Maryhill Storyplay Games – The Exhibition launch!

2026-08-20T11:50:13+00:00

A Celebration of Storyplay, family and community - with food, friends and play! On the 7th of July Licketyspit and Community Central Hall launched the Maryhill Storyplay Games Exhibition to celebrate our first Maryhill Storyplay Games 2026 (coinciding with Glasgow's Commonwealth Games!), created with photographer Eoin Carey and the Licketyspit Child-Photographers.   Eoin, who has worked with Licketyspit for many years photographing many of our projects, events and festivals, perfectly captured the joy, creativity and community of Storyplay! His genius invention addition, was The Licketyspit Photography Studio, where child photographers took wonderful portraits of their families and friends! The launch of the Exhibition at Maryhill’s Community Central Hall was a fabulous success, attended by Licketyspit families from across Glasgow, Licketyspit friends, supporters and members of the public who were experiencing Storyplay for the first time! Our fantastic Licketyspit Patrons, actor Sanjeev Kohli and Storyplay Champion, Zainab Adeleye, cut the ribbon to open the exhibition. They spoke eloquently about the power of Storyplay to create and nurture this richly diverse, generous and inclusive community and the importance of play, not only for children but for everyone, and how creativity and human connection helps us all become people who can change the world! There were crafts, reflecting drawing, dressing-up, a CCH cooking workshop making Quesadillas! lovely food, and we even had an impromptu Dressing-Up Parade!  And of course, [...]

Maryhill Storyplay Games – The Exhibition launch!2026-08-20T11:50:13+00:00

MARYHILL STORYPLAY GAMES 2026!

2026-08-20T11:45:47+00:00

A new collaboration between Licketyspit and Community Central Hall This Summer Licketyspit was delighted to host The Maryhill Storyplay Games in partnership with Community Central Hall, as part of the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games Festival of art, live music, sports workshops, and community city-wide events celebrating the Commonwealth Games! On the 27th of June over a hundred Licketyspit children and their families put on Racing Bibs for a programme of wonderful Porridge & Play games - from Funky Chicken to Monsters Footsteps! In Licketyspit EVERYONE'S A WINNER and ALL WE NEED TO PLAY IS EACH OTHER! After lots of fun play we awarded ourselves marvellous medals, before enjoying an international FEAST, dressing-up and taking sporty portraits in our On Stage Photography Studio. The day was also photographed by Eoin Carey to create a Maryhill Storyplay Games Exhibition at CCH to share this magical children and families' event with the people of Glasgow. What an unforgettable day we had! (and another at the Exhibition Launch on 7th July!) Licketyspit would like to thank EVERYONE who made this brilliant day possible, especially the fantastic Licketyspit volunteers, and the team at Community Central Hall, and of course, the wonderful Licketyspit families who are at the heart of everything we do and are the true ambassadors of STORYPLAY. Thank you from us all at Licketyspit! [...]

MARYHILL STORYPLAY GAMES 2026!2026-08-20T11:45:47+00:00

Bad weather? Nae bother! A Picnic indoors, a fashion show and a birthday!

2026-08-17T09:36:13+00:00

As we all know Scottish weather is unpredictable - you never know how a day will be until the morning and this morning we discovered that it was a bit too wet to head to Balloch and Loch Lomond… But - we didn't let the rain didn’t stop our Storyplay! We just had a brilliant Storyplay session indoors instead! After a quick warm up - in the Picnic & Play spirit! - making ourselves Big As A House - and a dancing to some cool tunes, Yasna introduced us to ‘Kitty Cat Musical Statues’! Like Musical Statues – everyone in the game dances to music and whenever the music stops everyone must freeze! But in ‘Kitty Cat Musical Statues’ you get back in the game after losing your three lives by posing as a Kitty Cat for a round! This is a fabulous game to get your dance moves going and practice your listening – you must be sharp! After that Abu showed us all how to play ‘Family Square Game’! In this game each family takes a corner, and another family is 'It' in the middle. The family in the middle shouts ‘GO!’ and every family must leave their corner and run to another corner, while the family in the middle tries to get themselves to a corner! Whichever family ends up without a corner [...]

