Whiteinch Blog!

1st October 2025

Hey hey who goes there, I’m Big as a Bear and as Fast as a Hare!

Hey hey what do you see? The Funky Chicken and he loves to read!

The Sleeping Cat and the Tired Pig who went for a nap instead of a jig.

The Happy Pink Bunny and the one that Jumped all came to play in the circle with us.

Hip hop let’s DRESS UP! Scarves become tails become snakes for fun!

Hip hop let’s DRESS UP! Skirts become capes become aprons for fun!

Giovanna the Chef needs our help to make a cake.

What ingredients will we need…poisonous EYES were suggested by Nina!

Custard and jelly and creme caramel, so yummy and sweet from Aaliyah, Mihije and Christell.

Sweet popcorn and golden mushrooms that tasted like popcorn, and blueberry gaming ones from Deon.

Gaia’s lasagne and Zofia’s raw fish, made for a most unusual dish.

Andzelika’s Jellyfish brought more of the sea.

There was Menna’s grated carrot and Ibraheem’s broccoli and cheese.

Flour, water and egg were provided by Virginia, Ruby and Jie Jie Lin.

Sprinkles from Kiran that we could throw and not to forget the potato and potato and potato!

Franky, Lara and Lina knew that potatoes make for a marvellous cake!

We ate it together and laughed with delight at the flavours and textures – it tasted all right!

But not as good as the food we had next…

Menna’s mince pie, Kiran’s brownies and Andzelika and Zofia’s biscuits and chocolates!

What a treat to celebrate Porridge & Play Whiteinch

We can’t wait to be back in the library next year.

Until then, keep on storyplaying my dears!

In Storyplay, you can be anyone, go anywhere, do anything!

On you go!

With lots of love from,

Ruby, Sarah, Andre and Virginia at Licketyspit

Next time

Porridge & Play Whiteinch will be back next year.

In the meantime, look out for WhatsApp messages from us about other Storyplay activities around the city.

Use your playcards and resources on our website to support play at home.

Click on the playcards to play with us online. Scroll down for more links.

Reflective Drawing

We almost always do ‘Reflective drawing’ at the end of a Storyplay session. It’s nice to relax and draw & think about what we’ve all done & how we feel about it.

Reflective drawing isn’t about doing a ‘good’ drawing – it’s about drawing whatever comes into your head when you think about what you’ve just done.

But as you draw you realise more about what you thought or imagined in the session. And it’s great to share that with everyone & hear what they thought! So many things go on in Storyplay!

Here are some of our Reflective Drawings from this week:

Read some of the artists’ reflections from the Lickety Art Gallery:

There’s lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including…

• Making with Iona
• Cooking with Taz
• Exploring with Jack
• Funky Chicken
• Grandma Grandma

and many more!

Read past blog posts and the P&P Whiteinch Zine!

We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com

Whiteinch Blog!

25th September 2025

This Wednesday was a sunny day, so we thought we’d go outside to play!

First we played the Funky Chicken, the Happy Tiger Bunny, the Grumpy Kitten!

We danced and sang as we set off, sticking together with all our stuff.

Through the tunnel and up the stairs, past the pond we walked in pairs.

Into the park and in a circle.

We picked up balloons – black, pink, blue, purple!

High in the sky we flew to see some jumping fish down in the sea!

They were having so much fun, we flew down too to swim in the sun.

Ah, into the waves we went and yet that’s not where our story ends.

A hot air balloon took us up to the trees and what could we see?

A castle made of diamonds and gold “I know” said Gaia “Let’s use these backpack balloons to fly over!”

The Queen of the Castle was Princess Nina who gave us snacks from her golden fridge and golden bicycles to get home in.

Golden blueberries and diamond gifts. What a generous princess she is!

Then back to the library to snack and say:

“We love outdoor Storyplay!”

Next time

It was lovely to Storyplay with old friends and new in this session.

Remember next week is our last session of this block.

We’ll play some games we haven’t let played, and some of your favourites!

The Storyplay Games

All our games are on our Lickety Playcards. You will get your very own pack in the final week to help you Storyplay at home!

Reflective Drawing

We almost always do ‘Reflective drawing’ at the end of a Storyplay session. It’s nice to relax and draw & think about what we’ve all done & how we feel about it.

Reflective drawing isn’t about doing a ‘good’ drawing – it’s about drawing whatever comes into your head when you think about what you’ve just done.

But as you draw you realise more about what you thought or imagined in the session. And it’s great to share that with everyone & hear what they thought! So many things go on in Storyplay!

Here are some of our Reflective Drawings from this week:

Read some of the artists’ reflections from the Lickety Art Gallery:

See you again soon!

