your incredible ideas [...]

Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 3

September 20th, 2024|

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 [...]

Porridge & Play Govan Week 3

September 20th, 2024|

Govan Blog! Witches, potions & a Magic Ball adventure!!! The sun was shining in Govan today and our lovely space for Porridge & Play was full of sun rays! Storyplay began with a warmup that is also a story full of action! Have you heard about [...]

Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 3

September 20th, 2024|

Whiteinch Blog! A Witchy Porridge & Storyplay afternoon at Whiteinch Library! Whiteinch Library felt very witchy today as the brilliant librarians had selected a bunch of books for us about magic, fanatic creatures, werewolves, vampires, monsters and of course witches! Before we kicked off our Storyplay, [...]

Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 2

September 13th, 2024|

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 [...]

Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 2

September 13th, 2024|

Whiteinch Blog! We did our Dancing Warm-up to start the session and then we met fantastic Funky Chicken animals like Aaliyah's Silly Spider; Katie's Hopping Horse, Nina's Evil Cat, Mohammad's Angry Dinosaur and Sara's Sad Dog! We all dressed up as Forest Creatures! Sara was a [...]

Porridge & Play Govan Week 2

September 13th, 2024|

Govan Blog! We had a lovely Porridge & Play this week with Sarah, Cami and with Paul Chaal. Paul is a Glaswegian whose Mum and Dad came to Scotland from India when they were teenagers. So although Paul was born here he can speak Urdu, Hindi [...]

Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 1

September 6th, 2024|

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 [...]

Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 1

September 6th, 2024|

Whiteinch Blog! It was fantastic to be back in the Library again with Porridge & Play Whiteinch. We had a great group of families with 20 children, 13 grownups plus the Licketyspit actor- pedagogues - Cami, Andre, Steven & Virginia - so we got off to [...]

Porridge & Play Govan Week 1

September 6th, 2024|

Govan Blog! We had a wonderful start to Govan Porridge & Play 2024! Such a great group of families old and new! 18 children with 9 Mums & a grandmother. Sarah led a Dancing Warm-Up while we waited for everyone to arrive (please try to come [...]