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Why I started Licketyspit
I started working with early years children when I had my own children – Ruby & Iona. Having children reminded me how much I love to play, sing, dance, dress-up, read, explore and make [...]
Licketyspit at the Refugee Festival Scotland!
We went to the Scottish Refugee Festival!! Saturday 18th June We had a wonderful Licketyspit Picnic & Play to celebrate the Scottish Refugee Festival in Elder Park on Saturday 18th June with 14 families [...]
Volunteer with Licketyspit!
22nd April 2022 We are looking for volunteers to take part in our intergenerational Storyplay sessions across a range of projects. Our play sessions mainly take place on Wednesdays (2.30-6.30), Thursdays (3-7), [...]
Read Blogs about our recent activities
Forest Storyplay with our Bridgeton Hub!
Our cheery Bridgeton hub had a blooming good time at The Children’s Wood. They arrived nice and early and there were many smiles and hugs because we were all together again! Sarah taught us The Children’s Wood Rhyme and Andre helped us all to make ourselves [...]
Forest Storyplay with Govan & Online Hubs!
Welcome to the land of the Children’s Wood, it’ s a Wood that’s here for children and that’s understood! The sun was shining on the gorgeous Children’s Wood for the first Forest Storyplay of the season with our friends from Govan and Online Hubs. It is always so exciting to [...]
FOREST STORYPLAY
Forest Storyplay is a new collaboration with our friends from The Children's Wood! After last year's fantastic Picnic & Play sessions and Storyplay Festival 2024 at The Children's Wood we all wanted to go back there for more Licketyspit fun! The Children's Wood are very happy [...]
Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 4
Castlemilk Blog! A massive circle, love letters, Chefs & a Cake good enough to get a job in a kitchen! What a time we’ve had with our Castlemilk Library friends the last 4 weeks at Porridge & Play. This bunch of grown-ups and children really take [...]
Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 4
Whiteinch Blog! Love letters, Chefs, a massive birthday cake & a feast! Our last session at Whiteinch Library felt like a great big party and although everyone was a bit sad that it was the last one of this year we all cheered up very quickly [...]
Porridge & Play Govan Week 4
Govan Blog! Celebrating play & friends at Licketyspit’s Porridge & Play! It has been great to meet and play with friends old and new in Govan this year, we have had so much fun! We feel so lucky that you have all shared your incredible ideas [...]
Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 3
Castlemilk Blog! Do you know why circles are great? Because when we are all in a circle, you can see everyone and everyone can see you and playing is best when we all do it TOGETHER! We had a great big circle yesterday at Castlemilk Library [...]
Porridge & Play Govan Week 3
Govan Blog! Witches, potions & a Magic Ball adventure!!! The sun was shining in Govan today and our lovely space for Porridge & Play was full of sun rays! Storyplay began with a warmup that is also a story full of action! Have you heard about [...]
Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 3
Whiteinch Blog! A Witchy Porridge & Storyplay afternoon at Whiteinch Library! Whiteinch Library felt very witchy today as the brilliant librarians had selected a bunch of books for us about magic, fanatic creatures, werewolves, vampires, monsters and of course witches! Before we kicked off our Storyplay, [...]
Porridge & Play Castlemilk Week 2
Castlemilk Blog! The sun was shining in the windows of Castlemilk Library and because most of us arrived early we had so much time for Storyplay! That's the way we like it! Woo hoo! Everyone is really getting great at imagining they can be anyone, do [...]
Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 2
Whiteinch Blog! We did our Dancing Warm-up to start the session and then we met fantastic Funky Chicken animals like Aaliyah's Silly Spider; Katie's Hopping Horse, Nina's Evil Cat, Mohammad's Angry Dinosaur and Sara's Sad Dog! We all dressed up as Forest Creatures! Sara was a [...]
Porridge & Play Govan Week 2
Govan Blog! We had a lovely Porridge & Play this week with Sarah, Cami and with Paul Chaal. Paul is a Glaswegian whose Mum and Dad came to Scotland from India when they were teenagers. So although Paul was born here he can speak Urdu, Hindi [...]
