In a deep, cold and dark forest or a warm and sunny one

In a cave with bones and cobwebs or in a two-bedroom flat…

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Happy, scary and funny ones

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Cheery Monsters at Bridgeton Hub!

Girisha says – ‘I am a Red Monster and I am really scary. I can make it rain and I can make it STOP!’

 Mohammed says – ‘I’m a monster who can make people pause.’

 Alan is Larry the lumberjack Monster he says – ‘I live in a cave.’ 

Aleen says – ‘I’m a Blueberry Cup Cake Monster and I dance with this outfit. I live in a Cup Cake house.’

 

These monsters love to dance and draw, play Funky Chicken till it’s hot!

These monsters may seem scary,

But I promise you they’re not!

 

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Happy, scary and funny ones

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Cheery Monsters at Bridgeton Hub!

 

Mariam says – ‘I’m a Monster Pants and I save food, so I am actually a superhero’.

 Mohammed is Super Granny Monster – ‘I am here to destroy the other monsters. I live in a hut. I can freeze everyone. I live with another monster’

 Summer says ‘I am Monster Teddy Bear and I can fly. I live on a mountain.            It is always sunny’.

 

These Monsters love fruit!

These Monsters love soup!

They love a good circle and they love singing too!

 

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Happy, scary and funny ones

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Cheery Monsters at Bridgeton Hub!

Maab says –  ‘I am Monster Penguin. I also have freezing powers. I live in a forest. It is very warm.  

I live with witches and of course – I do my penguin walk!’.

 Amar says – ‘ I am Red X Monster. I’m also free!’

 Malak says – ‘I live in Malak; it is beautiful in Malak. I eat vegetables and cupcakes.’

All monsters yes, but different!

All with individual style,

These monsters are peculiar

But they’re all fantastic fun!

 

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Happy, scary and funny ones

Monsters, Monsters everywhere

Cheery Monsters at Bridgeton Hub!

 

Nerea, Paul, Steven & Bridgeton Hub Families

 

 

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Poor Bun Brother was a bit preoccupied although you wouldn’t think so when we first met him…

‘Aye, Aye, Aye

I’m The Best, I’m the Best

• clap, clap, clap
• clap, clap, clap

 We are the Bun Brothers; we are like no other! ‘

He was singing and cheering and clapping and he got us all involved in singing about him and his brother and how they are the best and they are like no other when suddenly…

Poor Bun Brother realised that he was on his own, without his brother (who couldn’t come) and he was in a right pickle because he couldn’t remember any of his fantastic recipes!

But his sadness didn’t last long as soon as he realised he had arrived in Castlemilk Library where he discovered a Delicious Crew of Brilliantly Creative CHEFs!!

There was Angel Chef, Cool Chef whose speciality is pizza, Crazy Chef, Pizza Pie Chef, Mean Chef who is a dog as well as a chef, Fairy Chef, Prince Chef, Ninja Chef who specialises in Chocolate Milk, Sad Chef & Happy Chef, Wee Chef, Jamaica Chef & the world-famous Candyfloss Chef!

 ‘Marvellous! We can work together and create a sublime recipe for an out of this world CAKE!!’ – the Bun Brother was beside himself.

So we got working…we had a massive bowl in the middle. There were so many of us we needed of course to bake a gigantic cake! SO,

Cool Chef mixed in Flour

And Prince Chef some white sugar

Ninja Chef went for melted chocolate

And Chef Angel put in Strawberries & angel cake – an extremely light cake!

Crazy Chef went for White sprinkles

Sad Chef threw in some Eggs

We are going to need some butter!

said another Chef!

Mean Chef added Potatoes

Big Chef liked the idea of Mango Chunks

Chef Pizza Pie, put in a cucumber

And it was all topped off by a nice rotten cheese from Happy Chef!

Stir and stir and stir and stir and Let’s Bake A Cake!
Let’s Bake A Cake!

Think of all the things that we like best…

A little bit of this

A little bit of that

NOW let’s put it in the oven!

 You have never seen a bigger CAKE TIN!

The cake cooked beautifully and all the chefs agreed about decoration…

‘Pink raspberry icing, cockroaches, Gummy sushi and Gummy Bologna!’

