Mermaid Ice Cream and a Pool Party!

2023-02-14T11:48:25+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Tuesday 14th February Kick-abouts, meeting Mr Hand, Mermaid ice cream making techniques & a Pool Party? It must be a Magic Ball Adventure! Saturday morning, still cold outside but look over there there's the sun! Get together online with your pals and find that groove is the heart. People are magic, unique yet the same We love to dress up with jelly on our head! Magic Ball Magic Ball tell us where we’re gonna go Football Land with Lady Dragon kick-abouts and Ball Pool fun Swimming down deeper and deeper 'til we meet up with Mr Hand! ‘I am lost! can you help me?’ Ope talked about a map Sam read it for everybody ‘We must all swim-  and quite fast!’ And together we dive deeper til we hit a lovely cave where a Mermaid makes seaweed ice cream and she teaches the best way to mash, crush, flavour and shake! We made fabulous ice creams, we chilled in pink lemonade, we had a glorious Pool Party 'til it was time to go away. ‘Everybody! To my house!’ Victoria said to everyone we popped in and got some cookies We love Storyplay fun! By Taz, Sarah, Andre & The Saturday Pals [...]

Mermaid Ice Cream and a Pool Party!2023-02-14T11:48:25+00:00

Grannies and Dragons? We’re back online!

2023-02-07T10:54:22+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Tuesday 7th February Full house at the first Storyplay City Online session of 2023!!! Our very keen Saturday lot were beaming with expectation and the Licketyspit team couldn’t stop smiling as more and more friends arrived to Storyplay together! Saturdays are even more exciting with friends and family coming together for imaginary play, songs, rhymes, games and whatever surprises we’ll create using the great power of our imaginations. It seemed rather fitting to kick start with a dance to a tune that makes everyone ‘Happy’ and to follow it with our warm up game Big As Bear! Do you know the Angry Dragon? It goes ‘Huff and Puff! Huff and Puff! Huff and Puff!’ We also became Barking Dogs, Funky Bikes, Happy Unicorns and Silly Ducks. We were all very ready for a Dressing Up and we transformed into very special Grannies! We had Granny Leopard who is very fast and makes chocolate chips and white chocolate cookies very fast too. And what about Cool Granny and RockStar Granny? We met Granny Bunny who loves soup in the morning and Granny Doctor who can tell what’s wrong with you in a flash and advise you on the best treatment! Granny Artist loves to draw and Granny Happy Kind lives [...]

Grannies and Dragons? We’re back online!2023-02-07T10:54:22+00:00

A Rollicking time in Ruchill!!

2022-11-24T10:52:45+00:00

Saturday 19th November 2022 We had an amazing time at our Porridge & Play Ruchill & Online celebration! It was so lovely to see all our families together in one big space and wonderful to join up with our online crew too and have so much fun together! We all started with a brilliant boogie which warmed us up ready for an afternoon adventure. As well as the Funky Chicken, we also met the Funky Unicorn, the Cheeky Cheetah and the Funky Dinosaur and many other fascinating creatures! Then, when we dressed up as forest creatures, Sean turned into a fox, Gabby became a squirrel,  Fares was a super spinning animal, Bukky was a cat  and we also had a buffalo, a bear, elephants, deer and a spiritual animal! We all looked for the Magic Ball and Gabby found it very quickly, which was marvellous, and with so many friends, we blew it up in no time at all. Very soon we found ourselves in a forest and as we moved through the trees, we spied a bear who had lost his cave, so we had to help him find it again. When we got there it was very dark, but also nice and cosy and we soon realised that the bear was hungry. Well, we wanted to make the bear happy again and luckily we figured out that Bear liked honey and [...]

A Rollicking time in Ruchill!!2022-11-24T10:52:45+00:00

It was the week of the Upside Down Trouser Dance!

