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Holiday Play – Week 6
Final few days of the Summer Holidays…!! A good chance to play a few more games, craft a few more artworks and enjoy family play time together before you go back to school! To kick you back into action, this week we are singing our funny action song - [...]
Holiday Play – Week 5
A week and a half left until the school term starts??! How did it come around so quick??! Not to worry, Licketyspit is here to keep the summer spirit going! And so this week we are DRESSING UP!! Have you been somewhere new this summer – park, gallery? Made [...]
Holiday Play – Week 4
For the fourth week of joyful Summer Holidays, we have decided to play The Bear & The Honeypot! Can you sneakily creep up on the Bear and steal the Honey Pot without being caught??! This week we are also very excited to be sharing crafts & activities kindly suggested [...]
Holiday Play – Week 3
Pirate Joke: Why pirates are awesome? Because they just AAARRR! (he he he!) This week we are playing PIRATES! And showing how to build your own SELLOTAPE WORLD & make a musical INSTRUMENT out of JUNK! (LICKETY TIP! If you can find an old box and keep it under [...]
Holiday Play – Week 2
This week we have some special recommendations for all ages! We are reminding you of how to play the Duck, Duck, Goose Lickety PlayCard game, showing you how to build a WORLD from paper scraps and make FUNNY ANIMALS from picnic food to make it even more delicious! Please [...]
Holiday Play – Week 1
We start our holiday play programme with one of children's favourites - The Funky Chicken! Do you know the Funky Chicken? Tell us HOW YOU GET ON with these games and crafts, and SEND US PHOTOS & DRAWINGS of your family play time & creations! We can’t wait to [...]
Big Porridge & Play Ruchill Week 7
15th June 2019 The final session in Ruchill was the last Big Porridge and Play 2019 and we were really moved and delighted to have so many people join us to send the project off in style. We had to add and extra table to fit all 44 people [...]
Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Week 7
13th June 2019 Our last session at the St Francis Centre was a wonderful celebration of what Porridge & Play can be, with families bringing countless delicious things to share in the meal, guests dressing up with the same gusto as everyone else, and big, collective games together in the [...]
Big Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 7
12th June 2019 The last Big Porridge & Play 2019 at the Whiteinch library was the biggest yet - with nearly 60 of us singing, playing and dressing up together, before sitting down for a meal. It was very characteristic of the project as a whole, with a lot [...]
Big Porridge & Play Ruchill Week 6
8th June 2019 We had a really fab sixth session at the Ruchill Community Centre. You could really see how everyone has got to know each other over the last six weeks, with the group chatting away at the start of the afternoon and during the meal, and other [...]
Big Porridge & Play Gorbals Week 6
6th June 2019 Week 6 at the Gorbals was a day for Pirate captains keeping things ship-shape on the open sea, storytelling and a surprise from poor Old Rodger. Everyone really at ease playing together today. We had some extremely committed Pirates, wearing fantastic costumes and really feeling like we were on a huge ship, [...]
Big Porridge & Play Whiteinch Week 6
5th June 2019 With our sessions drawing to a close we want to make sure our last Big Porridge & Play afternoons together are fantastic! On Wednesday at Whiteinch Library we had exactly that! We had such an enjoyable afternoon of play together! Ruby and Jack were joined by [...]