Bad weather? Nae bother! A Picnic indoors, a fashion show and a birthday!2026-08-17T09:36:13+00:00

Picnic & Play season is here! – Troon Beach

2025-09-08T10:40:59+00:00

Picnic & Play is here and Licketyspit is delighted to go on trips with friends from all our Porridge & Play Hubs across Glasgow. Picnic & Play is an opportunity to Storyplay away from our Glasgow neighbourhoods – visiting public spaces in our city - like museums, parks or galleries or visiting outdoor places outside Glasgow, like Troon Beach or Balloch Country Park and bringing Storyplay to all of them! The sky above Troon Beach looked dramatic – a combination of greys with occasional rays of light braking through the clouds. The wind was blowing and there were seagulls screeching loudly while circling in the air through a drizzle of rain. Sound dramatic, right? Well, no drama for our Maryhill Hub friends! – they were full of beans and so very excited about their day out that they almost didn’t feel how fresh it was – one certainly needed a couple of layers on! Graeme and Andy, our drivers dropped us near the promenade so carrying all our bits and bobs for our picnic wasn’t a huge effort and everyone helped so it was even easier. We settled and quickly many of our friends were already running around, digging in the sand or checking out the shore! DANCING ON THE BEACH! Our dance warm up got the attention of folk who were there also enjoying a [...]

Picnic & Play season is here! – Troon Beach2025-09-08T10:40:59+00:00

Forest Storyplay with our Cranhill Hub!

2025-09-02T16:59:54+00:00

Our bright Cranhill friends brought the sunshine with them to The Children’s Wood last Friday! Excitement was in the air as we all hugged and smiled delighted to be together again for some Storyplay fun. Our circle was BIG and our warm-up was BUSY! We had a very inspired game of Funky Chicken with some fabulous animals popping into our circle. We had a Scary Spider from Silin, Anne Marie's Flying Unicorn, a King bird and a Silly Sloth! Shiva was a Lazy Bunny, Ryan was a Whizzing Wasp and Shahd was a Scary Lion! Samuel imagined a Big Elephant and Esme became a Flamingo! Gabriella fluttered like a Happy Butterfly - and so did we! We met Prisca's Cheeky Cat, and wee David's Silly Dog. Gabbie created a Happy Axolotl......interesting! We also met a few Mr. Wolves with extremely cool watches and a dangerous appetite for the Forest Creatures we had dressed up as! Magic Ball! Magic Ball! Take us where we want to go! Have you ever been to Axolotl land?  Well that’s where our Magic Ball landed on Friday morning with our Cranhill Pals. We unzipped the Magic Ball zipper, stepped out and found ourselves at Axolotl Land where an Axolotl Party was about to kick off! And what, we wondered, do you do at an Axolotl party? We soon [...]

Forest Storyplay with our Cranhill Hub!2025-09-02T16:59:54+00:00

FOREST STORYPLAY

2025-07-11T14:14:54+00:00

Forest Storyplay is a new collaboration with our friends from The Children's Wood! After last year's fantastic Picnic & Play sessions and Storyplay Festival 2024 at The Children's Wood we all wanted to go back there for more Licketyspit fun! The Children's Wood are very happy to have us back and so this Summer we will bring families from across all our Hubs to enjoy more fantastic Storyplay outdoors. Click on the logo to go to The Children's Wood website! At Forest Storyplay sessions this Summer we'll have our Licketyspit games, a nice wee picnic and we'll also get to learn a bit more about how to enjoy and look after The Children's Wood! Did you know that they grow food as well as beekeeping? And that they have a labyrinth? Did you know that not only they grow new flowers and plants but they also help the land recover by allowing different parts to grow wildly? And do you know about the fairies? And the giant? And the dragon?! I wonder how many characters and stories we can come up at the magical Children's Wood... We cannot wait to see you there very soon for FOREST STORYPLAY! Taz, Andre, Sarah, Virginia & all at Licketyspit Visit the Porridge & Play Page [...]

FOREST STORYPLAY2025-07-11T14:14:54+00:00

Storyplay Festival 2024!

2025-04-02T23:42:14+00:00

Find out what we all got up to at the Storyplay Festival 2024 at the Children's Wood! Saturday 13th July Sunshine, Storyplay & a Family of Families! Our second ever Storyplay Festival was a huge success! Thank you to everyone who came. It was a beautiful day and didn’t rain until the festival ended – lucky us! In the morning, the Licketyspit team met at the Children’s Wood and quickly set-up for the festival. It took a lot of effort, but it was so worth it! Not long after we set up, we had the pleasure to welcome families from Bridgeton, Castlemilk, Cranhill, Maryhill & Govan as well as our families who join us for Licketyspit Online! We hosted over 125 people who all have one thing in common - they all love Storyplay! The families arrived and we created an enormous circle and got started! To warm-up, we did the biggest ‘Big As A Bear’ I’ve ever seen! But we weren’t warm enough because then we did a massive Dancing Warm-up! The energy was high and so before we split up, we sang ‘Ickerickeroo’. After some Storyplay as a huge group, we blew up our balloons and flew to our hub dens. We had families from 7 hubs, but for the festival we combined them into 5 – Bridgeton, Cranhill, Maryhill, Online & [...]

