FOREST STORYPLAY back for October Holiday Week!
The Children's Wood - Glasgow
Over The Children’s Wood we flew – Up, up, up with our Flying Balloons!
We saw a boat going along, we saw small trees, we saw a big dark sea monster and a rainbow snake with a lollipop!
The Children’s Wood truly is a favourite spot for us at Licketyspit and we LOVED our Forest Storyplay sessions this October Holiday Week!
On Tuesday families came from our Bridgeton Hub and Cranhill Hub for a day of play, friends, food and nature – what a hoot!
We danced, played Funky Chicken and had a brilliant Flying Balloons adventure. We all became Rainbow Snakes using our brilliant technique for Dressing Up – in old any old clothes we can wear in such fabulous ways that we can be anyone and anything we can imagine!
While we made ourselves as dapper as cool Rainbow Snakes this Mean Woman suddenly appeared shouting at us all asking –
‘Are you all here for the Rainbow Snake audition? Are you?! Hurry up we don’t have all day!’
Suddenly we found ourselves auditioning for this Mean Woman and her Photographer assistant!
‘You, you and you! Step forward! Ok, what are your audition pieces??’
Of course we didn’t know what she meant. But she carried on bossing us about saying –
‘Can you dance or sing, or at least can you pose?’
Before we knew it, we were being called forward in little groups to strike poses and look fabulous – like Rainbow Snakes do!
There we all were, thinking we were doing great! but the Mean Woman kept saying we were rubbish!
So, Andre had enough and started a revolution! – we simply decided to not do what the Mean Woman was ordering us to do, and we went rogue!
The poor Mean Woman realised we weren’t listening to her at all! so she left, feeling sorry for herself…
Then a Bird of Paradise flew by and stopped to meet us – his feathers were bright and colourful, and we all clapped! We noticed he was a wee bit peckish, so we looked in our pockets for food, and we fed him bread, banana and chips. He was so pleased he taught us how to fly – very elegantly!
Then we met a Red Squirrel!!! They are so rare to see that we felt very lucky – but the Red Squirrel seemed sad or worried… Luckily Alan speaks Red Squirrel, so he translated telling us that the Red Squirrel feared a Grey Squirrel – you see, red and grey squirrels don’t like each other much.
‘We’ll hide you!’ we said, and we made a wee circle for the Red Squirrel to climb inside and as we turned round there was a great big Grey Squirrel looking at us like he had lost something!
‘Hey Grey Squirrel if you head over in that direction there’s a great picnic waiting for you!’
The Grey Squirrel headed off to find the picnic and the Red Squirrel felt very relieved.
After all that we realised that we also wanted a picnic too! So, we blew up our Flying Balloons again and went back to The Children’s Wood for our Picnic.
Then, so wonderful, we sat in a circle around the fire-bowl together! We learned to strike a spark before Andrea lit the fire for us to toast delicious marshmallows and pizza dough wrapped around long sticks!
Build a fire safely and don’t leave a trace,
Bake bread, melt marshmallows
And play with your friends
If we are respectful and kind with this place
It will welcome us always
With a smile on its face!
Thank you, Andrea and The Children’s Wood, for hosting our Forest Storyplay!
Taz, Andre, Sarah, Virginia, Andrea & The Licketyspit Families
