Porridge & Play Week 4 at Cranhill Development Trust!

2024-08-23T13:07:31+00:00

Find out what the Cranhill Group did during our Porridge & Play Session at Cranhill Development Trust! Thursday 23rd May Goodbye for now - not forever! We had such a fabulous time at Licketyspit this week! Our adventures took us deep into the forest, where we found a sunny glade full of marvellous creatures! Pela the Rabbit was hiding under a big old oak tree and Stella, a fluttering butterfly, sat on a beautiful sunflower and seemed to know all the creatures in the forest! We listened as the birds sang a joyful song when suddenly we heard a loud howling sound. At first, we didn’t know where the sound was coming from. Then, a very fancy Wolf appeared with a very fancy watch! It was Genesis the Wolf who lived in a cave at the edge of the forest and it turned out her wolfy friend had given her the gold watch. Wolfy Genesis told us she liked to dance in the afternoon, so we had a good old boogie with her and then helped her clean her cave in the evening. She had a beautiful cave lined with red velvet and gold brocade and lots of soft cushions. It was so exciting to actually see inside a real wolfy cave! As we made our way along the path at the edge of the [...]

Porridge & Play Week 4 at Cranhill Development Trust!2024-08-23T13:07:31+00:00

Porridge & Play Week 3 at Cranhill Development Trust!

2024-08-23T13:11:00+00:00

Find out what the Cranhill Group did during our Porridge & Play Session at Cranhill Development Trust! Thursday 16th May 2024 Sunshine and good times! We had a marvellous time last week at Cranhill Porridge & Play! It was a beautiful sunny day and we really enjoyed having a good dance together and showing each other all our cool dance moves! We had some new friends who came along and we all sang Icker-Ickeroooo at the tops of our voices too! Then, in the lush green grass we spied a bag of marvellous dressing up clothes and all got dressed up in some amazing colourful outfits. Steven got a great photo of us all before we began our exciting adventure heading off into the magical forest. I say magical because, pretty soon, we met some fabulous grannies in the middle of the forest! There was the wonderful Granny Genesis, who lived in a forest cave, she said she didn’t do much, just worked and ate porridge! Then as we walked, under the cherry blossom trees we heard the sound of singing and looked up to see the flying Granny Solin. She was soaring across the rainbowed sky surrounded by butterflies! She told us she loves to eat burgers and actually lives on the sun! Which she said was actually quite cold! (Amazing!) Then from [...]

Porridge & Play Week 3 at Cranhill Development Trust!2024-08-23T13:11:00+00:00

Porridge & Play Week 2 at Cranhill Development Trust!

2024-08-23T13:13:20+00:00

Find out what the Cranhill Group did during our Porridge & Play Session at Cranhill Development Trust! Thursday 9th May 2024 Fabulous characters and hungry sea creatures! What a marvellous time we all had at Cranhill this week! We all had a great dance! Then we wrote love letters to our special people - but we dropped them & someone must have picked them up and put them in their pocket! We created some fabulous costumes to become our favourite characters: Ryan was a Tentacle Octopus from the ocean who liked to eat people in boats! Silin was a very Ancient Old Granny who had travelled all the way from Greece and liked to eat strawberries. We encountered a very clever Businessman called Ahmad who sold fancy suits. His business was called Suits Ahmad and if you ever need a suit for a special occasion, his suits are definitely the best! Then, the glamorous Aveen, who turned out to be a famous actress, all the way from Hollywood! She told us she was in the film Titanic! Then we realised that of course - we recognised her! It was so exciting to meet her! Then we bumped into another granny who lived nearby called Amber. She was a granny with the superpower of Invisibility and insisted that she must have some jelly pudding. Her [...]

Porridge & Play Week 2 at Cranhill Development Trust!2024-08-23T13:13:20+00:00

Porridge & Play Week 1 at Cranhill Development Trust!

2024-08-23T13:15:01+00:00

Find out what the Cranhill Group did during our Porridge & Play Session at Cranhill Development Trust! Thursday 2nd May 2024 Big bears and scary witches! What a marvellous time we had on Thursday at Cranhill! The Funky Chicken had lots of new friends! Ryan introduced us all to the Sly Alligator, Daniel showed us the Angler Crab, Genesis found a Bad Eagle and then Beauty met a fabulous Pregnant Elephant! We all flew high up into the air and soared through the sky holding tight to our colourful balloons as we travelled from France, to Spain, then on to Guatemala, Mexico and Pakistan. We saw all the hat sellers with their beautiful tall hats, a mermaid on a skateboard, and a spectacular chocolate castle! We flew down and tried some and it tasted delicious! It was sweet - some bits tasted like vanilla and others like pineapple - and the chocolate in the moat tasted like crocodile paws! As we flew back across Glasgow, we happened upon a great gathering of witches from far and wide which was so much fun! There was Witchy Stella from Glasgow who’d travelled here on a rabbit pirate ship, the scary Vampire Witch who enjoyed cooking Blood Potions, Witch Malificent who lived in the forest and a fascinating Witch with no face, called Witch Ahmad who came [...]