Sarah, Andre & Ruby

There’s lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including…

• Making with Iona
• Cooking with Taz
• Exploring with Jack
• Funky Chicken
• Grandma Grandma

and many more!

Read past blog posts and the P&P Whiteinch Zine!

We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com

Whiteinch Blog!

17th September 2025

I’m going to drink a bottle of…

Pomegranate!

Pineapple!

Grass!

Toenails!

POISON!!

This week we dressed up as magical creatures and played Witches Fingers.

Mucky Brew

Feeling witchy, we then made a Mucky Brew with

Orange juice
Tea
Apple
Slime
Sticky wrappers
Baby mice
Cheese for the mice
Sand
and some of Branch’s hair for good measure!

We were so sticky and mucky we had to have a quick shower and dry off.

But then! Sarah found the Magic Ball.

Magic Ball

It took us to America where we bought hot dogs from a vendor and helped him make more.

They were such funny flavours – chocolate and cheese!

We found a red octopus and a pool of freezing water.

Ruby was a bit scared to go into the water but everyone helped her.

So we released the octopus back into the ocean and had a swim with it!

What an adventure.

I wonder where our Storyplay will take us next week!

The Storyplay Games

All our games are on our Lickety Playcards. You will get your very own pack in week 5 to help you Storyplay at home!

Storyplay Champions

Families who have been coming to Porridge & Play for a while help us out at the sessions as Storyplay Champions!

Here they are writing the name labels!

Reflective Drawing

We almost always do ‘Reflective drawing’ at the end of a Storyplay session. It’s nice to relax and draw & think about what we’ve all done & how we feel about it.

Reflective drawing isn’t about doing a ‘good’ drawing – it’s about drawing whatever comes into your head when you think about what you’ve just done.

But as you draw you realise more about what you thought or imagined in the session. And it’s great to share that with everyone & hear what they thought! So many things go on in Storyplay!

Here are some of our Reflective Drawings from this week:

Read some of the artists’ reflections from the Lickety Art Gallery:

See you again soon! Sarah, Andre & Ruby

There’s lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including…

• Making with Iona
• Cooking with Taz
• Exploring with Jack
• Funky Chicken
• Grandma Grandma

and many more!

Read past blog posts and the P&P Whiteinch Zine!

We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com

Whiteinch Blog!

10th September 2025

Do you know the Funky Chicken? You do? Fantastic!

But what about Shahla’s Excited Snake?

And Zofia’s Dancing Butterfly?

Jie Jie and Nina’s Happy Cats made us purr.

Milad’s Fire Monkey made us hop around.

Amjad’s Flying Bird made us soar.

Franky’s Clumsy Seal made us flop (and laugh!)

Andre found a Letter to My Love

And we took turns to hide and reveal the letter while singing our song!

I sent a letter to my love…

And on the way I dropped it

When we dressed up, even more animals appeared!

There was Andzelika’s Angry Bear and Aaliyah’s Snow Cat.

Christell was a snake that slithered across the forest floor.

Menna, Lara and Lina became a family of wolves…

And everyone knows the Wolf is the only animal in the forest who owns a watch.

What’s the time Mr Wolf?

Amjad’s Wolf lived in a tree house and had a watch made of metal. He liked eating foxes…

Deon’s 99 Wolf lived in a cave and liked eating people – eek!

Ice Blade and Fire Blade were wolf sisters (Nina & Gaia) who liked to eat cake and scary animals!

Dinner time!

We always got away – phew!

After playing, we ate boiled eggs and cheese and plenty of delicious fruit.

Before we knew it, Sarah was taking us to choose books from the Animal display and we were sitting down to watch the Lickety Art Gallery.

After we saw the brilliant artworks, we made a circle for the Magic Clap and heard some Book Reviews.

Book Reviews

• Christell had read a book called The Sloth.
• Zofia is reading Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
• And Gaia read The Robot and the Strong Girl.

We can’t wait to hear about the books you took home this time.

The Storyplay Games

All our games are on our Lickety Playcards. You will get your very own pack in week 5 to help you Storyplay at home!

Reflective Drawing

We almost always do ‘Reflective drawing’ at the end of a Storyplay session. It’s nice to relax and draw & think about what we’ve all done & how we feel about it.

Reflective drawing isn’t about doing a ‘good’ drawing – it’s about drawing whatever comes into your head when you think about what you’ve just done.

But as you draw you realise more about what you thought or imagined in the session. And it’s great to share that with everyone & hear what they thought! So many things go on in Storyplay!

