Holiday Play – Week 4

2019-07-29T15:22:56+00:00

For the fourth week of joyful Summer Holidays, we have decided to play The Bear & The Honeypot! Can you sneakily creep up on the Bear and steal the Honey Pot without being caught??! This week we are also very excited to be sharing crafts & activities kindly suggested by some of our Children & Families Network families! Read further to find out more. Tell us HOW YOU GET ON with these games and crafts and we would love to see PHOTOS & DRAWINGS of your family play time & creations to share with other families! You can send them to us by email at CFN@licketyspit.com or through social media – Facebook or Twitter! We can’t wait to hear from you! Lickety Play Card Game Activity of the week Painting Did you know that you can use various household items to make fascinating artworks?! You can use anything from sponges, straws, yarn, crumpled up tin foil to cotton balls or tied-up earbuds! Anything you like, simply dip into some paint & let your imagination run wild! Weeeee! If you don’t have any items handy you can simply FINGER PAINT which creates some unique patterns & prints! Check out these wonderful finger & earbud tree paintings by Piyanshu! Tips & Handy Hints Your children will never be bored if you always take [...]

Holiday Play – Week 42019-07-29T15:22:56+00:00

Holiday Play – Week 3

2019-07-22T11:14:28+00:00

Pirate Joke: Why pirates are awesome? Because they just AAARRR!   (he he he!) This week we are playing PIRATES! And showing how to build your own SELLOTAPE WORLD & make a musical INSTRUMENT out of JUNK! (LICKETY TIP!  If you can find an old box and keep it under a table or somewhere out of the way, you can collect junk for making things like models or collages with a bit of tape or glue to stick things together & maybe some paint! Things like cereal boxes, empty plastic bottles, cardboard tubes, tooth-paste lids & boxes! Almost anything! Then one day if you’re looking for something to do you can get put your box of junk and make something!) Please tell us HOW YOU GET ON with these games and crafts and SEND US PHOTOS & DRAWINGS of your family play time & creations so you can inspire other families! We can’t wait to hear from you! Children are the EXPERTS at play! Please email us at CFN@licketyspit.com or send it through social media – Facebook or Twitter! Lickety Play Card Game It’s a good idea to dress up as a pirate for his game! Licketyspit doesn’t buy costumes. We just collect old clothes – tops, skirts, jackets, trousers, scarves, hats, old sunglasses! - for a Dressing-Up bag or box. This kind of dressing up can let you create hundreds of different costumes [...]

Holiday Play – Week 32019-07-22T11:14:28+00:00

Holiday Play – Week 2

2019-07-15T11:10:45+00:00

This week we have some special recommendations for all ages! We are reminding you of how to play the Duck, Duck, Goose Lickety PlayCard game, showing you how to build a WORLD from paper scraps and make FUNNY ANIMALS from picnic food to make it even more delicious! Please tell us HOW YOU GET ON with these games and crafts and SEND US PHOTOS & DRAWINGS of your family play time & creations so you can inspire other families! We can’t wait to hear from you! Children are the EXPERTS at play! Please email us at CFN@licketyspit.com or send it through social media – Facebook or Twitter! Lickety Play Card Game This is a brilliant outdoor game especially good with lots of people! The bigger the circle the better the game! Who could you invite to play it with you in the park? You could invite children you see and make new friends! Activity of the week Scrap paper sculpture By Sally Price at North Edinburgh Can you build a world using just paper? Yes! Absolutely! Like lots of community spaces this Summer North Edinburgh Arts (where Licketyspit has an office!) has a Summer Programme of fun activities for children. This Wednesday we found the artist Sallie Price making PAPER WORLDS with 5 to 7-year olds. Sally has invited the Licketyspit Children & Families Network families to think [...]

