Porridge & Play Week 1 at Oakgrove Primary!
Porridge & Play Maryhill 2024
Find out what the Maryhill Group got up to during our Porridge & Play Session at Oakgrove Primary!
Tuesday 30th April 2024
Flying balloons, witchy parades and underwater adventures!
It was our first Maryhill Porridge & Play of 2024! We arrived at the wonderful Oakgrove Primary school, who are very kindly letting us play here because the library was too busy.
Oakgrove is surrounded by green & trees covered in blossom – like a wee oasis in Maryhill! Jim the Jani got the hall ready for our first session with Licketyspit actor-pedagogues – Sarah, Andre, Steven & Virginia and a wonderful group of families with origins in 7 different countries – Nigeria, Thailand, Poland, Ecuador, China, UK & Pakistan!!
We played Funky Chicken & met Arvin’s Naughty Snake & and Sobia & Amira’s Noisy Parrot to name a few! High in our Balloons we flew over Glasgow spying tiny lego men and forest by the canal before taking off to view America, Australia, Paris and then Egypt where we flew down for a refreshing swim in the River Nile – children and then parents too! Then we dived deep don under the water! It was beautiful! And we met a strange Under-Water Creature who had her own language – luckily Ada & Iris could translate what she said! Then we found treasure! suddenly we were back in the sky and the Naughty Seagull popped our Balloon and we were home!
So we all dressed up as FABULOUS WITCHES! We had Witchy Chocolate who lives in the Jungle; Witchy Cheese and her little Mouse! Witchy Rainbow, so many spectacular Witches who had travelled on Broomsticks, balloons and rockets to join us for the Witches Parade!
Then we had our delicious meal of Steven’s lentil, leek & carrot soup, bread, hummus & lots of fruit – melon, pineapple, strawberry, orange, grapes & bananas! Before the Lickety Art-Gallery.
We all sat on the steps in the Hall – like a little theatre audience and saw wonderful ART from all our artists telling the story of this huge adventure we’d shared in such a short time!
Looking forward to doing more new games with everyone next Tuesday!
Don’t forget the Library have found some books for you about some of the places we saw from the balloons!
Scroll down to see your wonderful artwork!
Have a great weekend!
Steven, Sarah, Andre & Virginia
(PS Please try to come by 4pm because Maria has to wait by the door to let you in – if you’re late we might not hear you!)
See you soon!
READ SOME OF THE ARTIST’S COMMENTS FROM THE LICKETY ART GALLERY:
‘I found my cousin, Mia, when we were flying on the balloons and we were in France.’
Favourite part – ‘Dressing up as witches’
‘The solar system. Saturn [is my favourite]. It’s like a chunky bit of ice’
‘Flowers! Rainbow!’Favourite part – ‘Dressing up’
‘A sun, a planet, and there’s lots of flowers. This is another flower. This is a black flower. When I was running, I fell down and saw a black one. This is a dragon’
‘I drew the sun and the funky chicken and the balloons and the wind and the blue sky and the clouds. This is a mountain’
Favourite part – ‘Playing balloons’
‘This is when we were swimming in the river Nile and there were sharks about as well. That’s me swimming. I felt very relaxed’Favourite bit – ‘The balloons’
‘We were flying balloons above the water and my cats with me on my broomstick’Favourite bit – ‘The drawing’
‘This is a picture of the galaxy. That’s the Earth. That’s the stars and the sun’
Favourite part – ‘Playing with my mum’
‘Just me and the balloon watching over the mountains, blue skies, colourful balloons’
Favourite bit – ‘Everything! I didn’t expect it to be so much fun’
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