It was the last session of this block at Castlemilk Library and we all feel like we are great big family!

We get in our circle cause circles are cool,

Nerea plays music, we dance and we groove,

A twirly fun Conga made with all our pals

To get us all started and warm up our hearts!

Make yourself big as House or

As small as a mouse!

As Thin as a pin!

Or maybe a string??

As round as a ball,

As a tree, very tall!

Wobbly as jelly, Buzzy as a bee

Have a wee think…

What else could you be?

Funky Chicken is an old-time favourite,

Castlemilk families are so fast at it –

They all come up with fantastic ideas,

Take a wee look at what we have here…

Poppy’s Kangaroo was Cheeky,

And Kim’s Snake rather Stinky,

Haaris brought a Snow Turtle,

And Anusha invited a Sneaky Sea lion

 Zara’s Horse was Jumpy,

And Caroline’s Dog was Dancing,

Sayeda brought a Happy Cat,

And Ammar’s Penguin was Fast!

 Shabana’s Elephant was Angry

Rumaisa’s Sealion was Dancing

Abu thought of a Naughty Eagle

And we also met a Strong Mohammed!

Let’s Dress Up as Forest Creatures,

And imagine what we can be?

Butterflies, midges or rabbits,

A squirrel, fox, bat or a flea!

Haaris – ‘I am a hacker creeper, and I like to annoy people’

Muhammed – ‘I am a normal seagull called Cristiano Ronaldo’

Anusha – ‘I am a bat and I eat people’

Zara – I’m a fox and I hunt people’

Poppy – ‘I am a squirrel; I climb trees and spy on people…’

 

But in this forest, there’s only one creature

That if you dare to ask

Will tell you the time looking at their watch

In this forest, there is only one …

Wolfie Abu – I live in a house, it’s actually a flat, a dirty flat. My watch is brown and at 5 o’clock it’s time to play football!

Wolfie Mohammed – I live in a mansion, it’s black and white – black in the winter and white in the summer. And at 3 o’clock it’s time to ….play tennis!

Wolfie Ammar – I live in a cave, and I got my watch from my Mum

Wolfie Caroline – I live in a brick house that you cannot huff and puff away! I make cushions and I got my watch from Asda.

Wolfie Poppy – I live in a flat – nice and clean. I like to read books. Matt from across the street gave me my watch. At 4 o’clock it’s time to ….have a dance party!

 Wolfie Anusha – I live in a poor dirty house with a poor dirty swimming pool. I made my watch and I kept it because I like it.

 Wolfie Haaris – I live in a tree house, a brown tree house. I live with other wolves. My watch has diamonds, gold, cash and money. I got it from Asda. At 6 o’clock it’s time to ….swim in the pool!

 Wolfie Zara – I live in a cave above a river. Sometimes it’s tidy and sometimes it’s untidy, somewhere in the middle. My watch is like a flower with purple background and red flowers, roses! I got it from a lovely next-door neighbour. And at 3 o’clock it’s time to …do ballet!

 Wolfie Rumaisa – I live in a brown Tree House. My watch is made of metal and it’s pink. At 1 o’clock it’s time to ….read a book and

at 5 O’clock it’s time to ….buy toys!

What’s the time Mr. Wolf?

Do you dare to ask?

Aways be ready to run just in case you find it’s……..

DINNER TIME!!

 

What a brilliant Porridge & Play block we’ve had at Castlemilk Library and what a great last session! After all that, everyone made fantastic drawings. Then we all enjoyed eating the beautiful food that many families brought to share – as well as our usual Licketyspit meal.

The Art Gallery was great fun and we all agreed that we love Porridge & Play in CASTLEMILK!

Sarah, Taz, Nerea, Virginia and the Castlemilk Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

Poor Bun Brother was a bit preoccupied although you wouldn’t think so when we first met him…

‘Aye, Aye, Aye

I’m The Best, I’m the Best

• clap, clap, clap
• clap, clap, clap

 We are the Bun Brothers; we are like no other! ‘

He was singing and cheering and clapping and he got us all involved in singing about him and his brother and how they are the best and they are like no other when suddenly…

Poor Bun Brother realised that he was on his own, without his brother (who couldn’t come) and he was in a right pickle because he couldn’t remember any of his fantastic recipes!

