Picnic & Play : CULTURE in GLASGOW

2026-10-19T16:25:57+00:00

Discover what’s free to do with your family in our city! This October holiday Licketyspit families from Maryhill and Castlemilk hubs joined Picnic & Play CULTURE at the intriguing Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art also known as GoMA! GoMA is a fantastic free museum where you can go to discover exhibitions of paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, videos, and digital art by artists from all over the world – including of course many of the most exciting new artists in Scotland. The people at GoMa want everyone to come and be inspired by art and to think and talk about it! They want GoMa to be place for people to gather, to learn and to share creative ideas. At the very top of the Gallery, on the 5th floor there’s a fabulous Studio. All the walls are covered with paintings in the most beautiful colours. The view from the giant windows of the Glasgow rooftops is exciting! We were welcomed by Chloe who works there. Chloe was great at telling us bits and bobs about the impressive building, the artworks and about the ways an artist’s imagination can get going…in fact….it turns out Storyplay is a perfect way to get everyone inspired to make Art! We got in our circle to warm up, play a fun Name Game and a round of Funky Chicken [...]

Picnic & Play : CULTURE in GLASGOW2026-10-19T16:25:57+00:00

Picnic & Play : CULTURE in GLASGOW

2026-10-19T16:24:16+00:00

Discover what’s free to do with your family in our city! This October holiday Licketyspit families from all our hubs joined Picnic & Play CULTURE at the fascinating Hunterian Zoology Museum inside Glasgow University! The Zoology Museum has been at the heart of the Graham Kerr Building since it opened in 1923! (over 100 years ago!) The displays are used to teach students as part of their classes today and the public is also welcome to come in and enjoy them – for free! Licketyspit spoke to Ruth and Eleni – who work for the Zoology Museum, and we all thought our Licketyspit families would sure enjoy bringing Storyplay to this brilliant place. But what does zoology mean? Let’s have a good look at that word – ZOOlogy. Mmm…what do you find in a ZOO? Animals! ZOOLOGY is the scientific study of animals and their behaviour – so it makes sense that this museum is used to teach people about the animal world. What an incredible place to STORYPLAY – we had a warm up and we played a round of The Name Game as families had come from Maryhill, Cranhill and Bridgeton and is always good to remind each other of our names and then…  Do you know The Funky Chicken? What did you say??!! We were at the perfect place for [...]

Picnic & Play : CULTURE in GLASGOW2026-10-19T16:24:16+00:00

Picnic & Play : CULTURE in GLASGOW

2026-10-19T16:22:14+00:00

Discover what’s free to do with your family in our city! This October holiday Licketyspit families from all our hubs joined Picnic & Play CULTURE at the fascinating Hunterian Zoology Museum inside Glasgow University! The Zoology Museum has been at the heart of the Graham Kerr Building since it opened in 1923! (over 100 years ago!) The displays are used to teach students as part of their classes today and the public is also welcome to come in and enjoy them – for free! Licketyspit spoke to Ruth and Eleni – who work for the Zoology Museum, and we all thought our Licketyspit families would sure enjoy bringing Storyplay to this brilliant place. But what does zoology mean? Let’s have a good look at that word – ZOOlogy. Mmm…what do you find in a ZOO? Animals! ZOOLOGY is the scientific study of animals and their behaviour – so it makes sense that this museum is used to teach people about the animal world. But what did our Licketyspit friends think about our visit? The museum surely got our pals inspired! Check out the Funky Chicken animals they created - Abisha came up with The Spinning Giraffe and Aila imagined the Silly Eagle. Arvin gave us the Squealing Pig and Ruth created a Squeaky Mouse. Mali turned into the Speaking Butterfly and Arvin also [...]

Picnic & Play : CULTURE in GLASGOW2026-10-19T16:22:14+00:00

Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW

2026-05-05T14:24:34+00:00

Discovering what’s free to do with your family in your city! We are very lucky to have fantastic museums and cultural venues in our city and many of them are free! Picnic & Play is all about taking Storyplay out in the world - we sometimes go to beaches, other times to lochs or parks but we also love to go to museums! Picnic & Play in Glasgow is all about families taking local public transport to travel to enjoy Storyplay and a delicious picnic with Licketyspit at one of our wonderful Glasgow Museums - we have been to Kelvingrove Galleries, Gallery of Modern Art, the Tall Ship and this Easter we are having brilliant Storyplay at the Riverside Museum - the museum of Transport! Since Picnic & Play is all about exploring other places through Storyplay we thought that makes us STORYPLAY Explorers! And so our intrepid families imagined themselves beautifully with the help of Dressing up and turned themselves into a very vibrant bunch ready to discover all sorts of things using our Magic Ball… Magic Ball, Magic Ball Takes us where we want to go! Whooooooosh! A Magic Ball Adventure poem Explorer Sandwich Hat, Explorer Pine Man, Explorer Shoes and Explorer Paris Artist, Explorer Plotato , Explorer Blue Dragon, Explorer Ruby & the Archaeologist Explorer Cristal,  Explorer Lily , Explorer Dog [...]

Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW2026-05-05T14:24:34+00:00

Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW

2026-05-05T13:45:26+00:00

Discovering what’s free to do with your family in your city! We are very lucky to have fantastic museums and cultural venues in our city and many of them are free! Picnic & Play is all about taking Storyplay out in the world - we sometimes go to beaches, other times to lochs or parks but we also love to go to museums! Picnic & Play in Glasgow is all about families taking local public transport to travel to enjoy Storyplay and a delicious picnic with Licketyspit at one of our wonderful Glasgow Museums - we have been to Kelvingrove Galleries, Gallery of Modern Art, the Tall Ship and this Easter we are having brilliant Storyplay at the Riverside Museum - the museum of Transport! Since Picnic & Play is all about exploring other places through Storyplay we thought that makes us STORYPLAY Explorers! And so our intrepid families imagined themselves beautifully with the help of Dressing up and turned themselves into a very vibrant bunch ready to discover all sorts of things using our Magic Ball… Magic Ball, Magic Ball Takes us where we want to go! Whooooooosh! A Magic Ball Adventure recalled by Poppy, Jesé, Deon, Zara, Taz, Kim & Caroline When Poppy opened the Magic Ball’s zipper she shouted – ‘ITS A FOREST!!!’. The trees were big and beautiful but suddenly [...]

Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW2026-05-05T13:45:26+00:00

Licketyspit’s WINTER CEIDLIH

2025-12-16T18:30:19+00:00

Licketyspit’s Winter Ceilidh 2025 was a HOOT! We had a fabulous gathering with live music, delicious food, hilarious dressing up, high energy dancing and lots and lots of friends! Saturday afternoon in Glasgow was wet, windy, cold and rather dark but the Community Central Hall in Maryhill was full of warmth, music, laughter and imagination at Licketyspit’s Winter Ceilidh!  Families from our Licketyspit Hubs in Bridgeton, Castlemilk, Cranhill, Whiteinch, Govan, Maryhill and Online arrived ready to have a joyful time and celebrate the great year of imaginary play we have enjoyed together. Our Licketyspit APs and volunteers got the hall cheerfully decorated and put together some tasty food for all our guests - samosas, pakoras, fresh fruit, fresh bread, cheese, tomatoes & cucumbers, hummus, tzatziki and a nice selection of little cakes and hot chocolate with marshmallows for all. It was so brilliant to have The John Somerville Ceilidh band returning to our Winter Ceilidh to play beautiful tunes and help us all with our Ceilidh dancing - some of the children were helping some of the grownups with the dances too! A great thing about Ceilidh dancing is that you get to learn many different steps and also you get to dance with so many different friends - perfect really so you can have a wee dance with pretty much everyone!   [...]

Licketyspit’s WINTER CEIDLIH2025-12-16T18:30:19+00:00

FOREST STORYPLAY back for October Holiday Week!

2025-10-23T10:15:23+00:00

We came from Whiteinch, we came from Maryhill. We all live in Glasgow; we love a picnic! And do you know what else we all love to do? We love to Storyplay at The Children’s Wood! At Forest Storyplay October Holiday Week Licketyspit families got together to enjoy playing outdoors and The Children’s Wood is an absolute favourite place for it! Whiteinch and Maryhill families enjoyed another fabulous day out playing, sharing food and learning about fire & cooking with Andrea! Funky Chicken was very inventive - we even learnt about a new animal with Yasna! Frankie showed us The Saxophone Playing Turtle and Maya told us about The Cheeky Dog. Yasna introduced us to The Titanboa and Ibraheem knew The Angry Fly! Aveen showed us The Dancing Crab and Andzelika told us about The Dancing Fish. And Shirley & Arvin together showed us The Silly Pinguin!. We flew high up in the sky with our Flying Balloons and from up there we saw water, a ship and pirates on the ship! Then Maha spotted the pyramids and realised we were over Egypt! We decided to fly down with our Flying Balloons to get some treasure from the pirate ship! The treasure we found was real coins and chocolate coins of different flavours! Suddenly a Pirate appeared and shouted: ⁠‘Oi! This is my [...]

