Sunshine and outdoor play for all!

Another brilliant session at The Children’s Wood…

The sun was already shining, and we could all feel that it was going to be a proper hot Summer’s Day in Glasgow!

Licketyspit families strolled into The Children’s Wood with big smiles and full of hugs from everyone.

Today some families were meeting old friends and also making new ones, as some of the participants haven’t met each other before and Storyplay is a great way to connect with each other!

We got active quickly with our Warm-up Rhyme ‘Big as a House’ and with a rather jumpy game of Funky Chicken!

Dressing-up was fantastic and being outdoors certainly inspired everyone…

Ruby became Diana the Dragon Fly who flies about looking for mushrooms

Deon was John the Really Bad Dragon – ‘I do good things though! I get food for people; I live in a flat and I have a dog named Niko and a cat named Peanut.’

Ada turned into Victoria the Nun who likes wildlife and eats cornflakes for breakfast.

Zac was Pear Trader from Ninety-nine nights – ‘I live in the forest, and people bring me pearls and I trade them for stuff’

Yasna was Owl the Owl who scares people!

 Shanmukha became Chef Shanm who likes to make and eat pizza.

Iris was Diane The Dragon who is a friend of John The Dragon! – ‘I’m good dragon and I like to fly to the moon’

Jamie said ‘I’m baby tick, a lost baby tick! I lost my Mum and Dad on that Great Dane that passed by! 😟‘

Zoe became a Party Fairy, and she parties all day long!

Franky was Radioactive Man, Andzelika was a lion, Lizzie was a Superhero and

Penny was a Butterfly.

Yulia was a cat; Zofia was a Cowboy and Sruthi and Daiwik were bunnies!

And everyone was up for a dance party and a game of Family Hide & Seek – so many great places to hide in…

Afterwards we got stuck into our picnic while sitting in the shade – we chatted about songs we like, and we thought we could put together a new playlist for us all to enjoy! So Emmanuel took a good note of all the songs that were suggested.

Free Play time got us all exploring around – some went to the Tree House to try out climbing and swinging from the wee trapeze! Lizzie was great at guiding some of the children through climbing and spinning.

Some played on the tight rope – like Ada, Iris and Zoe who were naturals at it!

Deon, Taz and Mihije got caught up in the massive Spider’s Web, they were joined by Andzelika, Sarah and Franky to experiment with getting in it – which is very easy – and getting out of it – which is really hard!

 Yasna and Aveen and Sruthi, Daiwik and Shanm were chilling and drawing under the lovely shade of the trees.

We found a football and a wee skipping rope so there was a kick about, a mini-Tug-o’-war and a massive game of skipping, when Ruby brought a bigger rope!! Some of the grown-ups really remembered how good they were at skipping when they were children and guess what? They are still very good at it now that they are grown-ups!. So good in fact, that they were helping the children to learn how to skip too!

What a laugh we had!

Another fantastic day out with friends of all ages playing, eating and hanging out together – hurray for FOREST STORYPLAY!

Ruby, Sarah, Emmanuel, Taz & Licketyspit Families