But his sadness didn’t last long as soon as he realised he had arrived in Castlemilk Library where he discovered a Delicious Crew of Brilliantly Creative CHEFs!!

There was Angel Chef, Cool Chef whose speciality is pizza, Crazy Chef, Pizza Pie Chef, Mean Chef who is a dog as well as a chef, Fairy Chef, Prince Chef, Ninja Chef who specialises in Chocolate Milk, Sad Chef & Happy Chef, Wee Chef, Jamaica Chef & the world-famous Candyfloss Chef!

 ‘Marvellous! We can work together and create a sublime recipe for an out of this world CAKE!!’ – the Bun Brother was beside himself.

So we got working…we had a massive bowl in the middle. There were so many of us we needed of course to bake a gigantic cake! SO,

Cool Chef mixed in Flour

And Prince Chef some white sugar

Ninja Chef went for melted chocolate

And Chef Angel put in Strawberries & angel cake – an extremely light cake!

Crazy Chef went for White sprinkles

Sad Chef threw in some Eggs

We are going to need some butter!

said another Chef!

Mean Chef added Potatoes

Big Chef liked the idea of Mango Chunks

Chef Pizza Pie, put in a cucumber

And it was all topped off by a nice rotten cheese from Happy Chef!

Stir and stir and stir and stir and 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

NOW let’s put it in the oven!

 You have never seen a bigger CAKE TIN!

The cake cooked beautifully and all the chefs agreed about decoration…

‘Pink raspberry icing, cockroaches, Gummy sushi and Gummy Bologna!’

 It did look MAGNIFICENT, I’m not going to lie…But as they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so we had to try the cake to make sure our recipe was a good one and then…

‘Oh…oh…something funny is happening to me…’

 ‘ And to me…’

 ‘Wait a minute…how light was that angel cake you put in Angel Chef?’

It turned out it was cake of the of the lightest kind, so light in fact that  we all started to float up away into the air!

We floated and floated …………..until we got to the moon!!

The view from the moon was amazing and floating about the moon is of course great fun but we did have to return to the Library for our meal. Thankfully Sad Chef had her special parachute! So, we all held onto it, pulled the string and whoooooosh….we landed in a heap and we all laughed!

Our food was as usual, delicious and this week we had a wee treat of Honey Mango from Pakistan!

After that we had a fabulous Licketyspit Gallery sharing our drawings, thoughts and opinions and few very interesting book reviews and recommendations.

We were so inspired that some of us took home some books about food that the brilliant Castlemilk Librarians had found for us! I wonder if our Castlemilk Families will be cooking  some more deliciousness this weekend?

Or even next Thursday for our Porridge & Play Celebration Session?!

See you there!

 Taz, Ruby, Virginia and Castlemilk Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

Our Castlemilk families have many cool moves

When they hear music they can’t stop to groove –

Let’s dance some more! For a little bit longer!

Let’s get together in a fabulous CONGA!!

We also DRESS UP with gusto and style

Combining materials and sharing smiles

Today we decided to turn into PIRATES

but colourful ones – striking like parrots!

 

Haaris turned himself into Pirate Angel,

Anusha became Spy Pirate who spies on people,

Poppy was Mermaid Pirate and she looks for cool treasure,

Zara was Pirate Pretty who looks for treasure with Pirate Mermaid,

Rumaisa  decided to be Cool Pirate.

We also had wee pirates Massi, Udo and Ammar

And wee baby Ugo was the littlest one!

We blew up a Red Magic Ball and after much discussion on possible destinations we chanted the magic words…

MAGIC BALL
MAGIC BALL
TAKE US WHEN WE WANT TO GO…WHOOOSH!!