Porridge & Play Week 1 at Cranhill Development Trust!2024-08-23T13:15:01+00:00

Sunshine & Sausage Rolls!

2023-08-22T08:23:35+00:00

Find out what the Cranhill  group got up to in their latest Picnic & Play adventure! BALLOCH We had a WONDERFUL trip to BALLOCH with the Cranhill Families! We enjoyed a delicious picnic & throwing PE Shapes which became a GYMNASTICS CHALLENGE with rollie poleys, handstands and more! Feeling energised by the warmth of the sun and a delicious veggie picnic we were all just a bit too tempted having set up camp at the top of the hill to get down on the grass and turn our selves into sausage rolls. With the help of Taz & Andre we got on our marks at the top of the hill all sausage set & ready to ROLL! Prisca & Joy became the most epic olympic sausage roll racers and lots of our pals shared their favourite gymnastic moves before heading down to explore the Loch Lomond Shores, spirits high singing GRANDMA GRANDMA altogether x Thanks for such a lovely day guys Till next time, Emma xxx The Licketyspit Art Gallery! What you said: ‘The magic ball, the mermaid walk, the pirate ship and the food. And that’s a monster. The one that bumped [...]

Sunshine & Sausage Rolls!2023-08-22T08:23:35+00:00

A Celebration in the Garden!

2023-06-02T14:17:53+00:00

Find out what the Cranhill  group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure!  Week 5 of Porridge & Play Cranhill 2023 Thursday 1st June It was a beautiful Sunny day for the final session of this Porridge & Play block at Cranhill  So we spent the whole session in the garden! We all danced in our circle - and some of us cartwheeled!! We were BIG as BEARS, FAST as HARES and our BIRDS laid our Giant EGGS! We flew high above Glasgow with our Balloons (we saw dinosaurs covered in popcorn & waffles!) and above the whole world. We dressed up as animals - like a Butterfly, a Bison, a unicorn &  2 Giraffes!  We had an amazing Magic Ball adventure unzipping the ball to find we were in water & we needed to SWIM! We met Wolfie’s Potato, Banana, Lago, Mila, Amelia, Biscuit, Chocolate and Tough! They all had extraordinary watches and we forest animals needed to know the time! They had us dancing at 1 o’clock and cycling at 5 o’clock but of course we had to listen out and run away when it was DINNER TIME! We played a magical game all around the Cranhill Ship - sharks and wild octopus tried to catch us! Then we flew back in the Magic Ball for our delicious picnic on our picnic blankets [...]

A Celebration in the Garden!2023-06-02T14:17:53+00:00

A sunny afternoon calls for outdoor imaginary play!

2023-05-29T12:18:48+00:00

Find out what the Cranhill  group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure!  Week 4 of Porridge & Play Cranhill 2023 Thursday 25th May The sun was beaming on the Cranhill Pals and the Cranhill Development Trust Garden proved the best outdoor space to play! Everyone felt energised by the heat and the sunlight and smiles abounded, so our dance warm up felt bouncier than ever. Rainbow Trout Chef meets the Genius Chefs Of Cranhill Rainbow Trout Chef needed some bright new ideas to get a new job! Luckily he was visiting Cranhill, home of The Genius Chefs: Chef Melissa, Chef Amazing, Super Hero Chef, Lazy Chef, Chef Coolio, The 2 Blind Chefs, Chef invisible, Chef disaster, French chef, Ninja Chef, Grandma chef, Gymnast chef and the infamous Chef Johnny Johnson. Together they put their culinary genius to work and came up with the wildest cake recipe!  You’ll need the following ingredients: Love and kindness Strawberries Sprinkles and icing Raspberries Gymnastic food Egg Rainbow Chocolate Amazonian Lemons Rainbow sprinkles Butter icing Vanilla Rainbow drops Weetabix Trout fish Flour Banana Baking powder Orange juice And to decorate get plenty of Rainbow icing, Rainbow chocolate, Chocolate, Rainbow webs and Cream! DELICIOSO!!! But after having a slice they found that inside they had baked in… A MAGIC BALL!! Off they went to explore in the Magic Ball [...]