2022-08-16T10:54:58+00:00

Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Friday 22nd July It was the week of the Upside Down Trouser Dance!  ‘I’m upside down Trouser Bob and welcome to my silent Disco! All you have to do is place a pair of trousers on your arms, upside down and away you go, DANCE!’ We danced and danced until we landed in the sea, lay on our backs to feel the breeze of Upside Down Trouser Land! Our bellies were full of cake after landing inside Esmerelda’s Cake World. We had to eat our way out and then bake more cake mixture for her to fill the holes with!  Grannies gathered from far and wide! Granny CeeCee from South America! Granny Umberella & Granny Sunglasses joined us from America having just been to a very relaxing musical concert!  Granny Lazy felt like doing nothing! Granny Swoon loved to Swim! All the grannies went into the green Magic Ball today and had a very marvellous time!  At Big Porridge & Play online, we always have the most wonderful time! I wonder where we might go next…! Blog by Iona

It was the week of the Upside Down Trouser Dance!2022-08-16T10:54:58+00:00

Storyplay Champions at Making Rights Real Event!

2022-08-19T16:23:59+00:00

Have Your Say Through Play is a children’s human rights-based, fun way to support children under-twelve to explore and share their thoughts, feelings and ideas through Lickety Playcard Play. This project was first developed with our Children & Families Network in September 2020, as a way to consult children about the Covid-19 pandemic. Everyone's Children invited us to join them and have our Storyplay Champions show just how have Have Your Say Through Play works! Tuesday 21st June We had a really fantastic time at the recent Making Rights Real Event online! Our Storyplay Champions led a fantastic 20 minute session where we demonstrated how we can ‘Have our SAY through PLAY!’  We went on a Magic Ball adventure to an underwater school! There we met Professor Seal (Taz) who told us that a new student was joining the school very soon and needed the children to come up with ideas for ways to make them feel welcome and happy, because children know what children need!  Professor Seal asked some questions…  What could we do to make a new student feel welcome at a new school?’ ‘They might need support and food. Maybe after school we could play with them or take them to the park, because we have the right to play and we could be their friends!’ - Fish Felicia  ‘We could sing them a [...]

Storyplay Champions at Making Rights Real Event!2022-08-19T16:23:59+00:00

Welcome to our Jelly Catwalk!!

2022-08-03T08:45:58+00:00

Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Friday 24th June The return of the Jelly Catwalk!!! To land on a cloud would be a fine thing, but to land on a jelly would be a dream. What if this Jelly tasted of strawberries? And when you bounced you landed in a giant Jelly Castle?! This is what happened for us in our Magic Ball! We were greeted by a confused pink-haired Jelly Queen, who was holding her event of the year… THE JELLY CATWALK. ‘Would you like to join?’ She asked in a high pitched, wobbly voice. ‘You must dress up as a Jelly character, walk the walk, and each time the music stops… POSE!’   ‘YES,’ we all cried. And our Jelly characters were invented. Adeelah had a snake balanced on her head! Stella had ice-cream in her ears! Zoha was the doughnut girl! Anaya had scrunchies on her eyes! We walked the walk and posed until we could pose no more. And it even turned out there was a world famous French model there who exclaimed that she had never seen such amazing posing in her whole life!! 😮 What an adventure! This week was a particularly inspired session of Big Porridge & Play Online. It was a world class demonstration of how much fun [...]

Welcome to our Jelly Catwalk!!2022-08-03T08:45:58+00:00

Awoo! The wolves of the Lickety Forest!

2022-06-30T13:39:18+00:00

Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Friday 10th June Awoo! This week was all about animals! We met Lindsey the Lion with a dressing gown on her head! (Felicia) Stronger the Bear, the strongest of them all! (Ameen) The fastest cheetah! (Stella) And the biggest and baddest of WOLVES!! Awoo! Being the only animal in the forest with a watch, the wolf is the most powerful of all. ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?' They all cry! ‘Time for my nap.’ He says with a sigh. So all of the animals heave into a sleep, until they’re awoken with a need to eat. ‘What’s the time Mr Wolf?' They all roar! and wake Mr Wolf, with a snore, he shouts ‘12 o’ clock…… DINNER TIME!!!’ And all the animals leap to their homes, while the wolf snaps his jaws and grumbles and moans! Sarah said: ‘Wolf was my favourite game because it was fun!’ And Praise said: ‘I drawed the wolf shouting dinner time and everyone running away and when he said go to bed and go to school. Someone is crying because she missed the bus! They are holding sponges and things to clean the house.’ We also had a brilliant time playing MUCKY BREW! We covered ourselves in purple slime, apples, strawberries, flour, sunflower [...]