 It did look MAGNIFICENT, I’m not going to lie…But as they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so we had to try the cake to make sure our recipe was a good one and then…

‘Oh…oh…something funny is happening to me…’

 ‘ And to me…’

 ‘Wait a minute…how light was that angel cake you put in Angel Chef?’

It turned out it was cake of the of the lightest kind, so light in fact that  we all started to float up away into the air!

We floated and floated …………..until we got to the moon!!

The view from the moon was amazing and floating about the moon is of course great fun but we did have to return to the Library for our meal. Thankfully Sad Chef had her special parachute! So, we all held onto it, pulled the string and whoooooosh….we landed in a heap and we all laughed!

Our food was as usual, delicious and this week we had a wee treat of Honey Mango from Pakistan!

After that we had a fabulous Licketyspit Gallery sharing our drawings, thoughts and opinions and few very interesting book reviews and recommendations.

We were so inspired that some of us took home some books about food that the brilliant Castlemilk Librarians had found for us! I wonder if our Castlemilk Families will be cooking  some more deliciousness this weekend?

Or even next Thursday for our Porridge & Play Celebration Session?!

See you there!

 Taz, Ruby, Virginia and Castlemilk Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

The CONVENTION of Maryhill Road Chefs was in full swing this week at Community Central Hall…

Incredible Chefs were arriving from all over the world for a sensational display of terrific cooking skills!

People had gathered from far and wide to meet these incredible Chefs and to learn about their wacky creations…

With the power of a Dressing Up Bag – (our bag full of old clothes and imaginings) – our inventive families transformed themselves into characters capable of extraordinary, ordinary and beautiful things!

And today they became very special Chefs – with intriguing cooking specialities….

Violet was Cooking McCookson – who cooks sea monsters to perfection! – delish!

Xiyu was Chef Sheffle – who makes strawberry doughnuts – yum!

Shriyansh was Chef Kippa – who cooks Dinosaur Steaks – wow!

Iris was Chef Strawberry – who makes special strawberry jam with lollipops in it – very special!

Ada was Chef of Delights, a French chef – she adds her Secret Vanilla that she makes herself to all her baking -watch out for what her vanilla may do to you!

Rita was Chef Old – a ghost that can still be seen and can cook – spooky!

Thrishitha became Indian Chef – who specialises in Biryani, Chicken Biryani – funky!

Sparkle Evie Chef puts sprinkles on top of everything that she makes – cunning!

Maya was Chef Coast – who hunts sharks and fries them! – brave!

Arvin was Chef Rush – who makes luxury meals very fast – ideal!

Having all these brilliant chefs together in the same place obviously was perfect for a Big Cook Off BUT, just as the chefs were being ushered into a big kitchen,  a loud cry was heard –

‘Nooooooo! ‘ – everyone stopped in their tracks

‘Please! Please! – begged a very sad looking Chef

 ‘My name is Chef Carne! I’m ever so sad cause I’ve been given the job of baking a special Birthday Cake for a birthday girl

BUT the trouble is I’ve never baked a cake before in my life!

You see I’m a meat chef – Carne means meat, in Spanish!

‘Ooooh, I’m so worried I won’t be able to complete my mission…’

All the Chefs looked at each other with that look that says ‘we could help this poor chap, couldn’t we?’ and then with one voice they said –

‘Come into the kitchen with us!’

So they ushered Chef Carne into the kitchen and we all sat around the great big mixing bowl and the Chefs got to work!!…

‘Let’s Bake A Cake! Let’s Bake A Cake!

Think of all the things that we like best –

A little bit of this

A little bit of that

What shall we put in first?’

 Chef Kippa – chicken eggs…10 eggs

Chef Rush – Squirty honey and milk

Chef Strawberry – a jar of her special strawberry jam with lollipops inside

Chef Of Delights – her special vanilla that makes everything taste amazing, 20 drops

Chef Mermaid – smelly cheese!

Indian Chef –  chocolate cream!

Chef Sheffle – melted chocolate and flour…

This recipe is a DREAM!

 Even the Commis Chefs,  who are the newest chefs in the kitchen and still learning, were invited to collaborate on this magnificent creation!

Commis Chef Claire added Feathers and Commis Chef Emma some peaches,

 Commis Chef Yachai added lime and Commis Chef Vince hid a gold coin in!

 Then Commis Chef Scott was very precise with the addition of one single spear of asparagus!