Here are some of our Reflective Drawings from this week:

Read some of the artists’ reflections from the Lickety Art Gallery:

See you again soon!

Sarah, Andre & Ruby

There’s lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including…

• Making with Iona
• Cooking with Taz
• Exploring with Jack
• Funky Chicken
• Grandma Grandma

and many more!

Read past blog posts and the P&P Whiteinch Zine!

We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com

Whiteinch Blog!

3rd September 2025

Wow wow wow, what a fantastic first week back in Whiteinch!

We loved meeting up with old friends again, and introducing them to new friends from Whiteinch Nursery and Whiteinch Primary.

The Funky Chicken was joined by the Cheeky Monkey, the Crazy Cat and even the Happy Capybara!

Then up we went in our Flying Balloons!

Candice saw the River Clyde.

Lina saw a boat – it was a pirate boat!

With birds and butterflies flying high above.

Aaliyah saw a running cat and Elijah heard music from the pirates!

Virginia spotted some ice cream and we all flew down for a cone.

Deon had a sweet blue ice cream and Gaia had a bubblegum ice-cream.

But oh no, Gaia spotted some lava – it was a volcano!

And Nina saw people trying to jump into the volcano and a bear entering the lava!

With a library card you can take loads of books home!

Lucky we were so high up. Just then, a Naughty Seagull popped the balloon and sent us back to earth.

When we were back, we transformed into a collection of fun and magical characters. A bit like characters from books!

Lots of us took out books and some of us even got our very own library cards for the first time.

We can’t wait to hear your book reviews next time!

Until then, clap your hands and let’s all sing

Grandma Grandma sick in bed…!

Sarah, Andre, Ruby, Virginia and our Whiteinch Library friends

The Storyplay Games

All our games are on our Lickety Playcards. You will get your very own pack in week 5 to help you Storyplay at home!

Reflective Drawing

We almost always do ‘Reflective drawing’ at the end of a Storyplay session. It’s nice to relax and draw & think about what we’ve all done & how we feel about it.

Reflective drawing isn’t about doing a ‘good’ drawing – it’s about drawing whatever comes into your head when you think about what you’ve just done.

But as you draw you realise more about what you thought or imagined in the session. And it’s great to share that with everyone & hear what they thought! So many things go on in Storyplay!

Here are some of our Reflective Drawings from this week:

Read some of the artists’ reflections from the Lickety Art Gallery:

There’s lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including…

• Making with Iona
• Cooking with Taz
• Exploring with Jack
• Funky Chicken
• Grandma Grandma

and many more!

Read past blog posts and the P&P Whiteinch Zine!

We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com

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 were delicious. Yum!

Let me tell you – our friends were ready to splash, dive, paddle, jump and explore stones and shells and even jellyfish!

Grown-ups also paddled and refreshed in the sea, it was actually not cold at all, and the sun was lovely and warming so if you ever got a wee bit cold in the water a few minutes out in the sun would warm you up again!

It felt even more like the perfect beach day as after our sea playing, we had delicious ice cream.

It’s funny how you can feel many things at the same time…we were a bit sad to leave the beach and at the same time we were so happy and grateful for a fabulous day on a beautiful beach with lovely weather and brilliant friends…

This was our last Picnic & Play of the Summer and the whole Licketyspit team felt very chuffed because it has been an absolute blast out there Storyplaying with our brilliant, creative and brave families! Huzzah for friends & play!

Sarah, Virginia, Taz, Nerea, Catherine & our Whiteinch & Online pals!

There's lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including...

• Making with Iona
• Cooking with Taz
• Exploring with Jack
• Funky Chicken
• Grandma Grandma

and many more!

Find out more about what's happening at Licketyspit by clicking on the button.

We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com

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 day out and many passersby were smiling at us and admiring our moves! Ruby got us all started, and we threw some cool shapes.

Funky Chicken with Andre was hilarious, and seaside infused! We had a Pinching Crab and an Angry Sea-turtle as well as of course, a Naughty Seagull!

We had to make our voices loud for Hello My Name is Joe and after that, running away in Witches Fingers was particularly satisfying running in the sand!

Letter to my Love is a great game to play outdoors! You can make a massive, big circle and friends get turns very quickly – it is also a funny game with everyone trying to pull the least suspicious face they can possibly master!

We also had a couple of rounds of Monsters Footsteps with some really scary looking Monster Trees…

TIME FOR A PICNIC!

We put down some tarps and big cloths to sit down on the sand and have our tasty picnic which it was so delicious that of course it got the seagulls attention. However, we managed to eat peacefully, and we even had some ice cream before heading to the shore to explore, paddle and…SWIM!

