St Martha’s P2 Session 1

2020-03-02T17:07:42+00:00

Tuesday 25th February 2020 What an exciting day we had at St Martha’s STORYPLAY on Tuesday! We met the P2’s for the very first time and introduced a brilliant and creative class to our Playcard Play sessions! We made ourselves as Big as a Bear and as Fast as a Hare! Can you remember any of the animals we pretended to be?! We got to know the Funky Chicken and Dayle told us about the Stomping Dinosaur! Sumia introduced us to the Angry Cheetah and Motaz welcomed the Scary Tiger! We had a great time meeting Blaine’s Laughing Rhino too! We took a trip high in the sky in Flying Balloons and we saw some amazing things down below. Karam luckily warned us about the Rocket launch and we safely watched it from our balloons! Phew! Kristian saw his Dad, Brother and Grandma in Trinidad and Tobago and we all waved at them from our Balloons! Aleen’s balloon took her high above Syria and Brayden showed us the giant stomping through the river trying to catch the Pirate Ship sailing on the seven seas! The class cackled liked a witch! Mwhahahahaaaa! And they ran away when our Witches drank a bottle of… POISON! Ruby told the class all about her Grandma and we learned a new song and some new dance moves! Can you remember how the song goes? [...]

St Martha’s P2 Session 12020-03-02T17:07:42+00:00

St Martha’s P1 Session 1

2020-03-02T13:20:42+00:00

Tuesday 25th February 2020 We had a fantastic first session of STORYPLAY with Primary 1 at St Martha's Primary this week! Primary One and Mrs Reid all threw themselves into the start of the Storyplay residency on Tuesday! We were all as BIG as a BEAR and as FAST as a HARE! We did the Flying Allacorn, the Scary Lion, the Silly Crocodile, the Angry Bee & the Funky Chicken! We all flew high over Glasgow and the world in our multi-coloured Flying Balloons – before the Naughty Seagull popped them! We saw dragons flying past the moon! We dressed ourselves up in fabulous costumes! Mrs Reid and children were Witches and we met some marvellous grannies living in castles in the forest keeping an eye out for the Monster trees! (Granny Hannah showed us her home-made pickled onions!). We travelled to Jupiter in the Magic Ball, put on our flying capes and met an alien in a cave where we ate mushrooms and ice-cream! We helped another alien fix her spaceship. We had a picnic and we jumped into a crater and fell down into the sea to swim! It just shows that in our imaginations we can be anyone, go anywhere and do anything and that all we need to play like this is each other! We had a fantastic Lickety Art Gallery! [...]

St Martha’s P1 Session 12020-03-02T13:20:42+00:00

Storyplay is Starting at Miltonbank & St Martha’s!

2020-02-20T12:16:49+00:00

18th February 2020 We are very excited to be starting STORYPLAY at Miltonbank Primary later this month and St Martha's Primary at the start of March! Virginia has already met the teachers and delivered Storyplay CPD. We'll be doing LicketyLeap and Porridge & Play with families at Miltonbank and Playcard Play at both schools, with Celebration Assemblies planned for the last week of March. Visit the Miltonbank and St Martha's Storyplay pages for more details of what we’re doing at your school and blog updates once we've started! To find out more about Storyplay, click here. To join the Children & Families Network return the form to school or join online here.

Storyplay is Starting at Miltonbank & St Martha’s!2020-02-20T12:16:49+00:00

Picnic & Play at the CCH

2020-02-18T12:20:10+00:00

9th Feb 2020 We had a very friendly, relaxed Picnic & Play at the CCH with 42 people (14 families) on Sunday, to mark #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek. Newcomers to Lickety Play took to the session brilliantly and everyone was very supportive and warm towards one another. It was also great to see some families from St Mary's Storyplay, and from our sessions with the Scottish Refugee Council. Highlights included the focused concentration of Witches Fingers, the confident animals from across the room in Funky Chicken, and of course, the wonderful Dressing Up! Scenes from Flying Balloons appeared in many of the Reflective Drawings - including sharks, Saturn, elephants and Darshan's Dad's Red Castle! Thank you all for joining us for our first Picnic & Play of 2020, where we we saw the innate kindness, generosity and creativity of our communities in action, with everyone participating and lots of smiles. Children's Feedback Everyone was taking part and we all had a lot of fun. Today was so much fun. I will definitely come again! (10 year-old) Shidvik - that's an elephant with me and my sis on top. I see the balloon high flying. I would like to fly to Scotland! I liked having my sister to play with. And in my other drawing I have a funky chicken and a flower and a lion! (4 year-old) It's me flying [...]