 When it was baked the birthday cake got decorated with icing, sprinkles, Oreo and M&Ms and topped off with 8 glorious birthday candles…

And let me tell you, the birthday girl was VERY HAPPY!

Taz, Andre, Nerea and Maryhill Hub Families

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Come all, come all to Porridge & Play

You can be anyone; do anything every day!

With Funky Chicken you get to be,

Any animal you like – Yes even a flea!

A Happy Horsey or a Happy cat.

A Mad Lizard and a Scary cat!

An Angry Kangaroo and a Naughty Penguin.

– And let’s all cheer up that poor Sad penguin!

Pick a balloon of your favourite colour

Blow it up big and fly round the world

the world, the world which is best from the air!

People of all countries – they are here, here and there!

 

This is my red balloon, I blew it up and went to Antarctica,

 it was very cold; we counted to 5 and the balloon popped! OOOOOOOh!

 

Going around the world is like going outside our circle,

We saw lots of rainbows and our footsteps outside the circle,

going around and around and around…

 

The rivers, the countries, that’s a tree and that’s ME!

Pick up a balloon!

Fly wherever you want to be!

 

A very good cake just fit for a king.

We can bake you one in a blink!

And we can even sing!

Arafa added eggs,

Alan some raspberries,

Malak said –  let’s put apple in the cake!

Mohammed put 5 vanilla drops

And Summer binded it all up with flour!

‘let’s put rainbow cream in the cake! We put it on like this’

Salah showed us all :  sh-sh- sh- sh-ssssssh!

A cake for the King in a giant black castle!

And this is jelly, so so good with cake!

Also cream with the strawberries in!

Tastes delicious and on top… the king!

It is a birthday cake for the king of the castle;

Deliciously tasting of strawberry with pistachio!

 

All of us sitting together

we used ingredients for the cake –

flour, eggs, milk and many other things,

it was a delicious cake!

A castle and a cake!

There is also water here –

 And a dog inside a cave!

 

What a great Bridgeton Porridge & Play Day!

Thanks everybody for such a great Day of Play!

See you next week! When Nerea will welcome back Paul and Steven to our Licketyspit Team!

Ruby, Andre, Nerea, Virginia  & Bridgeton Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

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Our Castlemilk families have many cool moves

When they hear music they can’t stop to groove –

Let’s dance some more! For a little bit longer!

Let’s get together in a fabulous CONGA!!

We also DRESS UP with gusto and style

Combining materials and sharing smiles

Today we decided to turn into PIRATES

but colourful ones – striking like parrots!

 

Haaris turned himself into Pirate Angel,

Anusha became Spy Pirate who spies on people,

Poppy was Mermaid Pirate and she looks for cool treasure,

Zara was Pirate Pretty who looks for treasure with Pirate Mermaid,

Rumaisa  decided to be Cool Pirate.

We also had wee pirates Massi, Udo and Ammar

And wee baby Ugo was the littlest one!

We blew up a Red Magic Ball and after much discussion on possible destinations we chanted the magic words…

MAGIC BALL
MAGIC BALL
TAKE US WHEN WE WANT TO GO…WHOOOSH!!

We landed on a beach…and there must have been a party going on somewhere because we could heard music  – so we immediately danced to the beach music! We couldn’t resist!

‘We are in Hawaii, it’s great!’ – shouted Pirate Pretty.

‘Ice cream anyone? –  Spy Pirate offered.

We all wanted some ice cream – Spy Pirate had bubble gum flavour.

We went into the ocean determined to find treasure as we swam and swam and swam… BUT there was a shark in the water! And then Pirate Taz got into trouble ! So we pulled her out as fast as we could!

‘We found some diamonds!’ – Pirate Pretty & Mermaid Pirate shouted.

‘It must be part of a famous Hawaii bigger treasure! If only we had the map to look for it!’

‘We do!’

While making sense of the treasure map, we suddenly heard a grumpy voice…

‘What are you doing with MY treasure map?!’

It was a Grumpy Pirate Captain. So cross with us!  and tired and a bit cranky…

‘Get in a line! Let me look at you lot’ – she shouted.

‘I am getting on, my knees hurt and I need to find some replacement for my ship…

‘Have  you ever worked on a ship?’

‘No!’ – said we.

‘Have you ever BEEN on a ship??’

‘No…’ – we admitted.

‘Oh dear…well, let’s get you started!’

