Castlemilk Blog! 2nd October 2025 Do you know Porridge & Play Castlemilk? What did you say? Each week we meet to Storyplay! Games and rhymes and songs and books Click the links and have a look! This week we played Let’s Bake a Cake with Bakers from all over the place. There was Baker Bella and Baker Beans. Baker Naughty Cookies and Baker Mushroom. 
Baker Silly Billy Shake Bake and Baker Pumpkin pie. And many other bakers besides! What a cake these bakers made, with skeletons, worms and pancakes. Strawberry donuts and chocolate too, bubblegum, pink rabbits and ducks and white paint. Lava rocks gave the cake a crunch. We cut a slice and had a munch! What an imaginative cake indeed. This week we also had time to read. We read a book about a king who baked and cooked like anything! Inside each book there’s a whole world to explore, you could go there in the Magic Ball! Keep reading and Storyplaying while we’re gone. But we’ll be back before too long! Next time Porridge & Play Castlemilk will be back next year. In the meantime, look out for WhatsApp messages from us about other Storyplay activities around the city. Use your playcards and resources on our website to support Storyplay at home. Click on the playcards to play with us online. [...]

Castlemilk Blog! 25th September 2025 We’re off, we’re off to play outside! Behind a great big tree we’ll hide From sharks that move beneath the waves Under the trees we’ll laugh and play! Out the library, past a bus, over the crossing, cars wait for us Up the hill and into the woods Where looking down from our balloons… We saw a giant marshmallow! A birthday cake – let’s have a slice! Does it taste yucky or does it taste nice? Nice like Granny’s cotton candy! Some Grannies like to make lasagne. Granny Soup is really kind and Granny Cloud she pays no mind To those pesky trees that seem to move A little closer through the woods. But one Granny makes poison soup So watch out Trees, don’t get too close! Back to the library to snack and draw We love the woods, let’s go there more! The Storyplay Games All our games are on the Lickety Playcards. You will get your very own pack in week 5 to help you Storyplay at home! Book Reviews Each week the librarians get out some books for us to take home to inspire our Storyplay. This week Anusha told us about Alice in Wonderland - Down The rabbit Hole "It's about the girl and the bunny. The girl [...]

Castlemilk Blog! 18th September 2025 Funky Chicken This week we turned into wonderful witches and other magical creatures! But not before playing Funky Chicken! We met Charlie's Slow Sloth and Sayeda's Angry Cat. Muhammed's Happy Horse and Nicola's Snappy Crocodile. Bassie's Wild Rat and Max's Depressed Gorilla. Ramisa's Grumpy Cat and Anusha's Angry Donkey! Witches Fingers Ha ha ha ha ha! I am a witch! And I'm going to drink a bottle of... Water!  Pineapple! Mud! Cheese! POISON!! We had Abu Witch and Muhammed Witch, Anusha Witch and Claire Witch...Sarah Witch and many more witches besides! Mucky Brew These witches decided to make a Mucky Brew filled with all sorts of yummy and yucky things. Flour and rotten eggs Dinosaur's blood and gloop Mud and chocolate! Magic Ball Just then we found the Magic Ball.... Magic Ball, Magic Ball Take us where we want to go! A Woodland Adventure The Magic Ball took us to the woods. Where the bears live! We fed the bears potatoes. Not the poison potatoes! Once they were full, the bears took us to the elves! We met an elf who was making a cake. We helped the elf bake the cake and got to try some. Deeelicious! Street Catch We also played Street Catch. This is a game we learnt from Leeanne at Porridge & Play [...]

Castlemilk Blog! 11th September 2025 Awesome Animals This week was all about Awesome Animals. We met Carina’s Jumpy Dog and Evie’s Crazy Chicken. Charlie’s Eating Seal and Ruby’s Cheeky Kangaroo. Maria’s Scared Elephant. Kevin’s Cheeky Capybara. Letter to my Love These animals were very loving! 🎶 I sent a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it… 🎶 Someone must have picked it up and put it in my pocket!  🎶 Was it you or was it you...? Dressing up When we dressed up we met a whole host of other animals! Maria the Bat who eats Fruit flies La la Ladybug who eats Cheese Sammy the Snake who eats Evies! A bunny called Betsy who eats carrots. And a sloth who eats Gum Trees. But there’s only one animal in Storyplay who has a watch… What’s the Time Mr Wolf! There was Diamond Wolf and Vine Wolf. Two wolves who lived in spiderweb caves A wolf who liked to drink cups of tea. And a wolf with a stone watch. Dinner time! Well, luckily we escaped those hungry wolves. By this time, we were hungry ourselves! We had boiled eggs and sweet chilli hummus. Strawberry jam and honeydew melon. Bananas, oranges and Sayeda’s delicious cake! The Storyplay Games All our games are on the Lickety Playcards. You [...]

Castlemilk Blog! 4th September 2025 How cool is Castlemilk Library!? Not only is it bursting with books, it’s also a place where you can Storyplay, chat, eat and make new friends. It was great to see some familiar faces as we returned for the 4th year of Porridge & Play Castlemilk. Abu helped us at the sign in table as we welcomed new friends from St Bartholomew’s Primary and Arnwood Nursery Quick as a flash, we picked up our balloons and soon we were flying high above Glasgow! Gracey, Evie and Freya spotted a dinosaur – and oh no! It was eating their toes! We also saw lions and tigers, eating steak. Feeling a bit peckish, we flew down to grab some. Charlie spotted a llama and Danylo saw a hedgehog. They both made a lucky escape from that lion! When we dressed up we turned into all sorts of people. Just like in books, in Storyplay you can be anyone, go anywhere and do anything! We met Mr Spider, Strawberry, Mrs Dinosaur, Mrs Potato, Mr Peach from the beach, Mr Fishy, Mr Llama and many more new friends! Magic Ball, magic ball take us where we want to go! We met a sleepy hedgehog and fed it delicious nuggets. We swam in the sea with sharks and fish. A dolphin led us home. What an [...]

Castlemilk Blog! A massive circle, love letters, Chefs & a Cake good enough to get a job in a kitchen! What a time we’ve had with our Castlemilk Library friends the last 4 weeks at Porridge & Play. This bunch of grown-ups and children really take play very seriously and with exquisite hilarity. At our last Porridge & Play at Castlemilk Library the circle was huge and made by very smiley and excited people. We had a great Dancing Warm Up with everyone throwing very cool shapes! Have you played ‘Letter to my Love’ before? Andre showed us all how to play this fun game that you could play with as many people as you like! It’s about guessing and tricking and also about singing and skipping! We dressed up as very special Chefs who had different cooking specialities! Virginia became Chef Baloney who cooks the best macaroni! Claire was Chef Ratatouille, and she makes bread baguettes! Ibrahim became Italian Ibrahim Chef and he cooks pizza Mamma Mia! Darragh was Mystery Chef who makes secret recipes! Frasier became Chef Frasier and he bakes the best cookies! Aimee was Cheeky Chop Chef who makes fabulous sausages! David became Small Shirt Chef and he cooks chips! Zara was Farrow Chef and she cooks noodles! Danyal became Chef Albert who bakes cupcakes! Brian was Chef Giuseppe and he cooks [...]