Holiday Play – Week 22019-07-15T11:10:45+00:00

Holiday Play – Week 1

2019-07-09T12:24:28+00:00

We start our holiday play programme with one of children's favourites - The Funky Chicken! Do you know the Funky Chicken? Tell us HOW YOU GET ON with these games and crafts, and SEND US PHOTOS & DRAWINGS of your family play time & creations! We can’t wait to hear from you! Email us at CFN@licketyspit.com or send it through social media - Facebook or Twitter! Lickety Play Card Game Activity of the week Build a castle or a fort Do you have a spare cardboard box? You might be able to get one from a supermarket or a local grocers shop, if not! A cardboard box can easily be made into so many things - a Castle? Or a House? a Space-ship? or a Boat? Or a Bus? A Cave for a bat Or a Kennel for an imaginary Dog! You can draw or paint on the outside however you want to and cut out some windows and doors! You can use anything to be the people or animal's who live inside it! Clothes pegs? Spoons? OR Teddy’s? Dolls? Toy animals? You can cut out the front to make a TV and then you can put it on your head and read the news! If you’re lucky enough to find a giant box you can Get inside it and [...]

Holiday Play – Week 12019-07-09T12:24:28+00:00

Big Porridge & Play Ruchill Week 7

2022-07-13T15:55:08+00:00

15th June 2019 The final session in Ruchill was the last Big Porridge and Play 2019 and we were really moved and delighted to have so many people join us to send the project off in style. We had to add and extra table to fit all 44 people - plus Virginia, Rita, Jack and Ruby round the table when it came to the meal, and it was lovely to share our games, songs and story with our guests. That included loads of your great Funky Chicken animals, like the Dancing Tiger, the Shy Butteryfly and the Slithering Snake. We also played a great game of Witches Fingers, with confident cackling witches of all ages sending us from quiet suspense into laughter and joyous running off. It was clear at the beginning that having guests and a videographer there made a difference, but any shyness was soon forgotten as we got swept up in the worlds of the games. Our Grannies in Monsters' Footsteps were all very keen to tell us about the castles and caves they lived in, even the youngest ones! And everyone was focused on the game together as the grimacing trees crept towards the Grannies and they admired their un-treelike expressions! After the meal, where we enjoyed trying Emma's Jollof rice and plantain, as well as tucking into Edie and Nikki's cakes, we had another go at On Off, which never fails [...]

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Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Week 7

2022-07-13T15:56:22+00:00

13th June 2019 Our last session at the St Francis Centre was a wonderful celebration of what Porridge & Play can be, with families bringing countless delicious things to share in the meal, guests dressing up with the same gusto as everyone else, and big, collective games together in the circle. We started with Big as a Bear, during which we could hear several people joining in with the whole thing word for word. Then we played Funky Chicken, with lots of people revisiting their favourite invented animals one last time, and everyone joining in the actions - like the Happy Lion, the Sneaky Fox and the Slithery Snake.   There was an incredible level of focus on what the funny witches would say when we played Witches Fingers,and it was fantastic to have our wonderful Lickety Volunteer Saliha becoming a brilliant first witch! We sang Grandma Grandma, which was particularly enjoyed by the visitors as it's such an inclusive, feel good song for joining in the first time. Much the same could be said for Letter to my Love, kicked off by Arush and Jack, which could have gone on for hours before anyone got bored. And we finished with our story, Anoo the Alien and Jack the Deer, with a dozen people reading a line or two each round the circle. The story is a real achievement that everyone should feel so proud of, and it was lovely to end the play session with this before we sat down to eat. What a treat we had [...]

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Big Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 7

2022-07-13T15:59:11+00:00

12th June 2019 The last Big Porridge & Play 2019 at the Whiteinch library was the biggest yet - with nearly 60 of us singing, playing and dressing up together, before sitting down for a meal. It was very characteristic of the project as a whole, with a lot going on but a wonderful, vibrant energy - just like a big family party! It was great to introduce our guests to Jelly on his Head and Grandma Grandma. With loud enthusiastic singing across the circle, encouraging grandparents, neighbours and friends to join in. Lots of people took the floor to lead us in different Funky Chicken animals - like Rhiannon's Naughty Unicorn, Yu's Silly Dinosaur and Ava's Cheeky Snake. We had fun remembering the body-part names in Ickerickeroo,with even the youngest in the group joining in and concentrating intently from our Toe Pointers to our Brainboxers! Letter to my Love was really fun, with those dropping the letter taking great delight in guessing who had picked it up. Everyone really went to town with their Dressing Up - the best yet - gathering into a huddle for a quick group photo before we played our final game, Monsters' Footsteps. Here, we met Granny Carson and Granny Jennifer, and Granny Frankey and Granny Sofia, before everyone else turned into brilliant Monster Trees, dancing and creeping their way towards them. We were so thrilled that so many people wanted to bring something to share at the meal - we were certainly not short of food! From Anzelika, Frankey and [...]

