Providing digital tablets to families who need them

2021-07-02T09:44:54+00:00

Have you heard the news?! A few months ago, we were overjoyed to receive funding which enabled us to buy tablets and SIM cards with mobile data for families in our network and beyond, who would struggle to buy these themselves. This meant that they could join in with our Big Porridge & Play Online sessions! We can now tell you that we've received further funding from Migration Exchange and have a limited number of additional Lickety Tablets for eligible families! If you are a migrant, refugee or asylum seeker looking to join our online imaginative play sessions, please get in touch to see if we can help you. Or, if you know a family who might benefit from this, help us to spread the word! Please note that as we do have a limited number to give out, unfortunately we can't guarantee availability - we will allocate the tablets to families who most meet our criteria. Email Ruby on cfn@licketyspit.com or text/call 07413 800 342 and we'll do our best to help! Why are we doing this? Well, as some of you may know, at Licketyspit we were already using lots of different ways to stay in touch with families in our network, as we knew not everyone could get online easily. As the pandemic hit this year, we spoke directly to our families - and this need for internet [...]

Providing digital tablets to families who need them2021-07-02T09:44:54+00:00

Big Porridge and Play Saturday Sessions are back!

2021-07-02T09:45:01+00:00

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 8 August It's so good to be back! Iona shares her thoughts after last week's Big Porridge and Play online session, for which 22 FAMILIES joined us! The fantastic pictures opposite show just a glimpse at the sort of things we did and saw... How fantastic it was to be back with our Saturday families for Big Porridge and Play Glasgow! It was very exciting to see everyone and hear what they had all been up to over the past few weeks - and what a great first session back it was! Full of energy and hilarity and excitement! We kicked things off with 👵  GRANDMA GRANDMA, with very enthusiastic actions and great big wriggles! By the time we'd finished, everyone had [...]

Big Porridge and Play Saturday Sessions are back!2021-07-02T09:45:01+00:00

Ruchill & Milton Online Sessions

2022-07-13T15:53:28+00:00

JOIN 17th August 2020 Big Porridge & Play Online community sessions are starting next month for families in Ruchill & Milton! These sessions are delivered via Zoom for families with 3-12 year olds. Participants will receive Lickety Drawing Pads and Crayons and new families will receive sets of Lickety Playcards so you can keep playing the Porridge & Play games at home! BPPG has been running in Ruchill since 2017 and in Milton since May 2020. We may all be at home, but in our imaginations we can go anywhere, be anyone, do anything. All we need to play is each other! Big Porridge & Play has been created with and for children and supports families to tap into their imaginations for hours of joy, excitement, creative learning and connection. Join the dedicated Facebook Group for your community and the Children & Families Network Facebook Group for lots of other activities and  ideas for things to do at home in between sessions like the Cooking, Exploring and Making videos!  To take part in these free sessions, 1) Join the Children & Families Network (CFN) - an inclusive community of families who embrace children’s rights and imaginary play, at www.licketyspit.com/families/network. 2) Email/text Ruby on cfn@licketyspit.com / 07413 800 342 and she will send you the Zoom code! Please get in touch if you would like to access our sessions but have limited online access and we [...]

Ruchill & Milton Online Sessions2022-07-13T15:53:28+00:00

Over To You #4: Exploring and Making!

2022-02-23T16:52:29+00:00

We've loved seeing all the imaginative things you've been up to over the summer holidays. We'd like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has sent us their drawings, poems, stories, videos and photos so far. What amazing things you've created from your own imaginations! We've had families making their own cookery videos, so they can teach others delicious recipes from their culture. We've gone on exciting adventures to some far-away places thanks to our fantastic tour guide (see below!). We've listened to poems about lockdown and what it has meant for you. We've marvelled at your new recipes for refreshing drinks, sock puppets, paper unicorns, people made from fruit, butterflies made from buttons... For our final Over To You blog, we're sharing some more responses to our Exploring with Jack and Making with Iona videos. You can see all of the pictures in our Family Lockdown Album on Facebook, or take a look at our past blog posts. Please, keep them coming in! Email your photos and videos to cfn@licketyspit.com and we'll share them with the world. This week's highlights... Exploring with Zainab! She's taken us to Nigeria - now our tour guide Zainab is back, and we're going to Tanzania! Enjoy traditional dance and music in the state of Zanzibar 💃 , watch out for that leopard 🐆  [...]

Over To You #4: Exploring and Making!2022-02-23T16:52:29+00:00

Over To You #3: Cooking!

2022-02-23T16:59:44+00:00

For the next few weeks, we're handing things over to you! As many of you will know, after our Zoom play sessions, and at the end of our Activity Films, we always ask people to share drawings, poems, stories, videos and photos of their creations. Well - the response so far has been incredible! We've been overjoyed by the photos and videos we've received from children and families in our network over the past few weeks, so we're sharing all of the imaginative, creative, funny, delicious-looking things on our channels - on our website, but also Facebook, Twitter and our e-flyer. This week, we're celebrating all of the wonderful responses we've been sent to our Cooking with Taz videos (part of our Activity Films series). From making up new, super colourful fruity concoctions - inspired by Taz's lemonade - to sharing favourite recipes to cook at home, we've been so impressed with what members of the Children and Families Network have been up to in their kitchens. Please, keep them coming in! Email your photos and videos to cfn@licketyspit.com and we'll share them with the world. This week's highlights... We were thrilled to receive this video from Bimbo and her daughter Toby, sharing one of their favourite recipes to make at home: Coconut Rice. The Licketyspit team couldn't wait to try it - and [...]