FOREST STORYPLAY back for October Holiday Week!2025-10-23T10:15:23+00:00

FOREST STORYPLAY back for October Holiday Week!

2025-10-23T09:45:49+00:00

Be anyone, go anywhere, do anything outdoors at The Children’s Wood!   On Wednesday this October Holiday Week some of our friends from Castlemilk came over for a day of imaginary play outdoors, food sharing, friend meeting and campfire action with Licketyspit and Andrea from The Children’s Wood. What a fun day outdoors! Playing Funky Chicken our friends transformed quick as a flash and before we knew it Fiire was the Funny Flamingo and Timi was the Hungry Dinosaur! Mohammed was the Naughty Robot and Gabbie the Happy Axolotl! Desi became the Crying Dinosaur and Kieran the Cool Cat. Sayeda turned into the Crazy Dog and Ammar into the Scary Dog! Ryan was the Jumpy Frog while Danylo was the Yellow Chick. Malcolm roared like the Lazy Lion, Pemi became the Lazy Squid called George and Abu turned into the Angry Gorilla! We blew our Balloons so big that we flew up in the sky - Desi spotted mountains with witches eating chicken wings While Gabbie saw adorable bees asleep, Abu could see donuts – big donuts! And Pemi showed us a dragon with silver titanium teeth, green eyes and green acid coming out of his nose! Desi could also see flying donuts that could drop zombies!! We had to fly down for a donut after all that donut chat and while we were [...]

FOREST STORYPLAY back for October Holiday Week!2025-10-23T09:45:49+00:00

FOREST STORYPLAY back for October Holiday Week!

2025-10-17T16:27:41+00:00

Over The Children’s Wood we flew - Up, up, up with our Flying Balloons! We saw a boat going along, we saw small trees, we saw a big dark sea monster and a rainbow snake with a lollipop!   The Children’s Wood truly is a favourite spot for us at Licketyspit and we LOVED our Forest Storyplay sessions this October Holiday Week! On Tuesday families came from our Bridgeton Hub and Cranhill Hub for a day of play, friends, food and nature - what a hoot!  We danced, played Funky Chicken and had a brilliant Flying Balloons adventure. We all became Rainbow Snakes using our brilliant technique for Dressing Up - in old any old clothes we can wear in such fabulous ways that we can be anyone and anything we can imagine! While we made ourselves as dapper as cool Rainbow Snakes this Mean Woman suddenly appeared shouting at us all asking - ‘Are you all here for the Rainbow Snake audition? Are you?! Hurry up we don’t have all day!’ Suddenly we found ourselves auditioning for this Mean Woman and her Photographer assistant! ‘You, you and you! Step forward! Ok, what are your audition pieces??’ Of course we didn’t know what she meant. But she carried on bossing us about saying - ‘Can you dance or sing, or at least can you [...]

FOREST STORYPLAY back for October Holiday Week!2025-10-17T16:27:41+00:00

Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW

2026-05-05T13:51:48+00:00

Discovering what’s free to do with your family in your city! We are very lucky to have fantastic museums and cultural venues in our city and many of them are free! Picnic & Play is all about taking Storyplay out in the world - we sometimes go to beaches, other times to lochs or parks but we also love to go to museums! Picnic & Play in Glasgow is all about families taking local public transport to travel to enjoy Storyplay and a delicious picnic with Licketyspit at one of our wonderful Glasgow Museums - we have been to Kelvingrove Galleries, Gallery of Modern Art, the Tall Ship and this Easter we are having brilliant Storyplay at the Riverside Museum - the museum of Transport! Since Picnic & Play is all about exploring other places through Storyplay we thought that makes us STORYPLAY Explorers! And so our intrepid families imagined themselves beautifully with the help of Dressing up and turned themselves into a very vibrant bunch ready to discover all sorts of things using our Magic Ball… Magic Ball, Magic Ball Takes us where we want to go! Whooooooosh! A Magic Ball Adventure narrated by Storyplay Champion - Arvin (aged 9) We got out of the magic ball and we saw a wild boar but luckily we got away into a pack of trees. [...]

Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW2026-05-05T13:51:48+00:00

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