At the last session of this Porridge & Play block we celebrated 5-weeks of Storyplaying together –  in Zombie Style…

In Storyplay you can DO ANYTHING…

Bridgeton families love it here

Bridgeton families dance and cheer!

We love moving our bodies, learning new steps and shapes and rhythms – children and grown-ups all shared their ideas in the Dancing Warm up!

Funky Chicken is another old favourite at Bridgeton Hub!

Every week we start with a round of Funky Chicken – is such a great game to get your imagination going quickly, by thinking of an animal and how it might move and sound! And so, on this last session –

Malak created a Happy penguin

Mohammed thought of a Happy Seagull

Miriam imagined an Ugly Pig

Retaj became a Funny Horse

Moira embodied a Singing Cow

Amar transformed into a Groovy Lizard

Lin was a Sneaky Cat

Big Mohammed offered a Dancing Tiger

Alan created a Wrestling Alligator

Salah showed us a Silly Monkey

Abakr was a  Foxy Dadoodee

Aleen became a Speaking Cat

Girisha was a Fire Lion

Lin embodied a Slow Turtle

Arafa jumped as a Happy frog

Maab became a Naughty Seagull!

 

At Storyplay you can BE ANYONE…

Another ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE game for the Bridgeton families is Dressing Up – they cannot wait for the big Dressing Up bag to be unzipped! Licketyspit Dressing Up bags are really just a few old clothes but with the spark of our imaginations, these ordinary clothes can transform into extraordinary garments that inspire us to feel differently…even to become ‘someone else’! And so…

Alan – ‘I’m the King of legends, all of them like… vampires! Many different ones there, even ones you don’t know about. A big pale Man he can travel from US and UK in less than an hour.’

 Salah – ‘I’m a Police man, 778 and 10 is my password and I like to eat supercarrots.’

 Big Mohammed – ‘I’m Dobby from Harry Potter, I eats green stuff, I like playing and drawing Harry Potter Day.’

 Amar – ‘I can send shockwaves when my pants drop.’

 Maab – ‘I’m a Penguin. I live in the snow, in a tiny home. And I eat grass. I dig in the snow.’

 Summer – ‘I’m a Teddy bear, I eat grass and I live in a house’

 

At Storyplay you can go ANYWHERE…

And of course, Magic Ball is also a very loved game because the Magic Ball truly can take you anywhere in the world of your imagination!

Magic Ball, Magic Ball

Take us where we want to go…

 

Today we landed in Zombieland – a bit of a scary start!

We crouched down low to the ground to discuss what to do?

We thought maybe pretending to be zombies might help us to blend in!

So, Malak gave everyone a spectacular demonstration of how to walk and move like a Zombie!

And Alan sprayed everyone with Zombie Smelling Spray to makes us even more convincing!

Just as we were all happily Zombie-Ing along, practicing our Zombie movements and sounds an actual Zombie turned up!

Now, it was clear that this Zombie was trying to tell us something. Big Mohammed translated, he said –  ‘The Zombie wants to eat all of our brains!’

 Well! We weren’t going to let that happen…

‘Might the Zombie eat something else? – we wondered?

 ‘I think he wants some soup.’ – Big Mohammed replied.

Mariam offered soup to the Zombie.  And then we all did!

And it went down very well!

So the Zombie left…

Phew!

Narrow escape!

We thought it might be a good idea to try to be silent in Zombieland.

So we practiced creeping silently….

Suddenly, Alan realised he had lost a hand!

Luckily Malak found it for him!

We were just doing a great Zombie Dance when a hungry Werewolf appeared!

So we fed him fruit and he went away!

A lovely, shared meal

 Enjoying eating food together is very important part of Porridge & Play but the last session of every block is extra special because families often bring delicious food to share with everyone! We get a chance to taste food from all our different countries. Finger-licking home-made treats! The Bridgeton Families went overboard and we had dips and cakes and falafels and many treats – delicioso!

How lucky are we to have such a brilliant big family of families at the Bridgeton Hub – thank you all for 5 wonderful weeks of brilliant Storyplay!

Andre, Nerea, Paul, Taz, Virginia, Ruby & the Bridgeton Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

Click on the drawings!

At the last session of this Porridge & Play block we celebrated 5-weeks of Storyplaying together –  in Zombie Style…

In Storyplay you can DO ANYTHING…

Bridgeton families love it here

Bridgeton families dance and cheer!