We landed on a beach…and there must have been a party going on somewhere because we could heard music  – so we immediately danced to the beach music! We couldn’t resist!

‘We are in Hawaii, it’s great!’ – shouted Pirate Pretty.

‘Ice cream anyone? –  Spy Pirate offered.

We all wanted some ice cream – Spy Pirate had bubble gum flavour.

We went into the ocean determined to find treasure as we swam and swam and swam… BUT there was a shark in the water! And then Pirate Taz got into trouble ! So we pulled her out as fast as we could!

‘We found some diamonds!’ – Pirate Pretty & Mermaid Pirate shouted.

‘It must be part of a famous Hawaii bigger treasure! If only we had the map to look for it!’

‘We do!’

While making sense of the treasure map, we suddenly heard a grumpy voice…

‘What are you doing with MY treasure map?!’

It was a Grumpy Pirate Captain. So cross with us!  and tired and a bit cranky…

‘Get in a line! Let me look at you lot’ – she shouted.

‘I am getting on, my knees hurt and I need to find some replacement for my ship…

‘Have  you ever worked on a ship?’

‘No!’ – said we.

‘Have you ever BEEN on a ship??’

‘No…’ – we admitted.

‘Oh dear…well, let’s get you started!’

So the Captain started to boss us, shouting lots of orders we had to follow!

‘Port! Starboard! Scrub the deck! Climb the rigging! Cook my dinner!’

It was tiring but we were actually quite good at being a pirate crew…

‘Ok, let’s try out some of you…YOU!’ – she pointed at  Pirate Muhammed

Pirate Muhammad took over being the Captain – ‘Poooooort!’

Then Cool Pirate – ‘ Make a pizza!’

Then Pirate Abu – ‘Mop the floor!’

We followed  the orders to the letter… and while mopping the floor Pirate Pretty screamed –

‘It smells disgusting!’

And she was right, it did!

But after all that hard work we could finally relax –

‘I have some Funky music, let’s play and dance!’ – So we did our crazy pirate dance!

‘Now…I’ll show you all where the big treasure is…right …..under there!!’.

We dug and dug until we found a chest containing…

 2000 coins!

And rubies!

And diamonds!

‘What shall we do with all this treasure??’

‘We could buy some go-karts in Costco!’

 ‘Great idea!’

So we all headed off to the Costco in Hawaii and got ourselves super cool go-karts of different colours and went for a spin!

It was  fantastic being a pirate crew but we realised we were starting to get a bit peckish.

So, we got back into the Magic Ball and returned to Castlemilk Library to do some Reflective Drawing to remember our adventure and get some nice grub in our tummies! ARRRRGH!!!

Sarah, Taz, Nerea, Virginia and the Castlemilk Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

It’s so hot outside, we are melting away

But in Castlemilk Library

We still STORYPLAY!

We giggle, we smile

We’re rolling with laughter

We enjoy a good play

And some nice food after!

Whatever the weather

We are getting together

To play with our friends

Imagining forever…

 A Sleepy Capibara, a Stinky Snake,

A Happy Cow smiling

and Dancing one as well.

 Our Dressing Up bag

Full of colourful rags

That turn into magic

When we mix them all up!

 A pair of old tights to wear on your head

A long bit that tied up will be your long tail

A red pair of trousers to wear round your waist

And some wee green t-shirt to cover your face…

Just some bits and bobs and imagination

And you are the Monster taking over a nation!

 We heard of some Grannies who live in the forest

They have groovy gardens with veggies and flowers –

 ‘ I’m Smart Granny – I live in a purple house and my garden has poppy flowers, star flowers and sunflowers. I like making chocolate chip cookies for breakfast!’

  ‘I’m Foxy Grannie – I live in a blue house. I grow potatoes in my garden, and some are magical and some are not. I hide the potatoes so no one can steal them. I like making candy for breakfast’

We played MONSTERS FOOTSTEPS

And gave them a fright

But they had a giggle and it was alright!

 We do love to draw all the things we imagine

We do love to eat together while laughing

We do love to show each other our art

At Porridge & Play we sure are SMART!

