DC staying up later than me - I need a padlock for the kitchen!!

[JMAngel1]

Really cross this morning. I made dinner/dessert last night and had cleaned and tidied kitchen - I headed upstairs at 8.30pm as I love to relax in bath/bedroom before I go to sleep - usually have to be asleep 9.30-10ish as up early and perimenopause draining my energy.
DH stayed up with DDs and they came up around 9.30pm.
In that hour they have trashed the kitchen - I’ve come down this morning to popcorn all over floor, watermelon juice everywhere and the remaining half of watermelon just left on side - not in fridge or wrapped. A cake I had made and put (hidden!) in a tin has been attacked, crumbs everywhere and the lid not resecured DH has left rinds of cheese on chopping board so this is not just a child issue!
There are more glasses/cups/plates/bowls just left strewn around living room and kitchen.
Getting fed up with coming down first thing to a dirty messy kitchen - wish I could put a padlock on but it’s all open plan
Anyone else relate/got any solutions? I’ve just had shrugged shoulders this morning from DH and DDs - “it was Friday night - just having a movie night

• what’s the problem?”

@StiffyByng

Your OP wasn’t quite what I expected as I have a nocturnal teenager who visits the kitchen at 2am, cooks smelly Pot Noodles and wakes us all up, devours all food like a locust, regardless of the rest of us, and leaves fridge/freezer open regularly. And it drives me insane.

But your husband was there with them. It’s him I would be furious with. He was the adult.

It will get worse though I’m afraid.

My house also

Pick it all up and put in their bedrooms.

Ds kept doing this over and over. Leaving wrappers on lounge. Some with food still in. Toddler with allergies kept getting it.
. So one day I was so annoyed I picked up the rubbish and put in his room..he ignored it.
Then next time I put under his bed sheet. Haha. He stopped doing it after that as he found it really annoying getting in to bed and having to fish out all the packets.