Porridge & Play Bridgeton Week 5
A Cake for an Ogre!
Bridgeton Blog!
3rd October 2025
For our last Bridgeton Porridge & Play we thought we better bake a cake!
With Chef Santa’s chicken, Suliman & Mohsin’s chips
Niamate’s sprinkles and Maab’s jellyfish!
Chef Phillipe from France and Chef Pirate from India, joined many more with their ingredients.
Seena and Evanna brought strawberries and Chef Scary brought buns.
Chef Duaa brought ice cream that tasted like bubblegum.
Amira added strawberry sauce and Mariam rainbow lolly pops.
There was bubblegum, coconut, eggs and dragon fruit.
Then lettuce and pizza and Chef Samira’s cream.
We stirred them all in and it turned out a dream.
Burger with Nutella – we had to try it!
Chicken Nuggets? there’s never been a cake like it!
I wonder if vanilla will cover these up…
Chef Ouff’s smelly shoes and belly button fluff
And Moira’s ear wax – would the Ogre like the cake?
Chef Alan had a brilliant idea!
Let’s add sleepy leaves to put him to sleep!
The Ogre appeared with a terrible roar – we cut him some cake then gave him some more.
With a yawn and a stretch he began to nod off.
“Phew!” we said, “That was strong stuff!”
The Ogre wasn’t the only beast at this feast.
Mr Wolf appeared with his gold rainbow watch
When we asked him the time, he tried to eat us!
We escaped and soon we were drawing in peace
Snacking on fruit and sweet potato soup
Madan’s jollof rice and Virginia’s cake too!
Thank you for bringing your joy and your cheer
We love P&P Bridgeton more every year!
Big thanks to Eoin Carey our photographer, who took photos at this final session.
Next time
Porridge & Play Bridgeton will be back next year.
In the meantime, look out for WhatsApp messages from us about other Storyplay activities around the city.
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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:
When we were being Pirates (Pirate Bakers!). A Pirate flag. Favourite game – Balloons!
That’s me and that’s the door and that’s the rooms. My Classroom! I play with toys.
This is the cake. This is the strawberry and the strawberry sauce. This is the sweet potato. This is ogre and all the people scared.
How to make a cake. We’re sitting around it. Favourite ingredient – vanilla flavour.
Flowers with mummy!
A beach and trees and sun
I made a clock. It’s 6 o’clock! I go to the park. Favourite game – Mr Wolf.