Over To You #3: Cooking!2022-02-23T16:59:44+00:00

Over To You #2: Poetry and performance!

2021-03-11T17:40:12+00:00

For the next few weeks, we're handing things over to you! As many of you will know, after our Zoom play sessions, and at the end of our Activity Films, we always ask people to share drawings, poems, stories, videos and photos of their creations. Well - the response so far has been incredible! We've been overjoyed by the photos and videos we've received from children and families in our network over the past few weeks, so we're sharing all of the imaginative, creative, funny, delicious-looking things on our channels - on our website, but also Facebook, Twitter and our e-flyer. This week we're celebrating all of the fantastic POEMS and PERFORMANCES we've been sent! The great thing about making up poems or plays is that you can make them about absolutely ANYTHING that pops in to your mind. Also, you don't need anything other than your imagination! Of course, you might want to grab a pencil and a notepad 🖍️  🗒️   if you want to write it down, or perhaps if you have access to a camera 📹  you could make your own little film?! What would you write about?  This week's highlights... Lickety Leader Erin (7) came up with TWO inventive poems during the lockdown period. This first one is inspired by her feelings about the lockdown. Children are so articulate [...]

Over To You #2: Poetry and performance!2021-03-11T17:40:12+00:00

Over to you #1

2021-03-11T17:39:59+00:00

Over the next few weeks, we're handing things over to you! As many of you will know, after our Zoom play sessions, and at the end of our Activity Films, we always ask people to share drawings, poems, stories, videos and photos of their creations. Well - the response so far has been incredible! We've been overjoyed by the photos and videos we've received from children and families in our network over the past few weeks, so we're going to be sharing all of the imaginative, creative, funny, delicious-looking things on our channels - on our website, but also Facebook, Twitter and our e-flyer. Below are just some of the #cfncreations we've received so far. We'll share more over the coming weeks, but in the meantime, you can see ALL of the photos on Facebook. This week's highlights... Our featured video this week is something very special indeed - a trip to NIGERIA with Lickety Leader Zainab! Grab your Magic Map and join your wonderful guide as she takes us to Zuma rock, Lagos's Tarkwa Bay, the Yankari Nature Reserve... and watch out for that African elephant! We're truly thrilled that Zainab has been inspired to make her own exploring video - and, as you'll discover, she has more adventures in mind... Watch this space! Below, we have: 🅰️  An acrostic poem about Licketyspit by Emmanuel (9) and Boatemma 🖍️  A drawing by Aliya, inspired by [...]

Over to you #12021-03-11T17:39:59+00:00

Week 7: Sticky honey, speaking in Bee, and dancing on TV!

2021-07-02T09:45:28+00:00

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! Our next session is on Saturday 11 July. After that, we'll have a short break for a couple of weeks before returning at the start of August. Please do join the Children and Families Network (by emailing, texting or signing up, as above) if you'd like to be kept up to date with all the relevant news. Another brilliant and energetic Big Porridge & Play Online session Monday 6 July We were treated to a brilliant and energetic Big Porridge & Play Online session on Saturday 4 July. We were joined by some new families, and it’s been great watching this group grow in size and in confidence. Warming up Taz kicked off the session with a song about her Grandma! This is a great song to sing with your friends and family at home.  🎵🎶 Grandma, Grandma, sick in bed She sent for the Doctor and the Doctor said… 🎵🎶 Then we [...]

Week 7: Sticky honey, speaking in Bee, and dancing on TV!2021-07-02T09:45:28+00:00

Week 6: A big Lickety goodbye to our wonderful new pals

2021-07-02T09:47:24+00:00

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 [...]

Week 6: A big Lickety goodbye to our wonderful new pals2021-07-02T09:47:24+00:00

Week 5: Funky chickens, magic balls, and wolves with watches!

2021-03-26T11:21:55+00:00

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! What we did in MILTON Wednesday 17 June Licketyspit actor-pedagogue Jack shares the adventures that happened in the fifth of our Zoom play sessions in Milton. Welcoming children and parents who live in Milton, Jack and other Licketyspit team members guided everyone through warm-ups, games, and a fantastic journey using only our Magic Ball, and our collective imaginations... 🎵🎶  BUT I BET YOU A DOLLAR SHE COULD WRIGGLE LIKE A FOOL, WRIGGLE WRIGGLE WRIGGLE WRIGGLE WRIGGLE LIKE A FOOL!  🎶🎵 We started last week’s session in Milton with a brilliant version of Grandma Grandma. Everyone was doing some great actions and it really started this session off with a bang!  Funky Chicken  As we welcomed two new families to the Milton session this week, Piyanshu introduced us all to the Hungry Jaguar-Cheetah - which got us in the mood for a brilliant round of the Funky Chicken. We’ve [...]

Week 5: Funky chickens, magic balls, and wolves with watches!2021-03-26T11:21:55+00:00

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