At the last session of this Porridge & Play block we celebrated 5-weeks of Storyplaying together –  in Zombie Style…

In Storyplay you can DO ANYTHING…

Bridgeton families love it here

Bridgeton families dance and cheer!

We love moving our bodies, learning new steps and shapes and rhythms – children and grown-ups all shared their ideas in the Dancing Warm up!

Funky Chicken is another old favourite at Bridgeton Hub!

Every week we start with a round of Funky Chicken – is such a great game to get your imagination going quickly, by thinking of an animal and how it might move and sound! And so, on this last session –

Malak created a Happy penguin

Mohammed thought of a Happy Seagull

Miriam imagined an Ugly Pig

Retaj became a Funny Horse

Moira embodied a Singing Cow

Amar transformed into a Groovy Lizard

Lin was a Sneaky Cat

Big Mohammed offered a Dancing Tiger

Alan created a Wrestling Alligator

Salah showed us a Silly Monkey

Abakr was a  Foxy Dadoodee

Aleen became a Speaking Cat

Girisha was a Fire Lion

Lin embodied a Slow Turtle

Arafa jumped as a Happy frog

Maab became a Naughty Seagull!

 

At Storyplay you can BE ANYONE…

Another ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE game for the Bridgeton families is Dressing Up – they cannot wait for the big Dressing Up bag to be unzipped! Licketyspit Dressing Up bags are really just a few old clothes but with the spark of our imaginations, these ordinary clothes can transform into extraordinary garments that inspire us to feel differently…even to become ‘someone else’! And so…

Alan – ‘I’m the King of legends, all of them like… vampires! Many different ones there, even ones you don’t know about. A big pale Man he can travel from US and UK in less than an hour.’

 Salah – ‘I’m a Police man, 778 and 10 is my password and I like to eat supercarrots.’

 Big Mohammed – ‘I’m Dobby from Harry Potter, I eats green stuff, I like playing and drawing Harry Potter Day.’

 Amar – ‘I can send shockwaves when my pants drop.’

 Maab – ‘I’m a Penguin. I live in the snow, in a tiny home. And I eat grass. I dig in the snow.’

 Summer – ‘I’m a Teddy bear, I eat grass and I live in a house’

 

At Storyplay you can go ANYWHERE…

And of course, Magic Ball is also a very loved game because the Magic Ball truly can take you anywhere in the world of your imagination!

Magic Ball, Magic Ball

Take us where we want to go…

 

Today we landed in Zombieland – a bit of a scary start!

We crouched down low to the ground to discuss what to do?

We thought maybe pretending to be zombies might help us to blend in!

So, Malak gave everyone a spectacular demonstration of how to walk and move like a Zombie!

And Alan sprayed everyone with Zombie Smelling Spray to makes us even more convincing!

Just as we were all happily Zombie-Ing along, practicing our Zombie movements and sounds an actual Zombie turned up!

Now, it was clear that this Zombie was trying to tell us something. Big Mohammed translated, he said –  ‘The Zombie wants to eat all of our brains!’

 Well! We weren’t going to let that happen…

‘Might the Zombie eat something else? – we wondered?

 ‘I think he wants some soup.’ – Big Mohammed replied.

Mariam offered soup to the Zombie.  And then we all did!

And it went down very well!

So the Zombie left…

Phew!

Narrow escape!

We thought it might be a good idea to try to be silent in Zombieland.

So we practiced creeping silently….

Suddenly, Alan realised he had lost a hand!

Luckily Malak found it for him!

We were just doing a great Zombie Dance when a hungry Werewolf appeared!

So we fed him fruit and he went away!

A lovely, shared meal

 Enjoying eating food together is very important part of Porridge & Play but the last session of every block is extra special because families often bring delicious food to share with everyone! We get a chance to taste food from all our different countries. Finger-licking home-made treats! The Bridgeton Families went overboard and we had dips and cakes and falafels and many treats – delicioso!

How lucky are we to have such a brilliant big family of families at the Bridgeton Hub – thank you all for 5 wonderful weeks of brilliant Storyplay!

Andre, Nerea, Paul, Taz, Virginia, Ruby & the Bridgeton Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

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In a deep, cold and dark forest or a warm and sunny one

In a cave with bones and cobwebs or in a two-bedroom flat…

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Happy, scary and funny ones

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Cheery Monsters at Bridgeton Hub!

Girisha says – ‘I am a Red Monster and I am really scary. I can make it rain and I can make it STOP!’

