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!   [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Over The Children’s Wood we flew - Up, up, up with our Flying Balloons! We saw a boat going along, we saw small trees, we saw a big dark sea monster and a rainbow snake with a lollipop!   The Children’s Wood truly is a favourite spot for us at Licketyspit and we LOVED our Forest Storyplay sessions this October Holiday Week! On Tuesday families came from our Bridgeton Hub and Cranhill Hub for a day of play, friends, food and nature - what a hoot!  We danced, played Funky Chicken and had a brilliant Flying Balloons adventure. We all became Rainbow Snakes using our brilliant technique for Dressing Up - in old any old clothes we can wear in such fabulous ways that we can be anyone and anything we can imagine! While we made ourselves as dapper as cool Rainbow Snakes this Mean Woman suddenly appeared shouting at us all asking - ‘Are you all here for the Rainbow Snake audition? Are you?! Hurry up we don’t have all day!’ Suddenly we found ourselves auditioning for this Mean Woman and her Photographer assistant! ‘You, you and you! Step forward! Ok, what are your audition pieces??’ Of course we didn’t know what she meant. But she carried on bossing us about saying - ‘Can you dance or sing, or at least can you [...]

Extravagant Forest Creatures, Wolves, a flying adventure and a Magic Ball out of this world.   The sun eventually shone on our last Forest Storyplay of this Summer and our Maryhilll Hub friends were more than ready to bring it to a magnificent end. Our Funky Chicken inspired everyone – Maha showed us a Calm Capybara, and Dana a Crazy Chicken. Rita brought a Sleeping Dog, Adam a Hairy Dog and Amira a Happy Cat. Yasna went with the Funny Orca and Aveen with a Funny Crab! Eman showed us a Silly Parrot, Maya a Scratchy Lion and Mohammed a Fast Cheetah. Flying up high with our Flying Balloons we saw a silver snake and a forest, an elephant, dots that were flowers, an African elephant, an elephant eating a boat, dragons, Mars! a costume party and we even flew down to the ground momentarily to get a piece of flavoured cake! The Forest had some exotic creatures: two squirrels, a fox, a cat, a bird, two butterflies and a girl that lives in the wild –all of them were wanting to know what time they were at?! What’s The Time Mr. Wolf? Wolfie Rita lived by herself in a puddle that was sometimes warm and sometimes cold. Her fave food was blueberries and her red watch she stole from a shop! Wolfie Squirrel [...]