To offer a very artistic 3 year old gitwizard free to good or even mediocre home.

[CrunchyFrog]

My SOFA. My TABLE.

WHERE DID HE EVEN GET A PERMANENT MARKER, I'm the only adult here and I have no recollection of it.

At least it wasn't the walls this time

Do they draw on animals? If not send them over :)

Oh no!!!!!!! Unfortunately having never owned an artistic grafiti-ing child I will not house yours as I may have a breakdown!

at gitwizard, that's a new one on me!!

I don't want him though, sorry!!

Oh dear. Mine contented herself with just drawing on her arms, legs, tummy and face That was an interesting couple of weeks while we waited for it to come off. Absolutely everyone we came into contact with had some comment to make about me 'allowing' my 2yo to draw all over herself.

No you can keep him. I've got one of my own.

Do what my mum did, let us draw on ONE wall, that way we got to draw on walls but it was contained.

She still has it but now shows it to anyone that comes round.

It is quite cool, the bottom of the wall is our scribbles when we were really young, and as the taller we got the more they progressed.

It's quite a work of art (even if I do say so myself)

I'll do a 2 day swap for a non sleeping, whingy crawling 8 month old, I quite fancy some colouring in.

Loving gitwizard.

My toddler drew on his own face with a sharpie marker last month. It took 2 baths a day for 15 days till it all came off

is he interested in a modern art collaboration with an 18mth old? Also a mural artist

worried ds has a chalkboard painted on one wall however he has still drawn on other Walls, sofas and radiator covers, dd never drew on anything apart from the interior of my car with a sharpie I think they are either graffiti artists or not.

sorry PureMorning that has really made me laugh.

can't help OP, I have my own artist in the making and she loves a nice clean wall to draw on

I'm wise to that one and don't have any permanent markers in the house. Only because I did it as a child and my sister still tells people about it at family parties.

DS1 managed to put lots of crayon on the kitchen wall, floor and cupboards in the time it took me to chop an onion yesterday, and I'm fast.

Gitwizard is Marcus Brigstocke's term for David Blaine.

Food art is prefered chez Raspberry. The dogs clean what they can reach but there are some odd marks on the ceiling.

Glad it's not just me.

He needs boundaries, "they" say ("they" being All The People Who Know How To Parent Better Than I, ie, everyotherfucker.)

I can't keep up. He finds evil things to do at faster rate than I can ban them. Sometimes while I'm still cleaning the detritus from the one before.

He actually HAS learned from last time, because it's not on the walls and doors. Progress. I expect.

So, permanent marker off genuine 1970s cream Pleather, anyone? And off a wooden table?

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Love the first sentence:
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Do you have much vinyl clothing?

NannyOgg, a damp microfiber cloth should remove crayon... It got it nicely off our painted wallpaper in the hall bitter experience

I had to repaint a wall due to a crayon incident, so not having yours. Especially if he comes with free permanent marker included.

Could you use marble-effect sticky back plastic on the table? Or any other colour of sticky back plastic?

OK, followed that link, will do that later, after I've finished laughing at fake leather gifts

Just read that fake leather gifts thing and it looks like the stuff would look terrible

Am suspicious there are no pictures with the article.

While we're on the subject of three-year-olds that trash one's house and belongings. Can anyone recommend me a good laundry bleach for some white t-shirts with coloured bits? I can't bleach the whole shirt because of the other sections, but there are stains on the white parts that just Won't Come Out.

Oh dear, this reminds me of my DBs two little ones!

They had been given some poster paints, and big sheets of paper, brushes etc by DB to make their mum a picture for mother's day. DB had even put down plenty of newspapers...silly man thought this would suffice, lol! DB then popped into the kitchen to cook the breakfast, whilst his wife was in the shower.

Roughly twenty minutes later: "Mammy, Daddy come see our picture of the fishies!"

Proud parents followed DCs into living room. There was no mess on the floor or walls, or on the furniture. Instead, a brightly coloured painting of their tropical fishtank awaited them.

It was painted onto the screen of their brand new TV...

Wd40 has been known to shift stuff on walls that nowt else can.

Ullena what did your brother and your SIL do?