Picnic & Play with our CASTLEMILK HUB!

2025-09-02T16:50:44+00:00

Our cheery Castlemilk Hub had a cool day out at Loch Lomond shores!  It was warm and the view from the castle at the top of the hill was so irresistible that some of our youngest friends were immediately drawn to it. They sat on the grass and just took in the view - and then rollie- polled and sausage-rolled down the steep hill!   A country park the size of Balloch always brings on the irresistible desire to RUN! All that beautiful green space right there for you to enjoy - the soft rolling hill, the huge, big sky, the tall trees, the big, wide inviting bushes, the intriguing shore of Loch Lomond covered in beautiful pebbles and stones, the water gently moving. Playing outside can be so exciting, and it sure tickles your imagination - you may imagine yourself in an island hiding away from pirates or in a far-away land looking for water dragons! There were big smiles and even bigger shapes at our Dance Warm Up that of course brought the attention of other visitors - I wonder if they thought they would have a wee happy dance next time they are out visiting somewhere cool!  We also made passers-by stop, listen and smile with our fantastic Funky Chicken animals and we surely had a laugh inventing them!  We had a [...]

Picnic & Play with our CASTLEMILK HUB!2025-09-02T16:50:44+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 Castlemilk Hub!

2025-09-02T16:56:50+00:00

Our Castlemilk Hub pals were excited to take flight at The Children’s Wood! It was delightful to meet and Storyplay with our Castlemilk Pals who were very smiley in the Big Circle and ready to get warmed up and have a go at Funky Chicken. We had a cracking game of Flying Balloons that started with Abu spotting people walking on grass before Taz saw some camels! Then to our amazement Jessica spotted a big tyre swing with a pink dragon on it and Susannah saw a giraffe! There were dinos dancing and dragons making a chicken BBQ with salad – well spotted Fiire! And some penguins with a stall giving out flavoured candy floss Then we met Forest Creatures like a Fighting Dragon, a Unicorn, a Jellyfish, a Ladybug, a Snake and a Flower moving in the wind - amongst others! We also of course met the Wolves who will tell you the time at your own risk! Wolfie Abu lived in a dark scary cave. He had secret jewellery and stuff to sell and he found his watch while digging up a cave. Fiire was Nice Wolfie, who lived in a sky tree house, ate bugs and liked to hang out with her friends. She found her watch - so someone must have lost it! Wolfie Avery liked diamonds and had lived [...]

Forest Storyplay with our Castlemilk Hub!2025-09-02T16:56:50+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

Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 4

2024-10-04T17:08:20+00:00

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 [...]

Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 42024-10-04T17:08:20+00:00

Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 4

2024-10-04T16:46:46+00:00

Whiteinch Blog! Love letters, Chefs, a massive birthday cake & a feast! Our last session at Whiteinch Library felt like a great big party and although everyone was a bit sad that it was the last one of this year we all cheered up very quickly with a Dancing Warm up. We decided to send Letters to our Loves! But we kept dropping them! and then we had to try and guess WHO had picked the letter up and put it in their pocket?! It was hilarious! We dressed up today as Chef’s from around the World so that we could make a very special Birthday Cake for Taz’s neighbour Fred, who apparently is very very old… Thankfully we had a very colourful array of international Chef’s giving Taz a helping hand! There was Chef Amjad who makes fried chicken and ketchup and comes from Iran, Chef Deon who comes from France & America and makes Spiderman pizza and Spiderman hot dogs. Also, there was Chef Casey – he makes cake with meatballs and tomato sauce and Chef Nina who comes from the ground! - ‘I dug myself up with a spoon!’ There was Chef Grace who makes princess pizza and Chef Mohammad from Pakistan who makes chicken and ketchup. From Poland we had Chef Special, she makes strawberries and cream and Ninja Chef – ‘I [...]

Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 42024-10-04T16:46:46+00:00

Porridge & Play Govan Week 4

2024-09-27T13:35:03+00:00

Govan Blog! Celebrating play & friends at Licketyspit’s Porridge & Play! It has been great to meet and play with friends old and new in Govan this year, we have had so much fun! We feel so lucky that you have all shared your incredible ideas with us! After a brilliant dance warm up we were feeling all lovely so…we decided to send Letters to our Loves! But we kept dropping them! and then we had to try and guess WHO had picked the letter up and put it in their pocket?! It was hilarious! Then we tipped out our magical mess of dressing-up and we all became CHEF’s! What would our Chef name be? What ingredients would we cook with? And what style of cuisine would be our favourite? We wondered……? And then we discovered… Shazia was Chef Carrotas who uses just carrots in ALL her recipes! Shamaila was Chef Patita who cooks pita bread with flour, salt, black pepper and mint! Haniya was Chef Pitu and she makes pizza with cheese. Firas was the very interesting Chef Hole, who lives in a Black Hole. He said it feels very crazy because every time he makes something good it becomes bad! His favourite creation is pizza with pineapple and smelly socks. Mmm Tasty! Safa was Chef Safa who lives in a castle with her Mum [...]

Porridge & Play Govan Week 42024-09-27T13:35:03+00:00

Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 3

2024-09-20T10:40:07+00:00

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 [...]

Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 32024-09-20T10:40:07+00:00

Porridge & Play Govan Week 3

2024-09-20T10:11:48+00:00

Govan Blog! Witches, potions & a Magic Ball adventure!!! The sun was shining in Govan today and our lovely space for Porridge & Play was full of sun rays! Storyplay began with a warmup that is also a story full of action! Have you heard about Joe who works in a buttons factory? He has a wife and three kids, and his boss is very demanding… We all got involved with ‘Hello! My name is Joe’ and got warmed up and ready to imagine! We all needed to get ready to attend a very important event…a Witch Convention. So, we transformed into the most fabulous witches with our very own way of dressing up: using old clothes and turning them into all sorts of fantastic bits to create our own character! The Witch Convention was compered by Witchy Tail Hair and her assistant Witchy Such & Such and they went around meeting and greeting all the other witches and they even interviewed a few! Witchy Mohammad lives in the sky and is magic! Watch out. Witchy Like Mohammad lives where Mohammad lives and he tricks people with their shoes… he he he! Witchy Evangelina lives in the sky where it’s very fluffy and comfortable. She loves sunny side up eggs and makes cloud potions. Yum! Witchy Safa lives in a castle pink with slime. Her favourite [...]

Porridge & Play Govan Week 32024-09-20T10:11:48+00:00

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