Sarah, Taz, Nerea and the Castlemilk Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

Castlemilk Library is a very cool place

You can come to hang out, borrow books and to play!

Play? Play, you say?

Well…YES! Castlemilk Library has been hosting Licketyspit’s Porridge & Play for five years now – so once a year we get together with some Castlemilk families at the library for 5 weeks in a row, to Storyplay, eat and hang out together and this is also a chance for new families to learn to Storyplay and join Licketyspit’s Children & Families Network family!

So, for our first session of Porridge & Play this block we had Caroline, Poppy, Jacqueline, Evie, Sayeda, Abu, Sobia, Rumaisa ,Haaris, Shabana, Anusha, & Ammar with us again and Chioma, Udo, Ugo, Jodie & Leo coming for the very first time!

What a joy to see some old friends again and to meet new ones! The best thing about Porridge & Play is – you NEVER run out of friends.

Now, have you ever played beach ball with a Dragon while flying up high on a Flying Balloon? WE DID EXACTLY THAT!!

We blew up our Flying Balloons – they came in many colours!- and flew all over Castlemilk…What a view!

We were so high that at some point we could REALLY feel the cold but luckily Anusha had brought jackets and hats for us all and Caroline had some fluffy socks for everyone too.

‘What’s that down there? – Taz said

Beach balls! – Caroline shouted’

Caroline saw beach balls all over the place and it turned out that a dragon down below was throwing beach balls up in the hope someone would play ball with her! So we did!

First up Caroline caught a beach ball, threw it back down and….whoosh! up it came again for Poppy to catch!

Then Poppy threw it back down and ….whoosh! Up it came again for Haaris to catch!

Then Haaris threw it back down and…whoosh! Up it came again for Ammar to catch!

Then Ammar threw it back down and…whoosh! Up it came again for Rumaisa to catch!

Then Rumaisa threw it back down and…whoosh! Up it came again for Evie to catch!

We all had go at the Dragon Beach Ball game until the Dragon got tired and cooked a barbecue instead!

Do you like dressing up? Well, we LOVE IT at Porridge & Play but what we really like to do is to dress up the Licketyspit way…

Our Dressing Up style is out of this world even though we use random bits and bobs – we use old clothes that we have in the house, or clothes that are too wee, or any type of clothes we have and we wear them in interesting ways to create all sort of characters!

This week at Porridge & Play we all became Castlemilk Grannies.

And what an stupendous collection of Grannies we were!

 Anusha was Granny Hungry who likes to eat humans – Dangerous Granny! Poppy was Sporty Granny who really likes running – Fast Granny! Ammar was Granny Greg who really likes going – Busy Granny! Rumaisa was Granny Skeleton who enjoys scaring people! – Naughty Granny! Abu was Cooking Granny who likes making cakes – Delicious Granny! Haaris was Mr Coin who likes swimming in a pool – Not even a Granny! Caroline was Funky Granny who loves shopping and going to the Bingo – Leisure Granny!

All that playing always makes us hungry so after doing a bit of Reflecting Drawing to draw about what we’d liked best today, we sat down to lovely fruit, cheese, bread, boiled eggs and tomatoes and we all enjoyed a chilled meal together chatting and sharing!

After food the Licketyspit Art Gallery saw everyone telling each other about their drawings. We all cheered and clapped – which makes us all feel great about ourselves and our friends! HURRAY FOR PORRIDGE & PLAY!

See you all next Thursday for more adventures and fun at Castlemilk Library!

Sarah, Taz, Nerea, Virginia and the Castlemilk Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

Bookplay is a Porridge & Play session where we all listen to a Story and then instead of the Magic Ball we ALL JUMP into the world of a BOOK to have an adventure!

The Just-so-John Bookplay stories are by a writer called Rudyard Kipling who was born 160 years ago in India! Rudyard travelled all over the world, which was quite amazing because this was before there were aeroplanes so you could only travel by foot, by boat, by horse, by bicycle  or by train!!  