 Mohammed says – ‘I’m a monster who can make people pause.’

 Alan is Larry the lumberjack Monster he says – ‘I live in a cave.’ 

Aleen says – ‘I’m a Blueberry Cup Cake Monster and I dance with this outfit. I live in a Cup Cake house.’

 

These monsters love to dance and draw, play Funky Chicken till it’s hot!

These monsters may seem scary,

But I promise you they’re not!

 

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Happy, scary and funny ones

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Cheery Monsters at Bridgeton Hub!

 

Mariam says – ‘I’m a Monster Pants and I save food, so I am actually a superhero’.

 Mohammed is Super Granny Monster – ‘I am here to destroy the other monsters. I live in a hut. I can freeze everyone. I live with another monster’

 Summer says ‘I am Monster Teddy Bear and I can fly. I live on a mountain.            It is always sunny’.

 

These Monsters love fruit!

These Monsters love soup!

They love a good circle and they love singing too!

 

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Happy, scary and funny ones

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Cheery Monsters at Bridgeton Hub!

Maab says –  ‘I am Monster Penguin. I also have freezing powers. I live in a forest. It is very warm.  

I live with witches and of course – I do my penguin walk!’.

 Amar says – ‘ I am Red X Monster. I’m also free!’

 Malak says – ‘I live in Malak; it is beautiful in Malak. I eat vegetables and cupcakes.’

All monsters yes, but different!

All with individual style,

These monsters are peculiar

But they’re all fantastic fun!

 

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Happy, scary and funny ones

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Cheery Monsters at Bridgeton Hub!

 

Nerea, Paul, Steven & Bridgeton Hub Families

 

 

Licketyspit Art Gallery

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Come all, come all to Porridge & Play

You can be anyone; do anything every day!

With Funky Chicken you get to be,

Any animal you like – Yes even a flea!

A Happy Horsey or a Happy cat.

A Mad Lizard and a Scary cat!

An Angry Kangaroo and a Naughty Penguin.

– And let’s all cheer up that poor Sad penguin!

Pick a balloon of your favourite colour

Blow it up big and fly round the world

the world, the world which is best from the air!

People of all countries – they are here, here and there!

 

This is my red balloon, I blew it up and went to Antarctica,

 it was very cold; we counted to 5 and the balloon popped! OOOOOOOh!

 

Going around the world is like going outside our circle,

We saw lots of rainbows and our footsteps outside the circle,

going around and around and around…

 

The rivers, the countries, that’s a tree and that’s ME!

Pick up a balloon!

Fly wherever you want to be!

 

A very good cake just fit for a king.

We can bake you one in a blink!

And we can even sing!

Arafa added eggs,

Alan some raspberries,

Malak said –  let’s put apple in the cake!

Mohammed put 5 vanilla drops

And Summer binded it all up with flour!

‘let’s put rainbow cream in the cake! We put it on like this’

Salah showed us all :  sh-sh- sh- sh-ssssssh!

A cake for the King in a giant black castle!

And this is jelly, so so good with cake!

Also cream with the strawberries in!

Tastes delicious and on top… the king!

It is a birthday cake for the king of the castle;

Deliciously tasting of strawberry with pistachio!

 

All of us sitting together

we used ingredients for the cake –

flour, eggs, milk and many other things,

it was a delicious cake!

A castle and a cake!

There is also water here –

 And a dog inside a cave!

 

What a great Bridgeton Porridge & Play Day!

Thanks everybody for such a great Day of Play!

See you next week! When Nerea will welcome back Paul and Steven to our Licketyspit Team!

Ruby, Andre, Nerea, Virginia  & Bridgeton Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

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Our Bridgeton families were in excellent form for Session 2 of our Porridge & Play Block…

We warmed up making ourselves As Big As A Bear with Nerea and  played a round of Funky Chicken with Andre!

Then Taz took everyone through the story of Miss Mary Mac and then we all had a go at My Name Is Joe and realised that poor Joe works far too hard!!

Now, the Bridgeton Hub LOVES to dress up and let me tell you, they get so inspired when they do – they often TRANSFORM into completely different people with all sorts of skills, likings, opinions and even missions….

MIRIAM – ‘My name is Orange – I go to the supermarket, I entertain the kinds, I do dancing.’

 MOHAMMED – ‘ I’m Superhero Green, I like to eat green vegetables and save the day.’

 MAAB – ‘I’m a penguin and I live in a tomato. On Sunday afternoon I like to poo.’