We love moving our bodies, learning new steps and shapes and rhythms – children and grown-ups all shared their ideas in the Dancing Warm up!

Funky Chicken is another old favourite at Bridgeton Hub!

Every week we start with a round of Funky Chicken – is such a great game to get your imagination going quickly, by thinking of an animal and how it might move and sound! And so, on this last session –

Malak created a Happy penguin

Mohammed thought of a Happy Seagull

Miriam imagined an Ugly Pig

Retaj became a Funny Horse

Moira embodied a Singing Cow

Amar transformed into a Groovy Lizard

Lin was a Sneaky Cat

Big Mohammed offered a Dancing Tiger

Alan created a Wrestling Alligator

Salah showed us a Silly Monkey

Abakr was a  Foxy Dadoodee

Aleen became a Speaking Cat

Girisha was a Fire Lion

Lin embodied a Slow Turtle

Arafa jumped as a Happy frog

Maab became a Naughty Seagull!

 

At Storyplay you can BE ANYONE…

Another ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE game for the Bridgeton families is Dressing Up – they cannot wait for the big Dressing Up bag to be unzipped! Licketyspit Dressing Up bags are really just a few old clothes but with the spark of our imaginations, these ordinary clothes can transform into extraordinary garments that inspire us to feel differently…even to become ‘someone else’! And so…

Alan – ‘I’m the King of legends, all of them like… vampires! Many different ones there, even ones you don’t know about. A big pale Man he can travel from US and UK in less than an hour.’

 Salah – ‘I’m a Police man, 778 and 10 is my password and I like to eat supercarrots.’

 Big Mohammed – ‘I’m Dobby from Harry Potter, I eats green stuff, I like playing and drawing Harry Potter Day.’

 Amar – ‘I can send shockwaves when my pants drop.’

 Maab – ‘I’m a Penguin. I live in the snow, in a tiny home. And I eat grass. I dig in the snow.’

 Summer – ‘I’m a Teddy bear, I eat grass and I live in a house’

 

At Storyplay you can go ANYWHERE…

And of course, Magic Ball is also a very loved game because the Magic Ball truly can take you anywhere in the world of your imagination!

Magic Ball, Magic Ball

Take us where we want to go…

 

Today we landed in Zombieland – a bit of a scary start!

We crouched down low to the ground to discuss what to do?

We thought maybe pretending to be zombies might help us to blend in!

So, Malak gave everyone a spectacular demonstration of how to walk and move like a Zombie!

And Alan sprayed everyone with Zombie Smelling Spray to makes us even more convincing!

Just as we were all happily Zombie-Ing along, practicing our Zombie movements and sounds an actual Zombie turned up!

Now, it was clear that this Zombie was trying to tell us something. Big Mohammed translated, he said –  ‘The Zombie wants to eat all of our brains!’

 Well! We weren’t going to let that happen…

‘Might the Zombie eat something else? – we wondered?

 ‘I think he wants some soup.’ – Big Mohammed replied.

Mariam offered soup to the Zombie.  And then we all did!

And it went down very well!

So the Zombie left…

Phew!

Narrow escape!

We thought it might be a good idea to try to be silent in Zombieland.

So we practiced creeping silently….

Suddenly, Alan realised he had lost a hand!

Luckily Malak found it for him!

We were just doing a great Zombie Dance when a hungry Werewolf appeared!

So we fed him fruit and he went away!

A lovely, shared meal

 Enjoying eating food together is very important part of Porridge & Play but the last session of every block is extra special because families often bring delicious food to share with everyone! We get a chance to taste food from all our different countries. Finger-licking home-made treats! The Bridgeton Families went overboard and we had dips and cakes and falafels and many treats – delicioso!

How lucky are we to have such a brilliant big family of families at the Bridgeton Hub – thank you all for 5 wonderful weeks of brilliant Storyplay!

Andre, Nerea, Paul, Taz, Virginia, Ruby & the Bridgeton Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

Click on the drawings!

It was the last session of this block at Castlemilk Library and we all feel like we are great big family!

We get in our circle cause circles are cool,

Nerea plays music, we dance and we groove,

A twirly fun Conga made with all our pals

To get us all started and warm up our hearts!

Make yourself big as House or

As small as a mouse!

