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. [...]

Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online 2025 blog where we share our stories and adventures! We make fantastic shapes and swing about our hips Jump and twist, hop and turn with our Online Peeps! So my friends! We were all ready for an Online Boogie to wake up all our senses before we got stuck into our imaginary Storyplay! – we love to warm up our bodies and our minds so we can sharpen our imaginations - like a pencil! Ready to create all sorts of adventures, characters and situations! We sang a song with people that tend to go to bed With Fried egg on their Faces or Jelly on their Head! At Porridge & Play we love singing and songs that tell good stories, are often the songs we like! Like Jelly on His Head which is a cool rhyming song about all these wonderful and eccentric people who have funny routines before going for a good night sleep! AND of course, we love The Funky Chicken, a brilliant shapeshift game Each player becomes an animal and asks us to be the same! Sam imagined a Three Legged Turtle and Ibrahim was a Funky Lion. Shawn was the Baby who goes to school, but Khadar was a Dancing Lion. And Khadeejah became a Funky Cat while Abisha was a Silly Giraffe [...]

Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online 2025 blog where we share our stories and adventures! Together at home, together we all We dance, we move, and we have so much fun Do you know the Funny Orca? What did you say? Do you know the Tired Lion? What did you say? We make up animals with fantastic skills Dress up becoming who we want to be We Imagine ourselves as spies, whales or queens And go on adventures you wouldn’t believe! We blew up the Magic Ball as big as we could To Jump up inside and asked if we should Go up to a rainbow or deep in a cave Or down through a tunnel or inside a cake! If you imagine a place you would like to go You might end up there but you’ll never know Until you say those special words Magic Ball Magic Ball Take us where we want to go! We landed somewhere with a glorious food market Delicious smells made us all a bit hungry We followed our nose and met a strange lady Who looked like a mushroom but was very friendly. Have you ever swum in a cheesy fondue?  No, never, we haven’t but we are about to! Cheese Fondue swimming is rather exciting, Tasty, peculiar and very fantastic! Suddenly a giant took issue [...]

Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online 2025 blog where we share our stories and adventures! Porridge & Play ONLINE is just another way of doing STORYPLAY with friends – instead of meeting in the same place we all meet online using ZOOM and although we are all in our home playing, we are ALSO in each other’s homes playing together, cool right?  So, this first Saturday, Sarah, Andre and Taz met Yahye & Ibrahim, Abisha & Aila, Mohammed & Khadeejah, Esther, Goodness & Glory and Simmi, Sam & Shawn for an action-packed Porridge & Play Online session and it was excellent fun! Like we do when we play together in a big group, we started saying hello to each other and then we got all warmed up with a Dance Warm up and with Big As A Bear to get us all going.  And then of course we played a game of FUNKY CHICKEN!  Our love for Dressing up with things we find around the house is strong when we play ONLINE and so this Saturday, we thought it would be cool to dress up as Explorers – we all disappeared from our screens for a wee minute and came back looking rather intriguing…!!!  Esther reappeared as a Fluffy Dinosaur that liked exploring chocolate forests, while Glory was a Bunny Lover Explorer who [...]