Forest creatures and a Wolf with a watch in Maryhill?

2026-03-12T17:24:32+00:00

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 [...]

Forest creatures and a Wolf with a watch in Maryhill?2026-03-12T17:24:32+00:00

                  Licketyspit’s Just-So-John Bookplay

2026-03-10T12:30:41+00:00

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 [...]

                  Licketyspit’s Just-So-John Bookplay2026-03-10T12:30:41+00:00

Porridge & Play MARYHILL is back at CCH!

2026-03-06T16:02:46+00:00

A new block of Porridge & Play sessions has started with a fabulous group of families – some returning friends and many new ones gathering for the first time at the big Reid Hall. Our circle today was BIG and all the families were smiling and ready to use their imaginations, relax and have quality time together. ‘Make yourselves as Big As A Bear’ - warming up is great to get everyone ready! Funky Chicken was a hoot, and we met very many animals – Thrishitha was the Naughty Dog and Yachai was the Angry Bird Maya was a Sneaky Snake and Zoe a Grumpy Lion Zac was a Happy Dog and Shriyansh was a Sleepy Lion Farah was a Cheeky Rabbit and Violet a Good Dog And Mai got as all dancing as the Dancing Dolphin! ‘Flying Balloons’ There were yellow and rainbow and purple and gold and silver and blue and green and classic red balloons! And we blew them up big and we flew up high in the sky And we flew and flew above the Canal – what can you see? Red birds and apple pie that tasted of chocolate, steak or blueberries? We heard music, is that a drum? We saw a dog and even dolphins in the canal! Dressing up was a hit! All our friends [...]

Porridge & Play MARYHILL is back at CCH!2026-03-06T16:02:46+00:00

Licketyspit’s WINTER CEIDLIH

2025-12-16T18:30:19+00:00

Licketyspit’s Winter Ceilidh 2025 was a HOOT! We had a fabulous gathering with live music, delicious food, hilarious dressing up, high energy dancing and lots and lots of friends! Saturday afternoon in Glasgow was wet, windy, cold and rather dark but the Community Central Hall in Maryhill was full of warmth, music, laughter and imagination at Licketyspit’s Winter Ceilidh!  Families from our Licketyspit Hubs in Bridgeton, Castlemilk, Cranhill, Whiteinch, Govan, Maryhill and Online arrived ready to have a joyful time and celebrate the great year of imaginary play we have enjoyed together. Our Licketyspit APs and volunteers got the hall cheerfully decorated and put together some tasty food for all our guests - samosas, pakoras, fresh fruit, fresh bread, cheese, tomatoes & cucumbers, hummus, tzatziki and a nice selection of little cakes and hot chocolate with marshmallows for all. It was so brilliant to have The John Somerville Ceilidh band returning to our Winter Ceilidh to play beautiful tunes and help us all with our Ceilidh dancing - some of the children were helping some of the grownups with the dances too! A great thing about Ceilidh dancing is that you get to learn many different steps and also you get to dance with so many different friends - perfect really so you can have a wee dance with pretty much everyone!   [...]

Licketyspit’s WINTER CEIDLIH2025-12-16T18:30:19+00:00

Porridge & Play ONLINE goes SPOOKY!!

2025-11-05T16:20:22+00:00

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. [...]

Porridge & Play ONLINE goes SPOOKY!!2025-11-05T16:20:22+00:00

An Autumn Saturday morning and Storyplay Online?

2025-10-27T13:06:24+00:00

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 [...]

An Autumn Saturday morning and Storyplay Online?2025-10-27T13:06:24+00:00

FOREST STORYPLAY back for October Holiday Week!

2025-10-23T10:15:23+00:00

We came from Whiteinch, we came from Maryhill. We all live in Glasgow; we love a picnic! And do you know what else we all love to do? We love to Storyplay at The Children’s Wood! At Forest Storyplay October Holiday Week Licketyspit families got together to enjoy playing outdoors and The Children’s Wood is an absolute favourite place for it! Whiteinch and Maryhill families enjoyed another fabulous day out playing, sharing food and learning about fire & cooking with Andrea! Funky Chicken was very inventive - we even learnt about a new animal with Yasna! Frankie showed us The Saxophone Playing Turtle and Maya told us about The Cheeky Dog. Yasna introduced us to The Titanboa and Ibraheem knew The Angry Fly! Aveen showed us The Dancing Crab and Andzelika told us about The Dancing Fish. And Shirley & Arvin together showed us The Silly Pinguin!. We flew high up in the sky with our Flying Balloons and from up there we saw water, a ship and pirates on the ship! Then Maha spotted the pyramids and realised we were over Egypt! We decided to fly down with our Flying Balloons to get some treasure from the pirate ship! The treasure we found was real coins and chocolate coins of different flavours! Suddenly a Pirate appeared and shouted: ⁠‘Oi! This is my [...]

FOREST STORYPLAY back for October Holiday Week!2025-10-23T10:15:23+00:00

FOREST STORYPLAY back for October Holiday Week!

2025-10-23T09:45:49+00:00

Be anyone, go anywhere, do anything outdoors at The Children’s Wood!   On Wednesday this October Holiday Week some of our friends from Castlemilk came over for a day of imaginary play outdoors, food sharing, friend meeting and campfire action with Licketyspit and Andrea from The Children’s Wood. What a fun day outdoors! Playing Funky Chicken our friends transformed quick as a flash and before we knew it Fiire was the Funny Flamingo and Timi was the Hungry Dinosaur! Mohammed was the Naughty Robot and Gabbie the Happy Axolotl! Desi became the Crying Dinosaur and Kieran the Cool Cat. Sayeda turned into the Crazy Dog and Ammar into the Scary Dog! Ryan was the Jumpy Frog while Danylo was the Yellow Chick. Malcolm roared like the Lazy Lion, Pemi became the Lazy Squid called George and Abu turned into the Angry Gorilla! We blew our Balloons so big that we flew up in the sky - Desi spotted mountains with witches eating chicken wings While Gabbie saw adorable bees asleep, Abu could see donuts – big donuts! And Pemi showed us a dragon with silver titanium teeth, green eyes and green acid coming out of his nose! Desi could also see flying donuts that could drop zombies!! We had to fly down for a donut after all that donut chat and while we were [...]

FOREST STORYPLAY back for October Holiday Week!2025-10-23T09:45:49+00:00

ONLINE Porridge & Play gets cheesy!

2025-10-22T15:29:42+00:00

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 [...]

ONLINE Porridge & Play gets cheesy!2025-10-22T15:29:42+00:00

Porridge & Play Online is BACK for 2025!!

2025-10-17T17:06:47+00:00

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 [...]

Porridge & Play Online is BACK for 2025!!2025-10-17T17:06:47+00:00

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