As Thin as a pin!

Or maybe a string??

As round as a ball,

As a tree, very tall!

Wobbly as jelly, Buzzy as a bee

Have a wee think…

What else could you be?

Funky Chicken is an old-time favourite,

Castlemilk families are so fast at it –

They all come up with fantastic ideas,

Take a wee look at what we have here…

Poppy’s Kangaroo was Cheeky,

And Kim’s Snake rather Stinky,

Haaris brought a Snow Turtle,

And Anusha invited a Sneaky Sea lion

 Zara’s Horse was Jumpy,

And Caroline’s Dog was Dancing,

Sayeda brought a Happy Cat,

And Ammar’s Penguin was Fast!

 Shabana’s Elephant was Angry

Rumaisa’s Sealion was Dancing

Abu thought of a Naughty Eagle

And we also met a Strong Mohammed!

Let’s Dress Up as Forest Creatures,

And imagine what we can be?

Butterflies, midges or rabbits,

A squirrel, fox, bat or a flea!

Haaris – ‘I am a hacker creeper, and I like to annoy people’

Muhammed – ‘I am a normal seagull called Cristiano Ronaldo’

Anusha – ‘I am a bat and I eat people’

Zara – I’m a fox and I hunt people’

Poppy – ‘I am a squirrel; I climb trees and spy on people…’

 

But in this forest, there’s only one creature

That if you dare to ask

Will tell you the time looking at their watch

In this forest, there is only one …

Wolfie Abu – I live in a house, it’s actually a flat, a dirty flat. My watch is brown and at 5 o’clock it’s time to play football!

Wolfie Mohammed – I live in a mansion, it’s black and white – black in the winter and white in the summer. And at 3 o’clock it’s time to ….play tennis!

Wolfie Ammar – I live in a cave, and I got my watch from my Mum

Wolfie Caroline – I live in a brick house that you cannot huff and puff away! I make cushions and I got my watch from Asda.

Wolfie Poppy – I live in a flat – nice and clean. I like to read books. Matt from across the street gave me my watch. At 4 o’clock it’s time to ….have a dance party!

 Wolfie Anusha – I live in a poor dirty house with a poor dirty swimming pool. I made my watch and I kept it because I like it.

 Wolfie Haaris – I live in a tree house, a brown tree house. I live with other wolves. My watch has diamonds, gold, cash and money. I got it from Asda. At 6 o’clock it’s time to ….swim in the pool!

 Wolfie Zara – I live in a cave above a river. Sometimes it’s tidy and sometimes it’s untidy, somewhere in the middle. My watch is like a flower with purple background and red flowers, roses! I got it from a lovely next-door neighbour. And at 3 o’clock it’s time to …do ballet!

 Wolfie Rumaisa – I live in a brown Tree House. My watch is made of metal and it’s pink. At 1 o’clock it’s time to ….read a book and

at 5 O’clock it’s time to ….buy toys!

What’s the time Mr. Wolf?

Do you dare to ask?

Aways be ready to run just in case you find it’s……..

DINNER TIME!!

 

What a brilliant Porridge & Play block we’ve had at Castlemilk Library and what a great last session! After all that, everyone made fantastic drawings. Then we all enjoyed eating the beautiful food that many families brought to share – as well as our usual Licketyspit meal.

The Art Gallery was great fun and we all agreed that we love Porridge & Play in CASTLEMILK!

Sarah, Taz, Nerea, Virginia and the Castlemilk Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

These Monsters are weird..

These Monster are fun!

Are these monsters real?

They are all our pals!

What a brilliant last session we had at Maryhill Hub!

We danced, we Funky Chicken’d, we played Letter to My Love and of course we dressed up! This time as a fantasmagoric collection of Monsters – monsters of all kinds and sizes, with all sorts of favourite things to eat and do, with particular skills and even …secrets!

Scott became ZomDaddy – I eat coco pops’

 Iris – ‘I’m a dragon, I can fly’

 Violet was a Two-tailed Monster – ‘I live at home in the ground. I live on my own, I like living on my own. Sometimes Evie comes to visit.’

 Evie – ‘I am an Artist Baker Monster. I like to play in the playground, I play Hopscotch’.

 Shriyansh  transformed into the Sky Monster – ‘I jump high and I live in the sky’

 Ada was a Baby Monster who couldn’t speak yet!.

