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 [...]

Castlemilk Blog! Do you know why circles are great? Because when we are all in a circle, you can see everyone and everyone can see you and playing is best when we all do it TOGETHER! We had a great big circle yesterday at Castlemilk Library as there were many of us ready to Storyplay at Porridge & Play! We got our bodies, and our imaginations warmed up with ‘Hello My Name is Joe’, a fun rhyme that makes you move your body in ways you may not have done before! And as our cool librarians had selected some spooky themed books for us to take out this week we decided to have a game of Dressing Up that fitted the theme… so…we became WITCHES at a Witches Convention! A couple of journalist Witches were there reporting on the Witchy World so we got to find out many things like witches’ names, their means of transport and their favourite food from the Witchy Buffet at the Convention: Witchy Maria arrived on top of someone’s car and likes pizza! Whichy White Coat came on a broom and likes chocolate cake! Susanna was the Wicked Witch of The Milk and likes squashed frogs and came on a mop! Abu was Spider Witch, came on a rainbow flying carpet and likes frogs! Mystery Witch likes lizards! Witchy Fraser came [...]

Castlemilk Blog! The sun was shining in the windows of Castlemilk Library and because most of us arrived early we had so much time for Storyplay! That's the way we like it! Woo hoo! Everyone is really getting great at imagining they can be anyone, do anything and go anywhere! It’s so fantastic hearing all your great ideas and meeting all your amazing characters in the games! Andre led a wonderful Dancing Warm-Up before we met the Extraordinary Elephant, the Happy Cow, the Furry Dog, the Happy Butterfly, the Happy Monkey, the Happy Giraffe, the Angry Tiger, the Happy Dog, the Cute Kitten, the Angry Gorilla and of course - uh oh! The Dying Fly! Then we dressed up as Forest Creatures! Poppy was Dotty The Cheetah, Ingrid a White Eagle, Jese became a Lion and Avery was a Squirrel. There was Mel's Green Dragonfly, Susie's Green Snake, Jessica introduced us to Moffat the butterfly and Claire was a Fox (with a big foxy tail!). We discovered that Fraser had turned into a Rabbit and Max had become an Armadillo! Maria was a Wildcat and Abu was a Flying Monster! - to name a few!! Now in this forest we discovered there were lots of Wolves! There was Fraser Wolf living in dark cave eating slugs. Wolf Abu who lived inside a working machine - he [...]

Castlemilk Blog! Big Porridge & Play Castlemilk Is back! We were thrilled to meet eightnew families and to see our old friends Mel, Avery & Freya, Ingrid & jese. So with the Licketyspit actor-pedagogues, Sarah, Andre, Steven & Virginia we were 26 - a good number for a circle where You can see Everyone & Everyone can see you, in Castlemilk Library! Andre led our warm-up we were: To warm up we made ourselves as - Big as a Bear & as Fast as a Hare. As strong as an Ox & as Sneaky as a Fox, As soft as a Cat & As Nibbly as a Rat! Fly high as a Bird, Flying Up, Flying Down, Swooping, Gliding, Round & Round, Till you land on your Nest! have a little Rest! what’s this I have found? It’s hard & it’s round… it’s an EGG! An Egg I have found! An egg, an egg, so BIG and so ROUND! it Wibbles, it Wobbles and suddenly CRACK! A Beak, two wings? well fancy that! Out pops a bird with a Quack, quack, quack! Then we got to know The Funky Chicken & the Naughty Seagull & we met some surprising guests like Frazers Crazy Gorilla, Jessica’s Crazt sausage dog. max’s Swimming TRex. Lynne’s Naughty Elephant. Poppys Dancing puppy, Ingrids Hungry Lion & Jackie’s Crazy Giraffe -to name [...]