Storyplay for the Planet

2021-11-09T10:57:08+00:00

Licketyspit wants to spark a children’s rights-based play revolution! Storyplay for the Planet is part of our wider work in Glasgow, the first Storyplay City! See Big Porridge & Play and Storyplay City to find out what else we're doing nearby. What is Storyplay for the Planet? A series of Storyplay & Have Your Say Through Play sessions for families with 3-12 year olds in East Centre Ward. Licketyspit will deliver sessions in schools, nurseries and online for communities across the East Centre Ward to support confidence, parental engagement, relationships and children’s rights. The school groups will receive an introductory Storyplay session, followed by a Have your Say Through Play session to support the children to express their thoughts, feelings & ideas about Climate Change using imaginary play. These sessions will be a chance for families to explore the issue of climate change and share their feelings about it creatively, elevating children's voices and demonstrating the power of imagination to find solutions to the greatest collective challenge of our time! We might encounter melting polar ice, or deforestation in Brazil, put a stop to heavy traffic in Cranhill or plant trees in Barlanark. The adventure will present challenges and as a group we’ll overcome them using the power of our collective imagination! We might end up in a river clogged with rubbish, or slipping [...]

Storyplay for the Planet2021-11-09T10:57:08+00:00

Coffee Painting with Jaz!

2021-11-24T12:48:12+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. What you need for coffee painting: Paper 1 teaspoon of instant coffee  Two cups for mixing the paint Cold water 1 paintbrush or cotton earbud for painting 1 candle Have you ever realised that it’s possible to make paint out of coffee?! Paint that is light and dark and runny and thick and really fun to make! Well, this week we learnt how to do just that! We were joined by the wonderful artist, Jaz, for our fourth week of Family Art Voyage.  Jaz has been painting with coffee for a long time, and has discovered how easy it is to make a brilliant picture! Our Stories ‘So there was a snake in the beach and a dragon fly flying around and a tornado and there was snow and snow coming down on the beach!’ ‘There’s a dog on the street and a tree and its walking under the tree going to the park!’  ‘The cat went back to the beach and they met his friend and were sunbathing on the beach and they [...]

Coffee Painting with Jaz!2021-11-24T12:48:12+00:00

Mini Worlds With Ali

2021-11-24T12:48:29+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. 19th, 20th and 21st October We had a fantastic third week of Family Art Voyage with our guest artist Ali Maclaurin who taught us how to make our own mini worlds using whatever we could find around our house… or in our garden!  Ali read us a poem called ‘The Island’ by A. A. Milne which made us think about what our own mini world might be like.. What colours would we see? What could we smell? What could we hear? What did the ground feel like? What animals could would live there? With all of these brilliant ideas and images in our heads, we set to work to MAKE our mini worlds! And what brilliant worlds they were! With Ali to fire our imaginations we got to creating our own Mini worlds! Using cardboard, glue, paint and colour we managed to create and explore our very own Mini Worlds. Ali helped us to unlock all the potential our Mini worlds had to offer and what worlds they are! We used... Upside down yoghurt pots make wonderful hills! Pencils stuck in lumps [...]

Mini Worlds With Ali2021-11-24T12:48:29+00:00

Stories of Resilience

2025-04-02T23:39:44+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 Resilience2025-04-02T23:39:44+00:00

Musical Theatre with Caitlin

2021-11-24T12:48:45+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. 6th, 7th, 9th October We had a fantastic second week of Family Art Voyage with our guest artist Caitlin Forbes who joined us on zoom from Caithness, in the north of Scotland. We learned all about Musical Theatre in her workshop all about chefs! First of all we had to come up with our chef CHARACTER! What did our chef look like? What kind of food did we cook? What was our personality like?  We met many chefs like ‘Chef Bunny Bun who was lovely and made cakes!’  Then we were ready to play a game of ‘YES CHEF!’ In this game we took turns being the ‘head chef’ who gave instructions to everyone else in their kitchen!  'Yes Chef' Game ‘Clean the kitchen!’ ‘Stir the Soup!’ ‘Chop the peppers!’  ‘Sweep the floor!’ After ‘YES CHEF,’ we used chefs instructions and tasks to come up with a dance routine! Caitlin taught us that anyone can make up a dance just by thinking of actions. For example: if the action is [...]

Musical Theatre with Caitlin2021-11-24T12:48:45+00:00

Dancing & Drumming with Adie & Thomas

2021-11-24T12:48:52+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. I love my ice-cream I love my ice-cubes (Injeela) sugar and butter! I love my school, I love my life and I love everyone at Licketyspit! (Emmanuel) sugar and butter! ‘LET’S ALL PLAY THE DRUM, LET’S PLAY THE DRUM!’ We had such a FANTASTIC time at last week’s sessions with Thomas and Adie. They joined us on Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday for the most brilliant and exciting workshops where we learnt a Kpanlogo drumming rhythm, some Ghanaian dancing and the ‘Sugar & Butter’ song! Thomas and Adie had great big Djembe drums from Ghana, but they told us that to learn drumming all you need is a mixing bowl or cooking pot from your kitchen! Everyone made brilliant drums from bowls, Tupperware boxes, and even great big yoghurt pots! Thomas showed us how to hold our bowls between our knees and which parts of our hands to use to make different sounds. Then we learnt a Kpanlogo’ rhythm which went along with these words: ‘LET’S ALL PLAY THE DRUM, LET’S PLAY THE DRUM!’ We them learnt a whole dance routine [...]

