Forest Storyplay with Govan & Online Hubs!
The Children's Wood - Glasgow
Welcome to the land of the Children’s Wood, it’ s a Wood that’s here for children and that’s understood!
The sun was shining on the gorgeous Children’s Wood for the first Forest Storyplay of the season with our friends from Govan and Online Hubs. It is always so exciting to see the Licketyspit families again for the Summer programme of Storyplay and everyone was in great form to get it kick-started.
Andre, Sarah, Taz and Virginia were all there joined by our fabulous volunteers Zainab and Taiwo. Did you know that Zainab and Taiwo have been playing with Licketyspit since 2019! It's fabulous that now that they are older, they still love Storyplay!
Andrea from The Children’s Wood was also with us for Storyplay and to teach us forest-skills - like fire-making!
It’s a place for us to PLAY and hide and seek and run.
It's a place to have a picnic, it's a place to have fun!
Once we made our circle we learned The Children’s Wood Welcome Rhyme!
The Children’s Wood it’s a green space in our city of Glasgow that is being looked after by the community. So of course we can play and have a lovely time there but also we can help to look after the Wood by being very careful with the trees, plants, bugs and beasties that live there and by not stepping over the bits of the Wood that are regenerating (that means that grass and plants grow by themselves and we help them by letting be and not disturbing it).
With the help of a Flying Balloon, we all followed Andre and went so high up in the sky that we could see the whole of the Wood far below us! We spotted bees having a race and people playing in a circle… (who do you think they were?) We saw creatures and the mud kitchen and Sarah spotted a dragon!
But I will tell you a secret if you’ll listen to me…Shhh!
When it’s time to go home, NO-ONE will see
That we were ever here, because we played with such care
For the plants and trees and bugs and bees all living here!
Everyone was very caring and careful and still we had big belly laughs!
The dressing up was tremendous. We had children and grown-ups transforming into hilarious and wonderful Forest creatures! Ala became a Deer, Anas was a Bear and Andrea became a Flying Squirrel! Shamaila was the Lion King and we had Batman Shazia! Gabbi - the Magic Invisible Unicorn - was delighted to hang out with a Mermaid and Zainab was a Jelly fish in this forest too! (Interesting!).
We had a few fierce Mr. Wolves too! Wolfie Taiwo who lived in a smelly cave! Wolfie Anas - who lived in a cosy cave! And Wolfie Taz who lived in a tree house on top of the tallest tree.
Our Picnic was enjoyed in the sun and then it was time for the fire!
Andrea told us how to be safe around a fire and enjoy.
We learnt how to make flints spark!
We twisted dough onto sticks we held over the fire and it turned into hot bread!
We toasted marshmallows and we sang Miss Mary Mac and Grandma, Grandma!
And let me tell you, doing Reflective Drawing in the forest is rather inspiring!
What a great time we had with our friends from Govan and the Online Hubs. We can’t wait to see our friends from all our Hubs and share the beauty of playing in nature at Forest Storyplay without leaving Glasgow at the wonderful Children’s Wood! HURRAY!
Taz, Andre, Virginia, Sarah & our Govan & Online friends