Rudyard’s stories for children were inspired by all the different places he saw – a bit like us with our Flying Balloons game! His Just-So stories are about animals in India and Africa! (His most famous children’s book is The Jungle Book – which you might have heard of! ) His Just So Stories are about how he imagined some of the animals in the world came to be the way they are – how the camel got his hump? , how the leopard got his spots?, how the whale got his throat? and other questions.

Virginia’s Dad John loved these Just So Stories when he was a child. When he grew up he read them to his children (including Virginia) and then he read them to his grandchildren! John lived until he was nearly 91! When he died  some of his friends and family decided it would be fun to help Licketyspit to do some Just-so- John Bookplay Sessions to introduce the stories John loved to more children!  We are calling these our Just-So-John Bookplays! We hope you enjoy them!

‘How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin’  by Rudyard Kipling – a Bookplay by our Castlemilk Hub families…

Our second Just-so-John Bookplay at Castlemilk Library was an absolute joy! Families got together exited to see which Just-So-Story we would jump into this time. So, we enjoyed a few of our Storyplay games to get us all going and then Ruby read us the story of…‘How the Rhinoceros got his Skin’.

ONCE upon a time, on an uninhabited island on the shores of the Red Sea, there lived a Parsee from whose hat the rays of the sun were reflected in more-than-oriental splendour. 

Dressing up the Licketyspit way is the perfect way for us to become all the characters, places and things in the story!

And one day he took flour and water and currants and plums and sugar and things and made himself one cake which was two feet across and three feet thick.

But just as he was going to eat it there came down to the beach one Rhinoceros with a horn on his nose, two piggy eyes, and few manners. In those days the Rhinoceros’s skin fitted him quite tight. There were no wrinkles in it anywhere.

We fabulously moved from being one character to becoming another as we recalled the story!

And the Rhinoceros upset the oil-stove with his nose, and the cake rolled on the sand, and he spiked that cake on the horn of his nose, and he ate it, and he went away, waving his tail.

‘Them that takes cakes

Which the Parsee-man bakes

Makes dreadful mistakes.’

Mr. Parsee carefully planned how to get his own back on the rhino for eating his fantastic cake!

During a Heat Wave while the rhino was cooling down in the water…

The Rhinoceros took off his skin and carried it over his shoulder as he came down to the beach to bathe. In those days it buttoned underneath with three buttons and looked like a waterproof

Mr. Parsee collected cake crumbs from his camp and sprinkled them all over the inside of the rhino’s skin and waited for the rhino to come out the water and put his skin back on…

And it tickled like cake crumbs in bed! Then he wanted to scratch, but that made it worse

The poor grumpy rhino tried everything to stop the itch! He even scratched and rubbed against a palm tree – that looked very much like one of our grown-ups and made us all laugh and laugh! But the itch wouldn’t go away which made the rhino grumpier and grumpier…

So he went home, very angry indeed and horribly scratchy; and from that day to this every rhinoceros has great folds in his skin and a very bad temper, all on account of the cake-crumbs inside

What a fantastic way to play with a good story…that’s why we call it BOOKPLAY!

Could you BOOKPLAY a story with your family and friends this weekend?

Listen to John telling How The Rhinoceros Got His Skin by Rudyard Kipling by clicking here!

Check out the wonderful ART GALLERY inspired by our  Just-So- John Bookplay at Castlemilk Library!

Bookplay is a Porridge & Play session where we all listen to a Story and then instead of the Magic Ball we ALL JUMP into the world of a BOOK to have an adventure!

The Just-so-John Bookplay stories are by a writer called Rudyard Kipling who was born 160 years ago in India! Rudyard travelled all over the world, which was quite amazing because this was before there were aeroplanes so you could only travel by foot, by boat, by horse, by bicycle  or by train!!  

Rudyard’s stories for children were inspired by all the different places he saw – a bit like us with our Flying Balloons game! His Just-So stories are about animals in India and Africa! (His most famous children’s book is The Jungle Book – which you might have heard of! ) His Just So Stories are about how he imagined some of the animals in the world came to be the way they are – how the camel got his hump? , how the leopard got his spots?, how the whale got his throat? and other questions.