Big Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 72022-07-13T15:59:11+00:00

Big Porridge & Play Ruchill Week 6

2022-07-13T15:55:17+00:00

8th June 2019 We had a really fab sixth session at the Ruchill Community Centre. You could really see how everyone has got to know each other over the last six weeks, with the group chatting away at the start of the afternoon and during the meal, and other parents supporting those with the youngest children. We all put on jam trousers and custard in Mucky Brew, which was hilarious, and went back to the Button Factory for Hello my Name is Joe. Flying Balloons was lots of peoples' favourite game. We saw a volcano, a pink and green whale and even a rocket going into space and the moon! We saw lots of little animals which turned out to be kites being flown along a beach, then one of them was lifted up into the air - with the man holding it attached, and we had to help pull him back down so he wouldn't be carried off into space! We also wrote an epic story together, sitting rapt for more than twenty minutes while Ruby helped us thread together everyone's ideas. We started with a character, a place and an object, and ended with a rich and colourful tale of adventure, revenge and inclusion. The tale of Emily and the Magic Mountain is the longest and most detailed Big Porridge & Play story yet, click here to [...]

Big Porridge & Play Ruchill Week 62022-07-13T15:55:17+00:00

Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Week 6

2022-07-13T15:57:04+00:00

6th June 2019 Week 6 at the Gorbals was a day for Pirate captains keeping things ship-shape on the open sea, storytelling and a surprise from poor Old Rodger. Everyone really at ease playing together today. We had some extremely committed Pirates, wearing fantastic costumes and really feeling like we were on a huge ship, drinking our grog and swimming away from sharks. Everyone over 5 volunteered to read some of the story we wrote together last week, which was really special - a beautiful, focused moment. Anoo the Alien and Jack the Deer also appeared in some of the Reflective Drawing, as well as “a butterfly high in the sky all the way to the moon” (3 year old) We also sent a Letter to our Love to everyone’s great amusement – this along with Balloons is an absolute favourite. There were huge smiles all round in Old Rodger and it was great to see how much the parents were supporting the children to get involved in planting the tree and tumbling down the apples. This was mirrored in the songs, where those who have been coming to Porridge & Play for longer were really making people laugh with their full-bodied renditions of Jelly on his Head. Everyone was really excited for the Celebration session and keen to bring lots of exciting homemade food. Everyone was also delighted that Saliha brought some Turkish Delight to share following Eid celebrations.   What you said... [...]

Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Week 62022-07-13T15:57:04+00:00

Big Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 6

2022-07-13T16:01:45+00:00

5th June 2019 With our sessions drawing to a close we want to make sure our last Big Porridge & Play afternoons together are fantastic! On Wednesday at Whiteinch Library we had exactly that! We had such an enjoyable afternoon of play together! Ruby and Jack were joined by Iona as again everyone braved the horrible weather outside to make it to the library. We had the best Big as a Bear in Whiteinch yet. As soon as we started our warm-up, everyone was joining in with some brilliant actions too! We were so happy to see how well you have all learned this, as well as all the other songs and games! This is a great one to teach your family and friends at home and school! After last week’s brilliant story creation with Ruby we absolutely loved hearing your story again this week – Kitty the Clown & the Naughty Seagull. Taking it in turns to read brilliantly, there was a great deal of respect shown by the rest of the group as everyone listened so well! We were so impressed by this and we can’t wait for you to show your invited guests how hard you all worked on this! The story of Kitty the Clown was our inspiration this week, as we took turns in showing off our best and most exciting circus skills! With [...]

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