Messiest gift your child has ever been given pls

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For an 8yo who helpfully loves arts and crafts.

Received a snide comment about my home at a family bbq and wish to discreetly send the giver my fondest regards whilst winning their child’s affections!

Don't know if this has already been suggested, but some kind of smelly experiment kit? Grafix and Galt both do reasonably priced ones. I got my niece a few for Xmas and my sister had to keep the wrapped boxes outside. I was not too popular 😂

But if you want psychological torture that won't be immediately recognized as payback, I would send a Little Magician Box o' Tricks. Alternatively, a Joke Book, preferably with a big section of knock knock jokes.

The dig something out of plaster things are loved by my kids. They are too difficulty to do alone and the toothpick you get to supposedly dig things out is nowhere near good enough. Ends up with me getting the hammer and chisle out and having to do it all myself while plaster dust gets everywhere. Therefore being messy and parent time consuming.

My DD was given this, I hid it from her and then regifted it the next year to another child.

The revenge gift I gave was a magic set for my nephew so my brother and SIL had to endure repeated requests to ‘pick a card, any card’ after years of crappy gifts for my 2DC.

Glitter or slime 😤😤😤😤

Those Air Blo pens. Whoever invented childrens pens that literally, by design, spray paint all round your house needs locking up.

Anything with glitter!!!

Glitter playdoh

Seems they’ve branched out into ones that spray sequins round your house now as an alternative. Epic.

www.argos.co.uk/product/9522974?clickSR=slp:term:blow%20pens:2:222:1

I disagree about the suggestion of kinetic sand as it vacuums up really easily... unlike glitter f'ing playdoh

Sticky gekos!
other sticky animals are avaliable

Less obvious than some messy toys, encourage child to throw them at ceiling and walls to see which one sticks the longest
😆
The ones I brought Dd off amazon have left hundreds of awful geko shaped grease marks all over her room, they won't scrub off so I 'm having to repaint 😅

A potters wheel!
It sent shity brown water flying all around the room 🤣

A pack of 265 water bomb balloons, your entire garden covered in tiny brightly coloured pieces of rubber. Only takes 8 fills at the tap....
www.amazon.co.uk/Bunch-Balloons-5668-Water-Refill/dp/B01LY6GYY1/ref=asc_df_B01LY6GYY1/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=310623523849&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=14534031695590771178&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1006483&hvtargid=pla-570836913041&psc=1

Another vote for dig your own dinosaur bones. I laid down newspaper but it kicked up a drift of plaster dust that then set like fucking concrete on contact with anything damp (including apparently the humidity in the air). In addition to coating every surface, it was in the kids hair, eyes, fingernails, everywhere and then they got frustrated and I had to finish it off for them - I thought I could do it that evening with a glass of wine that then was full of plaster dust and had to be poured down the sink.

I even moved it to the garden halfway through and then got plaster all over the lawn.

Stupid dinosaur egg thing, full of slime and other sticky crap.. oh and you had a little hammer to smash the plastic egg to a million pieces

Laughed aloud at this thread. Excellent suggestions!

Gelli baff
Blow pens
Glitter.. In any form

Kinetic sand. Or those rocks you have to chisel.

Moon sand is now. Kintetic sand

Also when you give a messy craft. Ensure you ask for a piece of the art work. Just so u know they've used it and not re gifted.
Or a. Photo of the sand /bath or whatever.

Bath crayons too!

My auntie gave my son a mini excavation kit where he had to chip away at a block of plaster to find some dinosaur bones. The bastard plaster was all over my kitchen and took me weeks to clean it up. Oh and then he had to glue the parts together so even more mess potentially…

A large jar filled with making things e.g. tissue paper, glitter, glue etc. You can get them at hobbycraft. It Was the messiest stuff ever. Make your own slime kit was a close 2nd, from smyths. Play doh would be number 3 on my list.

I am that his parent...
Over the years I have sent

Jellibaff
Finger paints
Magic sand

As well as various noisy things such was water flutes etc....

Fortunately my dc are much older 😉

I also sent a friends dc a fab contraption you make out of straws for drinking coke - and supplied the coke...

Sorry ... that Godparent

Moon Sand.

Those bunchem things are horrific for long haired children.

Brusho! An ink powder that you spray water onto, impossible to clean up if spilt as water makes it 100 times worse!