Virginia’s Dad John loved these Just So Stories when he was a child. When he grew up he read them to his children (including Virginia) and then he read them to his grandchildren! John lived until he was nearly 91! When he died  some of his friends and family decided it would be fun to help Licketyspit to do some Just-so- John Bookplay Sessions to introduce the stories John loved to more children!  We are calling these our Just-So-John Bookplays! We hope you enjoy them!

‘How the Whale Got His Throat’ by Rudyard Kipling – a Bookplay by our Castlemilk Hub families…

In the sea, once upon a time O my Best Beloved, there was a Whale, and he ate fishes

We gathered at Castlemilk Library and we found out today was World Book Day – which was perfect for a Bookplay! We were oh so ready to jump into this tale about a whale, a person, and a wee tiny but wise fish. 

Before jumping into the book, we got warmed up and ready by playing some of our Storyplay games to get our imaginations going and then Virginia read us the story…

All the fishes he could find in all the sea he ate with his mouth—so! Till at last there was only one small fish left in all the sea, and he was a small ‘Stute Fish

We all dressed up as the characters in the story!

Some  of us decided to be the tiny ‘Stute Fish’!

Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?’ ‘If you swim to latitude Fifty North, longitude Forty West (that is magic), you will find, sitting on a raft, in the middle of the sea, with nothing on but a pair of blue canvas breeches, a pair of suspenders (you must not forget the suspenders, Best Beloved), and a jack- knife, one ship-wrecked Mariner, who, it is only fair to tell you, is a man of infinite-resource-and-sagacity.’ 

(‘infinite’ means ‘never ending’ and ‘sagacity’ means ‘clever and canny!’).

Some of us became the Mariner person…with the suspenders (or ‘braces’ to hold up his trousers!)  

And of course, some of us became the very hungry Whale!

A brilliant thing about Bookplay is that you can be one character at one moment and a different character the next – we all collaborated and worked together so we could play out the whole story

 Noble and generous Cetacean, have you ever tasted Man?

A pair of ship-wrecked Mariners!

Even though the Whale had eaten all the fishes – except one! – he was still hungry so he ate the Mariners!

Inside the Whale’s belly the Mariners “stumped and they jumped and they thumped and they bumped…they pranced and they danced and they …hopped and they dropped and they ..danced hornpipes where they shouldn’t!”     amongst other things until the Whale got the hiccups!

‘Tell him to come out,’ said the ‘Stute Fish.

‘Nay, nay!’ said the Mariner. ‘Not so, but far otherwise. Take me to my natal-shore IN SCOTLAND! 

The Mariner, who was indeed a person of infinite-resource-and-sagacity, had taken his jack-knife and cut up the raft into a little square grating all running criss- cross, and he had tied it firm with his suspenders, dragged that grating good and tight into the Whale’s throat, and there it stuck 

By means of a grating, I have stopped your ating.

WHAT AN ADVENTURE!  Do you think you could Bookplay other good stories?

All we had was each other and our bag of dressing up clothes! (Which as you know is just a collection of old clothes no-one wanted anymore!)

If you do a Bookplay at home send us a message or a photo!

Listen to John telling How The Whale Got His Throat by Rudyard Kipling by clicking here!

Check out the wonderful ART GALLERY inspired by our  Just-So- John Bookplay at Castlemilk Library!

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. Scroll down for more links.

Big thanks to Eoin Carey our photographer, who took photos at this final session.

What a feast!

Lots of you brought food to share for our final session.

• We had delicious homemade blackcurrant jam and apples from Charlie, Ruby and Niki’s allotment.
• Homemade vegetable pakora from Sayeda & Abu.
• We had pizza and cake, biscuits and apple pie.
• Homemade canapés from Myroslava & Danylo and spicy pasta from Shabana.
• And Virginia’s Granny’s Ginger Cake!