Dancing & Drumming with Adie & Thomas2021-11-24T12:48:52+00:00

Jelly Catwalks around the World

2021-09-28T12:00:18+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Jelly Catwalks around the world With a cast of characters to behold! Meet them all and don't be shy Or you might get donuts in your eyes! The Canada Jelly Catwalk Thursday 23.09.21 After an energetic and very creative round of Funky Chicken we all dressed up with magnificent gusto and displayed the most fabulous skills in becoming characters. We hopped in the Magic Ball and ended up in Canada where Fred With Jelly On His Head was in a bit of a pickle and needed to recruit a team of misfits to attend the world famous Canada Jelly Catwalk with him… ’I drew the Magic Ball cause I like to go in it. It’s a multicolour one, that’s how I imagine it.Today I didn’t have anywhere specific really to go so I’d like to see where other people would like to go’ 'This is about the Magic Ball because I liked it and the dressing up and me and my friend were dressed up as a ninja’ ‘Here I have me, of course and this is my [...]

Jelly Catwalks around the World2021-09-28T12:00:18+00:00

Storyplay City is Back!

2021-09-22T11:43:03+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. Magic Brews at Witches Convention Wolves, Mermaids, Sharks  more than I can mention! Read on to find out what where we've been The tales we've heard and the things we've seen... The Magic Bee Hive 11.09.22 This Bee House, this Bee Hive is magic, you know? Just have a wee taste of this honeycomb delicious and juicy and sweet and sticky just take a wee drop and you might feel so lucky  Buzzzzzz   Buzzzzzzz      Can you hear us?  We are BUZZING! We are now Honey Bees and our flight is so dazzling! We make lovely patterns high up in the air, We explore all the flowers, the trees and the heather! And thanks to the Transformer sweet that we had we are now back to Humans for some sliding fun! Look how huge and high this enormous chute is! If you get stuck …  we will help you up … you will feel so brave … as if you could fly … Now here at the top we must flex and twist get our bodies ready for the exciting WHEEEEEEEEE! Can you [...]

Storyplay City is Back!2021-09-22T11:43:03+00:00

Family Art Voyage

2025-03-31T15:52:10+00:00

30th July 2021 Exciting opportunity for Artists to deliver workshops for Licketyspit Children & Families Network Licketyspit children’s theatre & play organisation seeks 6 artists to deliver 3 online workshops for 3-12 year olds and their parents/carers. Developed in close consultation with our Children & Families Network (CFN), Family Art Voyage seeks to take families on a shared voyage of creative discovery, in the familiar, supportive setting of their Licketyspit Porridge & Play group. We are looking for artists from a wide range of disciplines who have exuberance, strong social skills, a commitment to children’s human rights and a passion for social justice and equal access to the arts. CFN Children have expressed a particular enthusiasm for rap, chalk art, collage, dance and music but we are open to all artforms & workshop proposals that can be delivered effectively to this intergenerational age-group via Zoom. Successful applicants will receive a 2-hour training session in Licketyspit’s Children’s Rights-based ‘Storyplay’ approach to child and family engagement and Licketyspit’s Children’s Rights Guide for Artists. Session delivery must be rights-based and you will be supported by 2 of Licketyspit’s experienced Actor-Pedagogues. Please email shona@licketyspit.com for full job description & application. Deadline for applications, Monday 30th August at 11pm. Funded by Awards for All. Previous Feedback Feedback from Family Art Voyage [...]

Family Art Voyage2025-03-31T15:52:10+00:00

Wild Adventures of the Wednesday Crew

2021-07-13T10:21:11+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had during our virtual play sessions on Zoom! Get in touch to find out how to join. We have spoken the language of seagulls, And eaten our way out of jelly, We’ve rocked our way out of the teacup house, And soared on the back of our Lily! We’ve sipped the juice of the Ugly Bug Fountain, That tasted a lot like pizza and pie, We met Bella Spears, And John Mackay, Who go to bed with strange things, On their noses and eyes!! We are the Wednesday crew, WOHOO! We go on the wildest adventures! So sit tight and we’ll tell you the tale, of 3 weeks of extraordinary fantasticosical ventures!! Big Wednesday June Blog In the MAGIC BALL we fly, And fall, Into places you might never find….. In Week 1 we landed on the longest beach we’d seen in our whole life! A flock of seagulls appeared out of nowhere and pecked at our feet! Shoo! Felicia spoke in Seagull language to get them to fly away! ‘Caw caw!’ She cried as we ran and ran until we jumped in the sea - it was lovely and calm, yippee! But [...]

Wild Adventures of the Wednesday Crew2021-07-13T10:21:11+00:00

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