Picnic & Play with our BRIDGETON HUB!
What’s the saying? If life gives you lemons…make lemonade. And if the Picnic cannot happen outdoors…have it indoors! Our fabulous Bridgeton Hub wasn’t fazed by the change of plan because the truth is, ALL we need for a brilliant Storyplay is our imaginations and each other! And that we had!
That’s the great thing about Storyplay, we can be anyone, do anything, go anywhere with our imaginations and so today although we were indoors in a fantastic big hall at the CCH in Maryhill, we had a sea adventure as The Ugliest Pirate Crew ever known to Scotland! Amongst other things actually…
As we always like to do, we had a nice big warm up – we first had a nice boogie and then we stretched to our Big As A Bear rhyme!
We also met some cool animals playing Funky Chicken – Emilia showed us the Jumping Snake, Alan the Flying Fly. Tanisk came up with a Flying Car and Moira created the Angry Crocodile. Lexi was a Crazy Giraffe and Leeanne was Purring Cat. Lin created a Fast Dog and Suleman an Angry Cat.
After that we all became Cackling Witches with long witchy fingers coming up with all sorts of weird concoctions to drink!
‘I’m going to drink a bottle of…Snake Juice!’
The big Reid Hall at the CCH is a great space to run around and the Witches had it tough to get to catch people after saying ‘I’m going to drink a bottle of…POISON!’ – but they still managed!
Dressing up was deliciously UGLY! Ugly? Well, aye, aye! And you know why? Because the challenge was to become the Ugliest Pirate Crew Ever Known to Scotland!
Captain Tatty Scone – who looked a bit like Taz – was recruiting for ugly pirates and our Bridgeton Hub raised to the occasion and became as ugly as ugly can be! Once the level of ugliness of these crazy pirates was established Captain Tatty Scone started shouting orders about –
SCRUB THE DECK!
CLIMB THE RIGGING!
and….. WALK THE PLANK!
The Ugly Pirates were very good at following orders so the Captain decided to do some Captain try-outs and let some of the crew be in charge…
We had Captain Ridhi who was mean and Captain Lin who was very interested in keeping the ship clean! Some of the other pirates didn’t enter the try-outs but started calling themselves Captain none the less! At some point the whole crew was made of Captains which doesn’t happen often but we seemed to be getting along fine, so all the Captains decided it was time to cross the Seven Seas…underwater! We took a big breath in and underwater we went – there was a shark that looked scary but Alan using his Shark language knowledge managed to persuade it not to eat us up!
– Who has the treasure map? – said a Captain
– I have the map! – said Captain Salah
– Right, let’s take a look – said another Captain
We quickly worked out that we had to swim to a desert island if we wanted to dig out the treasure and so off we swam until we got there.
-I found the spot!
-Everyone DIG!
There were coins and jewels and all sorts of fabulous treasure to share and also we found…A LOVE LETTER! Naturally we decided to play I Sent a Letter to My Love and it was great fun! We had our lovely picnic sitting on picnic blankets, and we even had some ice cream with sweeties as toppings Tarika brought for everyone.
We also had time to do a Reflective Drawing and to visit the Licketyspit Art Gallery and after that we even had a game of Tunnel Tig and the very best Hide & Seek game ever known to Scotland! Bad weather? Who cares! What an absolute hoot this Indoors Picnic turned out to be!
Taz, Sarah, Andre & our adventurous Bridgeton Hub
