Picnic & Play
Picnic & Play is a version of Porridge & Play that takes place in outdoor or cultural venues, such as a museums, galleries and parks.
Rather than soup or porridge, we have a picnic meal, with the same delicious fruit and crunchy veg, cheese and hummus! Find out more about the food in the Lickety Kitchen!
These Storyplay sessions include drama-led games, rhymes, songs and imaginary play for the whole family, followed by a delicious group picnic. We explore the spaces we’re in and adapt our play to make the most of them. Sometimes the session ends with Reflective Drawing and the Lickety Gallery, where everyone is invited to present their drawing and talk about what they thought about the session. Other times it ends with games on the bus home!
Picnic&Play – Glasgow Botanics
Picnic & Play is an opportunity for members of the Licketyspit Children & Families network to meet and play the games they know together, and explore new cultural spaces near where they live. It is also an opportunity for new families to discover Licketyspit.
We have held Picnic & Play at venues including Troon Beach, WHALE Arts, North Edinburgh Arts, the Glasgow and Edinburgh Botanics, City Arts Centre, GoMA, Lauriston Castle, the Tall Ship, the Riverside Museum, Glasgow Green, the Glasgow Women’s Library and Balloch Castle Country Park.
Find out more about Storyplay outdoors.
“The picnic was fab! Did not expect so much lovely fruit! Thank you for a fabulous playtime!” (Mum, Edinburgh Botanic Gardens)
“We really enjoyed being here. This is good thing to take us out of our stress for a while.“ (Mum, GoMA)
These FREE sessions are very popular and spaces are limited. Where we have open sessions, we sometimes have a ticket ballot system – email CFN@licketyspit.com or text 0741 380 0342 to tell us if you would like to attend a session.
Read about sessions in Spring 2020 here.
Read about sessions in Autumn 2019 here.
Picnic & Play Blogs
Too wet and windy for the seaside – let’s build a seaside here!
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 [...]
Bad weather? Nae bother! A Picnic indoors, a fashion show and a birthday!
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 [...]
A trip to Balloch and a dip in Loch Lomond!
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 [...]
A breezy, blowy day at the sea!
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! [...]
Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW
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: CULTURE in GLASGOW
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! [...]
If you are involved in a community or arts venue and would like to find out more about hosting a Licketyspit Picnic & Play, please get in touch – info@licketyspit.com
