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

Pfft. That's nothing. I once found my little cherub ripping pages out of a book and sticking them to the wall. With Marmite......

Ah you think you have a gitwizard now.

Do you know you can make an interesting splatter effect on the ceiling with a shaken up bottle of coke (db, about 14) and that oil paints can make a very nice stippled effect on the built in wardrobe (me about 12) that cannot be painted over, but only sanded sown when your parents want to move?

I think it's something that runs in my family, my aunt, at primary school, got hold of some scissors and made her skirt hem 'pointy'.

Someone (can't remember who, possibly my mother) embroidered her dress at school, while she was wearing it.

Don't sell exchange him just yet - he might be the next Tracy Enim.

I'm not sure: DB never shares what happened next...although I strongly suspect SILgave him a telling off for not supervising them!

Ullena !

When I was a young gitwizard, I helped out by taking a pair of blunt craft scissors to my younger sister's hair. I gave her a beautiful fringe :o

White Wizard (used to be able to get it from Lakeland) removes everything including permanent black marker pen lovingly applied by a 2 year old to In Out Laws brand new (and I mean brand new, it had only been delivered that morning) cream leather sofa.

Removed it so well, that unless they read this, they will never know! (I'd just been to the shops and happened to have just bought a pot)

It even works when being applied by someone who is silently hysterically hyperventilating whilst DH distracted InLaws in the kitchen

We also got up earlier than DM&F once. They thought we'd just put the telly on.

Instead we got a packet of flour out the kitchen cupboard and used it for a flour fight.

DH's high point was skateboarding through the house and smashing into several bottles of MIL's homemade wine. That's a smell you can apparently never get out of the carpet :o.

When I was about 3 or 4 I expertly managed to cut out a pattern of continuous snowflakes, unfortunately it was out of the full length curtains in the front room. They were hideous 70's brown and orange stripey things This wasn't noticed until I had gone to bed and parents pulled the curtains

Nurture your gitwizard but remove all permanent markers .
My own, now 12, still decorates his body with Maori and Celtic style bodyart, but keeps to the covered bits invisible to disapproving eyes. He has also (with permission) decorated the surface of his desk... He is always up for any creative activity, and is currently about to help me decoupage a nasty old shoe-cupboard and turn it into a Thing of Beauty :)

Mind you, his older bro did a large drawing on his wall aged 14 which is still there and has been resistant to paint... It's a giant cannabis leaf So maybe you can count yourself lucky!

Thanks, but I'll pass!

DD has never been a wall artist and, by the time she was 3.6 I smugly thought we we're safely through that stage. Alas, no, we weren't. She waited until I was 38wk pg with DS, on crutches for SPD and torn knee ligaments, and frantically trying to nest putting his washed clothes away. I hobbled back into living room to see she had wrote her name, many many times, in black felt all over a cream wall - about 3ft high and 10ft along! I didn't shout, I didn't get angry, instead I just sobbed ! It had the desired effect though; DD was horrified! She has never drawn on a wall since and, at just turned 5, I think we're safe.

As for 15mth DS, time will tell...

Mine once found a red lipstick (free gift I think) and drew all over the cream leather sofa, beige carpet, huge pink swirles.

I remember it well, she was so pleased with herself!!!

Raspberry, mine does food art too.
A couple of weeks ago we had been decorating a cake, in the dining room (no table in kitchen) I was tidying up and noticed he was dipping his finger in the last scrapings of chocolate buttercream and eating it. I was feeling indulgent, so I pretended I hadn't noticed and left him to it while I washed up. When I came back he was using it to draw on the dining chairs.

Hairspray takes ink off pleather.