Storyplay Festival 2024!2025-04-02T23:42:14+00:00

Picnic & Play with the Online & Govan Hubs!

2024-08-23T13:02:21+00:00

Find out what the Online & Govan Group did during our Picnic & Play session at the Children's Wood! Monday 8th July Making a fire & cooking on it with Andrea & The Online & Govan friends at Meadow & Children’s Wood! Another Picnic & Play, another set of fabulous friends gathering for a Summer day out with Licketyspit. This year we are delighted to bring all our lovely families to the beautiful Meadow & Children’s Wood where we are hosting the Licketyspit Storyplay Festival in a few days! This Saturday July 13th many Licketyspit families from all across Glasgow will come together for a day of imaginary play, food, fun and community! Licketyspit will welcome them all at the Meadow & Children’s Wood for a Storyplay extravaganza where everyone is host and participant at the same time because all we need to play is each other! And so today our Online & Govan friends came along to Picnic & Play and enjoyed a warm and sunny Summer day with the Licketyspit team! We had a great warm up and a round of ‘My Name Is & I Like’ with Glory & Goodness having us trying our best at cartwheeling! Then ‘Funky Chicken’ was full of very exuberant creatures doing very peculiar things! It was easy to choose the right spot to place the [...]

Picnic & Play with the Online & Govan Hubs!2024-08-23T13:02:21+00:00

Picnic & Play with the Bridgeton Hub!

2024-08-23T13:03:40+00:00

Find out what the Bridgeton Group did during our Picnic & Play session at the Children's Wood! Saturday 6th July A sunny Picnic & Play for our Bridgeton friends at The Meadow & Children’s Wood! Saturday morning shone dry and bright for our Bridgeton families who came to Picnic & Play with Licketyspit and the Meadow & Children’s Woods looked even more beautiful and full of life. Sarah, Andre, Virginia & Taz had everything ready for any weather changes so we could all have shelter and Steven went to Bridgeton to meet all our friends and bring them over to the place where we will also host our Licketyspit’s Storyplay Festival next Saturday 13th of July! We can wait to see the Meadow & Children’s Wood bursting with families, imaginary play, food, fun & laughter! Many friends of Licketyspit from all over Glasgow will gather and hang out in celebration of play & community! But back to the Bridgeton Picnic & Play… Our circle was so big!. We had an energising warm up and then Alison told us about the Children’s Woods and how the local community campaigned to keep it from being turned into houses so people could enjoy a beautiful green space in the city. After that we had a Funky Chicken massive!. The time to explore arrived and so we marched [...]

Picnic & Play with the Bridgeton Hub!2024-08-23T13:03:40+00:00

Picnic & Play with the Cranhill Hub!

2024-08-23T13:04:18+00:00

Find out what the Cranhill Group did during our Picnic & Play session at the Children's Wood! Thursday 4th July Sunny with showers? Not a problem for Licketyspit and our CRANHILL Families! Sarah, Andre, Virginia and Taz got together to put up some tarpaulins to keep off the rain and a gazebo for our picnic to stay dry because we were determined to have fun at the Meadow & Children’s Woods with the brilliant Cranhill families even if it rained!! Steven went to Cranhill on the CCH Buses to collect everyone to travel to The Children's Wood - the beautiful natural space where our Storyplay Festival is happening this Summer. On Saturday 13th of July Licketyspit’s Storyplay Festival will welcome many families from across Glasgow to meet, play and eat together and to share the fun that imaginary Storyplay brings to us all! Families from Govan, Maryhill, Castlemilk, Whiteinch, Cranhill and even families who play with Licketyspit Online are invited to spend a fantastic day together at these beautiful woods. When our Cranhill friends arrived at the Children’s Woods today the excitement was way bigger than any worry about the rain! ‘We need a fire’ - Joy shouted when she saw our camp, - 'It reminds me of my country in Africa and how we used to gather in tents like this around a [...]

Picnic & Play with the Cranhill Hub!2024-08-23T13:04:18+00:00

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