Yeah, you read it right.

Some of our wee pals were determined and in they went for a full swim!

Moman made up a game about jumping waves and Shiva said she got a wee bit nervous when something in the water brushed one of her legs…it was just some seaweed! Dan also swam like a fish and Yasna, Amira and Gabbie loved collecting seashells on the seashore.

Shaylin and Gabriella couldn’t make up their minds. One minute they were jumping waves and the next running away from them! Maha decided after a while that she was going to get in the sea too, but Adam was not convinced, and he just decided to look at all the dogs playing around on the beach and feed muffins to the seagulls!

Did I mention that most of the grown-ups also went for a wee dip …..of their toes?

It was a fantastic and action-pack day at the beach so some of our pals had a wee nap on the bus on our way home but others, like Yasna and Amira, decided to make up games to play while travelling. Clever, eh?

The Picnic & Play season is officially open!!

Andre, Ruby & Taz and our Maryhill Hub

There's lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including...

• Making with Iona
• Cooking with Taz
• Exploring with Jack
• Funky Chicken
• Grandma Grandma

and many more!

Find out more about what's happening at Licketyspit by clicking on the button.

We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com

A very rainy day doesn’t stop FOREST STORYPLAY because our Whiteinch Hub pals are a very happy bunch!

The rain came after all these hot days we’ve had in Glasgow and it is a good thing really because the trees and plants get very thirsty in the hot sun. Forest Storyplay at The Children’s Wood truly is a Storyplay session for all weathers and our brilliant Whiteinch Hub families had put on their waterproofs and their imaginations ready for their turn!

One of the best things about Licketyspit’s Summer trips is when we get to see each other after a good while and everyone is so delighted! There were hugs and smiles all around.

The tarpaulins – which are big cloths that we tie to tree brunches to create cover from the rain – were up between the tree-tops so we had a couple of dry areas to play and have lunch under but of course the rest of The Children’s Wood was fully available to run around, get muddy and find all sorts of interesting bugs – ask bug expert Milad!

Funky Chicken brought us Semra as ‘The Crazy Bee’, Milad as ‘The Scary Mouse’, Shalah as ‘The Scary Chicken’ and Nedaa as ‘The Slithering Snake’ to name but a few!

Flying Balloons was the perfect game to create a fabulous flying adventure together –

As we flew above Glasgow with our Flying Balloons Sara saw a White Unicorn, and then another and another…it was a unicorn race! Mohammed realised that the unicorns were meeting people who were feeding them. Then we spotted people cooking pizza and we could smell it too mmmm! but what was on it? – Pepperoni! – said Amjad – It’s a candy pizza! – said Zehra – Pineapple! – said Muhammed.

We decided we needed to fly down and have a good sniff and maybe even try a slice! Mmmmmm!

 ‘Mine tastes like chicken?’ – said Shahla;  ‘Mine tastes like corn!’ – said Sara!

As we flew back up into the sky Taz spotted The Children’s Wood and Mohammed shouted  – ‘ I can see a Dragon! I like dragons! Dragons have fire breath!’

It was easy to think of Forest Creatures to dress-up as in The Children’s Wood and everyone was excited-

Sara was a Freezing Bear

Mohammed was a Friendly Dragon

Mehwish was a Horse

Zehra was a Crazy Bunny

Amjad was a Scary Fox

The trouble was none of the Forest Creatures had a watch to tell the time. The only way they could find out the time was to ask the one Forest Creature who did have a watch – Mr WOLF!!!! and of course they had to be ready to run away in case it turned out to be DINNER TIME!

Oh the Wolfies we met in the Forest! They had mazing Watches they had found in lots of unexpected places!

Wolfie Sara had a black watch she had found under the ground…where she lived! Wolfie Amjad got his black watch in an Apple Store – where you cannot buy apples. Wolfie Mohammed had a dark blue watch that he’d bought in a Mall that was 500m away! Wolfie Zehra lived inside a giant tree, her watch was all the pastel colours, and she had found it in a nest! Wolfie Yara had a beautiful red watch she had got from the house!

None of the Forest Creatures got eaten by the wolf -hooray! – we just joined Mr Wolf doing lots of other things and when it was DINNER TIME we RAN AWAY!!!!

After our lovely Picnic nice and dry under our roof under the trees (listening to the rain!) we had a wee play in the Treehouse doing some climbing and exploring how to get up and down the rope ladder safely and cleverly!

The pitter patter of the rain falling on the tarpaulins proved to be an inspiring sound as everyone enjoyed Reflective Drawing and created fantastic pictures about a rainy but fun time with nice friends at Forest Storyplay!