 Rita – ‘I’m the Gruffalo’

 Maya – ‘I’m a ghost, I am 95 years old.’

 Zoe – ‘I’m a dragon. I’m a Fire Dragon. I cook with my fire and I cook meat, animals and also people’

 Zac – ‘ I am the Blood Gollum and I eat bones! This pair of tights around my neck is lava running down my neck…That Fire Dragon catches people and eats them and then I eat the bones!’

We had transformed ourselves so convincingly that it was clear we should have a game of Monsters Footsteps!

In a dark forest or a garden far away

In a white cottage, a tree house or a cave

Grannies live alongside monsters

That pretend to be nice trees

But when the grannies are cooking

The monsters creep, creep, creep!

 

Grannie Sun lives in a normal size white cottage.

Granny Evie said – ‘I live in a tree house’

Grannie Sky said – ‘I live in the sky; I grow bones in my garden’

Let me tell you, the Maryhill Hub families are so precise while playing Monsters Footsteps that you could hardly notice the transformations…are they monsters? or trees??

And when the Magic Ball had been blown up big and were all inside ready to go Andre asked for ideas about where to?

A volcano!

The beach!

India! Thailand!

The top of a pyramid!

Inside someone’s head?

Shriyansh lead everyone in the Magic Ball chant and…

We landed in SPACE!

 Floating and rolling and hopping about,

With oxygen masks that Shriyansh had brought,

Having a great time out in space,

Everyone floating with a happy face!

But Iris could see someone looking around,

Who didn’t come up with us from down on the ground!

If they live up here that means they must be…..

A Space Alien creature …and it’s talking to me!

‘Grrr whrrr booboo whoohoo hee’ – said the alien full of glee!

‘Hello alien’ – we replied and we hung out for a while…

It invited us to hold Alien babies!

Little cute alien babies!

And then she gave us a Space Ice-cream.

Who would have thought we could have such fun,

With an alien creature and all of our pals?!

Now it was time to descend back to Earth

But the Magic Ball had floated away!

Let’s all go back down in our own funky style

So we all descended with a big bright smile!

The Reflective Drawings this week were out of this world (spacey even!). So much detail and so many ideas! Some people even told us about wee stories that lived inside their drawings!

The food was lovely as always, plus we had treats!  Fish balls and pizzettas, lemon rice, cakes and cookies! – very apt for a celebration of a phenomenal block of Porridge & Play sessions!

We would like to thank the Maryhill Families from this block for their ideas and laughter, their creations, kindness and friendship and for making Licketyspit’s Storyplay world even bigger and brighter!

Taz, Andre, Nerea, Virginia and the Maryhill Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

In a deep, cold and dark forest or a warm and sunny one

In a cave with bones and cobwebs or in a two-bedroom flat…

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Happy, scary and funny ones

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Cheery Monsters at Bridgeton Hub!

Girisha says – ‘I am a Red Monster and I am really scary. I can make it rain and I can make it STOP!’

 Mohammed says – ‘I’m a monster who can make people pause.’

 Alan is Larry the lumberjack Monster he says – ‘I live in a cave.’ 

Aleen says – ‘I’m a Blueberry Cup Cake Monster and I dance with this outfit. I live in a Cup Cake house.’

 

These monsters love to dance and draw, play Funky Chicken till it’s hot!

These monsters may seem scary,

But I promise you they’re not!

 

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Happy, scary and funny ones

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Cheery Monsters at Bridgeton Hub!

 

Mariam says – ‘I’m a Monster Pants and I save food, so I am actually a superhero’.

 Mohammed is Super Granny Monster – ‘I am here to destroy the other monsters. I live in a hut. I can freeze everyone. I live with another monster’

 Summer says ‘I am Monster Teddy Bear and I can fly. I live on a mountain.            It is always sunny’.

 

These Monsters love fruit!

These Monsters love soup!

They love a good circle and they love singing too!

 

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Happy, scary and funny ones

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Cheery Monsters at Bridgeton Hub!

Maab says –  ‘I am Monster Penguin. I also have freezing powers. I live in a forest. It is very warm.  

I live with witches and of course – I do my penguin walk!’.

 Amar says – ‘ I am Red X Monster. I’m also free!’

 Malak says – ‘I live in Malak; it is beautiful in Malak. I eat vegetables and cupcakes.’

