Licketyspit’s Castlemilk Sunny Day Cake! 

2022-03-28T14:41:19+00:00

Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 3 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 23rd March Licketyspit's Castlemilk Sunny Day Cake Recipe INGREDIENTS: 3 Licketyspit actors 7 families 22 children 1 big enough space Your  amazing imaginations! METHOD: -Walk about your community and get to your nearest Community Centre. -Say hi to everyone and find the Porridge & Play room - Enjoy a lovely bowl of soup & bread, fresh fruit and juice while you have a catch up with your friends - Make a nice BIG CIRCLE so you can see everyone and everyone can see you! - Warm up your body, voice and brain with Big As A Bear - Have a round of Funky Chicken - Dress up in old clothes to create a fabulous character like, for example, a Crazy Chef - Sit in your Big Circle in front of the biggest imaginary mixing bowl you’ve ever encountered and get all the Chefs to add in any ingredients that takes their fancy! - Mix it all up, transfer to the big cake tin and bake in the oven! By Taz, Andre & our Castlemilk [...]

Licketyspit’s Castlemilk Sunny Day Cake! 2022-03-28T14:41:19+00:00

Grannies and Monsters in the deep deep forest!!

2022-03-24T10:17:53+00:00

Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 2 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 16th March In a Haunted House with cobwebs, and maybe even some spiders but no ghosts, lived three Grannies: Granny Arwa, Granny Hadir and Granny Mosaab. Granny Summer was just visiting. Grannies Emma, Levi and Jared lived in a tree house and in their garden they grew all types of veg and in their orchard they had bananas and strawberries and even blueberries. However their favourite breakfast was still corn flakes! Granny Bunny and Granny Areeb lived in a mansion by the trees at the bottom of their garden, the ones at the edge of the Deep Deep Forest. But the trees, the tress hold a secret! They turn into slowly creeping MONSTERS when the Grannies are not looking! The Castlemilk Hub pals dressed up with terrific gusto! They strutted their stuff about and made themselves into mysterious looking trees that turned into monsters when the intrepid Grannies were busy cooking breakfast…We had the Desire Bush and the Pemi Tree, the Ife, Nicola and Michelle Trees were mysterious and funny! The Catherine and Freya [...]

Grannies and Monsters in the deep deep forest!!2022-03-24T10:17:53+00:00

Can you hear the Monster’s Footsteps?!!

2022-03-24T10:22:24+00:00

Find out what the Cranhill  group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales!  Blog posts are written by Effie! Week 2 of Cranhill Porridge & Play!! Thursday 17th March What a wonderful second session!  Our carrot & coriander soup was very popular today with second helpings all round - it is always lovely to sit around the table as we share a meal and catch up on what all our families have been doing during the week. After we’d eaten it was time to play some games - we met some truly wonderful animals in the Funky Chicken, particularly Josephine’s Snapping Crocodile, Amelia’s Cheeky Lion and Beauty’s Beautiful Goat. I can’t wait to see what animals you all come up with next week! After that it was time to dress up and head into the forest to play Monster’s Footsteps. We met loads of grannies living in the forest with strange trees at the bottom of their garden, that seemed to turn into monsters and start creeping towards us. We had dancing trees, scary trees and lots of giggly trees but none of the grannies were scared at all! Granny Fatima, who lives with her baby monkey in a treehouse was far [...]

Can you hear the Monster’s Footsteps?!!2022-03-24T10:22:24+00:00

Week 2 of Porridge & Play Bridgeton!!

2022-03-25T12:24:57+00:00

Find out what the Bridgeton group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales! Blog posts are written by André! Week 2 of Bridgeton Porridge & Play!! Friday 18th March We had an amazing time on Friday 18th March with our lovely Porridge and Play families! We sang lots of fun songs & rhymes together and it was a delight to see everyone playing. We played some of our favourite games including Big as a Bear, Funky Chicken, Hello, My Name Is Joe, Dressing Up, Witches Fingers, Jelly On His Head and Grandma Grandma! What a week packed full of fun! Once again we had a glorious spread of food to share round the table which gives all our families time to catch up and talk to one another about the week they’ve had. We love having conversations with all of our families and hearing about how our games are being played at home,  Moira said “They wee tunes are catching, I will be hearing them in my sleep!” We heard some of you love playing Funky Chicken before bed! Leeanne said that “Lexi’s been playing all week, she keeps shouting “Do you know the Funky Chicken?’ at me when we’re walking down the street and I [...]

Week 2 of Porridge & Play Bridgeton!!2022-03-25T12:24:57+00:00

Storyplay for the Planet Zine

2022-08-18T16:00:56+00:00

Welcome to the Storyplay For The Planet blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. Saturday 12th March 2022 Our celebration & zine launch on Saturday was a brilliant way to finish our Storyplay for the Planet project. We have had a truly fantastic time over the last few months meetings families from all over Glasgow Centre East Ward and hearing their creative ideas and solutions to help us tackle Climate Change. We put this zine together but the ideas inside came from each and every family who came along and shared with us at our school, nursery, community and outdoor sessions. At our celebration session, we did our warm up and met some Funky Animals and then we went flying in our balloons to show our guests the kind of things that we saw over the last few months! We flew high up over the sky and when we looked down we saw a dirty, muddy, smelly river. Well…. we couldn’t allow that! So we landed our balloons and got to work cleaning out the muck. We had tubes to suck out all the oil, we had bin bags to recycle all the rubbish and when it was clean we were able to go for a swim. The water was [...]

Storyplay for the Planet Zine2022-08-18T16:00:56+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Bridgeton Hub!!

