Lots of Storyplay, lots of friends, lots of food, lots of FUN on our last session of this block. We always call the last session of each block a Porridge & Play Celebration because we celebrate many things that day – making new friends who live in the same bit of the city, learning things about each other, learning games that we can play together as a family and as a community, tasting and sharing delicious food and the fact that the Licketyspit family of families keeps growing! Our circle was as big as ever and Big As a Bear got louder than EVER! Andre got everyone going and ready to welcome Funky Chicken – Zoe was a Naughty cat,  Xiyu a Golden Fish, Maya was  the Silly Giraffe and Waheed a Mountain Lion. Xiya became Karate Cat, Violet was Sunny Dog and Salaar was the Funny Lion! We particularly loved being Dying Flies today! Next up was Dressing up – the Maryhill Hub families, children and grown-ups alike, are big fans of Dressing Up and they became exuberant Chefs with exuberant names like Lobster Chef! Ruby Chef was in a pickle because she needed some fresh ideas and help for an exquisite new cake recipe…we all were up for it: Let’s Bake A Cake!! With ordinary and extraordinary ingredients – [...]

So we were nine families with 14 children this week at the CCH for Porridge & Play Maryhill. Everyone is feeling like we’ve become old friends!  We started with a Dance Warm-Up to Salaar’s favourite song - Thunder by Imagine Dragons - and some Sufi poetry Amna introduced us to! Rita said “Do you know the Funky Chicken?” And then an amazing array of characters appeared - The Squirmy Worm, Dizzy Elephant, Sunny Dog, Funky Monkey, Naughty Octopus, Scary Tiger, Lazy Cat, Loud Dinosaur, Happy Butterfly! Not forgetting Aarushi’s Jumping Rabbit and Shriyansh’s Jumping Dolphin! Then we played “I’m going to drink a bottle of!!!…” This was Lizzie, Zoe & Zac’s first ever Witches Fingers and they created fantabulous witches - he he he! Arvin was a Witch in our marvellous Magic Ball Story which Rita has written about below! (His witch pretended to eat the Ball - disaster! - but she tricked us!) Our Dressing Up today was a delicious array of colour and invention and so was our Storyplay, and our food was delicioso!  We had great chats and we realised that today is EID! So Happy Eid to all our friends Here is the Magic Ball Story and our amazing Gallery! See you all next week for our Maryhill Hub celebration! Andre, Ruby, Taz [...]

Week two of Porridge & Play MARYHILL got us all sharing our best moves - warming up our bodies and our imaginations, singing, dressing-up to transform ourselves into Forest Creatures and much more! A very Big Circle to see everyone, Cause our games are way best when we’re ALL in the fun! First Big as a Bear gets us all going, Running and jumping we are telling a story, About how we can be whatever we like! An Ox or a Hare or a Bird flying high! So many of us here so let’s hear all our names, And show everyone our cool move as well! Then The Funky Chicken shows up to play, Can you think of an animal? Does it move in some way? What sound does it make? Can we do it again?! Maya’s Funny Duckling liked Olesya’s Sleepy Tiger Amna’s Happy Penguin liked Salaar’s Cheeky Lion! Yachai’s Funny Bunny saw Rita’s a Happy Butterfly, Shirley’s Jumping Rabbit loved Stephen’s Hyperactive Sloth! But, have you heard before about a man called Fred? Who likes to go to bed at night with Jelly On His Head? If that sounds a bit silly just wait ‘til you hear, What a girl called Bella Spears takes to bed in her ears!! We sang about Grace, about Claire, about John, What other funny [...]