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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), [...]
Training Women’s Aid workers in Storyplay
17th December 2021 In 2020, Scottish Women’s Aid (SWA) approached Licketyspit to explore a collaboration: ‘When I heard more about Licketyspit all I could think about was how few tools we’ve [...]
Licketyspit’s Xmas Dress-Up!
All you need is your imagination for a Magical Christmas! Some of our fantastic families won’t be getting a present this Christmas so we would like to be able to give them [...]
Read Blogs about our recent activities
Porridge & Play 2026 – back in CASTLEMILK !
Castlemilk Library is a very cool place You can come to hang out, borrow books and to play! Play? Play, you say? Well…YES! Castlemilk Library has been hosting Licketyspit’s Porridge & Play for five years now - so once a year we get together with [...]
Porridge & Play 2026 – back in MARYHILL !
We are so happy to be back in Maryhill for a new Porridge & Play block of sessions – and the Maryhill families were on excellent form at our first session! (we recommend that you read this out loud!) Hello, hello, hello! to one and [...]
Porridge & Play 2026 – back in BRIDGETON !
Licketyspit’s Porridge & Play is back in Bridgeton with old and new friends and SO many new adventures to have together! How lovely to see returning Bridgeton families and welcome some new families! There were big smiles and hugs galore! We were all so happy [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Licketyspit’s Just-So-John Bookplay
Bookplay is a Porridge & Play session where we all listen to a Story and then instead of the Magic Ball we ALL JUMP into the world of a BOOK to have an adventure! The Just-so-John Bookplay stories are by a writer called Rudyard Kipling who [...]
A fabulous Porridge & Play Maryhill Celebration!
Lots of Storyplay, lots of friends, lots of food, lots of FUN on our last session of this block. We always call the last session of each block a Porridge & Play Celebration because we celebrate many things that day – making new friends who [...]
Friends, witches & a Magic Ball adventure!
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 [...]
Licketyspit’s Just-So-John Bookplay
Bookplay is a Porridge & Play session where we all listen to a Story and then instead of the Magic Ball we ALL JUMP into the world of a BOOK to have an adventure! The Just-so-John Bookplay stories are by a writer called Rudyard Kipling who [...]
Forest creatures and a Wolf with a watch in Maryhill?
Week two of Porridge & Play MARYHILL got us all sharing our best moves - warming up our bodies and our imaginations, singing, dressing-up to transform ourselves into Forest Creatures and much more! A very Big Circle to see everyone, Cause our games are [...]
Licketyspit’s Just-So-John Bookplay
Bookplay is a Porridge & Play session where we all listen to a Story and then instead of the Magic Ball we ALL JUMP into the world of a BOOK to have an adventure! The Just-so-John Bookplay stories are by a writer called Rudyard Kipling who [...]
Porridge & Play MARYHILL is back at CCH!
A new block of Porridge & Play sessions has started with a fabulous group of families – some returning friends and many new ones gathering for the first time at the big Reid Hall. Our circle today was BIG and all the families were smiling and ready to use [...]
