Whiteinch Blog! A Witchy Porridge & Storyplay afternoon at Whiteinch Library! Whiteinch Library felt very witchy today as the brilliant librarians had selected a bunch of books for us about magic, fanatic creatures, werewolves, vampires, monsters and of course witches! Before we kicked off our Storyplay, Andre told us about Fred, Grace, John and Bella Spears who are all characters in the brilliant song ‘Jelly On His Head’ and then for our warm up today we gave ‘Hello! My Name is Joe’ a go! We all felt how poor Joe must feel after a long day of work at the Button Factory! Since mystery and magic was in the air we all dressed up as Witches and attended a mad Witches Convention where a crew from Witchy TV was interviewing those in attendance. Amir became Oversized Witch and told the interviewer that his favourite potion is a powerful one but it’s recipe is a secret… Shhhh! Nico became Witchy Lila and explained that she lives in a giant castle with animals and witches. Her fave potion is the Sword Potion which makes you fall sleep for 1 night and when you wake up you turn into a melon. He he he! Sofia became Sassy Witch and her favourite potion turns people into a giant nose! Achoo! And Witchy Andre taught every other Witch how to make [...]

Whiteinch Blog! We did our Dancing Warm-up to start the session and then we met fantastic Funky Chicken animals like Aaliyah's Silly Spider; Katie's Hopping Horse, Nina's Evil Cat, Mohammad's Angry Dinosaur and Sara's Sad Dog! We all dressed up as Forest Creatures! Sara was a bat, Muhammad was a lion, Katie was a panther, Marie was a special ladybird! Amjad was a tree, Oleg was a mushroom! and Freya was a forest princess! What a hoot! Now in this forest we discovered there were lots of Wolves! There was Nico Flower who lives underground with 3 Wolfy Cubs! There was Wolfy Bad-Tree who stands up in a tree! Wolfy Muhammad lives in the ground by himself, Wolfy Amjad (a were-wolf!) lives in a mansion, Wolf Berry lives in a shop selling food and Wolves Freya and Milad live in houses! The only Forest Creatures who know the time are the Wolves - because they all have a wonderful watch! Wolfy Bad-Tree got his from the garbage! Wolfy Nina got hers in a very expensive shop, Wolfy Mohammad has a Rolex , Wolf Berry's watch is silver and Wolf Cole has an amazing gold and black watch! This means that all the other forest creatures can only find out what the time is by asking - What's the Time Mr Wolf? BUT!!! They have to be [...]

Whiteinch Blog! It was fantastic to be back in the Library again with Porridge & Play Whiteinch. We had a great group of families with 20 children, 13 grownups plus the Licketyspit actor- pedagogues - Cami, Andre, Steven & Virginia - so we got off to a flying start! And course we had Kevan the Librarian to welcome us all. To warm up we made ourselves as - Big as a Bear & as Fast as a Hare. As strong as an Ox & as Sneaky as a Fox, As soft as a Cat & As Nibbly as a Rat! Fly high as a Bird, Flying Up, Flying Down, Swooping, Gliding, Round & Round, Till you land on your Nest! have a little Rest! what’s this I have found? It’s hard & it’s round… it’s an EGG! An Egg I have found! An egg, an egg, so BIG and so ROUND! it Wibbles, it Wobbles and suddenly CRACK! A Beak, two wings? well fancy that! Out pops a bird with a Quack, quack, quack! We played Funky Chicken and we met the Evil Cat, Funny Dog, Crazy Chicken, Evil Spider, Spider-Man pig! Happy Dog, Craxy Bunny, Evil dog, Scary spider, Happy Falcon, Happy Dog & Craxy Bunnie & more! We blew up our balloons & flew high in the sky over Glasgow - so high that [...]