Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online 2025 blog where we share our stories and adventures!

Halloween is hands down one of our favourite times of the Year as we love to dress up and get all mysterious, mischievous and of course, spooky!!

Saturday had the Halloween vibes still in the air and the Online Hub fully embraced it from warming up with a scary boogie to the Monster Munch to turning the Funky Chicken into THE SPOOKY FUNKY CHICKEN!

Abisha introduced us to the Spooky Skeleton and Mohammed to the Spooky Snake. There was a Spooky Chocolate according to Aila and Khadeejah spotted the Spooky Pumpkin.

Dressing Up was a highlight today – we all became Witches! The best part of dressing up is that once you have your dressing up clothes on, sorted and combined just as you want them, slowly but surely, a characterstarts to appear…

And with the help of your brilliant imagination, you may in fact BECOME a cheeky witch for a little while…

Meet our Saturday witches!!

Witch Mohammad lives in a swimming pool underground and likes eating people with eyeballs. When he makes potions, he likes to add eyeballs, lettuce and carrots!

Witch Kadeejah comes from under a tree and eats eyeballs! Her best potion is made with carrots, eyeballs, poison apples and, well… more poison.

Witch Aila comes from under the ground and eats spiders!

Witch Abisha lives in a really dark scary black castle. BOO! She eats eyeballs and puts skeleton bones in her potion. – a very well-known ingredient amongst witches all around the world!

All the witches were deliciously scary and cheery and up for game of Witches Fingers that was full of trickery!

With one of your fingers TOUCH one of my Witchy Fingers – and repeat after me:

“I am going to drink a bottle of…’ 

Now prick up your ears and listen to me!

I will drink a bottle of different things –

But one of them surely POISON will be

and when I say POISON…run away from me!!!

So after a bit of witchy trickery came Witchy LOVE!!

All the witches wrote love letters to each other for a game of I Sent a Letter to My Love:

‘You are cute, and I love you’

‘My dear, I miss you’

‘I love you’

That got us all ever so inspired for our Reflective Drawing – we all ended up with fabulous images that came from our fantastic imaginary play and we shared them in our wonderful and legendary Licketyspit Art Gallery– where not only do you get to enjoy the art you also get to meet the Artists talking about their drawing!

Who said you can’t go on adventures from home with all your pals?!

Virginia, Sarah, Andre & the Online Hub

Some of our drawings from Week 4……