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Original poster

To ban Ds (2.4) from any room above the ground floor?

37 replies

BeanstalkandBump · 05/02/2013 16:48

Seriously considering this..... Even his bedroom. Yes..... His bedroom can be the first to go.
So far today I have found purple crayon scribbles on the back of the bathroom door, green pencil marks on our bedroom wall, play-doh in the pockets of my dressing gown, red (bright sodding red) crayon on our white hall walls. Our bathroom grouting is a sort of rank, cobalt blue colour and there's a funny looking brown duck amongst his yellow pals on the shower curtain Angry
I have been wallpapering today and all these things must have passed my sleepy eyes before now as Ds isn't even here today. He's gone to be 'my darling boy' at his Gran's house for the day. Hmm
Would it be awfully, awfully wrong to give his bedroom away to the ironing pile? He can sleep in his giant pencil case I'm sure.

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deleted203 · 05/02/2013 16:50

I think I'd give his crayons away!

Bluemonkeyspots · 05/02/2013 16:50

My dc3 is a wall drawer!

Drives me insane and I'm so glad the first two escaped it. How is it i can never find a pen in this house yet she finds them lying about everywhere Angry

MrsKeithRichards · 05/02/2013 16:54

Control the crayons. Job done!

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BeanstalkandBump · 05/02/2013 16:57

Oh I try Keith I really do!
As far as I knew none were housed upstairs except his bath crayons which are about 6ft above floor level. Think I need words with DH

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MrsMangelfanciedPaulRobinson · 05/02/2013 16:58

YABU to allow a 2 year old to have crayons unsupervised.

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BeanstalkandBump · 05/02/2013 17:02

mrs mangle I don't! Hence my post and Angry

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FergusSingsTheBlues · 05/02/2013 17:05

I dontlet my son have crayons, paints, pencils, playdoh or food outside the kitchen. Im a wallpaper fanatic and would be devastated if he destroyed it all. So far.......not one mishap.

aderynlas · 05/02/2013 17:05

On the plus side he sounds very artistic op Smile

aldiwhore · 05/02/2013 17:08

I simply didn't decorate until my youngest wall drawing artist turned 3.

The magic erasers you can get from JML are fab in the meantime though.

My sons are 9 and 5 now, and don't draw on the walls anymore, and the walls have been redecorated (I actually kept one scrap of wall paper with an interesting drawing on it).

MrsMangelfanciedPaulRobinson · 05/02/2013 17:09

Where is he getting all these crayons from? I store all of our craft materials in a plastic container high up out of the reach of little hands. Maybe try to gather them all up and store them very high up, so that your DS can't reach them at all

Yfronts · 05/02/2013 17:09

what a mare! mine have never done this but if they did I'd be instructing them to scrub the walls.

valiumredhead · 05/02/2013 17:10

Put the crayons away!

Pigsmummy · 05/02/2013 17:10

Stair gate on stairs, sorted?

Iggly · 05/02/2013 17:12

YABU

why not set rules about where things go and keep a better eye on him?

So in our house play doh and drawing stuff stay on the table. Not allowed any where else.

TeWiSavesTheDay · 05/02/2013 17:17

I love the everyone thinks this is easily solved by hiding the crayons! Grin

I had a graffiti artist. I threw out every single pen or pencil that wasn't a tried and tested washable one. She never did it with one of those!

Grown out of it now I think, at nearly 4.

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BeanstalkandBump · 05/02/2013 17:21

Ahhh clearly Iabu then by not storing anything away (I do) and not supervising my own two old (I do). He does, believe it or not have time without me and as I guess there are bound to be odd materials around a busy house that he will inevitably get his mitts on.
Though by the sounds of responses so far, we are in a minority having toddler art work on our verticals Blush
Perhaps I'm being slightly harsh in letting our crumpled rags overtake his lovely Pollock esq bedroom Grin

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valiumredhead · 05/02/2013 17:21

It IS easily solved by hiding the crayons -ds would have scribbled on every wall in the house if I hadn't counted the crayons out and counted them back in the tin then put them away.

ClaimedByMe · 05/02/2013 17:21

Any art/messy stuff is hidden/up high/locked away in this house and my dc are 7 & 9 I still don't trust them

woopsidaisy · 05/02/2013 17:22

One of mine was watching that crappy Squiglet CBeebies thing at about that age. He was copying Squiglet with a marker on the tv!

Complete innocent, he thought that was what you were supposed to do. Grin

ValiumQueen · 05/02/2013 17:23

YABU. He is 2. He should be better supervised. It is not his fault.

MrsOakenshield · 05/02/2013 17:25

well, look at it this way. DD (3) has never done this, but she's completely uninteresting in colouring anyway, which is a pity as I was hoping I could transfer my never-to-be-realized dreams of being artistic onto her.

Send him and DH on a crayon hunt at the weekend? Bag of choc buttons to whoever gets the most? then throw all the little bastards in the bin

Iggly · 05/02/2013 17:27

Well somehow he managed to do it so....

PerAspera · 05/02/2013 17:27

WD-40 will take crayon off painted walls...

Feelingood · 05/02/2013 17:31

Has time on his own...well err there you go. Glad it wasn't a pair of scissors, pills etc he found lying around your busy house.

Bluemonkeyspots · 05/02/2013 17:32

I hope you were not hoping for a lighthearted thread op Grin

It's all very well people saying to put the crayons away (duh why did I not think of that one!) but I have older school age dc who have bags/blazers with pencils in them or leave them unattended for 2 mins while doing homework and the little mess magnet finds them.