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!

2025-12-18T11:31:43+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!2025-12-18T11:31:43+00:00

Over to you #1

2025-12-18T11:32:02+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 #12025-12-18T11:32:02+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

Week 4: Love letters, marshmallow monsters & a seahorse picnic!

2021-07-02T09:45:43+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, 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 [...]

Week 4: Love letters, marshmallow monsters & a seahorse picnic!2021-07-02T09:45:43+00:00

Week 3: Pirate Captains & Magic Ball!

2021-07-02T09:45:50+00:00

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. [...]

Week 3: Pirate Captains & Magic Ball!2021-07-02T09:45:50+00:00

Week 2: Freezing Monster Trees & Grandmas!

2021-07-02T09:47:08+00:00

Big Porridge & Play Blog 1st June 2020 Govan – Tuesday 26th May 2020 FUN FUN FUN!!! Great play session last week!! We had a wee chat about our weekends while we were getting all connected to Zoom and Bob told us about his garden and his plants and we discovered that Ethan, Erin and Leah spent their weekend doing Discos at home! Funky Chicken was full of great animals: a Flashy Cheetah, a Silly Dog, a Funky Snake, a Silly Panda and a Dying Fly all made an appearance! What a Zoo! We blew up our Balloons and met up in the sky! As we flew above our dear Green Place Glasgow we got higher and higher and we could see the whole wide world andd elephants in Zimbawe drinking water with their trunks, lions trying to eat us and pop our balloons, Antartica, a giant blue eagle and Jia Chen got stuck in a tornado and we had to rescue him! ‘The Himalayas looked like chocolate and whipped cream’ said Priyangaa and I thought they were a piece of cake! To finish we all did drawings and had The Licketyspit Art Gallery where everyone is an artist and we shared and admired our artwork inspired on our Big Porridge & Play adventures! MORE NEXT WEEK!!! See yous all there!! 😎👋🎈🤸‍♂️😊🌈😉🤩 By Taz GOVAN [...]

Week 2: Freezing Monster Trees & Grandmas!2021-07-02T09:47:08+00:00

Saturday Sessions Starting!

2022-02-23T17:14:19+00:00

Big Porridge & Play Open Sessions start this week! 27th 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! Families across Scotland are invited to join Porridge & Play Online - imaginary play sessions, games, rhymes, songs and story making! Every Saturday @ 10am on Zoom! Join the Children & Families Network here or on Facebook and contact us to take part. Invite your friends, or family - wherever they are! You may be eligible to receive a FREE set of Lickety Playcards, a fantastic repertoire of 16 colourfully illustrated cards so you can keep on playing these games at home. 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. Visit Come & Play and our Facebook page to find out more. There are videos, audio-shows and lots of ideas for things to do, play and create at home in between sessions! HOW TO LICKETY ZOOM JOIN  To take part in these free sessions, join the Children & Families Network (CFN) - an inclusive community of families who embrace children’s rights and imaginary play, and contact Ruby with your names & postcode to get the link [...]

Saturday Sessions Starting!2022-02-23T17:14:19+00:00

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