Friends, witches & a Magic Ball adventure!
Porridge & Play Maryhill 2025/26
So we were nine families with 14 children this week at the CCH for Porridge & Play Maryhill. Everyone is feeling like we’ve become old friends!
We started with a Dance Warm-Up to Salaar’s favourite song – Thunder by Imagine Dragons – and some Sufi poetry Amna introduced us to!
Rita said “Do you know the Funky Chicken?” And then an amazing array of characters appeared – The Squirmy Worm, Dizzy Elephant, Sunny Dog, Funky Monkey, Naughty Octopus, Scary Tiger, Lazy Cat, Loud Dinosaur, Happy Butterfly! Not forgetting Aarushi’s Jumping Rabbit and Shriyansh’s Jumping Dolphin!
Then we played “I’m going to drink a bottle of!!!…” This was Lizzie, Zoe & Zac’s first ever Witches Fingers and they created fantabulous witches – he he he!
Arvin was a Witch in our marvellous Magic Ball Story which Rita has written about below! (His witch pretended to eat the Ball – disaster! – but she tricked us!)
Our Dressing Up today was a delicious array of colour and invention and so was our Storyplay, and our food was delicioso!
We had great chats and we realised that today is EID! So Happy Eid to all our friends
Here is the Magic Ball Story and our amazing Gallery!
See you all next week for our Maryhill Hub celebration!
Andre, Ruby, Taz & the Maryhill Hub
Maryhill Art Gallery!
Read the artists’ comments here!
‘Basically that’s my mum, that’s Rita, that’s me and that’s you and you are saying follow me and we are following. When we went to the pan in the Magic Ball. It was a wee bit hot! It’s the sink. That’s the sea when we went in it’
‘The sky. A dolphin in the sky’
‘A flower this is the balls that we can go in. My brother and Benny Lin, this is where we went into the ball and they didn’t go in!’
‘This is Sunny my dog running around’
‘So that’s a tiger and that’s you and that’s me and this is a ball. The tiger went in when we were inside the magic ball. A tiger was in my bed. It’s in my house’
‘This was when we were in the magic ball and we were at the jungle. So, this is me and this is a panther and this is cheetah and this is a lion! And these are the trees’
‘Mum, me and this is Moda my sister in the garden, the rainbow’
‘I made a poison. You will die if you drink it! That’s me. I’m going in the Magic Ball with a zipper. And then I’m going to the forest. That’s blood. I’m running away from a witch – didn’t catch me.’
‘This is the magic ball, when we were going inside the magic ball we missed the bear giving us another magic ball! I found this magic ball in the sink!’
‘That’s me, that’s you. Magic ball – stars. Mad guys from Japan. They wanted money. Make a challenge – challenge us to a fight. We fight and we win. Friends in the end.’
‘This is a giraffe, a butterfly, the sun and trees, flowers and grass, parrots. A garden. Your garden! A Giraffe called G R Affe.’
‘That’s Taz, that’s me, that’s Maya and that’s my mum. I liked the Magic Ball.’