All monsters yes, but different!

All with individual style,

These monsters are peculiar

But they’re all fantastic fun!

 

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Happy, scary and funny ones

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Cheery Monsters at Bridgeton Hub!

 

Nerea, Paul, Steven & Bridgeton Hub Families

 

 

Licketyspit Art Gallery

Click on the drawings!

Poor Bun Brother was a bit preoccupied although you wouldn’t think so when we first met him…

‘Aye, Aye, Aye

I’m The Best, I’m the Best

• clap, clap, clap
• clap, clap, clap

 We are the Bun Brothers; we are like no other! ‘

He was singing and cheering and clapping and he got us all involved in singing about him and his brother and how they are the best and they are like no other when suddenly…

Poor Bun Brother realised that he was on his own, without his brother (who couldn’t come) and he was in a right pickle because he couldn’t remember any of his fantastic recipes!

But his sadness didn’t last long as soon as he realised he had arrived in Castlemilk Library where he discovered a Delicious Crew of Brilliantly Creative CHEFs!!

There was Angel Chef, Cool Chef whose speciality is pizza, Crazy Chef, Pizza Pie Chef, Mean Chef who is a dog as well as a chef, Fairy Chef, Prince Chef, Ninja Chef who specialises in Chocolate Milk, Sad Chef & Happy Chef, Wee Chef, Jamaica Chef & the world-famous Candyfloss Chef!

 ‘Marvellous! We can work together and create a sublime recipe for an out of this world CAKE!!’ – the Bun Brother was beside himself.

So we got working…we had a massive bowl in the middle. There were so many of us we needed of course to bake a gigantic cake! SO,

Cool Chef mixed in Flour

And Prince Chef some white sugar

Ninja Chef went for melted chocolate

And Chef Angel put in Strawberries & angel cake – an extremely light cake!

Crazy Chef went for White sprinkles

Sad Chef threw in some Eggs

We are going to need some butter!

said another Chef!

Mean Chef added Potatoes

Big Chef liked the idea of Mango Chunks

Chef Pizza Pie, put in a cucumber

And it was all topped off by a nice rotten cheese from Happy Chef!

Stir and stir and stir and stir and Let’s Bake A Cake!
Let’s Bake A Cake!

Think of all the things that we like best…

A little bit of this

A little bit of that

NOW let’s put it in the oven!

 You have never seen a bigger CAKE TIN!

The cake cooked beautifully and all the chefs agreed about decoration…

‘Pink raspberry icing, cockroaches, Gummy sushi and Gummy Bologna!’

 It did look MAGNIFICENT, I’m not going to lie…But as they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so we had to try the cake to make sure our recipe was a good one and then…

‘Oh…oh…something funny is happening to me…’

 ‘ And to me…’

 ‘Wait a minute…how light was that angel cake you put in Angel Chef?’

It turned out it was cake of the of the lightest kind, so light in fact that  we all started to float up away into the air!

We floated and floated …………..until we got to the moon!!

The view from the moon was amazing and floating about the moon is of course great fun but we did have to return to the Library for our meal. Thankfully Sad Chef had her special parachute! So, we all held onto it, pulled the string and whoooooosh….we landed in a heap and we all laughed!

Our food was as usual, delicious and this week we had a wee treat of Honey Mango from Pakistan!

After that we had a fabulous Licketyspit Gallery sharing our drawings, thoughts and opinions and few very interesting book reviews and recommendations.

We were so inspired that some of us took home some books about food that the brilliant Castlemilk Librarians had found for us! I wonder if our Castlemilk Families will be cooking  some more deliciousness this weekend?

Or even next Thursday for our Porridge & Play Celebration Session?!

See you there!

 Taz, Ruby, Virginia and Castlemilk Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

The CONVENTION of Maryhill Road Chefs was in full swing this week at Community Central Hall…

Incredible Chefs were arriving from all over the world for a sensational display of terrific cooking skills!

People had gathered from far and wide to meet these incredible Chefs and to learn about their wacky creations…

With the power of a Dressing Up Bag – (our bag full of old clothes and imaginings) – our inventive families transformed themselves into characters capable of extraordinary, ordinary and beautiful things!

And today they became very special Chefs – with intriguing cooking specialities….

Violet was Cooking McCookson – who cooks sea monsters to perfection! – delish!