Virginia,Sarah, Andre, Taz, Catherine & our Whiteinch friends

There’s lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including…

• Making with Iona
• Cooking with Taz
• Exploring with Jack
• Funky Chicken
• Grandma Grandma

and many more!

Find out more about what’s happening at Licketyspit by clicking on the button.

We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com

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

There’s lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including…

• Making with Iona
• Cooking with Taz
• Exploring with Jack
• Funky Chicken
• Grandma Grandma

and many more!

Find out more about what’s happening at Licketyspit by clicking on the button.

We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com

Whiteinch Blog!

Love letters, Chefs, a massive birthday cake & a feast!

Our last session at Whiteinch Library felt like a great big party and although everyone was a bit sad that it was the last one of this year we all cheered up very quickly with a Dancing Warm up. We decided to send Letters to our Loves! But we kept dropping them! and then we had to try and guess WHO had picked the letter up and put it in their pocket?! It was hilarious!

We dressed up today as Chef’s from around the World so that we could make a very special Birthday Cake for Taz’s neighbour Fred, who apparently is very very old…

Thankfully we had a very colourful array of international Chef’s giving Taz a helping hand!

There was Chef Amjad who makes fried chicken and ketchup and comes from Iran,

Chef Deon who comes from France & America and makes Spiderman pizza and Spiderman hot dogs.

Also, there was Chef Casey – he makes cake with meatballs and tomato sauce and

Chef Nina who comes from the ground! – ‘I dug myself up with a spoon!’

There was Chef Grace who makes princess pizza and Chef Mohammad from Pakistan who makes chicken and ketchup.

From Poland we had Chef Special, she makes strawberries and cream and Ninja Chef – ‘I use my sword to cut my ingredients!’

And finally, Chef Cole from the South of France – ‘I’m called Sports Burrito Chef, and my cake has ice cream!’

This was promising! All those experts in cooking and baking sure could come up with an out of this world Birthday Cake!

Ingredients from all our chefs:

Chef Grace & Chef Pauline – eggs!

Chef Angelika – Milk!

Chef Deon – Spiderman power flower!

Chef Casey- light chocolate choc chips!

Chef Milad & Chef Amjad – Korean Noodles & popcorn!

Chef Sara- Cake in the cake! But wait! What flavours does your neighbour like? Vanilla? So vanilla cake in the cake then!

Chef Nina – cake & meat!

Chef Semra- Frogs!

Chef Nico- rainbow chocolate!

Chef Mohammad- Spider meat!

And Chef Zehra – sliced peperoni & cheese!

Stir in everything! Stir in everything! Stir and stir and stir!

Put the cake mix in the baking cake tin.

Carefully bake it in the oven and then…

Decorate with:

Chef Amjad- green noodles!

Chef Grace – Halloween decorations!

Chef Nico – lemon frosting!

Chef Sara – a handful of sprinkles for every Chef to sprinkle over the top! Oh, and what’s your neighbours age? 324? So here are 324 candles for everyone to put on the cake! GO!

Taz’s neighbour Fred absolutely loved his Birthday Cake, and he shared it with all the Chefs with a lovely cup of tea. Thank you, Chefs!!

After all that we were looking forward to our meal and the Whiteinch families had brought delicious treats to share with everyone. There was rice and peas with meat, pierogi, chocolate cupcakes, sesame cupcakes, noodles, sweet dumplings, coconut slices, choc biscuits, pretzel sticks, juice and hot chocolate! And our usual lovely fruit, bread, cheese, boiled eggs and jam! What a feast!

The Licketyspit Art Gallery was very colourful and we all enjoyed talking to our artists.

What a fabulous last session with our Whiteinch friends! Thanks so much for sharing all of your great ideas and vivid imaginations. Can’t wait to do it all again soon!

Cami, Nerea, Virginia, Taz and The Whiteinch Friends

We almost always do ‘Reflective drawing’ at the end of a Storyplay session. It’s nice to relax and draw & think about what we’ve all done & how we feel about it.

Reflective drawing isn’t about doing a ‘good’ drawing – it’s about drawing whatever comes into your head when you think about what you’ve just done.

But as you draw you realise more about what you thought or imagined in the session. And it’s great to share that with everyone & hear what they thought! So many things go on in Storyplay!

Here are our Reflective Drawings from this week! Below is some of what we said!

READ SOME OF THE ARTIST’S REFLECTIONS FROM THE LICKETY ART GALLERY:

There’s lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including…

• Making with Iona
• Cooking with Taz
• Exploring with Jack
• Funky Chicken
• Grandma Grandma

and many more!

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We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com