Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 4
Storyplay in the woods!
Castlemilk Blog!
25th September 2025
We’re off, we’re off to play outside!
Behind a great big tree we’ll hide
From sharks that move beneath the waves
Under the trees we’ll laugh and play!
Out the library, past a bus, over the crossing, cars wait for us
Up the hill and into the woods
Where looking down from our balloons…
We saw a giant marshmallow!
A birthday cake – let’s have a slice!
Does it taste yucky or does it taste nice?
Nice like Granny’s cotton candy!
Some Grannies like to make lasagne.
Granny Soup is really kind and Granny Cloud she pays no mind
To those pesky trees that seem to move
A little closer through the woods.
But one Granny makes poison soup
So watch out Trees, don’t get too close!
Back to the library to snack and draw
We love the woods, let’s go there more!
The Storyplay Games
All our games are on the Lickety Playcards. You will get your very own pack in week 5 to help you Storyplay at home!
Book Reviews
Each week the librarians get out some books for us to take home to inspire our Storyplay.
This week Anusha told us about Alice in Wonderland – Down The rabbit Hole
“It’s about the girl and the bunny. The girl saw the bunny running! She called the adult and the bunny got away.”
Anusha recommended this book and with help from Ruby, she read first the first two pages to us.
Charlie shared his book about dinosaurs –
“A long time ago there was dinosaurs! They died once the snow’s coming, they turned into skeletons. A dinosaur’s real, it actually moved and they end up in the museum and turn into skeltons. I saw a Teredactor it was up above me in the museum!”
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Reflective Drawing
We almost always do ‘Reflective drawing’ at the end of a Storyplay session. It’s nice to relax and draw & think about what we’ve all done & how we feel about it.
Reflective drawing isn’t about doing a ‘good’ drawing – it’s about drawing whatever comes into your head when you think about what you’ve just done.
But as you draw you realise more about what you thought or imagined in the session. And it’s great to share that with everyone & hear what they thought! So many things go on in Storyplay!
Here are some of our Reflective Drawings from this week:
Read some of the artist’s reflections from the Lickety Art Gallery:
That’s us when we were walking. That’s Ms Mclachlin, that’s me, that’s Carina and that’s Daddy up there. I liked going to the woods.
It’s a bus. It’s stairs (inside). I seen it outside when we were walking. Fave – everything!
This is flower for mum and loveheart for mum, I drawed red, orange yellow
That’s 3 turtles and that’s a pirana. The turtles are swimming. Mum drawed the tails. Fave – going out in the forest
It was me being the granny in the trees!
That was the scary trees. So many people hated them and they didn’t like them and they take all these hearts off.
That’s the forest and the river and the grass and that’s the floating balloon. Fave – The grannies!