So the Captain started to boss us, shouting lots of orders we had to follow!

‘Port! Starboard! Scrub the deck! Climb the rigging! Cook my dinner!’

It was tiring but we were actually quite good at being a pirate crew…

‘Ok, let’s try out some of you…YOU!’ – she pointed at  Pirate Muhammed

Pirate Muhammad took over being the Captain – ‘Poooooort!’

Then Cool Pirate – ‘ Make a pizza!’

Then Pirate Abu – ‘Mop the floor!’

We followed  the orders to the letter… and while mopping the floor Pirate Pretty screamed –

‘It smells disgusting!’

And she was right, it did!

But after all that hard work we could finally relax –

‘I have some Funky music, let’s play and dance!’ – So we did our crazy pirate dance!

‘Now…I’ll show you all where the big treasure is…right …..under there!!’.

We dug and dug until we found a chest containing…

 2000 coins!

And rubies!

And diamonds!

‘What shall we do with all this treasure??’

‘We could buy some go-karts in Costco!’

 ‘Great idea!’

So we all headed off to the Costco in Hawaii and got ourselves super cool go-karts of different colours and went for a spin!

It was  fantastic being a pirate crew but we realised we were starting to get a bit peckish.

So, we got back into the Magic Ball and returned to Castlemilk Library to do some Reflective Drawing to remember our adventure and get some nice grub in our tummies! ARRRRGH!!!

Sarah, Taz, Nerea, Virginia and the Castlemilk Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

Our Dressing Up bag

Full of colourful rags

That turn into magic

When we mix them all up!

 

Zoe , Maya, Rita, Arvin, Ada, Iris, Zac & Xiya let us into the magic of their dressing up imaginings…

‘I’m Princess Purple and this is my long hair. It helps people to climb up high and saves animals. My favourite is cake is chocolate.’

 ‘I’m a Ghost. I’ve been a ghost for 235 years. I ghost in a haunted cave, I get some people and I turn some into ghosts, some are vampires and some are zombies.’

 ‘I’m Officer William, I put people in jail. The last person robbed money from the bank, and I set a trap with a net to catch them. My favourite cake is sponge cake.’

 ‘My name is ‘I don’t know’. I’m in jail but I did nothing…’

 ‘I’m Grannie Swamp. I live nearby a swamp. I have bug spray. I have pancakes for breakfast and I make macaroons. I live in a tree house. And my macarons are Top Shelf!’

  ‘I’m Granny Dungeon. There’s no way I’m related to Granny Swamp! I live in the Edinburgh dungeon – I pretend to be a security guard and turn my face into nothing!’

 ‘I am a king, King Lion. Princess Purple is my princess. I live in a cave with bones and blood and I eat mice. I defeated the lion that attacked your Parrot Forest.’

 ‘I’m Mr Twin, I live in the big holiday place – I go with my friend Mali and there’s a water park and I have a pool.’

 

When Pedro The Parrot found a Magic Ball that Xiyu realised was green – there was nothing else left to do but to blow it big, climb inside and….WOOSH!!!

Maya opened the zip…

‘We’ve landed at the End Of The Rainbow!!’

‘Can you all hear that??’

We could hear singing…

‘Who are you?’ – we asked

‘ I’m going on the Yellow Brick Road for an adventure; would you like to come?’

Follow the Yellow Brick Road, Follow the Yellow Brick Road, follow, follow, follow, follow the Yellow Brick Road

 ‘Oh no look at this poor Scarecrow looking so sad! How can we help you?’

‘I’m quite a stuck and I’d love to be able to dance…’

Zoe started singing a wee sweet song and we realised we needed something a bit more…funky! So we sang Grandma, Grandma from the top of our voices and it worked!! The scarecrow started to boogie!!!

‘Hey look over there! Is that a rusty old bus?’ – Arvin shouted.

We all decided to go and have a look at it. It was rusty and dirty, and it looked abandoned.

‘I can see hyenas coming this way!!’ – Zoe had spotted a pack approaching.

‘Quick, let’s clean the bus up and see if we can escape in it! – Andre suggested

‘Who can drive this though? – Taz asked but Arvin was already at the wheel!

Narrow escape –  we were all relieved and ready to carry on when we encountered… a great BIG GHOST!

But instead of being scared we felt sorry for him because he was crying in a little ghostie voice!