Awoo! The wolves of the Lickety Forest!2022-06-30T13:39:18+00:00

A Super Cake & Electricity Bolt!!

2022-06-10T11:43:12+00:00

Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Friday 27th May This week was all about… chefs! Football chefs, Zuper chefs and Superhero chefs all joined forces to make a fantastic CAKE!!! And what a cake it was. I will share the recipe with you now. OUR SUPER CAKE RECIPE: INGREDIENTS: For the cake:  Runny milk chocolate Strawberries Salt and vinegar noodles Electricity bolt Love Berries Pepperoni and corn pizza Sweets For the topping: Spicy powder Tangerine slices Icing Sprinkles To catch the electricity bolt the Zuper Hero Chef guided us through. We had to run outside and think of something sad, and if we all threw the sadness into the air at the same time it would evaporate and transform into an electricity bolt! We had to quickly catch and hold it with all of our strength before throwing it into the cake bowl! Why don’t you give it a go? The cake was rather spicy but very delicious and we washed it down with a glass of milk! We each took a bite of the electricity bolt and our bodies started bouncing uncontrollably, filled to the brim with energy and excitement. We bounced and bounced until we could bounce no more, and after that we all felt great! Next time you’re playing why don’t you [...]

A Super Cake & Electricity Bolt!!2022-06-10T11:43:12+00:00

Welcome back to Big Porridge and Play Glasgow online!

2022-05-25T11:11:20+00:00

Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog where we share our stories and adventures! Friday 13th May Hello and welcome to Big Porridge and Play Glasgow online 2022! We had so much fun coming together again to play from all over Glasgow! We played Miss Mary Mac, Big as a Bear, Funky Chicken, Dressing Up, and Magic Ball! It was so much fun using our imaginations, remembering in our imaginations we can go anywhere, be anyone and do anything! It was great to see so many of our friends again after so long. We also welcomed a new family! We’d like to say a big Licketyspit welcome to Sarah, Stella and Joy! We all love a good song and rhyme at Licketyspit! So, we started off with Miss Mary Mac! Seeing everyone saying the words and doing the actions in our boxes together helped me feel really connected. Saif & Fateh even said "I love this. It is so much fun, " which is what we love to hear! Having 35 of you all joining in with the fun and games at our first session was amazing and really shows how our Licketyspit family champion play! Playing games online is a little different to playing in person, but we have just as much fun. It also means we get to play with others who wouldn’t always [...]

Welcome back to Big Porridge and Play Glasgow online!2022-05-25T11:11:20+00:00

Stories of Resilience

2021-11-24T12:48:37+00:00

25th October 2021 This autumn, we were delighted to make a film about Porridge & Play Online as one of 13 Stories of Resilience commissioned by Refugee Action. Working on Zoom has produced a wealth of wonderful video clips of Porridge & Play Online throughout the Pandemic. Lead Actor-pedagogue, Iona Zajac, was able to cherry-pick from these in order to edit together a 5-minute film to provide a window into the essence of this amazing project. The narration, recorded by Storyplay Champion children, draws on child consultation sessions to capture what the project has meant for them. We were delighted to be able to share our families' experiences of Storyplay during the pandemic, alongside such an important group of projects. People who succeed in getting to the UK to claim asylum against the odds have already shown great resilience and courage, but faced with our brutal Asylum system, their sense of relief and hope can often be short-lived. Watch the film here The Home Office needs to do much more to meet the material needs of people seeking asylum. The basic human rights to food, shelter, clothes, school, digital access and transport are not sufficiently met and many charities do vital work to fill the gaps. The pressure of these needs also has a huge impact on mental health and wellbeing - in limbo, isolated and disempowered, [...]

Stories of Resilience2021-11-24T12:48:37+00:00

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