 ALAN – ‘ I am cagey. On Sunday I like to kill on my phone. I like to eat a wee sandwich.’

 MARIAM –  ‘ I’m the Doodie, I like to watch my phone, I like chicken’

 AMAR – ‘I’m SuperBlack – I like to cook people and bananas’

 ALEEN –  ‘ I’ like strawberries, I like Meera the devil hunter’

 It is FANTASTIC how a few bits of dressing up combined with a good idea can inspire you to imagine yourself as someone completely different! That’s how actors create characters! Because acting it’s all pretty much about imagining yourself as somebody else which is very much how children PLAY!

Magic Ball

Magic Ball

Take us where we want to go

WOOOOSH!

The atmosphere was…well…different and we noticed that we were walking rather slowly…

We had landed in the MOON!!!

We met a wee alien Moon Person who looked a lot like Aleen and she gave us the answer to a very famous question – yes, we can confirm that the moon is made of cheese!

‘It feels hard when we step on it! – said Alan

‘ Maybe it is made of HARD cheese!- said Taz

Why don’t we taste it? – said Ritika

And we did!

After that we walked about doing Moon Walks of all sorts and  then met another Moon Person who didn’t like cheese but did like vegetables!

We fed him all sorts of nutritious veggies until he was stuffed. So we decided to show him how to dance by sharing our best moves. He was impressed and very grateful – so much so that he took us in a long Moon Conga to a Moon Party.

When we got there, he sang us a song  and in exchange we sang Jelly on His Head for him which he LOVED! We said goodbye to the Moon Person and the Moon Party and climbed back into the Magic Ball to get back to Bridgeton for our drawing, our meal and our Licketyspit Art Gallery.

A fantastic afternoon full of joy, play, imagination and FRIENDS!

Catch you next week!

Andre, Nerea, Taz, Johnny & Bridgeton Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

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Licketyspit’s Porridge & Play is back in Bridgeton with old and new friends and SO many new adventures to have together!

How lovely to see returning Bridgeton families and welcome some new families! 

There were big smiles and hugs galore! We were all so happy to be together again! And we discovered that some of us have got a lot taller!! Everyone was on great form and looking forward to Storyplay.

Our circle was BIG so we all took a moment to say our names and to welcome our new pals – Rikita & Girisha, Ghada, Mohammed & Amar, Lina, Aleen & baby Maysa and Mudathir & Ibrahim!

Then we made our selves as Big As A Bear! We love to warm up our bodies, voices and imaginations before playing all together – grown-ups and children!

Funky Chicken was packed with fabulous imaginings – Summer kicked us off with a Funky Chicken and Mabb created the Cheeky Frog. Salah imagined a Hungry Tiger and Amar a Fox Eating Cheetah. Girsha introduced us to a Snappy Crocodile whereas Aleen‘s Crocodile was sleepy! instead. Emilia became a Fast Horsey and Alan invented a rather funny Stupid Crocodile!

Pick Up A Balloon!

With every puff of air our colourful balloons grew bigger and bigger until suddenly we were up on our tiptoes ready for a last blow to take us all up, up high in the sky and over Bridgeton – the view from up there was breathtaking! As we flew over Glasgow Green we spotted a dinosaur party and a ladybug party – we could hear trumpets and drums! There were frogs all over the ground and we even spotted a spider! – it must have been a great huge one…wow! Then the Naughty Seagull popped our balloons and we fell down to the ground!

Where might we fly next? – to space? to New York City? what about planet Venus? WOW – we might see an astronaut, the moon, and many countries like Africa …or Sudan (which we love!)

So we blew up our balloons and off we went. Higher and higher we flew! So so high that suddenly we could see Portugal….and soon after that we found we could see Sudan …..and then………a UFO!

 We descended a bit to see the sea, where we saw mermaids ….and sharks! So we dared each other to tickle a shark. Down we all flew and that’s exactly what we did!

Dress up the Licketyspit way!

We found our big bag of dressing-up clothes and we transformed ourselves into a marvellous collection of Bridgeton Grannies! There was Rainbow Granny, Robot Granny, Granny Duck who lives in a straw house!. Granny Butterfly with her big ears, who lives on a boat and eats cereal, I’ll have you know! We met Grannie Biscuits, Cool Granny, Robot grannie – who lives on a boat, a Flying Granny and Grannie Fatma – who lives in a hut in the forest. Laughing Granny said she liked to sit on a chair to relax and Granny Arafa told us she likes making Art! There was a Granny who lives on an island too – where there is water everywhere! Who would have thought that Bridgeton had so many Grannies who are so different, so cool and so fun!!!