‘He’s a ghost called Max and he is lost. He wants to go back home, and he lives in an island next to the sea’ – our very own Ghostie/Maya translated for us.

‘Wouldn’t it be great if we could help Max out? We need a boat! – said Pedro The Parrot.

‘I have a boat in my swamp’ – said Granny Swap /Ada– ‘ I’ll quickly use my portal to go back and get it and return’

Granny’s rowing boat was magnificent! We all rowed as hard as we could while Officer Wiliam/ Ritaand Granny Dungeon/Iris kept reassuring Ghostie Max that he would be fine.  Max was delighted when we got him back to his wee island and after saying goodbye we set off for Mini Village – where everyone is TINY!

We soon discovered that when you set foot in Mini Village, YOU also become TINY! and get a squeaky wee voice! However, it turned out that the tiny villagers weren’t that happy with their sizes…

 Scarecrow/Nerea asked if we could help them like we’d helped her? So we decided to make a potion to try to make everyone normal size again…

‘Bubble Bubble toil and trouble fire burn and cauldron bubble’

 A feather from a parrot

Onion and garlic and herbs

Straweberry nd a tiger tooth

Stir, stir and stir!

It worked!!! We all went back to our usual size and we cheered and we laughed!

Then suddenly, the greenest, biggest and loveliest Green Dragon appeared to give as a lift back home.

 

some of us climbed on his back

some held onto his tail

and some travelled under his belly

and up into the sky we flew…

‘The moon, the sky and the birds and a big sun and this is trees! That was the view from the sk,y when we were riding the dragon.’ 

 

Taz, Andre, Nerea, Virginia and the Maryhill Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

Our Bridgeton families were in excellent form for Session 2 of our Porridge & Play Block…

We warmed up making ourselves As Big As A Bear with Nerea and  played a round of Funky Chicken with Andre!

Then Taz took everyone through the story of Miss Mary Mac and then we all had a go at My Name Is Joe and realised that poor Joe works far too hard!!

Now, the Bridgeton Hub LOVES to dress up and let me tell you, they get so inspired when they do – they often TRANSFORM into completely different people with all sorts of skills, likings, opinions and even missions….

MIRIAM – ‘My name is Orange – I go to the supermarket, I entertain the kinds, I do dancing.’

 MOHAMMED – ‘ I’m Superhero Green, I like to eat green vegetables and save the day.’

 MAAB – ‘I’m a penguin and I live in a tomato. On Sunday afternoon I like to poo.’

 ALAN – ‘ I am cagey. On Sunday I like to kill on my phone. I like to eat a wee sandwich.’

 MARIAM –  ‘ I’m the Doodie, I like to watch my phone, I like chicken’

 AMAR – ‘I’m SuperBlack – I like to cook people and bananas’

 ALEEN –  ‘ I’ like strawberries, I like Meera the devil hunter’

 It is FANTASTIC how a few bits of dressing up combined with a good idea can inspire you to imagine yourself as someone completely different! That’s how actors create characters! Because acting it’s all pretty much about imagining yourself as somebody else which is very much how children PLAY!

Magic Ball

Magic Ball

Take us where we want to go

WOOOOSH!

The atmosphere was…well…different and we noticed that we were walking rather slowly…

We had landed in the MOON!!!

We met a wee alien Moon Person who looked a lot like Aleen and she gave us the answer to a very famous question – yes, we can confirm that the moon is made of cheese!

‘It feels hard when we step on it! – said Alan

‘ Maybe it is made of HARD cheese!- said Taz

Why don’t we taste it? – said Ritika

And we did!

After that we walked about doing Moon Walks of all sorts and  then met another Moon Person who didn’t like cheese but did like vegetables!

We fed him all sorts of nutritious veggies until he was stuffed. So we decided to show him how to dance by sharing our best moves. He was impressed and very grateful – so much so that he took us in a long Moon Conga to a Moon Party.

When we got there, he sang us a song  and in exchange we sang Jelly on His Head for him which he LOVED! We said goodbye to the Moon Person and the Moon Party and climbed back into the Magic Ball to get back to Bridgeton for our drawing, our meal and our Licketyspit Art Gallery.

A fantastic afternoon full of joy, play, imagination and FRIENDS!

Catch you next week!