Xiyu was Chef Sheffle – who makes strawberry doughnuts – yum!

Shriyansh was Chef Kippa – who cooks Dinosaur Steaks – wow!

Iris was Chef Strawberry – who makes special strawberry jam with lollipops in it – very special!

Ada was Chef of Delights, a French chef – she adds her Secret Vanilla that she makes herself to all her baking -watch out for what her vanilla may do to you!

Rita was Chef Old – a ghost that can still be seen and can cook – spooky!

Thrishitha became Indian Chef – who specialises in Biryani, Chicken Biryani – funky!

Sparkle Evie Chef puts sprinkles on top of everything that she makes – cunning!

Maya was Chef Coast – who hunts sharks and fries them! – brave!

Arvin was Chef Rush – who makes luxury meals very fast – ideal!

Having all these brilliant chefs together in the same place obviously was perfect for a Big Cook Off BUT, just as the chefs were being ushered into a big kitchen,  a loud cry was heard –

‘Nooooooo! ‘ – everyone stopped in their tracks

‘Please! Please! – begged a very sad looking Chef

 ‘My name is Chef Carne! I’m ever so sad cause I’ve been given the job of baking a special Birthday Cake for a birthday girl

BUT the trouble is I’ve never baked a cake before in my life!

You see I’m a meat chef – Carne means meat, in Spanish!

‘Ooooh, I’m so worried I won’t be able to complete my mission…’

All the Chefs looked at each other with that look that says ‘we could help this poor chap, couldn’t we?’ and then with one voice they said –

‘Come into the kitchen with us!’

So they ushered Chef Carne into the kitchen and we all sat around the great big mixing bowl and the Chefs got to work!!…

‘Let’s Bake A Cake! Let’s Bake A Cake!

Think of all the things that we like best –

A little bit of this

A little bit of that

What shall we put in first?’

 Chef Kippa – chicken eggs…10 eggs

Chef Rush – Squirty honey and milk

Chef Strawberry – a jar of her special strawberry jam with lollipops inside

Chef Of Delights – her special vanilla that makes everything taste amazing, 20 drops

Chef Mermaid – smelly cheese!

Indian Chef –  chocolate cream!

Chef Sheffle – melted chocolate and flour…

This recipe is a DREAM!

 Even the Commis Chefs,  who are the newest chefs in the kitchen and still learning, were invited to collaborate on this magnificent creation!

Commis Chef Claire added Feathers and Commis Chef Emma some peaches,

 Commis Chef Yachai added lime and Commis Chef Vince hid a gold coin in!

 Then Commis Chef Scott was very precise with the addition of one single spear of asparagus!

 When it was baked the birthday cake got decorated with icing, sprinkles, Oreo and M&Ms and topped off with 8 glorious birthday candles…

And let me tell you, the birthday girl was VERY HAPPY!

Taz, Andre, Nerea and Maryhill Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

Come all, come all to Porridge & Play

You can be anyone; do anything every day!

With Funky Chicken you get to be,

Any animal you like – Yes even a flea!

A Happy Horsey or a Happy cat.

A Mad Lizard and a Scary cat!

An Angry Kangaroo and a Naughty Penguin.

– And let’s all cheer up that poor Sad penguin!

Pick a balloon of your favourite colour

Blow it up big and fly round the world

the world, the world which is best from the air!

People of all countries – they are here, here and there!

 

This is my red balloon, I blew it up and went to Antarctica,

 it was very cold; we counted to 5 and the balloon popped! OOOOOOOh!

 

Going around the world is like going outside our circle,

We saw lots of rainbows and our footsteps outside the circle,

going around and around and around…

 

The rivers, the countries, that’s a tree and that’s ME!

Pick up a balloon!

Fly wherever you want to be!

 

A very good cake just fit for a king.

We can bake you one in a blink!

And we can even sing!

Arafa added eggs,

Alan some raspberries,

Malak said –  let’s put apple in the cake!

Mohammed put 5 vanilla drops

And Summer binded it all up with flour!

‘let’s put rainbow cream in the cake! We put it on like this’

Salah showed us all :  sh-sh- sh- sh-ssssssh!

A cake for the King in a giant black castle!

And this is jelly, so so good with cake!

Also cream with the strawberries in!

Tastes delicious and on top… the king!

