Picnic & Play : CULTURE in GLASGOW

2026-10-19T16:25:57+00:00

Discover what’s free to do with your family in our city! This October holiday Licketyspit families from Maryhill and Castlemilk hubs joined Picnic & Play CULTURE at the intriguing Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art also known as GoMA! GoMA is a fantastic free museum where you can go to discover exhibitions of paintings, drawings, sculptures, installations, videos, and digital art by artists from all over the world – including of course many of the most exciting new artists in Scotland. The people at GoMa want everyone to come and be inspired by art and to think and talk about it! They want GoMa to be place for people to gather, to learn and to share creative ideas. At the very top of the Gallery, on the 5th floor there’s a fabulous Studio. All the walls are covered with paintings in the most beautiful colours. The view from the giant windows of the Glasgow rooftops is exciting! We were welcomed by Chloe who works there. Chloe was great at telling us bits and bobs about the impressive building, the artworks and about the ways an artist’s imagination can get going…in fact….it turns out Storyplay is a perfect way to get everyone inspired to make Art! We got in our circle to warm up, play a fun Name Game and a round of Funky Chicken [...]

Picnic & Play : CULTURE in GLASGOW2026-10-19T16:25:57+00:00

Picnic & Play : CULTURE in GLASGOW

2026-10-19T16:24:16+00:00

Discover what’s free to do with your family in our city! This October holiday Licketyspit families from all our hubs joined Picnic & Play CULTURE at the fascinating Hunterian Zoology Museum inside Glasgow University! The Zoology Museum has been at the heart of the Graham Kerr Building since it opened in 1923! (over 100 years ago!) The displays are used to teach students as part of their classes today and the public is also welcome to come in and enjoy them – for free! Licketyspit spoke to Ruth and Eleni – who work for the Zoology Museum, and we all thought our Licketyspit families would sure enjoy bringing Storyplay to this brilliant place. But what does zoology mean? Let’s have a good look at that word – ZOOlogy. Mmm…what do you find in a ZOO? Animals! ZOOLOGY is the scientific study of animals and their behaviour – so it makes sense that this museum is used to teach people about the animal world. What an incredible place to STORYPLAY – we had a warm up and we played a round of The Name Game as families had come from Maryhill, Cranhill and Bridgeton and is always good to remind each other of our names and then…  Do you know The Funky Chicken? What did you say??!! We were at the perfect place for [...]

Picnic & Play : CULTURE in GLASGOW2026-10-19T16:24:16+00:00

Picnic & Play : CULTURE in GLASGOW

2026-10-19T16:22:14+00:00

Discover what’s free to do with your family in our city! This October holiday Licketyspit families from all our hubs joined Picnic & Play CULTURE at the fascinating Hunterian Zoology Museum inside Glasgow University! The Zoology Museum has been at the heart of the Graham Kerr Building since it opened in 1923! (over 100 years ago!) The displays are used to teach students as part of their classes today and the public is also welcome to come in and enjoy them – for free! Licketyspit spoke to Ruth and Eleni – who work for the Zoology Museum, and we all thought our Licketyspit families would sure enjoy bringing Storyplay to this brilliant place. But what does zoology mean? Let’s have a good look at that word – ZOOlogy. Mmm…what do you find in a ZOO? Animals! ZOOLOGY is the scientific study of animals and their behaviour – so it makes sense that this museum is used to teach people about the animal world. But what did our Licketyspit friends think about our visit? The museum surely got our pals inspired! Check out the Funky Chicken animals they created - Abisha came up with The Spinning Giraffe and Aila imagined the Silly Eagle. Arvin gave us the Squealing Pig and Ruth created a Squeaky Mouse. Mali turned into the Speaking Butterfly and Arvin also [...]

Picnic & Play : CULTURE in GLASGOW2026-10-19T16:22:14+00:00

Too wet and windy for the seaside – let’s build a seaside here!

2026-08-17T09:32:33+00:00

Another wet, windy and cold day when we had planned to get Maryhill Families to Troon Beach! But did that stop us?...NO WAY! All families came over to Community Central Hall, and we decided that we could create our very own indoors picnic and have a cool fun time! And so we got warmed up with Andre and Big As A Bear, dancing and making a conga with Nerea and playing a round of Funky Chicken with Taz and then Xiya and Andre showed everyone how to play ‘Oli Oli Octopus’ – a cool game that makes you run FAST! Andre and Xiya were 'it' to start with but in this game, whoever gets tagged becomes It TOGETHER with those who started being 'it'! You follow? Andre and Xiya were in the middle spreading their ‘tentacles’ trying to tag anyone who ran past by them – everyone must run from one end to the other but ALWAYS passing by the Octopuses and if you got tagged you became an Octopus! Everyone runs fast and tries to dodge a tag until in the end it was only James, Nerea and Xiyu left…we caught them in the end! Then we played ‘Bear and The Honey Pot’ and Cyrus was very good at confusing the poor bear with his squeaky shoes! Using our big silks, we [...]

Too wet and windy for the seaside – let’s build a seaside here!2026-08-17T09:32:33+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

A trip to Balloch and a dip in Loch Lomond!

2026-08-17T09:34:15+00:00

Bridgeton families and one family from Whiteinch too - two buses of us, we all set off to Balloch Country park! We parked high up at the top of the hill and first we set off all the way down to Loch Lomond shore! WHERE there is the most fantastic adventure playground. We all had amazing play swinging on the giant Rope Dragon, climbing on the big ship, swinging on giant tyre swings, spinning on the merry-go-round AND flying along the wire on the Flying Fox! Then we all ran down to the shore of the Loch and for many a paddle turned into a bit of a swim & a wade - some of us in all our clothes!  (but luckily the Mums had brought lots of extra clothes!). Then we all climbed and ran back up the hill to have our lovely Picnic inside the secret tree canopy! We sat on the groundsheet & tucked into bread and eggs and cheese & fruit and Lina's delicious aubergine dish & the yummy coleslaw Ghada had brought. They had also brought delicious Sudanese tea with cardamom, cloves, cinnamon and sugar and coffee with ginger cardamom and sugar! So yummy - Arafa said - "This is the life! food and friends in a lovely place - so happy!". Taz made hot chocolate for all the children and then [...]

A trip to Balloch and a dip in Loch Lomond!2026-08-17T09:34:15+00:00

A breezy, blowy day at the sea!

2026-07-31T14:30:15+00:00

No sooner had we arrived than we got stuck in playing in the sand and sea. There was lots of paddling and some brave souls went in for a full dip! Wow! We had to play tag to warm up! Back at camp, some serious construction got underway. We dug deep holes, built epic castle sculptures and buried our siblings in sand. We ate our picnic up on the grass and chased away the seagulls and crows that flocked hopefully around. There were eggs and cheese sandwiches, fruit, muffins and cucumber and tiny tomatoes too! Then the football came out and there was Duck Duck Goose and Witches Fingers too. Once we had played and eaten our fill, we set off for the playpark Aharrr! Pirates appeared! There were mermaids And fishes And sailors in jail! But there were some people, missing, who could it be? Why Ruby and Sobia off to get ice cream! Back for a cone quick before it melts! Then onto the bus for games and drawing. And home again for a big long sleep! by Taz, Sarah, Ruby & Licketyspit Families Find out more With Storyplay friends from Castlemilk! Troon Beach, July 2026

A breezy, blowy day at the sea!2026-07-31T14:30:15+00:00

Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW

2026-05-05T14:24:34+00:00

Discovering what’s free to do with your family in your city! We are very lucky to have fantastic museums and cultural venues in our city and many of them are free! Picnic & Play is all about taking Storyplay out in the world - we sometimes go to beaches, other times to lochs or parks but we also love to go to museums! Picnic & Play in Glasgow is all about families taking local public transport to travel to enjoy Storyplay and a delicious picnic with Licketyspit at one of our wonderful Glasgow Museums - we have been to Kelvingrove Galleries, Gallery of Modern Art, the Tall Ship and this Easter we are having brilliant Storyplay at the Riverside Museum - the museum of Transport! Since Picnic & Play is all about exploring other places through Storyplay we thought that makes us STORYPLAY Explorers! And so our intrepid families imagined themselves beautifully with the help of Dressing up and turned themselves into a very vibrant bunch ready to discover all sorts of things using our Magic Ball… Magic Ball, Magic Ball Takes us where we want to go! Whooooooosh! A Magic Ball Adventure poem Explorer Sandwich Hat, Explorer Pine Man, Explorer Shoes and Explorer Paris Artist, Explorer Plotato , Explorer Blue Dragon, Explorer Ruby & the Archaeologist Explorer Cristal,  Explorer Lily , Explorer Dog [...]

Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW2026-05-05T14:24:34+00:00

Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW

2026-05-05T13:45:26+00:00

Discovering what’s free to do with your family in your city! We are very lucky to have fantastic museums and cultural venues in our city and many of them are free! Picnic & Play is all about taking Storyplay out in the world - we sometimes go to beaches, other times to lochs or parks but we also love to go to museums! Picnic & Play in Glasgow is all about families taking local public transport to travel to enjoy Storyplay and a delicious picnic with Licketyspit at one of our wonderful Glasgow Museums - we have been to Kelvingrove Galleries, Gallery of Modern Art, the Tall Ship and this Easter we are having brilliant Storyplay at the Riverside Museum - the museum of Transport! Since Picnic & Play is all about exploring other places through Storyplay we thought that makes us STORYPLAY Explorers! And so our intrepid families imagined themselves beautifully with the help of Dressing up and turned themselves into a very vibrant bunch ready to discover all sorts of things using our Magic Ball… Magic Ball, Magic Ball Takes us where we want to go! Whooooooosh! A Magic Ball Adventure recalled by Poppy, Jesé, Deon, Zara, Taz, Kim & Caroline When Poppy opened the Magic Ball’s zipper she shouted – ‘ITS A FOREST!!!’. The trees were big and beautiful but suddenly [...]

Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW2026-05-05T13:45:26+00:00

Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW

2026-05-05T13:51:48+00:00

Discovering what’s free to do with your family in your city! We are very lucky to have fantastic museums and cultural venues in our city and many of them are free! Picnic & Play is all about taking Storyplay out in the world - we sometimes go to beaches, other times to lochs or parks but we also love to go to museums! Picnic & Play in Glasgow is all about families taking local public transport to travel to enjoy Storyplay and a delicious picnic with Licketyspit at one of our wonderful Glasgow Museums - we have been to Kelvingrove Galleries, Gallery of Modern Art, the Tall Ship and this Easter we are having brilliant Storyplay at the Riverside Museum - the museum of Transport! Since Picnic & Play is all about exploring other places through Storyplay we thought that makes us STORYPLAY Explorers! And so our intrepid families imagined themselves beautifully with the help of Dressing up and turned themselves into a very vibrant bunch ready to discover all sorts of things using our Magic Ball… Magic Ball, Magic Ball Takes us where we want to go! Whooooooosh! A Magic Ball Adventure narrated by Storyplay Champion - Arvin (aged 9) We got out of the magic ball and we saw a wild boar but luckily we got away into a pack of trees. [...]

Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW2026-05-05T13:51:48+00:00

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