Andre, Nerea, Taz, Johnny & Bridgeton Hub Families

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It’s so hot outside, we are melting away

But in Castlemilk Library

We still STORYPLAY!

We giggle, we smile

We’re rolling with laughter

We enjoy a good play

And some nice food after!

Whatever the weather

We are getting together

To play with our friends

Imagining forever…

 A Sleepy Capibara, a Stinky Snake,

A Happy Cow smiling

and Dancing one as well.

 Our Dressing Up bag

Full of colourful rags

That turn into magic

When we mix them all up!

 A pair of old tights to wear on your head

A long bit that tied up will be your long tail

A red pair of trousers to wear round your waist

And some wee green t-shirt to cover your face…

Just some bits and bobs and imagination

And you are the Monster taking over a nation!

 We heard of some Grannies who live in the forest

They have groovy gardens with veggies and flowers –

 ‘ I’m Smart Granny – I live in a purple house and my garden has poppy flowers, star flowers and sunflowers. I like making chocolate chip cookies for breakfast!’

  ‘I’m Foxy Grannie – I live in a blue house. I grow potatoes in my garden, and some are magical and some are not. I hide the potatoes so no one can steal them. I like making candy for breakfast’

We played MONSTERS FOOTSTEPS

And gave them a fright

But they had a giggle and it was alright!

 We do love to draw all the things we imagine

We do love to eat together while laughing

We do love to show each other our art

At Porridge & Play we sure are SMART!

Sarah, Taz, Nerea and the Castlemilk Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

A Magic Ball Adventure from Maryhill to the JUNGLE!

‘Everyone ready…BLOW!’

A tiny rainbow Magic Ball had carefully been placed on the floor and now we were all surrounding it and blowing it up bigger so we could all climb inside…

‘It’s getting BIGGER…

And BIGGER…

And BIGGER…’

We carefully opened the zip in front of us and we climbed inside

‘Don’t forget to close the zip behind you”

We all gathered together inside the Magic Ball feeling excited and wondering where we could possibly go…

‘We could go to Land of Clouds’ – said Rita

‘Or to a Forest’ – said Zac

‘What about China’ – said Shirley

‘Or Hollywood’ – said Iris

‘Or the galaxy!’ – said Ada

But the brilliant thing about the Magic Ball is that you don’t know where you’ll end up until you land there!

‘Right everyone…let’s say the magic words!’

Magic Ball

Magic Ball

Takes us where we want to go…

WHOOOSH!

We landed and Zac and Maya were brave enough to open the zip to find out where we had landed this time…

‘We are in the jungle!’ they whispered!

Zac soon revealed himself as Master of the Jungle so he became our guide. We followed him all intrigued about exploring this jungle when suddenly…

A tall, green woman appeared!

She spoke a different language that nobody knew but somehow we were able to understand each other.

The Green Woman had a cave to hide inside from any danger and we all went inside.

It was quite cosy actually!

But the Green Woman suddenly looked very sad and quickly we worked out that she was hungry!

Arvin  mentioned he had a cabbage and Green Woman LOVED IT – then Zac had some meat but Green Woman didn’t want it.

‘She’s a vegetarian!’ – shouted Rita
.

Luckily for the Green Woman Shriyansh had carrots,  Zac had salad, Ada had avocado, Iris had broccoli and Arvin had more cabbage for her, so quickly the Green Woman was stuffed with nutritious veggies!

After our stay at the Green Woman’s cave we spotted an elephant, so of course we went over to have a good look.

The heat was so fierce that Taz really wanted to find some water to cool down…

“We need to go North…that way’ – Rita pointed, we turned round and there in front of us was a lovely big pond!

In we went for a swim so we could cool down a bit from the heat of the jungle.

‘I’ll call my dolphin friend with my whistle’ – said Ada

She blew it and a dolphin appeared to play with us in the water and offered us all a wee ride on his back! It was great fun but rather exhausting for him, as there were so many of us and after a wee while the poor dolphin started to collapse!

‘I ’m so tired! Please feed me! Feed me…CAKE’

We gave the dolphin some lovely cupcakes and lemon drizzle cake and off he swam again full of energy.

Virginia and Thrishitha had flying balloons and gave one to everyone, all have a lift back to where the Magic Ball was.

We climbed up inside it again and…

Magic Ball

Magic Ball

Takes us where we want to go… WOOOSH

We were back in Maryhill and ready to draw about our adventures and have our delicious meal together!