It is a birthday cake for the king of the castle;

Deliciously tasting of strawberry with pistachio!

 

All of us sitting together

we used ingredients for the cake –

flour, eggs, milk and many other things,

it was a delicious cake!

A castle and a cake!

There is also water here –

 And a dog inside a cave!

 

What a great Bridgeton Porridge & Play Day!

Thanks everybody for such a great Day of Play!

See you next week! When Nerea will welcome back Paul and Steven to our Licketyspit Team!

Ruby, Andre, Nerea, Virginia  & Bridgeton Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

Click on the drawings!

Our Castlemilk families have many cool moves

When they hear music they can’t stop to groove –

Let’s dance some more! For a little bit longer!

Let’s get together in a fabulous CONGA!!

We also DRESS UP with gusto and style

Combining materials and sharing smiles

Today we decided to turn into PIRATES

but colourful ones – striking like parrots!

 

Haaris turned himself into Pirate Angel,

Anusha became Spy Pirate who spies on people,

Poppy was Mermaid Pirate and she looks for cool treasure,

Zara was Pirate Pretty who looks for treasure with Pirate Mermaid,

Rumaisa  decided to be Cool Pirate.

We also had wee pirates Massi, Udo and Ammar

And wee baby Ugo was the littlest one!

We blew up a Red Magic Ball and after much discussion on possible destinations we chanted the magic words…

MAGIC BALL
MAGIC BALL
TAKE US WHEN WE WANT TO GO…WHOOOSH!!

We landed on a beach…and there must have been a party going on somewhere because we could heard music  – so we immediately danced to the beach music! We couldn’t resist!

‘We are in Hawaii, it’s great!’ – shouted Pirate Pretty.

‘Ice cream anyone? –  Spy Pirate offered.

We all wanted some ice cream – Spy Pirate had bubble gum flavour.

We went into the ocean determined to find treasure as we swam and swam and swam… BUT there was a shark in the water! And then Pirate Taz got into trouble ! So we pulled her out as fast as we could!

‘We found some diamonds!’ – Pirate Pretty & Mermaid Pirate shouted.

‘It must be part of a famous Hawaii bigger treasure! If only we had the map to look for it!’

‘We do!’

While making sense of the treasure map, we suddenly heard a grumpy voice…

‘What are you doing with MY treasure map?!’

It was a Grumpy Pirate Captain. So cross with us!  and tired and a bit cranky…

‘Get in a line! Let me look at you lot’ – she shouted.

‘I am getting on, my knees hurt and I need to find some replacement for my ship…

‘Have  you ever worked on a ship?’

‘No!’ – said we.

‘Have you ever BEEN on a ship??’

‘No…’ – we admitted.

‘Oh dear…well, let’s get you started!’

So the Captain started to boss us, shouting lots of orders we had to follow!

‘Port! Starboard! Scrub the deck! Climb the rigging! Cook my dinner!’

It was tiring but we were actually quite good at being a pirate crew…

‘Ok, let’s try out some of you…YOU!’ – she pointed at  Pirate Muhammed

Pirate Muhammad took over being the Captain – ‘Poooooort!’

Then Cool Pirate – ‘ Make a pizza!’

Then Pirate Abu – ‘Mop the floor!’

We followed  the orders to the letter… and while mopping the floor Pirate Pretty screamed –

‘It smells disgusting!’

And she was right, it did!

But after all that hard work we could finally relax –

‘I have some Funky music, let’s play and dance!’ – So we did our crazy pirate dance!

‘Now…I’ll show you all where the big treasure is…right …..under there!!’.

We dug and dug until we found a chest containing…

 2000 coins!

And rubies!

And diamonds!

‘What shall we do with all this treasure??’

‘We could buy some go-karts in Costco!’

 ‘Great idea!’

So we all headed off to the Costco in Hawaii and got ourselves super cool go-karts of different colours and went for a spin!

It was  fantastic being a pirate crew but we realised we were starting to get a bit peckish.

So, we got back into the Magic Ball and returned to Castlemilk Library to do some Reflective Drawing to remember our adventure and get some nice grub in our tummies! ARRRRGH!!!

Sarah, Taz, Nerea, Virginia and the Castlemilk Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

Our Dressing Up bag

Full of colourful rags

That turn into magic

When we mix them all up!

