Porridge & Play MARYHILL is back at CCH!
BP&PG Maryhill 2025/26
A new block of Porridge & Play sessions has started with a fabulous group of families – some returning friends and many new ones gathering for the first time at the big Reid Hall.
Our circle today was BIG and all the families were smiling and ready to use their imaginations, relax and have quality time together.
‘Make yourselves as Big As A Bear’ – warming up is great to get everyone ready!
Funky Chicken was a hoot, and we met very many animals –
Thrishitha was the Naughty Dog and Yachai was the Angry Bird
Maya was a Sneaky Snake and Zoe a Grumpy Lion
Zac was a Happy Dog and Shriyansh was a Sleepy Lion
Farah was a Cheeky Rabbit and Violet a Good Dog
And Mai got as all dancing as the Dancing Dolphin!
‘Flying Balloons’
There were yellow and rainbow and purple and gold
and silver and blue and green and classic red balloons!
And we blew them up big and we flew up high in the sky
And we flew and flew above the Canal – what can you see?
Red birds and apple pie that tasted of chocolate, steak or blueberries? We heard music, is that a drum?
We saw a dog and even dolphins in the canal!
Dressing up was a hit!
All our friends new and not so new LOVED dressing up in the Licketyspit way – we don’t dress up in a costume to be just one character, we take old clothes and we combine them to transform ourselves into many different guises and today we were PIRATES!
Meet Pirate Potato, Pirate Carrot, Pirate Pizza, The Clown, Pirate Piano, Pirate Alloa, Pirate Strawberry, Captain Seas, Captain Purple, Captain Precious and the world famous ARRRRGGH Captain!
We scrubbed the deck and aye aye’d to our hearts content – A Haaa!
Then we sat round our big great table full of delicious fruit and bread and cheese and we enjoyed a tasty Carrot & Coriander soup.
A fantastic first session for the current Maryhill Hub families who left home smiling and wondering where they could go next on a Flying Balloon…
See you all next week!
Andre, Ruby, Virginia & Taz
Maryhill Art Gallery!
READ SOME OF THE ARTIST’S COMMENTS FROM THE LICKETY ART GALLERY:
We’re trying to fly up in the balloons, I saw some ducks that are swimming, 4 ducks.
happy dog. I enjoy with the costume one and the balloon
this a boat and spiderman, he’s going to work. This is speed! This is a turtle swimming.
this is the balloon, this is a heart, this is like 10, this is 8, this is the rainbow, this is not me. THIS is me
stars – princess miss berle
rainbow (climb the rigging ladder!), a whole sunny adventure
me – looking for my friends
ok so this was when we were playing the pirate game and I wasn’t a pirate I was a king, that’s my cloak and I got one of the pirates and blood was coming out.
so that’s mum and that’s a frog and that’s a shark and zac has already been eaten. That’s me I’m on a ship; I’m just getting on it. I liked being a pirate – Pirate Potato!
me! with a purple balloon) me, ‘my brother’, mummy, dad and granny!
it’s me and it’s mummy, cars, don’t know where we’re going!
That’s me, that’s maya and that’s the dressing up box, that’s a window
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