Picnic & Play: CULTURE in GLASGOW
Discovering what’s free to do with your family in your city!
We are very lucky to have fantastic museums and cultural venues in our city and many of them are free!
Picnic & Play is all about taking Storyplay out in the world – we sometimes go to beaches, other times to lochs or parks but we also love to go to museums!
Picnic & Play in Glasgow is all about families taking local public transport to travel to enjoy Storyplay and a delicious picnic with Licketyspit at one of our wonderful Glasgow Museums – we have been to Kelvingrove Galleries, Gallery of Modern Art, the Tall Ship and this Easter we are having brilliant Storyplay at the Riverside Museum – the museum of Transport!
Since Picnic & Play is all about exploring other places through Storyplay we thought that makes us STORYPLAY Explorers! And so our intrepid families imagined themselves beautifully with the help of Dressing up and turned themselves into a very vibrant bunch ready to discover all sorts of things using our Magic Ball…
Magic Ball, Magic Ball
Takes us where we want to go!
Whooooooosh!
A Magic Ball Adventure recalled by Poppy, Jesé, Deon, Zara, Taz, Kim & Caroline
When Poppy opened the Magic Ball’s zipper she shouted – ‘ITS A FOREST!!!’.
The trees were big and beautiful but suddenly Sarah and Mateo got grabbed by tree branches! Sarah was trapped in a tree embrace, and Mateo was being dragged by his leg!
‘Quick! Let’s get out of here!’
So, we ran away and found a great big train, which nobody knew how to drive, until Kim said – ‘I got this’. So, we held on tight and off we went. Let me tell you…good try Kim but her driving was rather bumpy and quite fast!
As we stopped, a man with a problem appeared – ‘And what kind of problem do you have?’
- ‘A pizza problem! I need all this pizza, and I have no clue where to get any!’
- What about MAKING some pizza?’ – a fabulous Italian Pizza Chef had the solution!
We told the Italian Pizza Chef that we were good helpers and off we went to her incredible Moving Kitchen – where the oven, the microwave and the fridge keep moving about making our Italian Pizza Chef rather confused and very lively!
We went to town with our ingredients – tomatoes, pepperoni, pineapple, cheese, onions, Indian flavours and even a wee bit of a potion that helps you see the sky closer!
And so with much freshly made pizza we had enough to feed the dinosaurs of the Man with a Pizza Problem and to have a right big slice for ourselves too – result!
After our pizza making, we took another train, this time the driver was Poppy and she was excellent! She took us to the beach in India and oh how we swam!
There we bumped into a group of teenagers who joined us on our travels by bus, this time to Africa! We took the subway to go to a big dancing party – we threw some cool shapes and enjoyed some funky moves, took some cool portraits, to remember our excellent adventure and then, actually quite hungry, we drove back to have a well-deserved Picnic.
All in all, a fantastic big adventure with great pals at the Riverside Museum!
See you all soon!
Andre, Sarah, Taz & fabulous Castlemilk & Whiteinch families
Licketyspit’s Art Gallery
‘Dad and Mateo and Mum’
‘Dumplings’
‘The sun. My face. My Dad. My Mum. Playing in the sun.’
‘That’s me. This is the magic ball, the train , the pizza and the dinosaur.’
‘It’s two of my dumplings. My dumplings are eating the pizza. I liked the party.’
‘That’s Zara’s orange dumpling and that’s the blue dumpling. That’s just one of my friends trying to catch me. I was invisible and my friends were invisible.’