 

Zoe , Maya, Rita, Arvin, Ada, Iris, Zac & Xiya let us into the magic of their dressing up imaginings…

‘I’m Princess Purple and this is my long hair. It helps people to climb up high and saves animals. My favourite is cake is chocolate.’

 ‘I’m a Ghost. I’ve been a ghost for 235 years. I ghost in a haunted cave, I get some people and I turn some into ghosts, some are vampires and some are zombies.’

 ‘I’m Officer William, I put people in jail. The last person robbed money from the bank, and I set a trap with a net to catch them. My favourite cake is sponge cake.’

 ‘My name is ‘I don’t know’. I’m in jail but I did nothing…’

 ‘I’m Grannie Swamp. I live nearby a swamp. I have bug spray. I have pancakes for breakfast and I make macaroons. I live in a tree house. And my macarons are Top Shelf!’

  ‘I’m Granny Dungeon. There’s no way I’m related to Granny Swamp! I live in the Edinburgh dungeon – I pretend to be a security guard and turn my face into nothing!’

 ‘I am a king, King Lion. Princess Purple is my princess. I live in a cave with bones and blood and I eat mice. I defeated the lion that attacked your Parrot Forest.’

 ‘I’m Mr Twin, I live in the big holiday place – I go with my friend Mali and there’s a water park and I have a pool.’

 

When Pedro The Parrot found a Magic Ball that Xiyu realised was green – there was nothing else left to do but to blow it big, climb inside and….WOOSH!!!

Maya opened the zip…

‘We’ve landed at the End Of The Rainbow!!’

‘Can you all hear that??’

We could hear singing…

‘Who are you?’ – we asked

‘ I’m going on the Yellow Brick Road for an adventure; would you like to come?’

Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Follow the Yellow Brick Road, follow, follow, follow, follow the Yellow Brick Road

 ‘Oh no look at this poor Scarecrow looking so sad! How can we help you?’

‘I’m quite a stuck and I’d love to be able to dance…’

Zoe started singing a wee sweet song and we realised we needed something a bit more…funky! So we sang Grandma, Grandma from the top of our voices and it worked!! The scarecrow started to boogie!!!

‘Hey look over there! Is that a rusty old bus?’ – Arvin shouted.

We all decided to go and have a look at it. It was rusty and dirty, and it looked abandoned.

‘I can see hyenas coming this way!!’ – Zoe had spotted a pack approaching.

‘Quick, let’s clean the bus up and see if we can escape in it! – Andre suggested

‘Who can drive this though? – Taz asked but Arvin was already at the wheel!

Narrow escape –  we were all relieved and ready to carry on when we encountered… a great BIG GHOST!

But instead of being scared we felt sorry for him because he was crying in a little ghostie voice!

‘He’s a ghost called Max and he is lost. He wants to go back home, and he lives in an island next to the sea’ – our very own Ghostie/Maya translated for us.

‘Wouldn’t it be great if we could help Max out? We need a boat! – said Pedro The Parrot.

‘I have a boat in my swamp’ – said Granny Swap /Ada– ‘ I’ll quickly use my portal to go back and get it and return’

Granny’s rowing boat was magnificent! We all rowed as hard as we could while Officer Wiliam/ Ritaand Granny Dungeon/Iris kept reassuring Ghostie Max that he would be fine.  Max was delighted when we got him back to his wee island and after saying goodbye we set off for Mini Village – where everyone is TINY!

We soon discovered that when you set foot in Mini Village, YOU also become TINY! and get a squeaky wee voice! However, it turned out that the tiny villagers weren’t that happy with their sizes…

 Scarecrow/Nerea asked if we could help them like we’d helped her? So we decided to make a potion to try to make everyone normal size again…

‘Bubble Bubble toil and trouble fire burn and cauldron bubble’

 A feather from a parrot

Onion and garlic and herbs

Straweberry nd a tiger tooth

Stir, stir and stir!

It worked!!! We all went back to our usual size and we cheered and we laughed!

Then suddenly, the greenest, biggest and loveliest Green Dragon appeared to give as a lift back home.

 

some of us climbed on his back

some held onto his tail

and some travelled under his belly

and up into the sky we flew…

‘The moon, the sky and the birds and a big sun and this is trees! That was the view from the sk,y when we were riding the dragon.’ 

 

Taz, Andre, Nerea, Virginia and the Maryhill Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery