Porridge & Play Bridgeton Week 3

Witches, Sea Monsters and Mud!

Bridgeton Blog!

19th September 2025

This was the week of Witches, Mucky Brew and our second Magic Ball adventure!!

Dancing Warm Up

We began with a Dancing Warm Up! Everyone shared their best moves.

Funky Chicken

Then we met some awesome animals! These in included:

  • Howida’s Funny Cat 
  • Lin’s Angry Bunny 
  • Salah’s Excited Tiger 
  • Moira’s Cheeky Crocodile!

Mucky Brew

Mucky ME

Mucky YOU

Mucky mucky mucky BREW!

This was a fruity brew. We poured, sprinkled and rubbed all sorts of funny things on our head!

  • A big watermelon
  • A big pineapple
  • Chopped apple
  • A big egg
  • A big kiwi
  • A booger (yuck!)
  • A chocolate cake
  • Grapes
  • A pomegranate

Witch’s Fingers!

I’m going to drink…a bottle of….POISON!

We ran away from those tricksy witches as quick as we could!

Magic Ball

Then one of the magical witches found the Magic Ball.

It took us to MUDLAND!

We got stuck in the mud. We couldn’t get out!

What could we do but have a big….mudfight!

Just then, a noise.

I wonder who lives in Mudland?

It’s a monster!

Luckily he was just hungry.

He loved the bread and jam we gave him.

Then he wanted to play hide and seek with us.

Well, we were so tired from all that playing that we had to have a nap.

When we woke up, we found ourselves on a beach.

So we washed off the mud in the…SEA!

Splash!

We saw a shark, porpoises, and finally a SEA MONSTER!

Uh oh!

We quickly swam away and back to the Magic Ball.

The Storyplay Games

All our games are on our Lickety Playcards. You will get your very own pack in week 5 to help you Storyplay at home!

We had a delicious meal of sweet potato soup, watermelon, strawberries and plenty of bread and jam!

Then we shared our reflective drawings in the Lickety Gallery which you can read about below.

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: 

All the family. We went to Churchy!

Mohammed

Swimming! Me! In the outdoors. Magic Ball Magic Ball!

Rasha

Sand Ocean Trees!

Malak

My friends. Tag. Favourite was Funky Chicken.

Agie

A path!

Abacker

I’m stuck in the mud! I want to hold my baby.

Amna

See you again soon for more Storyplay!

Andre, Ruby & Paul

In Partnership With

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Come & Play!

There’s lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including…

  • Making with Iona
  • Cooking with Taz
  • Exploring with Jack
  • Funky Chicken
  • Grandma Grandma

and many more!

Bridgeton Page

Read past blog posts about sessions at Bridgeton St Francis in the East and Picnic & Play trips. You can also read our stories in the Porridge & Play Bridgeton Zine!

Volunteer with us

We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com