P&P26 BRIDGETON – Celebration & Zombie impersonation!
At the last session of this Porridge & Play block we celebrated 5-weeks of Storyplaying together – in Zombie Style…
In Storyplay you can DO ANYTHING…
Bridgeton families love it here
Bridgeton families dance and cheer!
We love moving our bodies, learning new steps and shapes and rhythms – children and grown-ups all shared their ideas in the Dancing Warm up!
Funky Chicken is another old favourite at Bridgeton Hub!
Every week we start with a round of Funky Chicken – is such a great game to get your imagination going quickly, by thinking of an animal and how it might move and sound! And so, on this last session –
Malak created a Happy penguin
Mohammed thought of a Happy Seagull
Miriam imagined an Ugly Pig
Retaj became a Funny Horse
Moira embodied a Singing Cow
Amar transformed into a Groovy Lizard
Lin was a Sneaky Cat
Big Mohammed offered a Dancing Tiger
Alan created a Wrestling Alligator
Salah showed us a Silly Monkey
Abakr was a Foxy Dadoodee
Aleen became a Speaking Cat
Girisha was a Fire Lion
Lin embodied a Slow Turtle
Arafa jumped as a Happy frog
Maab became a Naughty Seagull!
At Storyplay you can BE ANYONE…
Another ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE game for the Bridgeton families is Dressing Up – they cannot wait for the big Dressing Up bag to be unzipped! Licketyspit Dressing Up bags are really just a few old clothes but with the spark of our imaginations, these ordinary clothes can transform into extraordinary garments that inspire us to feel differently…even to become ‘someone else’! And so…
Alan – ‘I’m the King of legends, all of them like… vampires! Many different ones there, even ones you don’t know about. A big pale Man he can travel from US and UK in less than an hour.’
Salah – ‘I’m a Police man, 778 and 10 is my password and I like to eat supercarrots.’
Big Mohammed – ‘I’m Dobby from Harry Potter, I eats green stuff, I like playing and drawing Harry Potter Day.’
Amar – ‘I can send shockwaves when my pants drop.’
Maab – ‘I’m a Penguin. I live in the snow, in a tiny home. And I eat grass. I dig in the snow.’
Summer – ‘I’m a Teddy bear, I eat grass and I live in a house’
At Storyplay you can go ANYWHERE…
And of course, Magic Ball is also a very loved game because the Magic Ball truly can take you anywhere in the world of your imagination!
Magic Ball, Magic Ball
Take us where we want to go…
Today we landed in Zombieland – a bit of a scary start!
We crouched down low to the ground to discuss what to do?
We thought maybe pretending to be zombies might help us to blend in!
So, Malak gave everyone a spectacular demonstration of how to walk and move like a Zombie!
And Alan sprayed everyone with Zombie Smelling Spray to makes us even more convincing!
Just as we were all happily Zombie-Ing along, practicing our Zombie movements and sounds an actual Zombie turned up!
Now, it was clear that this Zombie was trying to tell us something. Big Mohammed translated, he said – ‘The Zombie wants to eat all of our brains!’
Well! We weren’t going to let that happen…
‘Might the Zombie eat something else? – we wondered?
‘I think he wants some soup.’ – Big Mohammed replied.
Mariam offered soup to the Zombie. And then we all did!
And it went down very well!
So the Zombie left…
Phew!
Narrow escape!
We thought it might be a good idea to try to be silent in Zombieland.
So we practiced creeping silently….
Suddenly, Alan realised he had lost a hand!
Luckily Malak found it for him!
We were just doing a great Zombie Dance when a hungry Werewolf appeared!
So we fed him fruit and he went away!
A lovely, shared meal
Enjoying eating food together is very important part of Porridge & Play but the last session of every block is extra special because families often bring delicious food to share with everyone! We get a chance to taste food from all our different countries. Finger-licking home-made treats! The Bridgeton Families went overboard and we had dips and cakes and falafels and many treats – delicioso!
How lucky are we to have such a brilliant big family of families at the Bridgeton Hub – thank you all for 5 wonderful weeks of brilliant Storyplay!
Andre, Nerea, Paul, Taz, Virginia, Ruby & the Bridgeton Hub Families
Licketyspit Art Gallery
Click on the drawings!
'Dobby from Howarth, what is he doing, he is floating because he is a wizard. He is in the middle of nowhere. '
'Dadoodee, all the kids are doing the dance. That’ this house, this is when everyone was dancing'
'This is a castle, grass… all of us are living in the castle. It is in a different world, outside of here.. we are all happy in this castle.'
'That’s the grannie zombie, she has something dripping from her face, green slime, or maybe green zombie blood, she also has glasses.'
'Sulman, Summer, me, my sister and this is chocolate man, if you eat him then he responds with more chocolate. '
'This is everybody in a circle, there is a heart, it says I love you everyone, and here is Laith, he is walking, this is the magic ball, that was my favourite part of today.'
'A dragon dadoodee, and I also dropped all the yellow, this was the magic ball, my favourite'
'It is the magic ball, that’s my mum, and myself and my sister. I liked the songs and the dancing most'
'I draw myself'
'This is me climbing up and down and up and down and up and down the. Mountains, that is me at the end of the mountain looking very tired. Today I loved the funky chicken.'
'This is the magic ball, I wrote it down, and this is a person in the magic ball.'
'This is a floor from a garden; in my country you draw this kind of flower with henna'
'Magic ball, this is the wolf, and all of us inside, the wolf is friendly, we all had costumes on so I drew everyone in different colours'.
'This is the dancing and the conga swirling around the room, that was by far my favourite, I like to do that.'
'This is all of us dancing in the circle, and that is the zombie, my favourite was the dancing and copying everybody. And going around the tables.'
'Dadoody is swimming in my picture, he’s swimming in a pond, in America. I loved duck duck goose today; it is my favourite.'