2022-03-21T13:03:56+00:00

Find out what the Bridgeton group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales!  Blog posts are written by André! Week 1 of Bridgeton Porridge & Play!! Friday 11th March We have had so much fun at our first Porridge and Play Bridgeton session on Friday 11th March at the wonderful Church House where we played all sorts of games outside with our coats and jackets on but not before we had a lovely feast with soup, bread and fruit all around the same table! The session was fun and it was so much fun to meet again with all our families! We really loved seeing all the fantastic grown-ups fully taking part! Seeing Moria take part in Funky Chicken was a real highlight. We sang our rhymes load and proud shouting out Big as a Bear! Right from the start. It was so lovely to see you all again and we can’t wait for even more weeks of fun! Funky Chicken a whole lot of fun where we meet lots of cool animals! It was a pleasure to see adults and children playing together! We loved hearing Sulman say ‘Do you know the Donkey?’ and what an amazingly fun Donkey it [...]

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Bridgeton Hub!!2022-03-21T13:03:56+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Cranhill Hub!!

2022-03-21T13:05:39+00:00

Find out what the Cranhill  group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales!  Blog posts are written by Effie! Week 1 of Cranhill Porridge & Play!! Thursday 10th March Porridge and Play is back!!!   We had a fantastic first session at Cranhill Development Trust with all of the families who came to join us. It was an absolute delight to see the families playing together and getting stuck in to having fun. After we warmed up and met loads of Funky Animals we went flying in our Balloons and that’s when things really got interesting! As we were floating up in the sky we looked down and Heather saw a dinosaur and a lion hanging out together. When we looked a little closer Ryan saw some other animals heading towards them and we realised they were having a birthday party! We decided we better land our Flying Balloons and take a look but we couldn’t turn up to a party empty handed so we worked together to bake a cake. ‘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 [...]

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Cranhill Hub!!2022-03-21T13:05:39+00:00

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Castlemilk Hub!!

2022-03-14T13:12:48+00:00

Find out what the Castlemilk group get up to in their Porridge & Play Hub adventures each week! Porridge & Play is running throughout 2022 with this six week block being the first of many great tales!  Blog posts are written by TAZ! Week 1 of Castlemilk Porridge & Play!! Wednesday 9th March The cheers were so loud I bet you everyone could hear it across Castlemilk! We opened the Castlemilk Porridge & Play hub on Wednesday 9th March and let me tell you, we had a fabulous turn out. 10 families from Castlemilk got together at Castlemilk Community Center to eat, hang out and play together. We have a lovely big room at the centre with big windows and plenty of space to set up a big table for all to sit and tuck into some delicious fruit and a homemade vegetable soup with fresh bread! All while having a catch up and getting to know each other. Circles are great to see everyone and for everyone to see you! Our Castlemilk circle sure was big on our first session together! We had Anita, Ameerah, Amina, Sarim, Areeb, Huma, Eshal, Ayra, Ife, Fiire, Pemi, Desire, Baby Timmy, Emma, Jared, Levi, Caroline, Summer, Catherine, Freya, Amira, Arwa, Hadir, Marwah, Aryam, Ibrahim, Sayeda, & Abu! Plus our fantastic Storyplay Champions Nicole & Michelle who made everyone [...]

Welcome to the Porridge & Play Castlemilk Hub!!2022-03-14T13:12:48+00:00

In Storyplay City I sent a Letter to my Love!

2022-03-11T12:18:06+00:00

Welcome to the Storyplay Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. Storyplay City is back It was wonderful to see lots of our Storyplay Champions back again for more imaginary play adventures! We also met some new friends who recently joined our Children & Families Network - welcome to the family! These online sessions have now finished, with this weeks blog on what our final week was like! We will let you know when our next sessions start in May as part of Big Porridge & Play Glasgow! This week's blogs are by Andre & Taz! On Saturday... Writing letters and messages are a great way to express our feelings in creative, engaging and interesting ways. We can write letters to show our appreciation for loved ones like friends, family members, teachers and people who mean a lot to us, or even as a thank you to someone who has helped us. Another reason to write a letter is to give feedback and we love love loved hearing about all the how you felt about our Licketyspit sessions. In this session, we played Letter to My love which was incredible and so heartwarming to see everyone get involved with Sidhivk writing his letter to his mum and [...]

In Storyplay City I sent a Letter to my Love!2022-03-11T12:18:06+00:00

Bakers, Minions & Angry Armadillos!

2022-03-07T11:09:26+00:00

Welcome to the Storyplay Online blog, where we share the stories of all the adventures we've had! Get in touch to find out how to join. Storyplay City is back It was wonderful to see lots of our Storyplay Champions back again for more imaginary play adventures! We also met some new friends who recently joined our Children & Families Network - welcome to the family! These online sessions are supported by Glasgow Communities Fund and take place on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. This week's blogs are by Andre & Taz! On Saturday... This week we had amazingly creative funky chicken animals like the Undecidable Lion by Adeelah and Muizza’s Angry Armadillo. Afterwards, we had a chat about Armadillos incorporating learning into fun play. After the session, we decided to look more into this animal and share what we have learned. “Armadillos are small mammals related to sloths and anteaters. They have a tough armor that protects them from enemies and other dangers. The word armadillo is Spanish for “little armored one.” "Armadillos have a heavy build with short legs and strong, curved claws. There are 20 species, or types, of armadillo. They live mainly in or near hot regions of Central and South America. One species lives in the southern United States. Most species live in open areas, but some live in forests. Armadillos [...]

Bakers, Minions & Angry Armadillos!2022-03-07T11:09:26+00:00

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