 Let’s eat together!

A highlight of Porridge & Play is the delicious food we all eat together round our big spotty table! It is great fun because we get to chat to each other and each week we get to know everyone better, which makes us all happy and fuzzy inside. What could be better than a good time with tasty food and a bunch of your pals?

And that was just Session 1 of this Porridge & Play block! See you all in for Session 2 …Toodleloo!

Andre, Nerea, Taz, Virginia, Johnny & the Bridgeton Hub families!

Licketyspit Art Gallery

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Bookplay is a Porridge & Play session where we all listen to a Story and then instead of the Magic Ball we ALL JUMP into the world of a BOOK to have an adventure!

The Just-so-John Bookplay stories are by a writer called Rudyard Kipling who was born 160 years ago in India! Rudyard travelled all over the world, which was quite amazing because this was before there were aeroplanes so you could only travel by foot, by boat, by horse, by bicycle  or by train!!  

Rudyard’s stories for children were inspired by all the different places he saw – a bit like us with our Flying Balloons game! His Just-So stories are about animals in India and Africa! (His most famous children’s book is The Jungle Book – which you might have heard of! ) His Just So Stories are about how he imagined some of the animals in the world came to be the way they are – how the camel got his hump? , how the leopard got his spots?, how the whale got his throat? and other questions.

Virginia’s Dad John loved these Just So Stories when he was a child. When he grew up he read them to his children (including Virginia) and then he read them to his grandchildren! John lived until he was nearly 91! When he died  some of his friends and family decided it would be fun to help Licketyspit to do some Just-so- John Bookplay Sessions to introduce the stories John loved to more children!  We are calling these our Just-So-John Bookplays! We hope you enjoy them!

‘How the Whale got His Throat’ by Rudyard Kipling – a Bookplay by Bridgeton, Whiteinch and Maryhill Hub families…

Today our Bookplay session was outdoors in a spot Licketyspit families love to go to …the Children’s Wood!

The Children’s Wood is a brilliant green space in Glasgow – we are very lucky that we live in a city with so many big and wee green spaces for us all to enjoy and look after. Our pal Andrea from the Children’s Wood Team joined us too and of course we thought – what’s more exciting than to listen to a good story around Andrea’s campfire?

 

 Excellent idea, my beloved!

Andrea knows everything about building fires we can enjoy safely and without damaging any nature around us – so we set up our Storyplay camp around the campfire, with a nice big picnic, and a wee shelter to make us all feel cozy and give us cover in case it rained – It didn’t! hurray!

And so, we sat round the fire and Ruby read the Rudyard Kipling Just So Story about ‘How The Whale Got His Throat’. You could have heard a pin drop! Everyone was so engrossed in the tale!

‘By means of a grating, I have stopped your ‘ating.’

While we toasted some marshmallows we all chatted about the story –

How many characters were there?

Who would like to play what?

How could you be one character one minute and another the next?, just

like that?

And how could the Mariner (sailor)manage to create a giant grating for the Whale’s throat with only a wee knife?

Well…the Mariner, as we had heard, was ‘a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.’

Did you know that infinite’ means ‘never ending’ and ‘Sagacity’ means ‘clever and canny’ ?

It was time to get on our feet and JUMP INTO the Kipling story of ‘How The Whale Got His Throat’ and a great way in is to dress up!

Abackr got started as the Stute Fish and Malak was a crab, Waheed felt strongly that he wanted to be the Whale and Farah decided to be the Sea itself! Many doubled as fish and other sea creatures, and everyone embodied the Big Great Whale swimming across the sea…whoosh!

Then Sarah and Grace became the Mariners and got eaten up by the whale – and that was too much fun not to have a go at, so other people became Mariners and enjoyed getting gulped up too!

 

‘Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?’

Inside the Whale’s belly a riot ensued and we all ‘stumped and they jumped and they thumped and they bumped…they pranced and they danced and they …hopped and they dropped and they ..danced hornpipes where they shouldn’t!” until the Whale got the hiccups.

Getting out of the Whale’s belly was also very fun, so quite a few Mariners got ejected!

The grating created by the Mariners who cut up the raft with the cunning use of the wee Jack knife, which proved to be very effective – the Whale tried several times to eat up more mariners but with no success because the grating we had stuck across the Whale’s throat was most effective. From that moment on, no fish or humans could ever be eaten by the Whale. Which also meant that the Whale’s digestion was going to be much more comfortable – happy days!

