Porridge & Play Cranhill
Welcome to the Porridge & Play Cranhill Hub!
Porridge & Play Cranhill is a family play hub set up by Licketyspit as part of our 2022 New Scots Integration Project designed to bring children & their families together through the power of Storyplay! With the help of our partners, our Storyplay Champions and the families we work with, we are creating a vibrant, friendly hub that gives our children & families a loving and safe community.
Aga, Mum
‘The best is time together, we enjoy all games and very nice company.’
Since February 2022, we have gotten to know the wonderful children & families of Cranhill! We started off with a six week block of Porridge & Play which was hosted alongside our lovely partners at Cranhill Development Trust! Effie, Andre, Rhianne & Ruby had so much fun playing and getting to know each and everyone of our amazing families. We also worked alongside our amazing Storyplay Champion Josephine from Bellrock Nursery who is a real champion of play!
Beauty, Mum
‘Porridge & Play is very important because it helps children to build confidence and self esteem.’
At the end of May, we started our second block of sessions known as Picnic & Play! These exciting trips let us Storyplay all over Glasgow and even venture outside the city! We went to Tollcross Park, The Science Centre, the Riverside Museum, The Sensory Hub and the Kirkintilloch Stables (canal boats!) It’s so important to explore the wonderful free cultural activities on offer, and doing so as part of our lovely group helps us bond, connect and know these spaces belong to all of us! Families bring food to share, letting us explore lots of different cultures through really yummy flavours, and we play our favourite Storyplay games in some of our new favourite places.
Roja, 7
‘The best thing is that we played!’
For block three we were back at CDT creating exciting new Licketyspit Playcards – Cranhill style! At Licketyspit we believe that we all need what children need! And what better way to showcase that by remembering our favourite childhood games with our children – and even inventing some new ones.
Porridge & Play Cranhill was also at our day-long STORYPLAY FESTIVAL on Glasgow Green.
If you would like to join us at the Cranhill Hub, please contact us (WhatsApp +44 7413 800 342) to join our Children & Families Network and we will let you know when we have space at the Hub for your family.
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Picnic & Play with our CRANHILL HUB!
The weather was warm, and we had great fun dancing and playing games. Luckily for us, we met some very interesting friends of the Funky Chicken too. There was Annemarie’s Sassy Seahorse, Omar’s Angry Lion and Ahmad’s very Stinky Crab! We also met a very Silly Axolotl and an Old Elephant. We [...]
Picnic & Play season is here! – Troon Beach
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 [...]
Forest Storyplay with our Cranhill Hub!
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 [...]
FOREST STORYPLAY
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 [...]
Storyplay Festival 2024!
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 [...]
Picnic & Play with the Online & Govan Hubs!
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 [...]