Thank you all from bringing such delicious treats and being part of Porridge & Play Castlemilk 2025.

Lots of love from all of us at Licketyspit,

Ruby, Andre, Sarah and Virginia

Reflective Drawing

We almost always do ‘Reflective drawing’ at the end of a Storyplay session. It’s nice to relax and draw & think about what we’ve all done & how we feel about it.

Reflective drawing isn’t about doing a ‘good’ drawing – it’s about drawing whatever comes into your head when you think about what you’ve just done.

But as you draw you realise more about what you thought or imagined in the session. And it’s great to share that with everyone & hear what they thought! So many things go on in Storyplay!

Here are some of our Reflective Drawings from this week:

 

Read some of the artist’s reflections from the Lickety Art Gallery: 

There’s lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including…

• Making with Iona
• Cooking with Taz
• Exploring with Jack
• Funky Chicken
• Grandma Grandma

and many more!

Read past blog posts about sessions at the library and Picnic & Play trips. You can also read our stories in the Porridge & Play Castlemilk Zine!

We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com

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 saw the bunny running! She called the adult and the bunny got away.”

Anusha recommended this book and with help from Ruby, she read first the first two pages to us.

Charlie shared his book about dinosaurs –

“A long time ago there was dinosaurs! They died once the snow’s coming, they turned into skeletons. A dinosaur’s real, it actually moved and they end up in the museum and turn into skeltons. I saw a Teredactor it was up above me in the museum!”
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Reflective Drawing

We almost always do ‘Reflective drawing’ at the end of a Storyplay session. It’s nice to relax and draw & think about what we’ve all done & how we feel about it.

Reflective drawing isn’t about doing a ‘good’ drawing – it’s about drawing whatever comes into your head when you think about what you’ve just done.

But as you draw you realise more about what you thought or imagined in the session. And it’s great to share that with everyone & hear what they thought! So many things go on in Storyplay!

Here are some of our Reflective Drawings from this week:

 

Read some of the artist’s reflections from the Lickety Art Gallery: 

Can’t wait to Storyplay with you again soon!

Sarah, Andre & Ruby

There’s lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including…

• Making with Iona
• Cooking with Taz
• Exploring with Jack
• Funky Chicken
• Grandma Grandma

and many more!

Read past blog posts about sessions at the library and Picnic & Play trips. You can also read our stories in the Porridge & Play Castlemilk Zine!

We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com

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 Bridgeton when we made the All Scot Playcards.

It was a big hit with the Castlemilk crew! Can you spot it in the drawings below?

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!

Reflective Drawing

We almost always do ‘Reflective drawing’ at the end of a Storyplay session. It’s nice to relax and draw & think about what we’ve all done & how we feel about it.

Reflective drawing isn’t about doing a ‘good’ drawing – it’s about drawing whatever comes into your head when you think about what you’ve just done.

But as you draw you realise more about what you thought or imagined in the session. And it’s great to share that with everyone & hear what they thought! So many things go on in Storyplay!

Here are some of our Reflective Drawings from this week:

 

Read some of the artist’s reflections from the Lickety Art Gallery: 

Book Reviews

Each week the librarians get out some books for us to take home to inspire our Storyplay.

This week Maria told us about Warrior Cats.

“Theres a lot of surprises in it that you wouldn’t expect and it’s quite exciting!”

Can’t wait to Storyplay with you again soon!

Sarah, Andre, Ruby and our Castlemilk Library friends

There’s lots of ideas and activities to get you playing at home. Try our interactive videos! Including…

• Making with Iona
• Cooking with Taz
• Exploring with Jack
• Funky Chicken
• Grandma Grandma

and many more!

Read past blog posts about sessions at the library and Picnic & Play trips. You can also read our stories in the Porridge & Play Castlemilk Zine!

We have some Lickety Mums who volunteer at our Porridge & Play sessions as Storyplay Champions.

If you would like to find out more about Storyplay Champion training and volunteering, click on this button or get in touch with us on cfn@licketyspit.com