A sunny afternoon calls for outdoor imaginary play!2023-05-29T12:18:48+00:00

Deep in the Forest of Cranhill…

2023-05-25T12:36:04+00:00

Find out what the Cranhill  group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure!  Week 3 of Porridge & Play Cranhill 2023 Thursday 18th May Glorious Grannies! Grandma Tippy Tippy Shaylin loves reindeer and the animals in the forest. She feeds the animals carrots that she grows herself. Grandma Amelia lives in a pink house made out of wood. She makes pancakes with syrup for breakfast. Miss Granny Smith grows granny smith apples and she puts sweet decorations on her apples - sparkles that you can eat! Her house is made of brick and has a big maple roof. The door is rainbow and the windows are plain black. She has a full farm. She’s got a shed full of cows and foxes and sheep and horses. She feeds her trees apples, cherries, strawberries, and tomatoes! Yes, feeds them! And Grandma Young has a house with clouds for a roof! It has blue doors and rainbow grass. She grows fruit in her garden - her favourite are strawberries! All these glorious Grannies have funny looking trees that when the Grannies are busy turn into naughty monsters! They slowly creep around trying to give the Grannies a wee fright and everyone has wonderful fun. In another part of the forest live the Wee Witches! Their fingers are long and witchy and they love to play chasing [...]

Deep in the Forest of Cranhill…2023-05-25T12:36:04+00:00

Weird flamingos and a Horrid Pirate Parade!

2023-05-17T08:24:59+00:00

Find out what the Cranhill  group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure!  Week 2 of Porridge & Play Cranhill 2023 Thursday 11th May Our pal the Funky Chicken invited some peculiar animals to Cranhill today! We met: The Cheeky Lion The Dying Fly The Naughty Crocodile The Big Dinosaur The Weird Flamingo  The Cheeky Rabbit The Slippery Cat The Scary Lion And The Giant Crocodile ‘So this is slippery cat that’s what we were playing and this is a wet cat but slippery and that’s why she’s on the floor because she’s slippery. That’s me when I am cat. My favourite thing was…everything!’ We also got experimental concocting the stinkiest, stickiest Mucky Brew with the Cranhill crew! Here’s our formula… A smelly dinosaur egg, mud from a puddle, feathers, sand, mice, butterflies, a poisoned cat, fire, slime, glitter and smelly fish Mucky Me, Mucky You, Mucky Mucky MUCKY BREW! ‘We’re on the pirate ship and its raining and its sunny and there’s a rainbow.’  ‘This was a pirate! With one eye and a spoon arm!’ They all came! Captain Smelly Foot and Captain Super Potato Pirate Olivia and Super Hero Pirate Fashion Pirate, Captain Queen, Queen Shaylin Captain and lots of other horrid looking pirates Ready to take part in the infamous Horrid Pirate Parade! What will next week bring for the fantastic [...]

Weird flamingos and a Horrid Pirate Parade!2023-05-17T08:24:59+00:00

Up to the Sky and into the Sea!

2023-05-09T10:17:54+00:00

Find out what the Cranhill  group got up to in their latest Storyplay adventure!  Week 1 of Porridge & Play Cranhill 2023 Thursday 4th May It was phenomenal to be back in Cranhill again for Thursday family Porridge & Play! We saw lots of our friends from last year and plenty new faces too, including children we'd met at our tasters in Cranhill Primary, Lamlash Nursery and Bellrock Nursery. There were a whopping 80 people! Plus, we were joined by CDT's very own Kayla who will be with us for these sessions, and our new Licketyspit Actor Pedagogue, Steven. We played Funky Chicken and met the.... Cheeky Lion Funny Cat Funky Giraffe Funny Giraffe Crazy Lion and many more animals with groovy some moves! We flew high in the sky in our Flying Balloons and saw a rocket ship! A gingerbread house! A sunset, a dinosaur and a flamingo! Then we swooped down for a dip in the bluest of seas, whoosh, splash, float on your back... We also had some excellent energetic dancing and some very special singing, including Ellie teaching us her fave, Grandma Grandma! And there was a giant Lickety Art Gallery including Shiva's brilliant fold out drawing of a magical balloon that got popped! I wonder what we'll play next? See you all again next time for more Storyplay games & adventures. Bye for [...]

Up to the Sky and into the Sea!2023-05-09T10:17:54+00:00

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