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AngelieMumsnet · 19/02/2016 15:51

Have you ever turned your back for what seemed like seconds only to return to a pencil/crayon ‘work of art’ on your newly painted walls? Has there ever been an ‘incident’ involving a TV and a football? Have your children ever wreaked havoc with an unguarded tin of paint? If so, Valspar wants to know.

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GetKnitted · 20/02/2016 23:22

DS2 is going through a phase of writing on Everything, pen all over the (once) cream sofa and chairs, (think jackson pollack) , also writing on the walls of the whole house (up to a height of 3 feet of course), wallpaper down the stairs scraped free of texture...... we do need to decorate!

LucyBo17 · 21/02/2016 06:31

I don't want to tempt fate and say that we've not had a major disasters yet but then my son is only just 2 so there is plenty of time

bobble5366 · 21/02/2016 07:38

My son, age 5 at the time. was learning about rainbows at school, he asked me if he could draw a rainbow with his pens, then the quiet period started, I was loving the peace (silly me, should have thought silence means mischief). We had a 'beautiful' rainbow in my hallway, I tried not be be too cross as he has asked, but the next day the storm cloud and black rain coming from it was just too much!! Luckily I had some paint left from when I decorated to cover the masterpiece!.

TracyKNixon · 21/02/2016 07:43

No major disasters yet - touch wood. I think the worse one of my children has done is spilled ribena on the carpet - and a rug now hugs that stain!

Chelsea26 · 21/02/2016 07:49

Nutella everywhere - it was horrendous to clean up! to make it worse they don't even like Nutella

glenka · 21/02/2016 07:54

I found my little one spraying all of her cuddly toys with my Chanel No5 perfume. I couldn't get cross though because she said she was only doing it so they smelled nice like me and that they would always smell like me even if I was away at work.

happysouls · 21/02/2016 08:07

Trying to think back to incidents all those years ago and thinking that whatever happens your first instinct is to get a photo because horror it might be but its also part of childhood and pretty funny mostly! I have nothing major, my son got hold of a huge tub of moisturiser and managed to smear it all over himself and a mattress he was sitting on at the time. Shame there were no sheets to protect it as it took a while to clean up! I also have a photo of him caught in the act of tipping a box of cornflakes all over the floor. These things are so lovely to look back at haha!

maryandbuzz1 · 21/02/2016 08:15

Turning the bath on with the plug in. The first I knew of it was water dripping on the cats head who was sleeping in his basket directly below!

jt75 · 21/02/2016 08:20

Tossed flour all over the kitchen. Not once but twice.

pusinky · 21/02/2016 08:22

Nothing major but they do like to draw on the walls as soon as I turn my back.

Lovewhereilive · 21/02/2016 08:32

Drew pictures on their walls and on furniture.

DS1 also found a stamp I use and stamped my name and tel no all over his bed and one of my picture frames.

missserendipity · 21/02/2016 08:35

ooh there are so many to choose from regarding my twin boys who are now 9! The one that springs to mind is when they were 3 and we returned from the DIY store with some paint, I put it in the hallway and ran upstairs to the loo as soon as we were back. I do not know to this day how they opened it but they thought they would help by painting my hallway rug...with their hands!! Not just the rug I might add, it was EVERYWHERE, including on them and the dog!!!

liamell · 21/02/2016 08:36

My eldest son who was aged 5 at the time managed to make Tomato Ketchup handprints all over my living room wall. The greasy marks underneath looked wonderful, as you can imagine.

My daughter went through a phase of drawing love hearts on walls, behind furniture, windowsills and all over my solid oak headboard!

Now at the time I think I was quite infuriated, but actually now when I look at those love hearts on my headboard years later I smile every time.

OhHolyFuck · 21/02/2016 08:39

Ds2 has broken 3 TVs in 6 months, running at them full pelt and hitting them...

wulfy1010 · 21/02/2016 08:41

The wall behind the sofa was turned into a toddler art gallery for several weeks before we noticed :)

AnnaGrant · 21/02/2016 08:49

I left my 1yr old in their room for one minute whilst I wee'd. In that minute she managed to empty every single one of her drawers, all over the floor. We had a similar cereal experience a few weeks later - was finding Rice Krispies for bloody weeks.

SouthWestmom · 21/02/2016 08:50

Just after I'd painted all the woodwork with gloss, ds1 wandered in and tripped - carrying a full bowl of cocopops. It took hours to remedy.

rhinosuze · 21/02/2016 08:56

I've had a lovely (!) drawing of a pig (apparently) on the living room wall but the worst was when we were having downstairs painted and the decorator left a ton of paint out whilst going to his van - my little one came in from the garden, found it and 'painted' a stripe on dad's tv which we didn't discover until we took the sheet off. It's amazing what they can do if you think about it!!

NoAdventureNoTime · 21/02/2016 08:58

Ds1 four at the time went through a stage of writing his name quite small everywhere, on the walls, the banister on his arms, his brother. After all pens were finally banished he then deeply scraped his name using God knows what into the woodwork then blamed his 1 year old brother Hmm

janeyf1 · 21/02/2016 09:08

My DS drew over her bedroom wall and it would not come off afterwards! I was not happy as it had only recently been decorated

darkwarrior · 21/02/2016 09:08

Pulled the handbrake off on the car while I was moving shopping into the house, so the car rolled down the drive and destroyed the garage door.

dannykapur · 21/02/2016 09:08

My 2 DC's thought it would be funny to take the cake batter I had made and throw it onto our newly painted white walls so that it would look like someone had 'pooed' on the walls. ( This happened while I was in the loo!). When I asked, who had done that, I was told that a bird had flown into the house and made the mess!

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Chopstheduck · 21/02/2016 09:10

We've def had the tin of paint one! With twins, it's so easy for one to get up to mischief while you're distracted by the other. DT2 managed to tip a 5l tin of dark blue paint all over the patio, then put paint prints on all the doorways back into the house. No idea how he got the lid off, as it was a brand new tin and fixed on fast!

Then there was the time he let the handbrake off of a courtesy car and it rolled off the drive...

Mozarmstrong · 21/02/2016 09:11

When she had chickenpox found her behind setter rubbing all embossed pattern off wallpaper as she moved along rubbing her back to stop her scratching with her hands

ButterflyOfFreedom · 21/02/2016 09:12

I've got a 1 year old and a 3 year old and we've not had anything major happen - yet! (Fingers crossed we won't!).
Though we have had / do have pen on the wall / carpet / sofa, a couple of near misses with flying balls & lampshades, various items in the washing machine which shouldn't have been, toy car tracks on the wall, and food stains on the rug!

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