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

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

Picnic & Play with our CRANHILL HUB!

2025-09-02T16:53:54+00:00

The weather was warm, and we had great fun dancing and playing games. Luckily for us, we met some very interesting friends of the Funky Chicken too. There was Annemarie’s Sassy Seahorse, Omar’s Angry Lion and Ahmad’s very Stinky Crab! We also met a very Silly Axolotl and an Old Elephant.   We had lots of fun with a very clever bunch of witches too who had marvelous witchy cackles and some very exciting juices including purple poison and large amounts of seagull juice. Very tasty! Talking of seagulls, we saw some very cheeky ones at the beach who liked sandwiches and muffins. One of them actually swallowed a muffin whole! We all enjoyed a tasty picnic and some yummy ice-cream which was a real treat. Then after all the delicious food we went to explore the beach and had so much fun together, paddling in the sea and finding treasure on the beach. We found pools of water in the sand,bright green seaweed, lots of different shells and even a crab skeleton. It was such a lovely day and just before it was time to go home, we had a game of Olly Olly Octopus which was so much fun! Then it was time to say goodbye to the sand and the waves and the shells and the naughty seagulls and so we all [...]

Picnic & Play with our CRANHILL HUB!2025-09-02T16:53:54+00:00

Picnic & Play with our WHITEINCH & ONLINE HUBS!

2025-09-02T16:49:50+00:00

A very sunny last Picnic & Play of the Summer in Troon Beach and our Whiteinch & Online Hub pals did not hold back… The sun was shining, and our friends were well prepared for Picnic & Play on Troon beach – swimming costumes & goggles, big brothers and sisters, smiles and excitement – fantastic ingredients for a cool day taking Storyplay out and about! We found a great spot on the beach, a big space that seemed to have a circle already drawn on the sand…coincidence? Our circle was big and our warmup busy – we danced, we made ourselves as Big As A Bear and we had a good stretch while taking that beautiful salty sea air in. Of course we played the all time favourite Funky Chicken and we had a Scary Tiger, a Galaxy Axalot, Jumping Starfish and Snapping crocodile amongst other funky animals! ‘Hello My Name Is Joe’ had us all pressing imaginary buttons vigorously and then we had a good round of Witches Fingers – cackling and running away! Love was in the warm air with ‘Letter to my Love’ and after all that the excitement was growing and the hunger was too!...PICNIC TIME! Everyone tucked in and got their energy up to get ready for seashore exploring and swimming! Shahla had brought cinnamon roles for everyone too which [...]

Picnic & Play with our WHITEINCH & ONLINE HUBS!2025-09-02T16:49:50+00:00

Picnic & Play with our GOVAN & ONLINE HUBS!

2025-09-02T16:50:23+00:00

We all know how fast the weather in Scotland can change but our bold Govan & Online Hubs are always ready to adapt and enjoy whatever the weather. We arrived in Balloch and saw some of the impact of a storm that had happened a couple of days before – branches scattered around and still some gusts of wind blowing now and again, whistling loud in our ears. We found a nice big clear space up the hill where we could make our circle and off, we started with Storyplay! Have you tried dancing outdoors? We very much recommend it – you may even get some other passing people to be inspired to join you! Funky Chicken was a lot of fun, and Hello My Name is Joe got us all panting and laughing in equal measure. We met a few Witches & Wizards with long fingers and a flair for making different bottles of strange beverages – even a tiny wee Witch who chased us all! As we were starting a game of ‘Letter To My Love’ the skies opened, and a summer shower descended upon us! But Licketyspit & friends are adaptable and determined so we quickly found cover under a canopy of trees where we not only played our game, but we also set up our camp so we could have our [...]

Picnic & Play with our GOVAN & ONLINE HUBS!2025-09-02T16:50:23+00:00

Picnic & Play season is here! – Troon Beach

2025-09-08T10:40:59+00:00

Picnic & Play is here and Licketyspit is delighted to go on trips with friends from all our Porridge & Play Hubs across Glasgow. Picnic & Play is an opportunity to Storyplay away from our Glasgow neighbourhoods – visiting public spaces in our city - like museums, parks or galleries or visiting outdoor places outside Glasgow, like Troon Beach or Balloch Country Park and bringing Storyplay to all of them! The sky above Troon Beach looked dramatic – a combination of greys with occasional rays of light braking through the clouds. The wind was blowing and there were seagulls screeching loudly while circling in the air through a drizzle of rain. Sound dramatic, right? Well, no drama for our Maryhill Hub friends! – they were full of beans and so very excited about their day out that they almost didn’t feel how fresh it was – one certainly needed a couple of layers on! Graeme and Andy, our drivers dropped us near the promenade so carrying all our bits and bobs for our picnic wasn’t a huge effort and everyone helped so it was even easier. We settled and quickly many of our friends were already running around, digging in the sand or checking out the shore! DANCING ON THE BEACH! Our dance warm up got the attention of folk who were there also enjoying a [...]

Picnic & Play season is here! – Troon Beach2025-09-08T10:40:59+00:00

Forest Storyplay with Govan & Online Hubs!

2025-09-08T10:41:23+00:00

Welcome to the land of the Children’s Wood, it’ s a Wood that’s here for children and that’s understood! The sun was shining on the gorgeous Children’s Wood for the first Forest Storyplay of the season with our friends from Govan and Online Hubs. It is always so exciting to see the Licketyspit families again for the Summer programme of Storyplay and everyone was in great form to get it kick-started. Andre, Sarah, Taz and Virginia were all there joined by our fabulous volunteers Zainab and Taiwo. Did you know that Zainab and Taiwo have been playing with Licketyspit since 2019! It's fabulous that now that they are older, they still love Storyplay! Andrea from The Children’s Wood was also with us for Storyplay and to teach us forest-skills - like fire-making! It’s a place for us to PLAY and hide and seek and run. It's a place to have a picnic, it's a place to have fun!   Once we made our circle we learned The Children’s Wood Welcome Rhyme! The Children’s Wood it’s a green space in our city of Glasgow that is being looked after by the community. So of course we can play and have a lovely time there but also we can help to look after the Wood by being very careful with the trees, plants, bugs and beasties that live there and by not stepping over the [...]

Forest Storyplay with Govan & Online Hubs!2025-09-08T10:41:23+00:00

FOREST STORYPLAY

2025-07-11T14:14:54+00:00

Forest Storyplay is a new collaboration with our friends from The Children's Wood! After last year's fantastic Picnic & Play sessions and Storyplay Festival 2024 at The Children's Wood we all wanted to go back there for more Licketyspit fun! The Children's Wood are very happy to have us back and so this Summer we will bring families from across all our Hubs to enjoy more fantastic Storyplay outdoors. Click on the logo to go to The Children's Wood website! At Forest Storyplay sessions this Summer we'll have our Licketyspit games, a nice wee picnic and we'll also get to learn a bit more about how to enjoy and look after The Children's Wood! Did you know that they grow food as well as beekeeping? And that they have a labyrinth? Did you know that not only they grow new flowers and plants but they also help the land recover by allowing different parts to grow wildly? And do you know about the fairies? And the giant? And the dragon?! I wonder how many characters and stories we can come up at the magical Children's Wood... We cannot wait to see you there very soon for FOREST STORYPLAY! Taz, Andre, Sarah, Virginia & all at Licketyspit Visit the Porridge & Play Page [...]

FOREST STORYPLAY2025-07-11T14:14:54+00:00

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