We had our lovely Picnic sitting together beneath the trees in the Children’s Wood enjoying being outdoors in the fresh air – we even had time to chase about between the trees!

Isn’t it great how you can Bookplay absolutely anywhere you like? All you need is your favourite story, some friends and your fantastic imaginations! What other great story could you Bookplay with your family and friends? Maybe you could tell us about it?

Ruby, Sarah, Taz, Andrea & our pals at The Children’s Wood

Could you BOOKPLAY a story with your family and friends this weekend?

Listen to John telling How The Whale Got His Throat by Rudyard Kipling by clicking here!

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.

Use your playcards and resources on our website to support play at home.

Click on the playcards to play with us online. Scroll down for more links.

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: 

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!

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!

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

Bridgeton Blog!

26th September 2025

This was the week of Monster’s Footsteps and the Sea!

The Present Game

We started off with the present game, where we created imaginary gifts for each other like turtles and flowers!

Then we had a dance!

Flying Balloons

1, 2, 3…off we go!!

We picked up our balloons for another adventure.

High in the sky we flew.

Howida and Salah saw green snakes down below and monkeys in the sky!

Leeanne saw the River Clyde!

What was in the river? Could it be a pirate ship? Or what about an ice cream shop?

WHOOSH!

We swooped down for an ice cream.

Lin had chocolate and Lexi had nutella, but Maab had egg flavour! How funny!

We were all a bit sticky from the ice cream, so Andre suggested we fly back down for a swim.

SPLASH!

Into the water we went, watching out for sharks. Mariam found some stars and golden money so we all started digging for treasure.  Leeanne found a green emerald.

But oh no – the shark was back! Maybe it was guarding the treasure?

Swim for your lives!

PHEW!

We got away and found ourselves on a beach.

Lin taught us a song around the campfire

Five little ducks went out one day

Over the hill and far away 

Monster’s Footsteps

We loved that song!

Just then, the dressing up fairy appeared.

She was throwing a party for the Grannies in the forest – but no one had come.

She asked us if we would dress up as the Grannies and we said YES!

We had Granny Bubblegum and Granny Chocolate, Granny Peaches and Granny Ice Cream.

Lovely Granny and her sister, Strawberry Granny and Pineapple Granny.

Granny Foxy and Angry Granny and let’s not forget Granny Dinosaur!

These grannies had heard the rumour that when we’re not looking, the trees turn into monsters, but they weren’t scared.

Angry Granny lived up in a tree and liked to be brave.

Lovely Granny liked to play hide and seek and Granny Evie likes the dark!

But oh no…I think those trees have moved…

They are monsters!

RUN!

Storyplay Champions

We love it when families who have been coming to our sessions for a while start helping to host!

Here are two of our Storyplay Champions counting bowls of soup for the meal.

This week we also had help with photographs and notes for the blog.

We had a delicious meal of lentil soup, pineapple, boiled eggs and lots more!

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: 

Next week is the last session in this block so we will be joined by Virginia and we’ll be asking for your feedback on this block of Porridge & Play.

See you then!

Andre, Ruby & Paul

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!

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!

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

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: 

See you again soon for more Storyplay!

Andre, Ruby & Paul

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!

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!

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

Bridgeton Blog!

12th September 2025

Week 2 – woohoo!

We warmed up by making ourselves as Big as a Bear…and as fast as a hare!

As well as these rhyming creatures, you came up with loads more!

There was:

Dua’s Dying Bee

Alan’s Metal Chicken

Ouff’s Flying Snail

Emilia’s Jogging Shark

Maab’s Funky Chicken

Zara’s Pinching Crab

Leeanne’s Angry Tiger

Zhara’s Funny Cow

Awoooo!

Did you say something?

What’s the time Mr Wolf!

There’s only one animal in the Storyplay woods who has a watch.

We got ready for school with Mohammed Wolf. He had a gold and silver watch.

We crept about with Wilhelmina Wolf.

Suliman Wolf lived in deep water and wore an orange watch.

Scary Wolf Dua lived at the end of the forest and liked to hunt.

Dinner time!

We enjoyed carrot and lentil soup.

Bread and boiled eggs.

And Paul’s delicious fruit platters!

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!

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: 

See you again soon for more Storyplay!

Andre, Ruby & Paul

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!

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!

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