Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! See below for details of how to join. This week, we started two new sessions after school on Wednesdays and Thursdays, alongside our usual Saturday morning adventures. These smaller sessions are for invited families, whereas our big Saturday adventures are for anyone to join! See below for details of our next open sessions. Or, read on as Iona shares the fun-filled highlights of what we got upto this week! Wednesday! 2 September 2020 Our first Wednesday session was fantastic! Creepy crabs, orange potato houses and seriously cool grannies! A small session full of energy, ideas and warmth. In BALLOONS, we flew up high and saw all kinds of things from the sky... 🐍 Emmanuel spotted a big blue river that looked like a slippery snake, and it turned out to be the River Clyde! 🏴‍☠️ Boatemma saw a pirate ship on the river ✈️ When we flew above the whole world, we saw planes that were flying to London and the Eiffel Tower! 🦁 In the rainforest, Djames spotted a monkey doing a poo - it was being chased by a lion who was being chased by a snake - what a chase! Luckily, [...]

Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play blog, where we share the stories of the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom. If you'd like to join our online weekend sessions (every Saturday, from 10.30am), all you need to do is email us at cfn@licketyspit.com or text us on 07413 800 342. We'll let you know all the details, and which dates we're welcoming new families at (we do this one Saturday per month - see below for dates). Our sessions are open to all children and families, so please do get in touch! Saturday 22 August Another busy and fun-packed session! Iona shares her thoughts after last week's Big Porridge and Play online session, which our busiest ever with an incredible 76 participants! Take a look opposite at some of the wonderful drawings we were sent this week and last. What a great session! It was very busy on Saturday, with 27 families and 76 participants - including some new faces from the Govanhill Children’s Festival! Some of my favourite highlights were... 🐘 🐠 🐇 🐔 Meeting all sorts of fantastic animals when we played FUNKY CHICKEN: Imre and Bence’s Fortunate Fish, Ellie’s Sneaky Bunny, a Crying Elephant who needed a hug and Tobi’s Cute Kitten who softly purred!  🎂 🍳 🍩 🍌 Then, in JELLY ON [...]

Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play blog, where we share the stories of the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom. If you'd like to join in with our open session on Saturday mornings at 10am, all you need to do is either email us at cfn@licketyspit.com, text us at 07413 800 342, or sign up using this form. Everyone's welcome, and we'd love to see you! Saying goodbye in Govan, Milton and Easterhouse Monday 29 June After six fantastic weeks of play, last week we said goodbye for now to our new friends in three different regions of Glasgow. It's amazing what can happen over just six weeks. We 'met' once a week - this being a digital meeting, or course, due to the lockdown situation which has forced us all inside. And yet, very, very quickly, we were having new adventures together, thanks to the power of our imaginations, and making new friends so we didn't feel so alone. No special effects or expensive equipment required - we had everything we needed in our own heads. Being around other children and making new pals was the perfect way to unlock it! During what become a very special couple of hours for all of us to look forward to each week, we did energetic warm-ups to get us all [...]

Welcome to the Big Porridge & Play blog, where we share the stories of the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom. If you'd like to join in, all you need to do is either email us at cfn@licketyspit.com, text us at 07413 800 342, or sign up using this form. We'd love to see you soon!   What we did in GOVAN Tuesday 9th June Love was in the air yesterday at our FABULOUS play session! We could feel the love on arrival when we the posse got together - there was a sense of anticipation that made us all very excited! We kicked off with a Mucky Brew packed with spaghetti in tomato sauce, sugar, milk and treacle! Sticky, gooey and delicious. Along came the Washing Song, and we were again nice and clean and giddy and ready to say hi to the Funky Chicken and friends! We met the silly crocodile and the funky crocodile, the angry seagull, the funky lion... There was even a cheeky dinosaur! After that, I shared a little secret that was not a secret at all...I LOVE my cat, Errol Flynn! AND I’d written a love letter to him to tell him how much I love him! And, as love is wonderful and easy to share, we all [...]

Big Porridge & Play Blog 8th June 2020 Govan - Tuesday 2nd June 2020 The Govan posse got together yesterday for a bit of hang out and a lot of PLAY! We talked about how much everyone likes dressing up with just any old stuff or ordinary things we may have around...I tied a t-shirt around my head and a scarf around my forehead and just like that I turn into Pirate Captain Taz!! I had the most fierce bunch of misfits for a crew and I ordered them about for bit he he...Then we had Captain Priyangaa and Captain Muhammed and Captains Erin and Ethan and Captains George, Lazare and Tomass too!! All of the captains were rather grumpy and bossed us about rather a lot to scrub the deck, ride a shark and go and find treasure! We got into the Magic Ball and landed in a Cheese world where we all tried the cheese which tasted like all sorts of other things like grapes! We found a hole and crawled through it and then met a cheese creature who gave us special cheese. After that we ended up in the North pole where it was very cold. Ethan provided us with a match and we had a wee fire to warm up. We spotted an igloo and wondered about whose home that was. [...]