It had been another spectacular session.

Even before we found the Magic Ball, we had invented dances, been Big as a Bear, made a marvellous Mucky Brew; met a great crew of funny Funky animals AND transformed ourselves into all sorts of great characters with our Dressing-Up.

In Storyplay you really can be anyone, do anything and go anywhere. Anything can happen and it always does! Woo hoo!

And you never need to worry about having an idea. It just gets easier and easier to open your mouth and let all your fabulous ideas come tumbling out. When we do this together at Porridge & Play every adventure is different and rather unforgettable!

Isn’t it amazing what a group of families can do in a hall in Maryhill!

All we need to play is each other and our limitless imaginations!

Thanks for coming.

Taz, Nerea, Virginia and the Maryhill Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery

Castlemilk Library is a very cool place

You can come to hang out, borrow books and to play!

Play? Play, you say?

Well…YES! Castlemilk Library has been hosting Licketyspit’s Porridge & Play for five years now – so once a year we get together with some Castlemilk families at the library for 5 weeks in a row, to Storyplay, eat and hang out together and this is also a chance for new families to learn to Storyplay and join Licketyspit’s Children & Families Network family!

So, for our first session of Porridge & Play this block we had Caroline, Poppy, Jacqueline, Evie, Sayeda, Abu, Sobia, Rumaisa ,Haaris, Shabana, Anusha, & Ammar with us again and Chioma, Udo, Ugo, Jodie & Leo coming for the very first time!

What a joy to see some old friends again and to meet new ones! The best thing about Porridge & Play is – you NEVER run out of friends.

Now, have you ever played beach ball with a Dragon while flying up high on a Flying Balloon? WE DID EXACTLY THAT!!

We blew up our Flying Balloons – they came in many colours!- and flew all over Castlemilk…What a view!

We were so high that at some point we could REALLY feel the cold but luckily Anusha had brought jackets and hats for us all and Caroline had some fluffy socks for everyone too.

‘What’s that down there? – Taz said

Beach balls! – Caroline shouted’

Caroline saw beach balls all over the place and it turned out that a dragon down below was throwing beach balls up in the hope someone would play ball with her! So we did!

First up Caroline caught a beach ball, threw it back down and….whoosh! up it came again for Poppy to catch!

Then Poppy threw it back down and ….whoosh! Up it came again for Haaris to catch!

Then Haaris threw it back down and…whoosh! Up it came again for Ammar to catch!

Then Ammar threw it back down and…whoosh! Up it came again for Rumaisa to catch!

Then Rumaisa threw it back down and…whoosh! Up it came again for Evie to catch!

We all had go at the Dragon Beach Ball game until the Dragon got tired and cooked a barbecue instead!

Do you like dressing up? Well, we LOVE IT at Porridge & Play but what we really like to do is to dress up the Licketyspit way…

Our Dressing Up style is out of this world even though we use random bits and bobs – we use old clothes that we have in the house, or clothes that are too wee, or any type of clothes we have and we wear them in interesting ways to create all sort of characters!

This week at Porridge & Play we all became Castlemilk Grannies.

And what an stupendous collection of Grannies we were!

 Anusha was Granny Hungry who likes to eat humans – Dangerous Granny! Poppy was Sporty Granny who really likes running – Fast Granny! Ammar was Granny Greg who really likes going – Busy Granny! Rumaisa was Granny Skeleton who enjoys scaring people! – Naughty Granny! Abu was Cooking Granny who likes making cakes – Delicious Granny! Haaris was Mr Coin who likes swimming in a pool – Not even a Granny! Caroline was Funky Granny who loves shopping and going to the Bingo – Leisure Granny!

All that playing always makes us hungry so after doing a bit of Reflecting Drawing to draw about what we’d liked best today, we sat down to lovely fruit, cheese, bread, boiled eggs and tomatoes and we all enjoyed a chilled meal together chatting and sharing!

After food the Licketyspit Art Gallery saw everyone telling each other about their drawings. We all cheered and clapped – which makes us all feel great about ourselves and our friends! HURRAY FOR PORRIDGE & PLAY!

See you all next Thursday for more adventures and fun at Castlemilk Library!

Sarah, Taz, Nerea, Virginia and the Castlemilk Hub Families

Licketyspit Art Gallery