Porridge & Play Bridgeton Week 2

2025-09-16T10:13:24+00:00

Bridgeton Blog! 12th September 2025 Week 2 – woohoo! We warmed up by making ourselves as Big as a Bear…and as fast as a hare! As well as these rhyming creatures, you came up with loads more! There was: Dua’s Dying Bee Alan’s Metal Chicken Ouff’s Flying Snail Emilia’s Jogging Shark Maab’s Funky Chicken Zara’s Pinching Crab Leeanne’s Angry Tiger Zhara’s Funny Cow Awoooo! Did you say something? What’s the time Mr Wolf! There’s only one animal in the Storyplay woods who has a watch. We got ready for school with Mohammed Wolf. He had a gold and silver watch. We crept about with Wilhelmina Wolf. Suliman Wolf lived in deep water and wore an orange watch. Scary Wolf Dua lived at the end of the forest and liked to hunt. Dinner time! We enjoyed carrot and lentil soup. Bread and boiled eggs. And Paul’s delicious fruit platters! 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’ [...]

Porridge & Play Bridgeton Week 22025-09-16T10:13:24+00:00

Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 2

2025-09-16T09:54:01+00:00

Castlemilk Blog! 11th September 2025 Awesome Animals This week was all about Awesome Animals. We met Carina’s Jumpy Dog and Evie’s Crazy Chicken. Charlie’s Eating Seal and Ruby’s Cheeky Kangaroo. Maria’s Scared Elephant. Kevin’s Cheeky Capybara. Letter to my Love These animals were very loving! 🎶 I sent a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it… 🎶 Someone must have picked it up and put it in my pocket!  🎶 Was it you or was it you...? Dressing up When we dressed up we met a whole host of other animals! Maria the Bat who eats Fruit flies La la Ladybug who eats Cheese Sammy the Snake who eats Evies! A bunny called Betsy who eats carrots. And a sloth who eats Gum Trees. But there’s only one animal in Storyplay who has a watch… What’s the Time Mr Wolf! There was Diamond Wolf and Vine Wolf. Two wolves who lived in spiderweb caves A wolf who liked to drink cups of tea. And a wolf with a stone watch. Dinner time! Well, luckily we escaped those hungry wolves. By this time, we were hungry ourselves! We had boiled eggs and sweet chilli hummus. Strawberry jam and honeydew melon. Bananas, oranges and Sayeda’s delicious cake! The Storyplay Games All our games are on the Lickety Playcards. You [...]

Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 22025-09-16T09:54:01+00:00

Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 2

2025-09-15T12:45:18+00:00

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, [...]

Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 22025-09-15T12:45:18+00:00

Porridge & Play Bridgeton Week 1

2025-09-09T10:56:24+00:00

Bridgeton Blog! 5th September 2025 Howdy Bridgeton, it was brilliant to see you all again on Friday. You’ve all grown tall as trees! It really is GREAT to be back for another year of Storyplay family fun at Bridgeton St Francis. We welcomed 3 new families to our group and introduced them to some of our favourite Licketyspit games – Funky Chicken, Flying Balloons, Dressing Up and Magic Ball. We also played Leeanne’s game Street Catch, which is part of the All Scot Playcards we made together in 2022. You can find out how to play it by clicking on the playcard ----> We dressed up in wonderful ways! We met SuperMum who arrived from her kitchen on a plane and SuperGod who fights villains. The Magic Ball took us to another dimension,  where we met a villain! Luckily SuperGod was there to keep us safe. We realised we were next to the Red Sea so we decided to have a swim. The water was so refreshing. Then we came upon a ship and we climbed aboard. Just in time! A shark was swimming towards us. Whoosh! SuperGod threw the shark into space What a relief. The waves started to rock us all to sleep. We woke up just in time to get into the Magic Ball and head back to [...]

Porridge & Play Bridgeton Week 12025-09-09T10:56:24+00:00

Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 1

2025-09-09T10:49:54+00:00

Castlemilk Blog! 4th September 2025 How cool is Castlemilk Library!? Not only is it bursting with books, it’s also a place where you can Storyplay, chat, eat and make new friends. It was great to see some familiar faces as we returned for the 4th year of Porridge & Play Castlemilk. Abu helped us at the sign in table as we welcomed new friends from St Bartholomew’s Primary and Arnwood Nursery Quick as a flash, we picked up our balloons and soon we were flying high above Glasgow! Gracey, Evie and Freya spotted a dinosaur – and oh no! It was eating their toes! We also saw lions and tigers, eating steak. Feeling a bit peckish, we flew down to grab some. Charlie spotted a llama and Danylo saw a hedgehog. They both made a lucky escape from that lion! When we dressed up we turned into all sorts of people. Just like in books, in Storyplay you can be anyone, go anywhere and do anything! We met Mr Spider, Strawberry, Mrs Dinosaur, Mrs Potato, Mr Peach from the beach, Mr Fishy, Mr Llama and many more new friends! Magic Ball, magic ball take us where we want to go! We met a sleepy hedgehog and fed it delicious nuggets. We swam in the sea with sharks and fish. A dolphin led us home. What an [...]

Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 12025-09-09T10:49:54+00:00

Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 1

2025-09-09T10:56:48+00:00

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 [...]

Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 12025-09-09T10:56:48+00:00

Picnic & Play with our CRANHILL HUB!

2025-09-02T16:53:54+00:00

The weather was warm, and we had great fun dancing and playing games. Luckily for us, we met some very interesting friends of the Funky Chicken too. There was Annemarie’s Sassy Seahorse, Omar’s Angry Lion and Ahmad’s very Stinky Crab! We also met a very Silly Axolotl and an Old Elephant.   We had lots of fun with a very clever bunch of witches too who had marvelous witchy cackles and some very exciting juices including purple poison and large amounts of seagull juice. Very tasty! Talking of seagulls, we saw some very cheeky ones at the beach who liked sandwiches and muffins. One of them actually swallowed a muffin whole! We all enjoyed a tasty picnic and some yummy ice-cream which was a real treat. Then after all the delicious food we went to explore the beach and had so much fun together, paddling in the sea and finding treasure on the beach. We found pools of water in the sand,bright green seaweed, lots of different shells and even a crab skeleton. It was such a lovely day and just before it was time to go home, we had a game of Olly Olly Octopus which was so much fun! Then it was time to say goodbye to the sand and the waves and the shells and the naughty seagulls and so we all [...]

Picnic & Play with our CRANHILL HUB!2025-09-02T16:53:54+00:00

Picnic & Play with our WHITEINCH & ONLINE HUBS!

2025-09-02T16:49:50+00:00

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 [...]

Picnic & Play with our WHITEINCH & ONLINE HUBS!2025-09-02T16:49:50+00:00

Picnic & Play with our GOVAN & ONLINE HUBS!

2025-09-02T16:50:23+00:00

We all know how fast the weather in Scotland can change but our bold Govan & Online Hubs are always ready to adapt and enjoy whatever the weather. We arrived in Balloch and saw some of the impact of a storm that had happened a couple of days before – branches scattered around and still some gusts of wind blowing now and again, whistling loud in our ears. We found a nice big clear space up the hill where we could make our circle and off, we started with Storyplay! Have you tried dancing outdoors? We very much recommend it – you may even get some other passing people to be inspired to join you! Funky Chicken was a lot of fun, and Hello My Name is Joe got us all panting and laughing in equal measure. We met a few Witches & Wizards with long fingers and a flair for making different bottles of strange beverages – even a tiny wee Witch who chased us all! As we were starting a game of ‘Letter To My Love’ the skies opened, and a summer shower descended upon us! But Licketyspit & friends are adaptable and determined so we quickly found cover under a canopy of trees where we not only played our game, but we also set up our camp so we could have our [...]

Picnic & Play with our GOVAN & ONLINE HUBS!2025-09-02T16:50:23+00:00

Picnic & Play with our BRIDGETON HUB!

2025-09-08T10:40:45+00:00

What’s the saying? If life gives you lemons…make lemonade. And if the Picnic cannot happen outdoors…have it indoors! Our fabulous Bridgeton Hub wasn’t fazed by the change of plan because the truth is, ALL we need for a brilliant Storyplay is our imaginations and each other! And that we had! That’s the great thing about Storyplay, we can be anyone, do anything, go anywhere with our imaginations and so today although we were indoors in a fantastic big hall at the CCH in Maryhill, we had a sea adventure as The Ugliest Pirate Crew ever known to Scotland! Amongst other things actually… As we always like to do, we had a nice big warm up – we first had a nice boogie and then we stretched to our Big As A Bear rhyme! We also met some cool animals playing Funky Chicken – Emilia showed us the Jumping Snake, Alan the Flying Fly. Tanisk came up with a Flying Car and Moira created the Angry Crocodile. Lexi was a Crazy Giraffe and Leeanne was Purring Cat. Lin created a Fast Dog and Suleman an Angry Cat. After that we all became Cackling Witches with long witchy fingers coming up with all sorts of weird concoctions to drink! ‘I’m going to drink a bottle of…Snake Juice!’  The big Reid Hall at the CCH is a great [...]

Picnic & Play with our BRIDGETON HUB!2025-09-08T10:40:45+00:00

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