Picnic & Play at the CCH2020-02-18T12:20:10+00:00

Picnic & Play Spring 2020

2024-06-05T15:40:51+00:00

16th January 2020Catch up on the Spring 2020 Picnic & Play sessions here! With sessions at the Dream Machine,Hidden Gardens, Museum of Scotland and more, we had so much fun with imaginary playand exploration in some of the most exciting arts and culture venues in Edinburgh and Glasgow This spring we are playing at:  Community Central Halls Dream Machine, Glasgow See pics from our Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Trip to the Dream Machine here. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh Hidden Gardens, Glasgow Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh Kelvin Meadow, Glasgow

Picnic & Play Spring 20202024-06-05T15:40:51+00:00

Licketyspit Xmas Round-up 2019

2025-04-02T23:45:35+00:00

20th December Merry Christmas from Licketyspit! Read & download the whole 2019 round-up here! Scroll down to see our 2019 timeline. Timeline 2019 January   New Website Launch Virginia to Philadelphia  for IPAY Conference Storyplay Residency Part 2 at Riverside Primary, Govan   February-March Storyplay Taster Residency at Ibrox Primary, Govan Storyplay Residency Year 3, Part 2 at Oakwood Primary, Easterhouse Storyplay Residency Year 2, Part 2 at  St Mary's Primary, Maryhill April-June  Big Porridge & Play Glasgow Year 3 (+ 3 taster sessions) June Mothersong Pilot July North Edinburgh Arts Summer Play sessions August  Licketyspit moved to our new Glasgow home at Community Central Hall, Maryhill Road! September  Storyplay Residency Year 3 at St Mary's Primary, Maryhill (LicketyLeap, Porridge & Play, Playcard Play) October  Big Porridge & Play Glasgow Year 3 Celebration Picnic & Play 2 at Riverside Museum; Tall Ship; North Edinburgh Arts; Modern Art Gallery Edinburgh   November  Picnic & Play 2 at WHALE Arts CFN Trip with Caravan Project Big Days Out to the Glasgow Film Theatre December CFN Trip to the Panto at Community Central Halls NWRC LicketyTale of Molly Whuppie

Licketyspit Xmas Round-up 20192025-04-02T23:45:35+00:00

Licketyspit’s Book Week Scotland Competition

2019-12-03T14:29:24+00:00

3rd December 2019 Congratulations to Licketyspit's Book Week Scotland Competition Winners! To celebrate Book Week Scotland 2019, we invited CFN members to send us a photo of a drawing/painting their child had done, inspired by their favourite book or story. The prizes were copies of our Wee Witches and Molly Whuppie books! You can explore and buy these here. The books are based on our shows - you can see more about all of our shows here. Thanks so much to all the entrants and CONGRATULATIONS to winners Georgina, Duncan and Cassandra! You can see the winning artworks below, inspired by Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus, Room on the Broom, and Peppa Pig. Good recommendations from the Children & Families Network! Cassandra, 6 Georgina, 5 Duncan, 4

Licketyspit’s Book Week Scotland Competition2019-12-03T14:29:24+00:00

FILM: BIG Porridge & Play Glasgow 2019

2020-01-31T16:18:44+00:00

What happened in BIG Porridge & Play Glasgow 2019? A video introduction to BPPG 2019 from Artistic Director & CEO of Licketyspit, Virginia Radcliffe. With support from Jennifer at Whiteinch! Film credit: Jonathan Ley. Look out for more clips coming soon!

FILM: BIG Porridge & Play Glasgow 20192020-01-31T16:18:44+00:00

Picnic & Play Autumn 2019

2020-01-27T17:14:51+00:00

6th November 2019 Catch up on all of our Picnic & Play sessions  so far this autumn! Click on the pictures to see more! Picnic & Play at the Riverside Museum 12th October 2019 Picnic & Play at North Edinburgh Arts 17th October 2019 Picnic & Play at the Tall Ship 20th October 2019 Picnic & Play at the Modern Art Gallery 27th October 2019 Picnic & Play at WHALE Arts 9th November 2019 Picnic & Play is a Licketyspit Children & Families Network (CFN) project which aims to bring families with experience of the Lickety Playcard games together to play and explore new parts of their city. Partner venues - like museums, galleries and parks - introduce participating families to their activities, and Licketyspit creates trails, games and play ideas to help families explore the venues after the family play session. Picnic & Play is made possible thanks to Awards for All funding from the National Lottery. Priority is given to members of the CFN when allocating places, and to families from our Storyplay Schools.

Picnic & Play Autumn 20192020-01-27T17:14:51+00:00

P1b Porridge & Play at St Marys

2019-11-18T11:14:58+00:00

02 October 2019 Last month, Primary 1b shared some of the Lickety Playcard games they had learnt with lots of their families! - We played Big as a Bear, Funky Chicken (where we met a Feathery Peacock and a Funny Elephant!), Witches Fingers and Pirates! It was great to get to play outside in the blustery sunshine. Here are some things the children said about their Reflective Drawings in the Gallery... C - A cat or a caterpillar - you have to guess! A lion! I liked the food bit. Banana. S - you have to guess! Mum! I liked the dressing up bit. L & Mum - This is Ls family walking in the park - favourite part was coming in here for the food. O - This is a ninja and this is me and that is the bad guy. Y - It's Y running outside, fave game witches fingers. A - This is me, that's the rainbow and the sun and my dad and mum and my house. R - This is the table where we all have our lovely food - I loved all of the lovely food. We asked...What do you think your child will get from an experience like Porridge & Play? You said.... Confidence Learn to express himself more and build his confidence. Can meet [...]

P1b Porridge & Play at St Marys2019-11-18T11:14:58+00:00

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